AVN (magazine)

Adult Video News
Cover of the March 2012 issue
CategoriesTrade magazine
FrequencyMonthly
PublisherTony Rios[1]
Total circulation
(2006)		40,000[2]
Founded1983; 41 years ago (1983)
CountryUnited States
Based inChatsworth, California, U.S.
LanguageEnglish
ISSN0883-7090

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]

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]

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  2. ^ a b David Foster Wallace (March 12, 2006). "First Chapter – 'Consider the Lobster'". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 25, 2016. Retrieved January 2, 2008.
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  4. ^ Steve Kroft (September 5, 2004). "Porn In The U.S.A." 60 Minutes. Archived from the original on January 3, 2008. Retrieved January 2, 2008.
  5. ^ Frank Rich (July 27, 2003). "Finally, Porn Does Prime Time". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 23, 2013. Retrieved August 9, 2014.
  6. ^ DPA, Los Angeles (July 17, 2003). "Porn loses seedy image, becomes mainstream in US". Taipei Times. Archived from the original on June 28, 2018. Retrieved January 2, 2008.