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XBiz Awards Nominations 2015: Best Directors

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And now our annual annotated list of the XBiz Award Nominees for The 2015 XBiz Awards to be held in Los Angeles on January 15, 2015. Special thanks to Videotramp Reviewer and IAFD Editor Jamie for getting the data entered…

Director of the Year – Feature Release

Director of the Year – Non-Feature Release

Director of the Year – Parody

Director of the Year: Body of Work

European Director of the Year

Transsexual Director of the Year

XBiz Awards Nominations 2015: Best Performers and Personalities

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And now our annual annotated list of the XBiz Award Nominees for The 2015 XBiz Awards to be held in Los Angeles on January 15, 2015. Special thanks to Videotramp Reviewer and IAFD Editor Jamie for getting the data entered…

Best New Starlet

Crossover Star of the Year

Female Performer of the Year

Foreign Female Performer of the Year

Foreign Male Performer of the Year

Girl/Girl Performer of the Year

Male Performer of the Year

MILF Performer of the Year

Transsexual Performer of the Year

XBiz Awards Nominations 2015: Best Releases

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All-Black Release of the Year

All-Girl Release of the Year

All-Sex Release of the Year

Amateur Release of the Year

Asian-Themed Release of the Year

BDSM Release of the Year

Couples-Themed Release of the Year

European Feature Release of the Year

European Non-Feature Release of the Year

Feature Movie of the Year

Feminist Porn Release of the Year

Fetish Release of the Year

Gonzo Release of the Year

Interracial Release of the Year

Latin-Themed Release of the Year

Parody Release of the Year: Comedy

Parody Release of the Year: Drama

Pro-Am Release of the Year

Specialty Release of the Year

Transsexual Release of the Year

Vignette Release of the Year

XBiz Awards Nominations 2015: An Introduction and Errata

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So begins awards season, and so begins our coverage of same with our annotated lists of nominees; annotated by virtue of we link to the people and titles that have garnered nominations this season.

In reviewing these lists, we are shocked by their scope  and magnitude, and we also manage to find some errors along the way. Statistically speaking, the percentage is infetesimal – but to our data-obsessed minds, they’re still erroneous.

So, the errata:

Best Scene, Couples Themed Release, Siri and Steven St. Croix get the nod for Rekindling the Flame when that scene does not actually exist and St. Croix isn’t in the movie.  Siri is paired with Richie Calhoun.

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Best Scene, Feature Movie: Stoya and Rocco get the nod for carnal capering in Voracious Season Two, Vol 4 … but their scene was actually in Volume 3.

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So really, two errors in 800+ nominations isn’t so bad… unless you’re Richie Calhoun, I guess….

And now some stats.  Assuming the database summed things correctly, the most honored performers are:

  1. James Deen, 9 noms
  2. Xander Corvus, 9 noms
  3. Carter Cruise, 7 noms
  4. Steven St. Croix, 6 noms
  5. Tommy Gunn, 6 noms
  6. Tommy Pistol, 6 noms
  7. Seth Gamble, 5 noms
  8. Tyler Nixon, 5 noms
  9. Skin Diamond, 5 noms
  10. Annika Albrite, 5 noms

And the movies leading the pack are:

  1. Wetwork, 14 noms
  2. Apocalypse X, 13 noms
  3. Second Chances, 12 noms
  4. Aftermath, 12 noms
  5. Voracious: Season Two, Volume Four, 11 noms
  6. Killers, 10 noms
  7. American Hustle XXX: A Parody, 10 noms
  8. Gardener, 9 noms
  9. Not Jersey Boys XXX: A Porn Musical, 9 noms
  10. Snow White XXX: An Axel Braun Parody, 8 noms
  11. Sexual Liberation Of Anna Lee, 8 noms

We’ll be rolling out a half dozen or so posts over the next couple hours (so as to not flood y’all) breaking things down.

On Advertising

We don’t talk much about the site because we don’t think it’s all that interesting how we make the sausage.  We watch movies, we write down who’s in them, and we lather, rinse and repeat.  We’ve been doing it since 1999; hey! we’re 15 years old this year!  For some of that time, we’ve relied on banners and purchases thru the “Buy this Movie” links to help keep the lights on.  But, DVD sales are diminishing, the web stuff we do list is converting OK but not great, and the banner advertisers are slowing down, so we took a look at what we could do.

We could add more ad zones to the pages, but we didn’t want to clutter things up; we like our minimalist look.  (We’ve had it forever!)

Then, one of our advertisers approached us about piloting silent pop-unders — they had to be silent or we didn’t want them — and we agreed to give it a try.

So, from today thru May 4 (and possibly beyond) our ad network partner, GrandSlamMedia, is showing pop-unders on our site at a rate of approximately 1 popunder for every 24 pageviews.

We know the last time we tried non-banner advertising (the chat windows) it was met with mixed reactions, and we expect the same here.

We also know that ad blocking software exists, and if these sort of advertisements really really upset you, you might want to look into that sort of thing.  We ask that you don’t, obviously, as we get paid by the impression (each time they show an ad, we get a tiny tiny bit of money; but eventually those tiny tiny bits add up) but if you do, we understand… maybe we’ll find that there’s a market for an ad-free version of the site; tho such a thing would require us to build an infrastructure to handle users and passwords and password resetting and lots of potential customer service issues… but who knows.  We know that the time has come for us to grow and mutate and make changes and I’ve been busy programming trying to roll out new tools for our editors, and different table layouts in the database and all kinds of things, so thanks for sticking around.