Since the launch of pornhub.com, the first advertising-supported free pornographic video hosting service in the year 2007 (for a view at the old site view: http://web.archive.org/web/20070328120646/http://www.pornhub.com/ or use the provided QR-Code at the end of this waste of paper) the online world has never been the same again.
Pornmovie files had been shared via peer-to-peer, download-services or Usenet newsgroups for a long time but for technology unexpierienced Users it seemed nearly impossible to easily browse and download their documents of desire without beeing in fear of viruses and trojans. Besides that, it was simply hard to find there individual needs and festishes. Thumbnail galleries had been around for a long time, but now more and more users had invested in High-Speed Web connections so the time was right for movies — even in HD.
The first services started around Mid 2006 and were Flash based, as they are still today. They offerd user-generated content, clips of professional movies and lots of teasers for upcoming productions of the big agencies such as private and brazzers.
Today we can find 5 sites in the top 100 of the sites with the most traffic according to alexa.com. 2 out of 100 Internet-Users worldwide visit these sites daily — mostly average educated males without children between 18 and 34 from their home pc. Most sites are banned from the google search engine service due to their adult policy, so there are hardly any statistics to find what keywords people use to find those sites.
Youporn.com is the 24th. most active site in germany. It is visited by more people than flickr, t-online, deutsche bahn or rapidshare for example.Keep this in mind. So let us look at the biggest and most influential sites in the pornogrpahic webstream business in the year 2009.
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