As Pornhub turns 10! Here’s everything you need to know about your ‘beloved’ porn website
As it turns 10 years old, there are still a few things you don't know about Pornhub!
Amid years of sneakily watching adult content in your browser’s incognito mode behind the closed doors, did you realise that our ‘beloved’ adult entertainment site – Pornhub, recently turned 10 on May 25? One of the web’s biggest porn website has turned 10 years old. Feel old yet?
Ever since it was launched in 2007, a lot of things have changed (pun unintended). While there are tons of options available on the website, have you wondered what is the most popular kind of porn? Turns out, users love Lesbian porn.
To celebrate their big anniversary, Pornhub released some statistics and revealed what their users have enjoyed over the past decade. Interestingly, the most popular category of all time is “Lesbian.” Followed by “MILF,” “Amateur,” and “Teen.”
Pornhub is offering a chance for its users to win one of 100, 10-year memberships to its site in through social media campaign. To enter the contest, users will have to upload photos and videos using the hashtag #PHtaughtme and they will be judged by a panel of judges on the basis of their creativity, originality and humor.
Despite the fact that Pornhub has spent a considerable amount of time in the spotlight, there are still some things that many people may not know about the website. On that note, we bring to you few of the ‘unknown’ facts about most people’s go-to adult entertainment website.
- Within 7 months of its launch date on May 25, 2007, the website managed to reach 1 million daily visits. Within 3 months of launching its mobile site in 2008, the site managed to get into Alexa’s top 100 most visited sites. Today, mobile accounts nearly 75% of its audience.
- By 2010, Pornhub uploaded over 100,000 videos on the website, which is reportedly 10 times the number of videos produced in YouTube spaces as of 2015.
- There’s about 173 years worth of content on the website. The average human life span is 79 years.
- In 2014 the website was blocked in Russia. The government decided to block the site because a particular actress in a video appeared to be too young.
- The company created PornIQ that creates individualized playlists highly specialized to the user. The playlist is created based on what the user normally watches, when he or she visits the site.
- It is believed that some advertisements on Pornhub contain malware. Be careful where you click, people!
- The site’s viewership metrics took a hit over the course of President Obama’s time in office. From over 13 minutes in 2007, by 2012 the average time on site hit a low of just under 9 minutes.
- Pornhub boasts more than 22 million registered users. One of the reasons for the meteoric rise in its popularity has been its complete lack of awkwardness and going all out to promote the brand when it comes to brand building and marketing. And why not, you’ve got to sell your product.
- Pornhub is always trying new things. They started a new service in which you text an emoji to them, they send you a corresponding porn video.
- Who says porn websites do not give it back to the society? Every student knows the struggle of raising money for college, and it is difficult to find scholarships. Well, there’s a $25,000 scholarship from the unlikeliest of sources, Pornhub.
Happy 10 years, Pornhub!