Pornhub
Pornographic video-sharing website owned by Aylo
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| March 29 2024 | Sixth Pornhub Awards announced winners on this date. |
| February 2024 | The Texas Attorney General sued Aylo/Pornhub for allegedly not complying with the state's age verification law. Pornhub blocked access in Texas and multiple other states, displaying a message from pornstar Cherie DeVille criticizing such laws. |
| 2023 | Meta Platforms released 'Take It Down', a tool that Pornhub and other platforms agreed to use for removing non-consensual images or videos. |
| 2023 | A documentary titled 'Money Shot: The Pornhub Story' was released, exploring the opposition to Pornhub and perspectives of pornographic performers. |
| May 2023 | After Utah passed SB287 requiring age verification for adult sites, Pornhub blocked user access in the state and displayed a message criticizing the legislation. |
| April 20 2023 | Fifth Pornhub Awards announced winners on this date. |
| December 16 2022 | Pornhub's YouTube account was taken down, shortly after being removed from TikTok. |
| September 3 2022 | Instagram banned Pornhub's account indefinitely after it had attracted 13 million followers, following lobbying by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation. |
| March 23 2022 | Fourth Pornhub Awards held without a traditional ceremony, with winners announced on this date. |
| 2021 | A TikTok trend emerged where users play the Pornhub community intro jingle to capture unexpected reactions, gaining widespread attention on social media. |
| July 2021 | Pornhub launched Classic Nudes, an interactive art guide intended to help museums during the pandemic, which subsequently led to copyright infringement lawsuits from The Louvre, Uffizi Gallery, and Museo del Prado for unauthorized use of art. |
| June 2021 | 34 women sued MindGeek in a California federal court, alleging exploitation and hosting of non-consensual sexual content. |
| January 2021 | A class action lawsuit was launched in Montreal seeking $600 million for individuals whose intimate photos and videos were shared on MindGeek sites without consent since 2007. |
| 2020 | A video of a student performing the Pornhub Community intro jingle with his band at a talent show went viral. |
| 2020 | During the COVID-19 pandemic, Pornhub experienced a 24.4% increase in searches between March 1 and April 30 compared to the same period in 2019, partly driven by a marketing campaign offering free Premium content to encourage people to stay home. |
| December 15 2020 | Third Pornhub Awards held online and hosted by Asa Akira. |
| December 14 2020 | Pornhub announced the removal of all videos posted by unverified users, reducing the site's video count from 13 million to 4 million. |
| December 10 2020 | Mastercard and Visa blocked the use of their cards on Pornhub following Nicholas Kristof's New York Times opinion column criticizing the platform's content. |
| November 2020 | The government of Thailand blocked Pornhub among other pornography websites. |
| March 2020 | Pornhub premiered Leilah Weinraub's documentary 'Shakedown', a film about a black lesbian strip club in Los Angeles, streaming the documentary throughout the month as part of their commitment to supporting the arts. |
| 2019 | Pornhub received 42 billion visits, with an average of 115 million daily visits. Top searched genres included lesbian, hentai, fauxcest, milf, big ass, and creampie. |
| October 11 2019 | Second annual Pornhub Awards held at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, with Bad Bunny headlining the event. |
| October 10 2019 | Two owners and two employees of GirlsDoPorn were arrested on three counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion. A week later, their official verified channel was removed from Pornhub. |
| 2018 | During the Hawaii false missile alert, Pornhub tracked dramatic traffic fluctuations: a 77% drop at 8:23 am when the alert was sent, followed by a 48% traffic increase above typical levels at 9:01 am after the alert was declared erroneous. |
| October 2018 | The Uttarakhand High Court reinstated a ban on Pornhub in India, with optional blocking for ISPs if sites are free of child pornography. |
| September 6 2018 | First Pornhub Awards held at the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles, with Kanye West serving as creative director. West debuted his music video for 'I Love It' at the event. |
| May 2018 | Pornhub launched VPNHub, a VPN service operating out of Cyprus, built in partnership with US-based AppAtomic and using servers located in the United States. The service offered both a free and a paid ad-free version. |
| April 17 2018 | The site began accepting Verge cryptocurrency as a payment option. |
| 2017 | Pornhub registered 28.5 billion visits, with an average of 81 million daily visits. 'MILF' and 'stepmom' were the top two global search terms. |
| October 2017 | Vice president Corey Price announced plans to use computer vision and AI to identify and tag videos on the website. |
| August 21 2017 | During the solar eclipse, Pornhub reported unusually low website traffic levels. |
| April 2017 | Pornhub was reinstated in Russia after implementing age verification through the VK social network. |
| January 2017 | The Government of the Philippines blocked Pornhub and other pornography websites under the Anti-Child Pornography Law. |
| 2016 | Pornhub reported approximately 23 billion website visits and 4,599 billion hours of video content watched during the year. |
| September 2016 | The site was blocked in Russia for 'spreading harmful information to children'. |
| February 1 2016 | Pornhub launched an online casino powered by Betsoft, Endorphina, and 1x2gaming. |
| 2015 | Pornhub announced the development of the 'Wankband', a wearable device designed to generate and store kinetic energy during male masturbation for charging electronic devices. |
| June 2015 | Pornhub announced plans to make a pornographic film featuring real-life sex in space, called Sexplorations, seeking $3.4 million in crowdfunding. |
| 2014 | Pornhub started collecting gender-based search statistics, revealing that the lesbian category has been consistently the most popular among female viewers. |
| March 12 2014 | Pornhub was blocked in Russia because an actress appeared too young, potentially resembling a minor. |
| 2013 | Pornhub appeared prominently in the American romantic comedy film Don Jon, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt editing Pornhub clips into rapid-fire montages for the movie. |
| 2013 | Pornhub began annually releasing its 'Year In Review' report, providing comprehensive insights into user search trends and behaviors. |
| October 2013 | The company launched 'Pornhub Select' service to introduce quality curation to the site. |
| October 9 2013 | Pornhub launched 'PornIQ', a content curation website using an algorithm to create personalized video playlists for viewers. |
| September 2013 | Pornhub was blocked by the Great Firewall in China. |
| January 2013 | CBS refused to air a 20-second Pornhub commercial during the Super Bowl due to potential Federal Communications Commission liability for endorsing pornographic content. |
| March 2012 | Pornhub Vice President Cory Price was approached by a producer seeking permission to use the Pornhub brand in the film Don Jon, subsequently reviewing the script and helping to source clips from content partners. |
| 2011 | TalkTalk (formerly Tiscali) faced criticism for its internet filter failing to block Pornhub for over a week, raising concerns about child internet safety. |
| October 2010 | Pornhub's parent companies Mansef Inc. and Interhub settled a copyright infringement lawsuit with Ventura Content (Pink Visual's copyright holding company) over 95 pirated videos. The settlement included implementing digital fingerprint filtering on their websites. |
| March 2010 | The company was purchased by Fabian Thylmann as part of the Manwin conglomerate (now known as Aylo). |
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