What year did Frank Vardon's Hot Video trade journal stop awarding the Hot d'Or award?
Hot Vidéo Hot Vidéo is a French trade journal that covers the adult video industry. It was founded in June 1989 by Frank Vardon. It is now part of VCV Communications. Its average circulation date to 2011 is about 50,000 copies per month, while in the 1990s it was about 100,000 copies. Its staff include professional journalists previously committed to other news fields.
Erotixxx Award The Erotixxx Award ("eLine Award" or "Eroticline Award" until 2008) is a prize awarded in the adult film industry by German magazine "eLine" (established as "EAN"),Alle Erotix Award Gewinner auf einen Blick auf eline-magazine.de, October 6, 2016, Retrieved in June 3, 2017 which had been presented yearly from 2005 to 2009 as part of the Venus Berlin trade fair, an international trade festival of the erotic. They were the successors to the Venus Awards, which had been presented until 2004 and then resumed in 2010. Starting in 2010, the Erotixxx Award became a part of the erotic fair Erofame from Hannover and, since 2011, only awards innovative products, toys, and companies. During the Venus Berlin years, prizewinners had been chosen by a jury and by a ballot of webmasters or registered users of several German erotic websites. After that time, it switched to the editorial staff of "eLine" and "EAN".