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Pornhub
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Pornhub
Pornhub logo
Type of business Private
Type of site Pornographic video sharing
Available in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Japanese, Dutch, Czech, Simplified Chinese
Headquarters Limassol, Cyprus[1]
Country of origin Canada
Area served Worldwide[a]
Owner MindGeek
Key people
Feras Antoon (CEO)[2]
David Tassillo (COO)[2]
Industry Sex
Services Pornography
URL pornhub.org
Advertising Yes
Registration Optional
Launched 25 May 2007; 15 years ago
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Current status Online
Written in PHP[3]
Pornhub is a Canadian-owned internet pornography website. It is one of several pornographic video-streaming websites owned by MindGeek.[4][5] As of June 2020, Pornhub is the 10th-most-trafficked website in the world and the third-most-trafficked adult website after XVideos and XNXX.[6]

Pornhub was launched in Montreal, Canada, in 2007.[7] Pornhub also has an office and servers in Limassol, Cyprus.[8] In March 2010, the company was bought by MindGeek (known then as Manwin), which owns numerous other pornographic websites. The site is available internationally but has been blocked by some individual countries such as India, mainland China, the Philippines, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It offers virtual reality porn, amongst other products, and hosts the Pornhub Awards annually.

Incidents have been reported of Pornhub hosting non-consensual pornography.[9] The company has been criticized for slow or inadequate responses to some of these incidents, including the hosting of the high-profile channel GirlsDoPorn,[10][11][12] which was closed in 2019 following a lawsuit and charges of sex trafficking.[9][13] In December 2020, following a New York Times article on such content, payment processors Mastercard and Visa cut their services to Pornhub. On 14 December 2020, Pornhub removed all videos by unverified users.[14] This reduced the content from 13 million to 4 million videos.[15]