Private Media Group

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Private Media Group
IndustryPublishing
GenreAdult online movies, DVDs, and magazines
Founded1965;59 years ago (1965) (as Private Magazine)
Stockholm, Sweden
Founder Berth Milton Sr.
Headquarters
Ireland
Area served
Worldwide
Products DVDs, magazines, licensing, online dating service, movies, sex toys
Number of employees
38 (2013)  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Website prvt.com
private.com

Private Media Group, Inc. is a Swedish production and distribution company that distributes adult entertainment via print publications, DVDs, and the Internet. It first published a magazine called Private in Stockholm in 1965.

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Origins

Private magazine was established in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1965 as the world's first full-color hardcore magazine by Berth Milton Sr. In the early 1990s, his son Berth Milton Jr. took over and started to produce movies and internet content, taking Private public soon after. [1]

Product lines

The firm provides content through DVD, Video on Demand (VOD), Internet Protocol television (IPTV), PSP, mobile and magazines. It supplies adult entertainment films to thousands of major hotels around the world through their Hotel Pay Per View services. The company also runs the adult channels Private TV (Europe) and Private Gold (Latin America)

In 1998 the company launched Private Circle, [2] a designer clothing label, at the Cannes Film Festival. [3] The label would later be changed to Private Clothing and a boutique would be opened in Los Angeles. [4]

In August 2008 Private Media Group announced it had established an alliance with Marc Dorcel to collaborate in the home video market. The collaboration started with a three-year DVD distribution agreement for France.

The firm's 2009 acquisitions of video on demand companies Gamelink LLC and Sureflix, and the ecommerce technology firm eLine LLC established it as a leading adult content and distribution company in the digital media sector. [5] [6]

In June 2014 the firm announced the released of its full archive of images and (film and video) scenes dating back to the 1960s when Private magazine launched in Sweden. The material is available via a website, PrivateClassics.com. [7]

Movies

Private is known for high-budget, adult movies, such as the two-part series Millionaire, directed by Alessandro del Mar, with a reported budget of $1.9 million. [8] In the last few decades, Private has earned more than 130 adult industry awards.[ citation needed ] The film Millionaire alone earned 16 Venus Award nominations in 2004. [9] Best-selling releases include the Private Gladiator series, Cleopatra, Millionaire and Chateau.

In 1999, Private released The Uranus Experiment, a three-part pornographic science fiction video that is notable for part of it having been shot in microgravity during a parabolic flight, representing the first time a sex act had been carried out in zero-g conditions. [10] [11]

Awards

The following is a selection of some of the major awards Private films have won:

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References

  1. ↑ Morais, Richard (6 June 1999). "Porn goes public". Forbes. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  2. ↑ Veash, Nicola (25 July 1999). "Porn hits the high street as hardcore merchants challenge big-name fashion labels". Guardian News. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  3. ↑ Herman-Cohen, Valli (9 February 2001). "For Clothing Line, Sex Doesn't Sell--but It Does Finance". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  4. ↑ "Private Clothing Opens Fashion Boutique in Los Angeles - PRIVATE MEDIA GROUP INC". PRVT. 22 February 1999. Archived from the original on 21 April 2014. Retrieved 2014-04-20.
  5. ↑ "PRIVATE MEDIA GROUP COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF LEADING U.S. ONLINE DISTRIBUTION PLATFORM GAMELINK AND CREATES GLOBAL DIGITAL POWERHOUSE". Private Media Group Press Releases. Archived from the original on 9 November 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  6. ↑ "PRIVATE MEDIA GROUP Completes Acquisition Of Leading Online Distribution Platform SUREFLIX". Private Media Group Press Releases. Archived from the original on 9 November 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  7. ↑ Smithberg, Allen. "Private Releases Full Media Archive on PrivateClassics.com". AVN.com. Adult Video News. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
  8. ↑ Private U.S.A. Sets Release Date For Multimillion-Dollar Feature, Millionaire Archived 1 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine , AVN Media Network, 3 September 2004
  9. ↑ "AVN - Jesse Jane Named Best Actress USA at Venus Awards". Business.avn.com. 21 October 2004. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
  10. ↑ Brooke, Michael (27 February 1999). "The Uranus Experiment Review". www.thedigitalfix.com. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
  11. ↑ Zero gravity Невесомость : a cultural user's guide. Nicola Triscott, Rob La Frenais, Arts Catalyst. [London, Eng.]: Arts Catalyst. 2005. p. 42. ISBN   0-9534546-4-9. OCLC   60192494.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "AVN Awards Past Winners". AVN . Archived from the original on 12 March 2009. Retrieved 13 March 2009.
  13. 1 2 "THE 2009 AVN AWARDS WINNERS". AVN . Archived from the original on 5 March 2009. Retrieved 7 March 2009.
  14. ↑ "Best International Label at Venus Awards 2017 HD Videos & Porn Photos - Private Porn Sex Videos". www.private.com. Retrieved 25 April 2019.


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