Founded in Paris in 2007, the website is now registered to the Czech company WGCZ Holding.

[8] WGCZ Holding also owns Bang Bros, Penthouse magazine, Private Media Group, DDF Network and Erogames and has a controlling interest in the productions gathered under the Legal Porno brand.

[11][12] By 2012, XVideos was the largest porn website in the world, with over 100 billion page views per month.

[13] Fabian Thylmann, the owner of MindGeek (now Aylo), 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 US$120 million by saying, "Sorry, I have to go and play Diablo II.