XBIZ is pleased to announce the special keynote speakers for the upcoming XBIZ Hollywood ’08 Industry Conference — Marc Bell, CEO of Penthouse Media Group, Inc. (PMGI) and Brad Shaw of Shaw Investments.

It's hard to believe that the world's leading producer of adult fetish and BDSM entertainment was once an amateur porn upstart being run from a graduate student's dorm room. But as you're about to find out, that's exactly how Kink.com got its start. From a glint in Peter Acworth's eye, to a veritable household name, see how 1 site became 15 sites, no employees became 90 employees, Cybernet Entertainment became Kink.com, and a humble dream became a thriving enterprise. In this special 38-minute long retrospective, presented for the first time in a high definition Windows Media Streaming format, Kink.com's employees and models look back over the last decade reliving every major twist and turn on Kink's fascinating journey to the top.

With two big 2008 XBIZ Award nominations under his belt, Tom Byron is out to win but just acting a bit humble…for now, that is. Evolution is also pleased to announce that Matt Zane Productions has also earned an “Emerging Studio of the Year” nomination.

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After many long months of planning, preparation and construction, the new Ultimate Surrender set was finally ready to see some action last week. But before Samantha Sin and Annie Cruz could officially christen the new mat, there were still a lot of last-minute details to work out. From putting the finishing touches on the overhead camera perch, to mounting the scoreboard, to cleaning the mysterious fuzz off the mat, everyone was busy scrambling until the moment Annie Cruz and Samantha Sin stepped onto the mat for the inaugural match. After an impressive battle in the new arena, Director Matt Williams finally felt confident that this dramatic and promising space would forever change the course of Ultimate Surrender's future.

AlmightyContent is pleased to announce its second nomination in a row as “Content Feed Provider of the Year” at the 2008 XBIZ Awards.

San Francisco's NBC11 weekly series 'Moving Pictures' featured a segment on Kink.com Founder and CEO Peter Acworth's trip to the 2008 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo earlier this month. Before heading to Las Vegas, 'Moving Pictures' gave Peter a camera and asked him to document the event so that their viewers could get an inside look at the biggest porn convention in the country. Check out what he came back with in this week's segment.

U.S. District Judge Joy Flowers Conti this week denied one defense motion to suppress statements made by the defendant, but continued a hearing on a motion to suppress evidence collected by law enforcement in the obscenity case pending against Karen Fletcher.

Glamour babe site Twistys.com has named the European beauty Regina Ice as its February Twistys Treat of the Month.

European production company Woodman Entertainment has announced a partnership with U.K.-based IPTV provider Global Digital Broadcast (GDB), to launch the Woodman Entertainment channel.