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XVideos

XVideos is a pornographic video sharing and viewing website. Since December 2018, it is the most visited pornographic website according to the Alexa analytics tool.^[4] The website is registered to the Czech company, WGCZ Holding.^[1][5] As of 24 October 2018, it was the 29th most visited website in the world.^[3]

In 2012, it was estimated that the site streams over a terabyte per second, which was the equivalent of one-fifteenth of the network bandwidth available from London to New York.^[6]

WGCZ Holding also run the Bang Bros network of websites and are the current owners of the Penthouse magazine and its related assets.^[7][8]

History

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.^[9][10] Video clips from professional videos are mixed with amateur and other types of content.^[9][10] By 2012, XVideos was the largest adult website in the world, with over 4.4 billion page views per month.^[11] Fabian Thylmann, the owner of MindGeek, 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 $120 million by saying, "Sorry, I have to go and play Diablo II."^[10] 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.^[12]

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   An online video platform (OVP), provided by a video hosting service, enables users to upload, convert, store and play back video content on the Internet, often via a structured, large-scale system that can generate revenue. Users generally will upload video content via the hosting service's website, mobile or desktop application, or other interface (API). The type of video content uploaded might be anything from shorts to full-length TV shows and movies. The video host stores the video on its server and offers users the ability to enable different types of embed codes or links that allow others to view the video content. The website, mainly used as the video hosting website, is usually called the video sharing website.