XVideos is a pornographic video sharing and viewing website. XVideos was founded in Paris in 2007. The website is now registered to the Czech company WGCZ Holding., it was the most visited porn website and the 8th most visited website in the world. WGCZ Holding also own Bang Bros, DDF Network, Penthouse magazine, Private Media Group, Erogames and has a controlling interest in the productions gathered under the Legal Porno brand. XVideos has a mirror website XNXX. XNXX is the 2nd most visited porn website and the 9th most visited website in the world. Combined, XVideos and XNXX get over 5 billion visits a month, double their nearest competitor's Mindgeek's traffic.
History
XVideos was founded in Paris in 2007 by the French owner Stephane Michael Pacaud. XVideos serves as a pornographicmedia aggregator, a type of website which gives access to adult content in a similar manner as YouTube does for general content. Video clips from professional videos are mixed with amateur and other types of content. By 2012, XVideos was the largest porn website in the world, with over 100 billion page views per month. 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." 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.
, XVideos has been counted as the 8th most popular website in the world by SimilarWeb in overall category and 1st in the adult category with over 3 billion visits a month. XNXX, a mirror site of XVideos, is the 9th most visited website overall and the 2nd most visited website in the adult category. Combined, XVideos and XNXX get over 5 billion visits a month, double their nearest competitor's Mindgeek's traffic.
Censorship
India
In 2015, the company was censored by the Indian government on a list of 857 'pornographic' websites, which also included non-pornographic websites such as CollegeHumor. In 2018, major internet service providers blocked access to XVideos and other porn sites.
On June 14, 2018, the telecommunications and internet services company CANTV blocked access to the website without giving any statement in this regard.
Bangladesh
On February 19, 2019, the government of Bangladesh blocked access to the site along with 20,000 other pornographic sites as a part of their anti-porn war.
