The new event will be a comprehensive three-day conference that will take place in the Los Angeles, California area. The conference, the GAYVN Webmaster Retreat, is presented by EPOCH, Cybersocket, Channel 1 Releasing, and AVN Online, and will be held in conjunction with the Eighth Annual Cybersocket Web Awards show.

Dates for the October conference and awards show, along with the event venues, will be announced shortly. “EPOCH is very excited to be the premier sponsor and partner for this new GAYVN show in October along with the show in February,” said Patrick Curran, chief administrative officer, EPOCH. “We have developed very strong and valuable partnerships with the gay adult entertainment market over the years and the GAYVN shows will help facilitate the continued success of these partnerships. We are looking forward to two of the biggest and best gay webmaster gatherings of the year! “With the recent boom in the online gay adult entertainment business, we felt that we needed to create an event geared specifically for the online sector of the market,” stated Chad Beecher, AVN vice president of business relations.

“With the GAYVN Summit geared towards the entire industry and now the GAYVN Webmaster Retreat geared towards the online sector, we feel that these two annual events will allow the industry to better facilitate and grow their businesses at strategic times during the year.” “Last year was our best Awards show yet," said Cybersocket president Morgan Sommer, "however, we felt that it would gain more momentum and be more successful if we held the show in our hometown. Most of the gay webmaster market is in Southern California and our show caters directly to that market, so a local show in conjunction with a partner like GAYVN just creates the best partnership for our show and for the webmaster community." For more information regarding these events, please visit GAYVNretreat.com, CybersocketWebAwards.com and GAYVNsummit.com.

For GAYVN Webmaster Retreat, sponsorship and advertising opportunities are limited and are on a first-come, first-served basis. For sponsorship and advertising information, please contact your account manager at 818-718-5788 or via email at [email protected].