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MindGeek
Aylo is a Canadian multinational Pornography, pornographic Media conglomerate, conglomerate owned by Canadian private equity firm Ethical Capital Partners. It is primarily involved in internet pornography, operating a number of video sharing websites (including platforms such as Pornhub, RedTube, YouPorn, and Tube8), and pornographic film studios such as Brazzers, Digital Playground, Men.com, Reality Kings, Sean Cody, and WhyNotBi.com, among others. Aylo's headquarters are located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, but the company's corporate structure is divided among entities domiciled in a number of other countries (including tax havens such as Curaçao and Luxembourg). The company is one of the largest distributors of online pornography, to the extent that it has been accused of having a monopoly position (with 3 out of the 10 most popular online pornography sites being owned by the company). In 2013, a spokesperson for the company stated that its properties were among the top fiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pornhub
Pornhub is a Canadian-owned Internet pornography video-sharing website, one of several owned by adult entertainment conglomerate Aylo. , Pornhub is the 16th- most-visited website in the world and the most-visited adult website. The site allows visitors to view pornographic videos from various categories, including professional and amateur pornography, and to upload and share their own videos. Content can be flagged if it violates the website's terms of service. The site also hosts the Pornhub Awards annually. In December 2020, following a ''New York Times'' exposé of non-consensual pornography and sex trafficking, payment processors Mastercard and Visa cut their services to Pornhub. Pornhub then removed all videos uploaded by unverified users, reducing the total content from 13million to 4million videos. A 2023 documentary, '' Money Shot: The Pornhub Story'', covers the opposition to Pornhub and the views of some pornographic performers. History Pornhub was launche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twistys
Twistys is a major Pornographic film, adult film Production company, studio, producing its eponymous pornography website, Twistys.com, a variety site that caters to many different preferences. The site Twistys.com launched in 2001. While occasionally featuring girl-girl and hardcore, the site predominantly focused on softcore pornography and solo content. After its acquisition by Aylo in 2011, the site shifted its focus to include more hardcore boy-girl content. However, by 2019, the site shifted back to a focus on "all girl" content, hosting girl-girl (lesbian) and solo, or, as advertised, "Lesbian Glam Porn." About The Twistys website was acquired by Mindgeek in 2011. Prior to MindGeek's acquisition, Twistys, along with sister sites: GayTube, SexTube and TrannyTube, belonged to Carsed Marketing. The Twisty's website is distinctive due to its softer approach to pornography. Despite elements of hardcore content, much of Twistys' content feature softcore pornography as well. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WhyNotBi
WhyNotBi.com (company name: MG Premium Ltd.) is a producer of bisexual internet pornography content oriented towards bisexual men. It is owned by Aylo. History In August 2018, the MindGeek subsidiary Men.com released its first scene featuring MMF bisexual porn titled "The Challenge", which created controversy over whether bisexual porn belonged on a gay porn website. Men.com stated that they decided to feature bisexual content because "After asking our users what they would like to see, a surprisingly large number asked for a fully bisexual scene." Following a backlash over the scene, Men.com decided to no longer feature more bisexual content. Because the release of the bisexual scene "left many angry gay porn fans in complete shock", the MindGeek conglomerate decided to create a separate studio for bisexual porn called "WhyNotBi.com" and feature bisexual content on the WhyNotBi.com website instead of the Men.com website. WhyNotBi is MindGeek's first bisexual porn site. The we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xtube
Xtube was a pornographic video hosting service and social networking site based in Toronto, Ontario. It was established in 2006 and is notable for being the first adult community site to allow users to upload and share adult videos. Xtube was not a producer of pornography, instead it provided a platform for content uploaded by users. User-submitted content included pornographic videos, webcam models, pornographic photographs, and erotic literature, and incorporated social networking features. History Founded in 2006 by Ontario, Canada-based Webnovas Technologies, having been acquired between 2006 and 2010 by the then managing partner of MindGeek (then known as Manwin) Fabian Thylmann. It was part of the Pornhub NETWORK, which is a group of interlinked pornographic video sharing websites, most of which are owned by MindGeek (now known as Aylo). On July 5, 2021, Xtube announced closure was scheduled for September 5 of the same year. Overview The website allowed visitors t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pornography
Pornography (colloquially called porn or porno) is Sexual suggestiveness, sexually suggestive material, such as a picture, video, text, or audio, intended for sexual arousal. Made for consumption by adults, pornographic depictions have evolved from cave paintings, some forty millennia ago, to modern-day Virtual reality pornography, virtual reality presentations. A general distinction of adults-only sexual content is made, classifying it as pornography or erotica. The oldest Artifact (archaeology), artifacts considered pornographic were discovered in Germany in 2008 and are dated to be at least 35,000 years old. Human enchantment with sexual imagery representations has been a constant throughout history of erotic depictions, history. However, the reception of such imagery varied according to the historical, cultural, and national contexts. The Indian Sanskrit text ''Kama Sutra'' (3rd century CE) contained prose, poetry, and illustrations regarding sexual behavior, and the book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reality Kings
Reality Kings (company name: MG Premium Ltd.Kendrick Hogan ) is an independent American brand launched by RTA Netmedia, an internet-based hardcore pornography production company operating out of Miami Beach, Florida. Acquisition by MindGeek A merger notification (with Manwin) was filed with the Austrian Federal Competition Authority in April 2012. In September 2012 Manwin (now known as MindGeek) completed the acquisition. Reality Kings is a part of the Pornhub Network. Ranking Reality Kings has a traffic ranking of 19,245. Logo The Reality Kings logo has gone through multiple modifications over the years, and there are various versions of it. A crown features in most, although sometimes it's just the name, and sometimes the name is within the crown, while at other times, the crown is resting on the name. Controversies In 2010 Florida A&M University Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU), commonly known as Florida A&M, is a Public university, publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mofos
Mofos is a Canadian pornographic production company focusing on reality pornography. About The Mofos website was created by Brazzers in 2008. The goal was to create videos with simpler storylines, as opposed to Brazzers' videos. The videos would feature lesser-known pornographic actors who would be able to accurately embody the various roles specifically written for reality pornography. The Mofos website was eventually acquired by Manwin in 2010. The online network consists of twenty-two hardcore pornography websites (or sub-networks) along with five series. Mofos claimed to have a "global traffic ranking" of 6,946 as of October 2016. Sub-networks The company's owner has stated that there are over twenty websites operating under the Mofos network. Each site follows different themes and storylines within the reality pornography genre. Themes may include: interracial pornography, public sex, legal-aged teenagers, mature women, etc. The sub-sites are named in order to be able t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Cody
Sean Cody (company name: MG Premium Ltd.) is an independent gay pornography label founded in September 2001. The website predominantly features young, muscular, white men in solo and hardcore bareback scenes. Sean Cody has a strict model selection, with contracts requiring no prior pornographic experience ("exclusive" men). History Sean Cody studio was established in 2001 by Sean Cody, a software engineer turned photographer. According to his self-introduction on the original website, he had a religious upbringing up until he turned 18 and left for college. He admitted that he always had a fascination for male beauty, and so after a stint in a large software company after graduation, he launched seancody.com at the age of 30. The studio featured a slate of clean-cut, straight-looking, young, white male models, a reflection of his ideal masculinity and someone he lost his "virginity" to. He owned and ran the company Cody Media Inc until 2015, when he sold it to porn conglomera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethical Capital Partners
Ethical Capital Partners is a Canadian private equity firm best known for its acquisition of Aylo, the owner of Pornhub. The company is chaired by businessman Rocco Meliambro. History The company was founded in 2022 in Montreal. In March 2023, ECP acquired Aylo Aylo is a Canadian multinational pornographic conglomerate owned by Canadian private equity firm Ethical Capital Partners. It is primarily involved in internet pornography, operating a number of video sharing websites (including platforms su ... for an undisclosed sum. The transaction occurred following a series of lawsuits against Aylo (formerly MindGeek) for hosting unlicensed or non-consensual content on its website. References 2022 establishments in Quebec Private equity firms of Canada Companies based in Montreal Canadian companies established in 2022 {{Canada-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouPorn
YouPorn is a free pornographic video-sharing website owned by Aylo that launched in August 2006. Ownership YouPorn's own site reports that its owner is Midstream Media International N.V., seated in Willemstad, the capital city of Curaçao, an island in the southern Caribbean Sea that forms a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.YouPorn.com Hit With 'History-Sniffing' Lawsuit . '' XBIZ''. December 6, 2010. The site is run from a hosting service in Texas, although one reporter described the site as "German-based". In 2011, YouPorn was purchased by the adult entertainment and IT company Manwin, owners of other popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RedTube
RedTube is a pornographic video-sharing site, which in September 2009 held an Alexa ranking within the world's top 100 sites. It is one of several pornographic websites owned by Aylo. In June 2010 it had fallen out of the top 100, but it made a return in mid-2012. As of mid September 2020 its Alexa ranking was 520. Its popularity has been ascribed to its non-sexual name, which is a reference to the non-pornographic video sharing website YouTube. The website is based in Houston, Texas, and has servers in San Francisco, New Orleans and Montreal. History ''Wired'' reported that RedTube was one of the 5 fastest-growing websites in December 2007. The site's database was accessed and temporarily shut down by Turkish hackers in October 2008. In 2009, it was one of twelve pornographic sites blocked by the Sri Lankan court because access to the site, which housed images of Sri Lankan women and children, "corrupted society". In September 2013, one of the videos was blocked in Russi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazzers
Brazzers (, company name: MG Premium Ltd.) is a Canadian pornographic video production and distributing company headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, and legal domicile in Nicosia, Cyprus. With an online network consisting of thirty-one hardcore pornography websites, the company's slogan is "World's Best HD Porn Site!" and features paid subscription-based content. As of December 2020, the company features 2,340 different models and publishes across 31 different sites. History Founded in 2004 by a group of Montreal investors, Brazzers became part of a larger group of pornographic sites under the corporate name of Mansef, which combined the names of founders Stephane Manos and brothers Sam and Hassan Youssef. The name, "Brazzers", was a humorous mispronunciation of the word, "brothers". In 2010, Mansef was sold to Fabian Thylmann and rebranded as Manwin Inc. In December 2012, Thylmann was extradited from Belgium to Germany on suspicion of tax evasion. In October 2013, Thylmann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
