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Originally Posted by amacontent
From DAY 1 both these shows, AVN and Internext never gave 2 shits about the smaller companies. All we were was filler content to them. Now they getting what they deserve as big boys are pulling out.
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I agree on this, I attended Internext from 98 through I don't know, 05 maybe, but AEE every year since 98. AEE especially, once you get past the giant booths at the front which are set up fairly comfortably, it seems like their play was to jam all the base-sized booths together with oddly broken up aisles (you know the type, where you go halfway and then there's a 20x10 booth in the way 90 degrees from the aisle and on the other side there's 2 mini aisles crammed in...
But if you added up the square footage taken up by the 10x10's, it probably came up 40% to even 50% of the gross square footage. And the 10x10's pay the highest per square foot dollar, so it's conceivable that AVN was making more off them than off the big guys. Of course, the big guys had more additional service bills, but a lot of that goes to the union and the venue.
I know the big giant booths and big companies bring the fans in on fan days, but that only goes so far, if you lose the depth brought by all the small companies.