Fabian Thylmann, the owner of MindGeek, attempted to purchase XVideos in 2012 in order to create a monopoly of pornographic tube sites.

By 2012, XVideos was the largest porn website in the world, with over 100 billion page views per month. Video clips from professional videos are mixed with amateur and other types of content.

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.

XVideos was founded in Paris in 2007 by the French owner Stephane Michael Pacaud.