An investigation into who owns MindGeek, the secretive company behind Pornhub, which had $460M in revenue in 2018 and has 115M+ daily visitors to its sites
Mario Salieri was shooting a pornographic movie in a lavish Prague villa two decades ago when he first caught sight of the computer geeks who were about to upend his industry. Tweets: @lailamickelwait , @alexhern , @mattgarrahan , @b50 , @josephstash , and @alexhern See also Mediagazer Tweets: Laila Mickelwait / @lailamickelwait : PORNHUB EXPOSED: The secret shareholder of Pornhub/Mindgeek is a man named Bernard Bergemar who has kept himself deep in the shadows until now. There is nothing that Pornhub has hidden that will not be brought to light. #Traffickinghub https://www.ft.com/... Alex Hern / @alexhern : Stellar investigative work https://www.ft.com/... Matthew Garrahan / @mattgarrahan : Fascinating look at Bernard Bergemar, the world's biggest porn baron behind RedTube and PornHub. He controls a vast empire through a network of companies - but all mention of him seems to have been completely scrubbed from the internet https://www.ft.com/... Anupam Gupta / @b50 : Wow! “Every day, roughly 15 terabytes worth of videos get uploaded to MindGeek's sites, equivalent to roughly half of the content available to watch on Netflix.” https://www.ft.com/... @josephstash : Remember when Theresa May almost made MindGeek the arbiters of age verification on the internet 😬 https://www.ft.com/... Alex Hern / @alexhern : Something that's worth remembering: Theresa May wanted to make Mindgeek, the owners of Pornhub, the de facto regulator of age verification on the UK internet. They came within *days* of passing the required legislation. See also Mediagazer