We are the Pornhub team. Ask us about porn, VR, data, corn or anything else.

Is it okay if I just say thank you?

You're very welcum.

-Katie

*Whalecum

You win.

-Katie

When is PornHub kids coming out?!

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I think you misunderstood. He's not saying porn involving kids. Just porn for kids.

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In 2014, Pornhub told its viewers to stop uploading footage from Brazil's defeat to Germany at the 2014 FIFA World Cup with sexual innuendo titles.Were there any other such instances when videos like these were uploaded?

Bayern Munich VS Porto was a pretty popular upload as well.

-Katie

What is the biggest threat to the porn industry in the next 5-10 years?

Your mom.
-Katie

ONE OF US

One of us! ^{one of us! one of us!}

Ok, but in all seriousness.

Censorship.
Brett

a while ago in /r/Showerthoughts someone posted the idea of adding a rating to porn sites that shows how many people left your site on that video... Any possibility to this?

We do this! We know how long users watch each video and when they leave. This is currently factored into our "hottest" videos listing and we're continuing to build on this to make sure we surface the best videos to users.
-Brett

We know how long users watch each video and when they leave.

That's kind of creepy.

Why? We have no clue WHO they are, just the data on what is watched.
Brett

I'm curious how this applies to the hottest rankings. If they leave too soon, they didn't like it, and if they're on a particular video for a long time it didn't really do it's job. Is there a bell curve of time watched?

Yeah too long would be a negative factor as well but less so that too soon. It's something we are continuing to improve and tweak with the help of our data scientist.
Brett

I've got an artesian well on my property and the water pressure is lousy. Any suggestions?

Call this guy. http://i.imgur.com/QZQ8t72.gif. I heard he's also a great plumber. -Aria

Why does the website have a 'humor' category? What was the memo behind that?

We needed somewhere to put our corn videos.
-Brett

Does Donald Trump have the upgraded Pornhub account or does he use the regular version like the rest of us working class folk?

Follow up question: What are his top 3 searches?

We can't be sure but Premium user cheeto_dick sure has viewed a lot of latina porn.
-Aria

1. Who is your favorite Redditor and why is it Warlizard?

2. Is there any way to tag parents or roommates with RFID chips that will automatically change porn to a peaceful mountain scene and remove the suck-o-matic 3000 when they get within 100 feet?

3. When are you going to pay me to write clever and interesting scripts that highlight how interesting and unique the Pornhub girls are (as well as acrobatic)?

4. How many girls does it take to make an official "reverse orgy"?

Thanks in advance.

1. We've been brought together by the look of disapproval and have been united ever since.

2. Great idea!

3. We just launched Full Holes and will be working on more Originals so pitch us your idea!

4. Reverse orgy.. since four is an orgy would -4 be a reverse orgy?

-Katie

1. Indeed.

2. I know, right?

3. You're kidding, right? I have more written content that would be easily adaptable than you can shake a dick at. You tell me the topic, I'll send you the script.

4. It's still a "hole" number.

You have my contact information. We'll talk.

-Katie.

After a nice hard shucking do you prefer your corn salted or buttered?

Ooooh. Creamed.

-Aria.

There is a sub here r/PornhubComments. Do you read comments on Pornhub?

I'm actually a mod there!

-Katie

now that begs the question. how does moderation work on a porn site? sex stuff is ok but assholery is not i take it?

Pretty much, it's actually a really friendly community.
Katie

Hey Katie,

How do you feel about Allie Haze's recent AMA?

It was pretty awful but we still love Allie.
-Aria

• average time spent per video?
• average time spent per visit?

I need to know what percentile my fapping is at

About 5 minutes and about 8 minutes.
Brett

While they're separate companies, most of the major porn tube sites (Pornhub, Redtube, YouPorn, Xtube, etc) are all owned by the same parent company. What kind of collaboration is there between your companies?

On that note, I really like how YouPorn has free tools to view statistics about the videos I upload and would love it if Pornhub had something similar!

They are all run by separate teams, sometimes even in different countries. We like to think we're all friends though and there is some overlap. For example, I now run social media for YouPorn while still being community coordinator for Pornhub.
-Katie

I now run social media for YouPorn while still being community coordinator for Pornhub.

2 jobs at once.Interesting. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Two hands.. two jobs? Coincidence?

-Katie

What do you consider the best and worst parts of your job?

The dick pics. (◕‿◕✿)
-Aria

2 years ago u/katie_pornhub told u/billywubba she'd send him 1 month of pornhub premium for free

I PM'd him a few months ago curious if he actually got it and he replied no. Will you honor your promise now?

We did send him premium though.

-Katie

What do your offices look like?

Is there porn posters on the walls? or porn themed coffee mugs? or is it just a normal office?

Here's a tour of the office with Snoo

-Katie

Now, can we get a VR tour of the office from Snoo's perspective?

That would be pretty funny.

-Brett.

So for filming VR scenes, does the actor have to wear some awkward VR camera rig while they bone?

Yup. I've heard that male talent has a lot of trouble keeping it up with such heavy gear on their chests. Often the scenes have to be filmed multiple times.
-Corey

I watch porn fairly often - several times a week. I've noticed that the categories I typically view say that they have thousands of videos, but each time I click and view the thumbnails it seems that I've seen most of the clips. Any tips on finding less commonly viewed clips?

On Pornhub change the filter to "Newest" instead of "Recently Featured". We have millions of videos but only about 1 mill are featured across 60+ categories.
-Brett

Even though you all are not performers, have you ever been asked to do a scene? Or wanted to try it out?

I get asked every day but company policy that employees can not be performers. I did have my corn debut last week though. http://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ph56fd5d1bd4db7 -Aria

How are your opinions on VR Porn? Is it the future ?

It will play a huge part in the future of adult, gaming, entertainment etc. but it will be a long time until it replaces the ease of loading a video in a basic player. If you haven't tried VR porn, you're missing out.
-Brett

You guys hiring any web developers / back end programmers? Got an email I could maybe send my CV to? c:

CS Graduate with a previous focus from Big data analysis and software engineering, even got experience building for Oculus kit 2 :>

Yes! Email your CV to [email protected]
-Brett

Another video game related question: do you think you'll be involved in adult video games any time in the near future?

One of our partners, Nutaku, already does this.

-Katie

After a quick look at Nutaku I wasn't too impressed at their games. How about starting vr rhythm game development. Just attach vive controller to crotch for controls. I spent way toooo much time thinking how the game mechanichs would work. It could become the next Rock Star style hit game. (maybe not as many copies bought by parents as gifts to their kids). Just call it Porn Star and get some porn stars to work with 3d modelers to get them in game.

Great idea, we'll definitely consider it.

-Katie

Would you rather beat off fight 100 duck size penises or one horse size penis?

This is horrifying. I'm not down at all. That's too many penises.

-Katie

Why do you allow videos to be labeled amateur when they are clearly NOT amateur?

Amateur videos tend to be professional studio content in an amateur style. Homemade content is what you're looking for! You can toggle this on the sidebar. We have thousands of verified Pornhub amateurs that make that make homemade content!

-Katie

It helps, but I just looked now and there are a few GDP clips that are flagged as homemade.

Use those suggestion buttons under the video. We rely on community to flag the proper tags!
Brett

what is the main misconception about people that work in porn, in your opinion?

We aren't all naked and having sex with each other, sadly.
-Aria

Hi pornhub team. I don't at all agree with it, but once you do porn your future career opportunities tend to dwindle significantly. Does that stigma follow to your jobs too? Do you feel it will be hard for you to find other employment if you ever leave the porn tweeting business?

No it doesn't affect future opportunities. It's easier for developers because employers are always impressed when they say they work on a site that gets 500 million daily page views.
-Brett

Hi, Katie!

How's that fluffbeast monstrosity of a cat doing?

Here's some cat tax

-Katie

it would make a good mop, thats for sure

I am in the market for both a cat and a mop

lmao I hate you all.

-Katie

If you were an alpaca, would you be a suri or a huacaya?

Definitely the first one.

-Katie

This one is for Aria :) Do you enjoy interacting with people on social media and did you intend to end up at pornhub or did you have other career's in mind?

Well I really wanted to be a banker but this is my silver medal. I do love interacting with fans though. -Aria

What ever happened to Jordan that ran your Twitter back in ~2012? Katie and Aria are cool, but Jordan was my favorite (no offense!)

She got too horny and quit

-Katie

Seeing as Pornhub was one of the first Adult sites to support video on the PlayStation 4 browser...

Has the team considered looking into supporting the PSVR when it hits shelves later this year?

If PSVR let's us play porn on it, you can guarantee we will support it.
-Brett

Is there anyway to move the "Cast" button on the mobile site? Because it's wayyyy too close to the "mute" option if you get my drift. That Chromecast just takes over if something is sent to it ...

Scary! It's actually the default Android player so blame Google for the oversight.
Brett

Who's your favorite gamer on the YouPorn esports team?

It's actually Team YP, not YouPorn esports and they're a completely separate division but all of our players are awesome. I have a preference for our fighting game players since those are the games that I prefer.

-Katie

So what you're saying is Bizzaro Flame. EZ$

We have Filipinoman and Valmaster as well who play SFV!

-Katie

How many chicken wings could you eat in one sitting? Is this more or less than your ideal number of tacos?

ALL OF THE CHICKEN WINGS IN THE WORLD. My ideal number of tacos is three.

-Katie.

I was saddened to hear about the recent passing of Amber Rayne.

For the day or two afterwards, I saw very little "tributes" to her. I know the details aren't out yet, and the internet loves to be suspect about the motives and lifestyles of the talent in your industry. I can totally accept that there would be few "tribute reels" or any such thing - directorial commentary, co-star commentary, etc, etc. - My image of the porn world is of detached relationships and a requisite need for non-emotional interactions.

having said that, though, I realized that is only 1/2 the equation here; customers and fans would be the other side. I would imagine you would have seen a huge spike in simple "search results", and "favoriting" would skyrocket in the next few days. Did they?

I also imagine, quite callously, that the industry will move on fairly quick. Yayo is as Yayo does, right?

Anyhow. I hope she's in a better place. I don't doubt she had her issues, but she always seemed comfortable with the choices she made.

We are all saddened by her death. We see spikes in searches for keywords, pornstars, celebs whether they are in the press for positive or negative reasons out of curiosity. So yes we can assume searches for Amber did increase but we tend to not release data on social or to media when these types of things happen. -Corey

What's your favourite category ?

SFW. It's real. http://www.pornhub.com/video?c=221 (It's not actually SFW) -Brett

sooo much corn!

And so little time.

-Katie

Why doesn't Snoo have his own page on the Pornstars section?

Don't give Katie ideas like that.. Brett

One of your advertisers shown in popups for me in the UK is a large Irish based gambling company with logos featuring leprechauns. Unless I'm looking for leprechaun porn, I only want to see advertising related to the act at hand (wanking). I don't want to gamble, I want to wank.

You, or your advertisers think differently. Is there some connection between porn and gambling that makes it particularly effective?

With these types of popunders, the idea is that you wank and then gamble - they're only really meant to be seen once you're through with the task at hand. Leprechaun porn is more popular than you'd think though!
-Corey

Pornhub is going to make a porn film in space, named Sexplorations in space.What is the latest news about it?

Unfortunately, We only hit 10% of our funding goal on Indigogo so everyone got their money back. It's not off the table, when costs come down we will try it again. Weightless sex is still on the horizon!
-Corey

How do people react when you tell them about your job? Do you get a lot of negative reactions or are people generally neutral/positive?

Usually they are intrigued but it's almost always positive. Sometimes it depends on the generation.
-Brett

Hi, what has been your favorite office prank while working at PornHub? Also, would you say that you have the best cat of all time?

I definitely have the best cat of all time.

There aren't really many office pranks but we have EPIC nerf gun battles.

-Katie

Even your office games require clean up.

gdi remotectrl.

-katie

What little features are on the website that we probably don't know about?

We have achievements!

-Katie

I asked this to Katie the other day, now I want to ask the rest of you.

Working at Pornhub, what would you consider NSFW? Like, what would you be disgusted to see on a co workers monitor?

Gore, teletubbies or any kids cartoons.
Brett

what is your favourite corn?

*edit i meant porn

Latina.

-Aria

Any plans for a VR experience that somehow synchs with a fleshlight/dildo? Or a i dreaming too big?

Teledildonics are real. Have you heard of our Twerking Butt^TM?
-Brett

/u/Katie_pornhub, esteemed moderator of /r/alpacaselfies, which of these alpaca selfies should I post to that subreddit/use on Facebook?

Definitely #4

-Katie

Is there any info on the engineering that goes into actually hosting the pornhub site; like database tech used, if it's all on physical servers or in AWS and if in AWS what services are used, strategies for scaling with that many users, if there's any dynamic scaling involved and what that looks like in the evening vs the rest of the day, etc?

Also, how can I get a hot girlfriend?

Much thanks!

DB is MySQL ) with a lot of caching in place and all servers are physical dedicated 48 threads machines.

-Rusty

For girlfriend question - 666-6969 (Aria)

I probably could have just googled this, but since you guys are doing an AMA, I thought to myself why not just ask.

So, for pretty much a good portion of my internet life, I've gotten all of my porn through sites like yours and have never gone to the paid sites where the main videos usually come/are produced from. Since it seems that a majority of people are viewing porn through sites like these and not the main sites, how does this affect the industry, if at all?

I rarely ever see people say that they bought a subscription to some porn site since there are thousands upon thousands of sites that offer free content. I'm guessing there's probably some deal between you and the studios where the viewer is enticed to go to the studio's website to see more of the content that they saw on Pornhub or Xvideos, possibly making them a new subscriber.

Yup, we have thousands of studios that upload videos in return for banner space around the video. The ads drive subscribers to their sites. Many people do pay for porn. Our Premium offering has had nearly a million subscribers since we launched it in August. -Brett

How much of your product is view by mobile (or can you even tell?), and how much has that expanded over the past few years?

Last time we checked, it was around 65%. This is up from just under 50% in 2013.
-Brett

I have a question for Katie. What are your tattoos of, and which is your favorite? Also do you have a favorite player on the ravens? c:

I have a day of the dead and halloween themed sleeve. I also have some disney leg tattoos, some tribal scorpions, and a couple other small ones.

As for my favorite Ravens player.. FLACCO!

-Katie

Sooo... Katie have you ever hooked up with one of the pornstars before?

Nah. I've had offers though. Have you seen those dicks though? They're horrifying. I'm a tiny person.

-Katie

Is mayo a good lubricant?

meh.
-Aria

Is corn being added as a category permanently? Asking for a friend. Also was the idea at all helped by the Rick and Morty epsiode Rixty Minutes?

It's a channel, not category, but it's here to stay! It's part of our SFW category.

-Katie.

Do you know when the VR goggles are being shipped?

They actually started shipping today! So most people should have them within the next few weeks.
-Corey

I already know the answer but if you wouldn't mind repeating yourself for the plebs...

What is the largest sized bear you could fight? No weapons or guns, but you are allowed one standard camping/backpacking knife.

I will fight any sized Gummy bear. Make it as big as you want. I will defeat it.

-Katie

Cornhub? Can you describe it to me?

http://www.pornhub.com/channels/cornhub

-Brett

The comments section on your sites are always hilarious and sometimes helpful. Do you guys have any favorites?

I really liked Limerick Larry!

-Katie

Who is your favorite pornstar?

Xander corvus

-Katie

What is your favorite meme? :)

this one

-Katie

How do people's choices vary throughout the year, not including holiday themes? More outdoor in summer?

We actually looked at the data to see if there were any major changes in searches from season to season but like you noted, they were mostly concentrated around specific holidays.
-Corey

What technologies are used behind the scenes? NGINX as the web server I'm guessing, but what else?

Also, do people really share videos on social networks? Do you get lots of traffic from social networks?

And to finish, cause I was supposed to be with my girlfriend right now, where are the videos of those NERF office wars?!

Yeah we have NGINX. We have a lot Load Balancing in place. Other technologies: Redis , Memcached, McRouter, MySQL, Node.js, Golang, Neo4j, Sphinx.

-Rusty

How is your Esports team going along?

Pretty good. You can check out updates at www.teamyp.com and maybe Claire will stop by to answer some questions /u/teamyp

-Katie

Have any good porno recommendations?

http://www.pornhub.com/random

-Brett

In terms of data - has viewership of BDSM activities gone up recently? As PhD student (who researches porn), it seems to have entered the mainstream a lot more in the past few years...

In terms of VR - as a 24-year-old person with a vagina who watches a lot of your porn (and who has also worked in the VR industry, incidentally), it'd be great to see VR be used to experiment with the genre of porn itself. What do you have planned on this front?

Lastly, how can I apply for a job with you? ;)

1- We noticed a pretty significant spike in BDSM searches when the 50 Shades of Grey movie premiered http://www.pornhub.com/insights/50-shades-bdsm-searches
2- Alan's got this one
3- email us at [email protected]
-Corey

Favorite pizza topping?

corn.
-Aria

Have any of you appeared in any video on your site, and if so who and what was the video?

Yeah here is my first scene! http://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ph56fd5d1bd4db7
-Aria

What does your office look like?

I answered this in another comment but here's a tour

-Katie