We are the team of PornHD, the biggest HD porn video site. Ask Us Anything!

How do your ads keep getting through my ad block? ;)

It's working - you made our day! :D

Depending on your adblocker you can usually right click and block element. That should block any ad that appears in that slot. Also, noscript will fix a lot of the moving ads.

Would you spend 1 dollar to get an ad-free version for 1 year and support the business of free porn?

What counts as NSFW at your office?

Ha, that’s an interesting one. Fantasy Sports maybe… can get you pretty much addicted. :D Other than that, there’s obviously not a lot.

so....can i start fapping out of no where? Your whole business is about providing fapping material

Preferably not on your work place but if you need a toilet break - go for it! :)

Can the ads on the side bar really make my dick bigger in less than a few weeks? or is it just click bait?

The ads definitely don't make your dick bigger, but the pills just might. To be honest, we haven't tried yet. Additional insight: These pills are most popular in Asia.

What's up with recent rise in incest porn within the last few years? Is it really that popular?

What's up with recent rise in incest porn within the last few years? Is it really that popular?

Not sure how far your definition of incest goes but what we can see is that these plots including stepdad/stepmom/stepsister settings had quite a popularity boost in 2016 - mainly in the US though.

Any idea why?

I have a theory that it's not only realted to the incest iself but the existence of an actual plot.

Some people, like me, like a decent plot leading into the sex. And step-relative porn usually has better plot than most other categories, in my experience.

Edit: I'd also like to clarify that step-porn is not my go-to porn. But that's the appeal I see in it.

Also has a selection of actors that look a certain way; generally no silicone, not looking like teens and looking like normal humans. That being the stepsister one. Can't speak for the rest.

Fair points in both comments!

It's your workplace really professional, or do you guys joke around and hit each other with dildos?

Initially most of us thought it’s gonna involve dildo hitting or at least there will be Cleanex boxes all over the place. The truth is, it’s actually quite “real” work - sometimes maybe even too real with all those close-ups involved. But yes, you have to be professional - the competition is huge and only the hard-working survive.

Speaking of close-ups, is there a demographic who enjoys them?

I've always thought they were taken by an over-enthusiastic cameraman who'd taken too much cocaine.

Is there any reasonable amount of videos without a close-up? We think it has become an inevitable part in any plot. Wasn't it also included in the 10 golden rules of every porn movie as written in "The Cocka Hola Company" by Matthias Faldbakken?

Which is more popular - boobs or bottoms?

According to our stats: Butts before Boobs. According to our team: 50/50. :)

Does the job affect your "regular" dose of porn (do you watch less porn at home)? Did your "tastes" evolve as a direct result of your daily duties?

Mostly the “regular” dose increased - it’s probably natural if you’re exposed to porn throughout the day. Also the scope of interests widened for most of us - there’s stuff none of us even knew before so it’s like being in a huge super-market with a lot of exotic choices: You won’t like ‘em all but you sure try. :)

Do you get random boners while working?

Yes. Definitely. Random and on purpose. You simply can't help.

You guys hiring?

Yes, we always look for talent. If you're interested take a look here: http://www.sunmedia.net/careers/.

Looked through the copywriter description.

"Composing interesting and unique titles to the adult videos we are streaming, while including the right SEO keywords."

As an English major I feel this is my true calling in life.

You never know. Give it a try! :D

Is "assblast" an SEO keyword?

Not yet but let's see if it trends...

Even though I am not a Canadian Satanist, can I still apply to become a backend developer?

Well you miss out on one important criteria but you could still compensate with others.

As a Business Intelligence software developer im impressed you guys are looking for a data analyst. It says a lot about the growth of your company when you need to start hiring an analytics IT team. What kinda of metrics are you guys looking at/ how is it helping you company beyond just what content to provide? What software do you use to analyze your data?

Actually we sit on plenty of (anonymized) data that can unveil quite some magic if put into the right hands.

We mostly care about engagement data i.e. how do users interact with our site, what kind of user journeys are they taking, what are meaningful segmentations of different user types, what content do they like, how do our product changes reflect on the user behavior, etc.

Additionally to that we also analyze the technical data streams e.g. bandwidth, loading times, etc. We have various software for analysis and also various data sources which results in quite some complex environment.

A perfect playground for a data junkie! :D

What do you guys offer that other sites don't?

Quick elevator pitch: We have every (!) video available in HD (obligation to our name), every video has a cum shot (like every movie needs an end), really powerful streaming (if you experience differently tell us), curated content (we don’t want no shit), always fresh videos (the world's moving on). :)

And for the geeks: No Flash player since October 2014 = first mover in HTML 5!

So...no lesbian stuff or solo scenes?

There's quite a lot of videos not involving guys, so yes.

So there goes the "cum shot" guarantee claim... :/

you did this to yourself, sorry

True true. But the claim is still true. Just not for those single woman and pure lesbian videos. We don't have the heart to remove them...

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Thanks for your suggestion! That is indeed a sophisticated feature and we have to admit we've been thinking about it. The only way to do this is either via a revolutionary recognition software or via user involvement. For the first we're not Google and although we have committed devs, that's above our reach. For the second it's actually possible and we keep it on our list. Not sure if it's going to be a competitive edge as it might not attract to a mass audience necessarily. But who knows...

Let's say you want to blackmail us. How much info do you guys have on your average Joe?

Let’s state it loud and clear: What happens on PornHD, stays on PornHD. No blackmailing. :) Now that we’ve come clear on this, we have statistical information about usage (not users) like every other website has that uses any kind of web analytics software. We need this to shape our product and monitor the user experience - otherwise it’s like flying a fully occupied plane without instruments.

That silence is disturbing

We broke the silence... It wasn't intentionally but there's quite some questions (fortunately) and we want to spend an appropriate time on answering them.

If you have children, do you keep them away from sites such as yours? Do they know you work for a Pornsite?

Some of us do have children and yes, for the time their age is not suitable we keep them away from such sites - to our best effort, as all responsible parents (hopefully) do. Most of our kids know that we work in “online” - which is also the standard answer to our parents. :D

Are the kids disappointed that they cannot have a "Take your kid to work day"?

Actually their moms prefer to not have them come in for such occasions. This is where it gets tricky to explain. Mostly we add "confidential stuff" to "online business" if asked about our jobs.

Why has no one invented the porn filter yet? For example, anal turns me off so why can't I filter out anal porn?

We actually have been thinking about this feature a lot but we thought it might not attract a decent group of people. It appears more like a "sophisticated" need to have an "exclude filter" which for most "porn tourists" is too much. We'll think about it again.

Do you feel desensitised to porn after spending most of your time around it?

There’s definitely some kind of desensitisation but mostly at work itself. There are situations where several people gather in front of a screen to check out something product related and we focus so much on the specific detail that only after a few minutes we actually notice that there’s quite some action going on in front of us. :) There was also this one time where we had a product launch party in the office and we had a catering that we forgot to inform about our business. So we had this big screen running in the background showing the new features etc. and while we were busy eating our hors d'oeuvres one of us figured that the catering guys actually stopped working and kept starring. ;) Privately we'd say that most of us are still true to our spirit: We like porn! :D

What will you do to prevent videos labeled "lesbian" from being about two women having sex with a dude? I hate that.

Actually it shouldn't be the case. Even if 2 women are in a lesbian action first, as soon as a guy is involved we strictly label it "threesome". You have any example where this is not the case?

How do you verify if the videos uploaded are illegal? Age, consent, illegal trafficking and other shady stuff? Do you rely on the community to report it?

We don't have any video uploads except from approved sources. So fortunately we don't have an issue with all the things you describe.

Are hot single moms in my area really wanting my D?

It's funny you have that too. They seem to be all over these days. What made them so horny lately?

is jerking off in the bathroom still a bad thing to do? or is it more like a coffee break?

According to our stats it must be the most common usage scenario. Mobile rules with 70% and there's a lot of traffic during work hours. Actually in Italy the highest court ruled that watching porn during lunch break is not a sackable offence.

So i found out the other day that you guys actually run a whole bunch of the major porn sites. Pornhub,youporn, youjizz and redtube are a couple that i know. To me they all seem to cover porn quite generically rather than niches. So my question is, how do you guys consider these sites to differ, and if they don't, why so many sites instead of 1 massive library?

Some of the sites you mention (PornHub, YouPorn, RedTube) are operated by Mindgeek which is a competitor in the field. You're right, they look also quite generic to us, however our feeling is that they mainly focus on PornHub as their major brand and the others are in "keep-alive" mode because they still have masses of traffic due to their remaining brand recognition. Shifting this traffic would always result in a loss so that's why we think they don't do the "one site to rule them all" approach. YouJizz is run by another company and on a side note one of the major targets for legal prosecution as they have tons of illegal content on their site. Still they could survive for many years now.

First: How is it possible that any stream starts directly without buffering in a high resolution? With no other service I have this experience of smooth no buffering time. Second: Where do you get your files from? How do you choose what to upload and what not? Or do you just upload everything that you can get? Thank you and sorry for my English I am not a native speaker.

They are using the Pied Piper compression ;)

Who doesn't? But we couldn't get hold of their click farm yet. :D

First: How is it possible that any stream starts directly without buffering in a high resolution? With no other service I have this experience of smooth no buffering time. Second: Where do you get your files from? How do you choose what to upload and what not? Or do you just upload everything that you can get? Thank you and sorry for my English I am not a native speaker.

First: Great you recognized our efforts in that area! :) Seriously: We invested quite some effort and money to get to a sophisticated video streaming which includes local datacenter streaming (via CDN). We believe we reached quite a good state in that. Where are you based just for information - so we can tick this location off. ;)

Second: For PornHD we have two origins - licensed videos (videos we buy ourselves) and sub-licensed videos (videos we get from producing companies in exchange for promotion on our site). We have quite a strict QA in terms of video quality (resolution, data rate) as well as plot (see also the “cumshot guarantee” mentioned in our intro) i.e. we don’t post anything that doesn’t fit into our definition of quality content.

Is or was porn addiction ever discussed at your office?

It is a topic, yes. We had one employee in the past where you could have assumed he was addicted in a way that he was suffering because of it. We mutually agreed in the best interest of everyone that he should be seeking for another professional field. Addiction in general is a complex field: http://www.health.harvard.edu/topics/addiction

1. Is there any type of video that you guys flat out refuse to allow on the site?
2. On average how many unique vistors do you get per day?

1. We don’t post anything illegal (of course you could say but it’s not the case on every major site) and extreme hardcore (gore, blood, rape, animals, etc).
2. About 1.5m unique visitors per day.

Thanks for doing an AMA, I was surprised. Now my question, where do most incomes come from? And you guys work with the big porn busineses (I guess). How does it work where you guys get the content from?

Thanks for joining!

Incomes mostly spread across advertising, affiliation e.g. revenue share for advertised services and direct sales e.g. our “PornHD Exclusive Ticket” which is a subscription for exclusive content as well as an ad-free experience.

Why does going to your site in mobile endup being this big adfest which tries to hijack my browser?

Sorry for that. We keep fighting against the ridiculous stuff but it stays a tough game. Advertising is still one of the major income flows... If you can tell us a bit more via [email protected] we'd be glad to chase it.

How the fuck did you get the pornhd.com domain? Did you buy it in the 80s?

We bought it early before HD actually became a trend. Good timing. :)

You hiring?I am 30 year old UI/UX designer who knows his way around a Dillion Harper video... or 5...

Give it a try! :)

What's the weirdest thing you've seen working for a porn site?

Well maybe not the weirdest thing but actually we had to look twice if this was serios -> oursite/videos/43846. Definitely top 10.

I'm curious as to what's the ratio of male to female users on your site. Possible to share?

90:10. So clearly male dominated.

You have the best videos out of all porn sites. How do you do it?

Feeling flattered

We focus quite a lot on content as we want to achieve a really qualitative product for our users that we like to use ourselves. So it’s important to have good sources and deliver fresh content from there. A big thanks goes out to our video editors at this point.

Additionally it’s also important how videos are “treated” in terms of encoding and we invested quite some effort here to achieve the best encoding with reasonable bit rates.

Well, this is an awkward 1st AMA i've been on time for... well anyway.. what's a normal day on the job like (for you)? What kinds of "departments" are there in this business? Is there a lot of on the scene work or is it mainly just web management? (BTW Preemptive thank you for replying)

Thanks for joining in - it’s not akward at all! :)

A normal day is pretty much the same as anywhere else we guess - the only difference is the amount of porn at work. ;)

Actually we have all departments that a classic web company has as well (product management, design, development, system administration, marketing, sales, SEO, QA, etc).

Additionally we also have to have a focus on the content side of things (it’s about the videos in the end) e.g. we have content scouting (checking for new stuff) and content processing (cutting, tagging, etc).

Will Mia Khalifa come back!?

Many of us hope so, but chances are probably low... :(