PornHub

 The Porn Site that Became a Household Name

Since its initial launch in 2007, PornHub has managed to prop itself up as one of the most famous and readily recognizable porn sites of all time. It is hard to overstate the pivotal role that PornHub has played in revolutionizing the way in which people consume adult entertainment. Not only has PornHub, almost singlehandedly, solidified the free porn tube as one of the most popular and beloved types of porn sites, but it has also managed to transcend the world of online smut. PornHub has become something of a cultural phenomenon. Never before has a single porn site been greeted with so much mainstream acceptance and recognition. In other words, prior to PornHub’s meteoric rise to fame, to be able to identify a porn site by name was almost always to out yourself as a pervert in most social circles. This was something that was, typically speaking, looked down upon. However, nowadays, people reference PornHub all the time to little or no social repercussions. Frequently referenced in popular and social media, it has, in other words, become nothing short of a household name. There are even entire online communities dedicated to rather innocuous aspects of the PornHub user experience. One such community, for example, is the subreddit, r/PornHubComments. Here, in contrast to the abundance of extremely active NSFW Reddit communities comprised of surprisingly dedicated users (or, perhaps unsurprisingly when you consider the fact that 36% of all internet data usage is attributed to pornographic content), the PornHub Comments subreddit focuses solely on humorous or surprising comments that people have left on PornHub videos. The comments section, at least in the opinion of Pornsites.com, is one of the many key ways in which PornHub has been able to differentiate themselves from the rest of the free porn sites on the web. By having a remarkably active social network component that is prominently featured on the site, PornHub has been able to carve out a space for themselves in the highly competitive social media sphere. Once PornHub began offering additional community features to the innumerable amount of pornographic content to be found on the site, there were virtually no other sites who were offering the same breadth of services. Quickly, other big-name free porn tubes, like xHamster and Red Tube, began adding similar user-specific features in order to compete. Essentially, PornHub was one of the first (if not the first) porn site to completely alter the way people enjoyed viewing pornographic content. They understood the importance of making it a more interactive, personalized, and customizable experience. Lovers of adult content, then, were no longer merely masturbating in solitude, separate from one another. Instead, PornHub found a way to connect hundreds of thousands of horny XXX enthusiasts all over the world. And they did so not only by creating a more social environment than has ever been done before on a porn site, but also by making porn a participatory medium.

Revolutionizing Free Porn

Perhaps you are familiar with the introduction that PornHub tags onto the beginning of any amateur content created and submitted by members of PornHub, where it indicates that the video you are about to watch is a part of the vast “PornHub Community.” This is one of the most crucial ways in which PornHub stands out from the crowd. Not only can PornHub users have fun in the extremely active and heavily populated comments sections on videos, but they can take their shot at becoming porn stars of their own rights as well by producing their own pornographic content. This was an incredibly novel idea when PornHub first introduced it to the world. Thanks to PornHub, the adult entertainment industry was no longer organized in a top-down model, by which porn lovers (consumers) paid a certain amount of money (either per film or per month for a website membership) to a production studio in order to passively enjoy porn. Suddenly, the whole paradigm was shifted. Thanks to PornHub making it easier than ever for amateur pornographers to make and share videos (and pictures) with the world, anyone could become a porn star. And in the past few years, a number of independent amateur models have done just that, thanks to the built-in capacity to sell content and accept tips from fans that PornHub allows its users to take advantage of. With these new abilities, PornHub, one could argue, is also responsible for a huge resurgence in the popularity of amateur porn, shifting the adult entertainment world from one which was dominated by just a few giant premium professional porn sites (like Brazzers, Reality Kings, and Team Skeet), to one which is more open, participatory, and filled with opportunity. To use an analogy, what Wikipedia did for knowledge and information, PornHub did with for porn.

Nothing in this Life is Free … Think Again!

Which leads naturally into the thing that is, quite possibly, PornHub’s greatest asset … the fact that it provides hundreds of thousands of pornos, absolutely free of charge. In fact, you do not even have to sign up or register in order to access almost all of the free porn that PornHub has to offer. They do offer a premium version of the site, for which you do have to pay. Select videos are available only on premium, as well as the ability to stream videos in the highest HD resolution available (1440p), but you probably won’t even notice that you are missing out on anything. The number of unavailable, premium-only videos is relatively few. And, chances are 1080p HD is probably a sufficient streaming quality for most people. So, how is PornHub able to offer hundreds of thousands of HD porn videos (many of which are produced by the best studios in the industry today)? Well, for starters, in 2010, PornHub was acquired by a giant media conglomerate of the adult entertainment industry, Mind Geek (previously known as Manwin). Mind Geek is the same corporation that owns many of the other most popular porn sites on the web, such as Red Tube, You Porn, Tube 8, Brazzers, Reality Kings, My Dirty Hobby, Digital Playground, Twistys, and Men.com (just to name a few). Therefore, PornHub, as a business model, acts as a means of providing previews and teasers for the rest of the sites of the Mind Geek empire. The idea is that people will be more likely to subscribe to a premium porn sites if they get hooked via the 5 to 10-minute clips provided for free on PornHub. This is why many of the videos on PornHub (unless you have a premium membership, that is) are merely excerpts.

The Perfect Free Porn Tube?

Pornsites.com loves so much about PornHub. In fact, there is so much to love about PornHub that it would probably be easiest just to detail the few things that Pornsites.com does not love about PornHub. The fact that many of the videos, as was just mentioned, are so short is Pornsites.com’s main complaint. But, in addition to that, Pornsites.com also wishes that the site did not have quite so many ads. The ads on PornHub, too, are those that are not easily taken care of with a common adblocker browser plugin. So, that makes them extra pesky. Other than those few minor complaints, however, PornHub is easily one of the best executed porn sites on the web. And possibly, in Pornsites.com’s opinion, at least, the best free porn tube in existence. There are just so many things that PornHub is doing right. To the point where these small complaints feel a little bit trite by contrast. The site design, for example, is iconic. The black, gray, and yellow theme is immediately recognizable by anyone who has been to PornHub before. And the actual desktop experience is best described as smooth and streamlined. The algorithm used for related videos is very intuitive (you never get pitched ‘related’ videos that have nothing to do with the original one), and if you are a member, it even does a bang up job at learning your viewing habits, making it easier than ever to find new videos, models, and studios that you will love. The social network components, too, are absolutely amazing. Pornsites.com has never seen a better executed porn community. You can ‘like’ and subscribe to as many models and porn studios as you see fit. You can add friends, follow community users, create posts, share pics and videos, and comment on the uploads of others. Basically, if you can do it on Facebook, you can do it on PornHub (and probably have a much better time doing so). If you have never been to PornHub before, what are you waiting for? There is truly nothing else like it in the world of porn, and you should definitely check it out today.