[QUOTE=“We received an award of "Best Actor Europe", which was totally unfair,” says Thomas Virsov and Ulrich Jung, CEO and Producer of XXX-Project Germany. ”We got the award because we paid to sponsor the show, and other awards were given to companies which paid for adverts in the GAYeLINE magazine. We tried to communicate this while we were at the stage, but they took away our microphone. We gave back our award and didn't take it. We are more than happy that also Titan refused to accept their award.”
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I couldn't agree more with Thomas Virsov and Ulrich Jung. In fact, the same can be said for nearly all of the awards given out by the gay and straight award show promoters. There has always been a direct correlation between advertising dollars spent and award nominations received. The same can be said for the "Top 50" and "Top 100" sales and rental charts dished out weekly and monthly by various online and print publications. Just take a look at the advertising in those publications and then check out the Top Charts and draw your own conclusions.

The amazing thing to me is that it seems that no one in the industry has the balls to admit it or vocalize about it. It's all bullshit.:bullcrap:

Bill