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FEATURE
By Dan
Miller
FEATURE | By Dan Miller
GRAHAM COLLIE MAY HAVE SUMMED UP THE THEME OF THE 2018 INTERNEXT EXPO BEST ON THE FIRST FULL DAY OF ACTIVITIES
JANUARY 20 AT HARD ROCK HOTEL & CASINO.
“A big focus of this year is education,” said Collie, the sales manager for the Montreal-based heavyweight
TrafficJunky. “Educating people on market changes. Educating people on changes in legislation and educating people
on where they can get their best bang for their buck.”
TrafficJunky and its sister companies AdultForce and AgeID were presenting sponsors of the 18th annual Internext
Expo, which warmed up quickly during the energetic Meet Market in Festival Hall of Hard Rock’s Paradise Tower.
“Our objective here is to let everyone who’s buying traffic know there are two tiers of traffic—there’s everyone else’s
and then there’s Pornhub traffic,” Collie said. “We’re an ad network, but we’re really an exclusive ad network because
we’re not trying to take up every single person’s site.
“Our main focus is on advertising our internal sites. It’s really about quality control and it’s insuring that everyone
gets quality users that can help them convert.”
David Cooke, who traveled from London to Vegas for the show, is the director for AgeID, which is Mindgeek’s wide-
ranging age-verification solution designed to address one of this weekend’s most pressing topics—the looming UK
Digital Economy Act that takes effect in April.
“We are the most widely used solution, with all of the Mindgeek sites,” Cooke said. “What we want to get across
is how many age verification methods we have. … We have a seamless experience, from advertisers to affiliates
to website operators. Once a person is registered you can go everywhere with AgeID. You don’t have to re-enter
passwords or re-enter details.”
Studio 20 founder Mugur Frunzetti brought the largest team he’s ever taken to Internext this year.
“This is always a good show for us and this year we have a much bigger presence than last year,” Frunzetti said.
Based in Bucharest, Romania, Frunzetti escorted several of the top models from his fast growing live cam franchise
to Hard Rock, where three days of networking, seminars and parties kept attendees busy at one of the industry’s oldest
webmaster gatherings. Among the Romanian cam girls spotted at the Meet Market, sponsored by Studio 20, were Ava
Mystique, Madelene Ray and Sasha Red.
The affable Frunzetti, who launched Studio 20 in 2013 and now lists franchise locations in Europe—including a half
dozen in Romania—South America and the United States, said that America represents the future of his brand.
“It’s a different market in the U.S. and we needed some time to get the L.A. studio running pretty well,” Frunzetti
said. “Now we’re getting ready to expand and probably next year we’re going to open more places in the U.S. My plan
is by 2020 the U.S. might become the biggest market for us. Now I am exploring with my wife the idea of moving to
the U.S. I think the U.S. has a lot to offer the cam industry.”
Jimmy James, the vice president of ATK and founder of Huge Ape, made the trip to Internext “to network with new
faces, meet new people and try to get new affiliates to promote our sites.”
“There’s still a lot of business out there on the affiliate side, but also we have a lot of traffic from our paysites,”
James told AVN. “We’ve never sold any of our traffic and it’s all organic traffic. This is the first time we’re really
looking.”
In March he’ll move his Huge Ape headquarters into a sprawling new space in Irvine, California, where the offices
will include amenities such as a foosball table, pool table, and several outdoor working areas in an effort to improve
the wellness of his staff.
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