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Erika Icon Scores WIA Woman of the Year from 2025 XBIZ Exec Awards
On November 11, 2024 by Nel ParkerArticle Courtesy of The Rub PR
(Los Angeles, CA) —
Top adult public relations firm The Rub PR’s Owner and Publicist Erika Icon is honored to be among the 2025 XBIZ Exec Awards nominees. This is her first time being up for a nomination in this prestigious awards show.
Nominees are selected based on leadership, business acumen, community influence, and overall career achievement from a pool of pre-nomination entries submitted by industry members. Erika Icon is up for WIA Woman of the Year and is in a category with some of the industry’s biggest and most respected influencers.
Voting for the 2025 XBIZ Exec Awards is now open. Industry members may cast their votes via XBIZ.net.
“I was really shocked when I saw my name on the list, but I was truly honored and thankful for the nomination. Thank you so much, XBIZ, and everyone who nominated me. It means so much to me,” says Erika Icon, Owner and Publicist.
The ceremony for the online awards, which the WIA Woman of the Year category is part of, is set for September 15th during the 2025 XBIZ Conference.
For a complete list of nominees, visit xbiz.com/news/284934/2025-xbiz-exec-awards-nominees-for-online-industry-announced.
To learn more about The Rub PR’s award-winning services and incredible client roster, visit their website at therubpr.com.

ABOUT ERIKA ICON & THE RUB PR
Born in NYC and with an East Coast attitude to match, Erika Icon is one of the feistiest women in the adult industry with over 15 years of experience. In 2008, Icon started her own firm, The Rub PR, a full-service adult PR agency working with the top studios, companies, cam models, and performers. Before working in adult, she worked as an art director and copywriter for top Los Angeles advertising agencies. She graduated from UCLA with a BA in Fine Arts, minoring in French and English.
Icon has effectively helped her promote her clients and their brands and brought them into the mainstream arena. In 2014, Icon got her client Kimber James cast on E! Entertainment’s Botched and even appeared with her on the show. Icon has helped cast numerous clients in mainstream TV and movies and has scored interviews for clients with Cosmo, Cosmo Latina, Elle, Refinery29, Vice, Playboy, Jezebel, The Daily Beast, GQ, and many more.
The Rub PR clients have also won an unprecedented number of awards from countless awards shows, including XBIZ, XBIZ Miami, XBIZ Europa, AVN, XRCO, ALT Star, Bazowie!, NightMoves, Fetish Awards, Urban X, Inked Angels, Australian Adult Industry Awards (AAIA), TEAs, and Cammy Awards. And the nominations they’ve received are even greater.
Ms. Icon won Most Popular Adult PR Agency from the Urban X Awards in 2023, Best Public Relations Firm from the ASN Magazine Awards in 2022, and the NightMoves Award for Behind-the-Scenes award, celebrating the stellar work she’s done for adult companies, studios, and performers in 2018.
She’s also received multiple XBIZ and AVN Awards nominations for Marketing Campaign of the Year, Outstanding Marketing Campaign, Best Marketing Campaign – Company Image, ad WIA Woman of the Year, ASN Lifestyle Awards for Best Supporting Business and Best Public Relations Firm, Businesswoman of the Year from the Bucharest Summit Awards, Most Popular Adult PR Company from the Urban X Awards and the Inked Awards for The Bill Snyder Achievement Award.
Cosmo interviewed Icon for an article entitled “What It’s Really Like to Be a PR for Porn Stars.” She was also profiled by PR Week for their Sex Issue and by the Wall Street Journal for her social media expertise. Icon has been featured twice in XBIZ’s WIA (Woman in Adult) and as an Erotic Sky Magazine Expert with a multi-page feature in the July 2023 issue. She’s a freelance writer for Hustler, DarkSide, ASN Lifestyle mags and blogs for Medium.
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