AVN (magazine)
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Adult Video News (also called AVN or AVN Magazine) is an American trade magazine that covers the adult video industry. The New York Times notes that AVN is to pornographic films what Billboard is to records.[3] AVN sponsors an annual convention, called the Adult Entertainment Expo or AEE, in Las Vegas, Nevada along with the AVN Awards, an award show for the adult industry modeled after the Oscars.[3][4]
Categories | Trade magazine |
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Frequency | Monthly |
Publisher | Tony Rios[1] |
Total circulation (2006) | 40,000[2] |
Founded | 1983; 41 years ago (1983) |
Country | United States |
Based in | Chatsworth, California, U.S. |
Language | English |
ISSN | 0883-7090 |
AVN rates adult films and tracks news developments in the industry. An AVN issue can feature over 500 movie reviews.[5][6] The magazine is about 80% ads and is targeted at adult-video retailers. Author David Foster Wallace has described AVN articles to be more like infomercials than articles, but he also described the AVN magazine as "sort of the Variety of the US porn industry."[2]