XVideos is a pornographic video sharing and viewing website. The website is registered to the Czech company WGCZ Holding.^[1][4] As of April 2019, it was the 47th most visited website in the world.^[3]

In 2012, it was estimated that the site streams over a terabyte per second, which was the equivalent of one-fifteenth of the network bandwidth available from London to New York.^[5]

WGCZ Holding also run the Bang Bros network of websites and are the current owners of the Penthouse magazine and its related assets.^[6][7]

XVideos serves as a pornographic media Aggregator, a type of website which gives access to adult content in a similar manner as YouTube does for general content.^[8][9] Video clips from professional videos are mixed with amateur and other types of content.^[8][9] By 2012, XVideos was the largest porn website in the world, with over 100 billion page views per month.^[10] Fabian Thylmann, the owner of MindGeek, attempted to purchase XVideos in 2012 in order to create a monopoly of pornographic tube sites. The French owner of XVideos turned down a reported offer of more than $120 million by saying, "Sorry, I have to go and play Diablo II."^[9] In 2014, XVideos controversially attempted to force content providers to either pledge to renounce the right to delete videos from their accounts or to shut down their accounts immediately.^[11]

As of December 2018, XVideos has been counted as the 10th most popular website in the world by SimilarWeb in overall category and 1st in the adult category.^[12][13]

In 2015, the company was targeted by the Indian government on a list of 857 'pornographic' websites, which also included non-pornographic websites such as CollegeHumor.^[14][15] In 2018, major internet service providers blocked access to XVideos and other porn sites.^[16]

In 2015, the Malaysian government banned XVideos for violating the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998, which bans "obscene content" from being digitally distributed.^[17]

On January 14, 2017, President Rodrigo Duterte blocked XVideos as a part of Republic Act 9775 or the Anti-Child Pornography Law.^[18]

On June 14, 2018, the telecommunications and internet services company CANTV blocked access to the website without giving any statement in this regard.^[19]