XVideos, stylized as XVIDEOS, is a pornographic video sharing and viewing website. Founded in Paris in 2007, the website is now registered to the Czech company WGCZ Holding.[2][4] As of October 2023[update], it is the most-visited pornographic website and the 9th-most-visited website in the world.[5]
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Type of site | Pornographic video sharing |
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| Available in | English, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Afrikaans and others |
| Headquarters | Prague, Czech Republic |
| Country of origin | France[1] |
| Owner | WGCZ Holding[2][3] |
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| URL | www.xvideos.com |
| Advertising | Yes |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 1 March 2007 |
| Current status | Online |
| Written in | HTML, JavaScript, PHP |
WGCZ Holding also owns Bang Bros, DDF Network, Penthouse magazine, Private Media Group, and Erogames and has a controlling interest in the productions gathered under the Legal Porno brand.[4][6][7]
History
XVideos was founded in Paris in 2007 by the French owner Stephane Michael Pacaud. XVideos serves as a pornographic media aggregator, a type of website which gives access to adult content in a similar manner as YouTube does for general content.[8][9] Video clips from professional videos are mixed with amateur and other types of content.[8][9] By 2012, XVideos was the largest porn website in the world, with over 100 billion page views per month.[10]
Fabian Thylmann, the owner of MindGeek (now Aylo), attempted to purchase XVideos in 2012 in order to create a monopoly of pornographic tube sites. The French owner of XVideos turned down a reported offer of more than US$120 million by saying, "Sorry, I have to go and play Diablo II."[9]
In 2014, XVideos controversially attempted to force content providers to either pledge to renounce the right to delete videos from their accounts or to shut down their accounts immediately.[11][12][13]
Web traffic and ranking
As of August 2021[update], XVideos was the most-visited porn website and the seventh-most-visited website in the world, as ranked by SimilarWeb.[5]
XNXX, another site owned by WGCZ Holding, was the tenth-most-visited website overall and the second-most-visited website in the adult category by 2021,[14] Although competitor Pornhub was ranked one slot above XNXX by 2024. Both XVideos and XNXX were also the world's most-visited websites for virtual reality videos in 2021.[15]