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“I started Huge Ape around 12 years ago as an affiliate
marketing team and we just expanded into management
consulting and started various ventures, joint ventures and
partnerships,” he said. “Employees have to like where they work.
You want to keep happy people on track and recruit the right
people, too.”
Meanwhile German adult star Texas Patti and her partner—
director Patrick Mirror Man—returned to Internext this year with
new goals in mind.
“For me it’s great to be here again,” said Texas Patti, who is
the face of Germany’s Beate Uhse TV. “It’s my second time. The
first time I was here it was an adventure. We don’t know anyone
and we don’t know what we have to do. The second time it’s not
so stressful. We know the people. We know where we have to go.
We know what’s going on here, the parties and what we have to
go to.
“And here the Internext is for Patrick and me to take a look
around. It’s the same like the [European] Summit for us to
meet new people and connect with other people for maybe
productions or something like this, to produce also here in the
United States.”
Texas Patti, known for stars & stripes fashion statements,
received three nominations for AVN Fan Awards this year,
including Most Epic Ass.
Elsewhere around the show floor, Jimmy “Wizzo” Foreman,
the Houston-based independent publisher consultant for
JuicyAds, has been coming to Internext since Day 1—literally.
“I’ve been to all of them,” Wizzo said. “I started in ’97.”
One of Internext’s featured panelists on January 22 at the
“Masters of Traffic” panel, Wizzo said he’s making the rounds
“looking for people who want to buy traffic and to find other
ways to work with people.”
He also expressed particular interest in the hot topics of age
verification and cryptocurrency this year—both of which were
themes of separate seminars in Internext’s robust educational
track.
Meanwhile, Bako Kaye, the CEO of Etology, said he was
looking for new publishers while he spreads the word about his
company’s latest technical upgrades.
“We’ve been working on the technology for three years,”
Kaye said. “We built the technology in-house to optimize and
monetize traffic.”
Kaye runs an invite-only global ad network that specializes
in premium converting members-area traffic. His team works
closely with both publishers and advertisers to optimize ad zones
and advertisers’ offers.
The porn content side also was represented by veteran studio
owner Steven Grooby, the head of transgender powerhouse
Grooby Productions and Grooby.com, who returned to Internext
this weekend to “re-establish relationships and focus on 2018.”
Without question, the tastiest part of this year’s Meet Market
was what was happening at the ImLive/Pussycash booth, where
two chefs made fresh crepes for any attendee who wanted a
snack.
“We’re cooking delicious, sexy live crepes,” said Pussycash
exec Carole Wood. “Because it was so popular last year—
everyone adored it—we had to do it again.”
The Meet Market also means free swag—lots of it. Among
the highlights were goodie bags from the Jasmin models that
included bright red Live Jasmin baseball caps and sunglasses,
blue AWEmpire ladies tank tops and heart-shaped packs of
Jasmin mints; AgeID gave out portable powerbanks and chrome
USB/bottle openers; AdultForce had Pornhub rolling papers and
filters; and Vice Token gave out limited-edition door hangers
with a voucher—personally signed by CEO Stuart Duncan—for
1000 Vice Tokens to be redeemed after May 2019. The voucher
could potentially be worth thousands of dollars by next year.
As the afternoon turned to evening, attendees prepared for
the Internext and GayVN Welcome Party, sponsored by Paxum,
Eroiy.io, Men.com and BCHomestead.com at the Paradise
Penthouse.
The Internext Expo kicked off January 19 with a warm-up party in the MojoHost Hospitality Suite (above), cosponsored by MojoHost, CAM4 and Paxum.
The next day, the first thing on the agenda after registration was speed networking (below). Photos by JFK/FUBARWebmasters.com
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