Pornhub, the leading adult entertainment platform on internet. It has completed its 10 years. To celebrated this achievement, the company launched a social media contest, offering fans a chance to win one of 100, 10-year memberships to its Pornhub Premium service.
Pornhub Vice President Corey Price told that Premium service are as similar to Netflix. Which is allowing users to stream their favourite uploaded and original content on their demand.
Competitors posted pictures and video using the hash tag #PHtaughtme, and a panel of judges chose winners based on creativity, originality and humour.
Here's a look at 10 things you should know about the world's biggest facilitator of pornography, along with some context to help drive home the girth of its accomplishment.
Achievement of Company:
1) Within seven months of launching on May 25, 2007, the site reached 1 million daily visits. This is just shy of 20 times the number of people said to visit Walt Disney Co., Disney World Orlando park each day.
2) In 2008, just three months after launching its mobile site, the company was ranked by Alexa.com as one of the top 100 most visited sites. Mobile now accounts for 75 percent of the audience.
3) By 2010, Pornhub had more than 100,000 videos uploaded, which is 10 times the number of videos produced in YouTube Spaces as of 2015.
4) Grammy-winning recording artist Coolio dropped the official Pornhub anthem in 2014. The song is entitled, "Take It To The Hub."
5) Pornhub boasts more than 22 million registered users - just under half the number of Americans who are registered members of a gym (Statista, 2015).
6) There's about 173 years worth of content uploaded to the site. The average human life span is 79 years.
7) Pornhub Premium launched in 2015, and now has more than 1 million signups. That's nearly the number of people who subscribe to the Showtime channel's streaming service.
8) 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. Pages per visit (PPV) likewise fell from almost 15 pages per visit in 2012 to around 8 pages per visit that same year. Both stats have been on the upswing, however, with 2017 showing average time on site of about 9.5 minutes, and PPV almost at 10.
9) Pornhub users tastes don't change much. Three classifications of video have dominated as most viewed category, with nine out of the past 10 years being led by one of the same three categories.
10) Lisa Ann has been the "hottest" performer for four years of the site's existence. Not only is she the only star to earn that distinction in multiple years, her videos also rank No. 1 as the Most Watched of all time.