Company type | Subsidiary |
---|---|
Industry | Pornography |
Genre | All |
Founded | June 22, 2005 Montreal, Quebec [1] |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Fabian Thylmann |
Products | Pornographic films |
Parent | Aylo |
Website | Official website |
Brazzers ( /ˈbræzərz/ , company name: MG Premium Ltd.) is a Canadian pornographic video production company with headquarters in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and legal domicile in Nicosia, Cyprus. With an online network consisting of thirty-one hardcore pornography websites, the company's slogan is "World's Best HD Porn Site!" As of December 2020, the company hosts 10,036 videos, which were published by 33 different sites.[ non-primary source needed ]
Founded in 2005 by a group of Montreal investors, Brazzers became part of a larger group of pornographic sites under the corporate name of Mansef. In 2010, Mansef was sold to Fabian Thylmann and rebranded as Manwin Inc. [2] [3] In December 2012, Thylmann was extradited from Belgium to Germany on suspicion of tax evasion. [4]
In October 2013, Thylmann sold Manwin's assets, including Brazzers, to an internal management group, MindGeek. [5]
In 2014, Brazzers celebrated its 10th anniversary with a billboard in Times Square in New York City. The digital billboard was located at the corner of 47th and 7th and viewable for the entire month of August. [6] In 2010, Brazzers had used a Times Square billboard to promote its safe sex campaign and to announce its "Get Rubber!" slogan and website. [7]
In September 2016, Vigilante broke the news of a database breach suffered by Brazzers, which affected almost 1 million users after the site was hacked in April 2013. [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]
The Brazzers logo changed a number of times between its 2005 founding and 2020, though it consitently featured a yellow and black color scheme with an emphasis on the double z's in the middle of its name. [13]
Brazzers is owned and operated by Aylo, a multinational officially registered in Luxembourg. [14] The company was formerly known as MindGeek.
Brazzers came under industry criticism for associating with streaming media sites like Pornhub. In response, in 2009 the company initiated an anti-piracy campaign. [15]
In 2008, after being fired, producer Bobby Manila sued Brazzers for fraud and violation of the terms of his contract. The lawsuit was eventually settled. [16]
In February 2010, Pink Visual Studio sued Brazzers' parent company, Manwin, for copyright infringement by distributing unlicensed video content on its free video-sharing sites. Brazzers' network has been accused of benefiting from unlicensed content by indirectly benefiting from traffic from sharing sites, but this was the first time a well-known studio had filed a lawsuit. A class action lawsuit was considered by other studios. [17]
In 2018, the Government of India banned Brazzers, among other porn websites, after a Uttarakhand High Court court order demanding the same in a rape case where the perpetrators stated they were motivated to do so after watching online pornography. [18]
As of July 2021, Brazzers.com has an Alexa traffic ranking of 3,576. [19]
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