The State of Social Porn
With the term Social Porn or Porn 2.0 people usually indicate all those sites, created after 2005 following the Web 2.0 philosophy, distributing – usually for free – porn content generated by the users themselves.
Since their first appearance, Social Porn Websites, did not only change the way people experience pornography on the internet, but also became enormously successful in terms of popularity and requests that largely contributed to aggravating the crisis in the ”Adult Entertainment” genre already started in the early days of the Internet.
According to statistics in June 2010, based on data from Alexa and Google Trends, PornHub is currently the most visited with over 7.9 million unique visitors (daily) followed by YouPorn (6.2 million), Xvideos (5.4 million) and RedTube (5.1 million).
According to Alexa Top Sites rankings, there are 4 social porn websites in the top one-hundred: PornHub (in 52nd position), XVideos (in 55th position), YouPorn (in 62nd position) and Tube8 (in 93rd position).
Closing, a curiosity: the most popular movie on YouPorn has been viewed over 37,900,000 times and the second most watched – the video of Paris Hilton that appeared some time ago – reached more than 36 million views.
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I can’t see the infographic
Now it’s ok! Thanks :)
you know how you get blind right?
Love the site! Minor glitch — the image “state_of_social_porn.jpg” is missing.
Either that, or someone’s censoring teh interwebz :)
Thanks Richard… can you see it now? :)
Yes.. can see it now. Good post!
And amazing infographic, btw. I apparently love #1ba4b7.
Thanks! :)
How about one for gay porn? XTube? GayTube? RocketTube?
Agreed. I was really surprised XTube didn’t make the cut.
Wow, brave man. Not many people would talk about porn on their blogs.
What always interests me is how the “social porn” websites make any money at all. Spankwire has recently adopted a subscription model, which is interesting. As I doubt the ads they use would provide sufficient revenue, as surely everyone would use ad blockers on these types of sites.
Plus I imagine they would all be sued a fair bit for hosting copyrighted content. Any idea how they earn the money?
They also often host trailer clips, or edited trailers from the major distribution houses and other sites.
I imagine this is a service those sites pay for and hope will drive subs to their own sites.
Nice work Antonio.
Antonio, which font did you use in the image?
Good article btw.
The font is Georgia
Articolo interessante, fa luce su aspetti che è divertente conoscere.
Cito inoltre la frase di Benjamin Lupton “Wow, brave man.”
Ora possiamo aggiungere al video di Paris Hilton un +1
The most social is fantasti.cc (and according to Alexa is also the Italian favourite one :)
Fantasti.cc is an “aggregator” that proposes videos from other sources such as YouPorn, RedTube and so on…
This is a N-infographic! Good job
@Benjamin “balupton” Lupton
I guess the money must come from referrals to subscription sites?
Looking at the figures, it would also be interesting to know how effectively regular (non-adult) banners work on these sites.
There are a few very big numbers up there, but why would 36mil people want to watch P.Hilton is beyond me!
gotta say that too: “brave man”, keep up the good work
Very interesting post. I think there is no question why social porn website is so successful nowadays. We all know that pornography is addictive. Count me in as one of those addicts. :D
great job i really enjoy it … thanks for the great post
Cool infographic.. but i think, too much text :(
Thanks Richie, but text explains the infographic!
Yes Antonio, the text indeed explains this infographic… but generally it is not meant to :) Maximum information must be explained via the images. This is just my observation…. Great work though!
Interesting… Anybody knows what the most seen video is? hahaha!
I’m a bit suspicious of the high Alexa rankings…I bet people with the Alexa toolbar are probably more likely to go to porn sites and especially social porn sites.
Interesting post Antonio, I wouldn’t be surprised if you get lots of people volunteering to do the research for a follow-up article!
You typed the wrong website address XNNX. The correct address is XNXX :-)
Thanks!
Hello Antonio,
Very interesting, please feed as more stuff like this.
Any follow-up article on this subject?
I’m particularly interested in what someone stated hereabove that the pron industry is suffering from these.
Cordialmente,
Rik
Thanks Rik. Yes, probably I’ll do.
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Congratulations.
Thanks Hector!
This is very interesting! I’ve never give it much thought after reading this post. The best thing would be if this genre would evolve like utilizing the 3D technology same thing Youtube is trying to do. That would be pretty awesome.
Even porn has its own evolution huh? This is really getting out of hand.
What about gay social sites!!!? Come guys, as a user, I expected a lot more from GayTube
¿Alguno de estos estudios aparece en castellano? Muchas gracias.
How do you create the image or do you get them elsewhere? If so, where?
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