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Brazzers (brä-zerz) is a major pornographic production company in North America. They maintain over 2200 private scenes on their 24 sites. Brazzers specializes in hardcore mainstream featuring large breasted actresses, MILF scenarios and actors with large penises.

The Brazzers brand was launched in early 2005. Their scenes and photographs are primarily shot in Las Vegas, Nevada, Los Angeles, California, and Miami, Florida. They release over 50 scenes per month, totaling over 600 per year, including holiday themes and movies spoofs.

Brazzers has a traffic ranking of 276.[1]

In The News

Initially Brazzers' scenes were exclusive to the internet, but in 2008 Brazzers signed a DVD distribution deal with Jules Jordan Video.[2] With Brazzers retaining all ownership of their content, and Jules Jordan providing worldwide distribution,[3] one of their first big releases Big Tits at School went on to win an AVN award.

Adultreviews celebrated its 1000th review by running a contest on Brazzers where the winner received $1000 and a potential job offer. The final review went on to say that Brazzers "is the Disneyland of the porn world!"[4]

Brazzers received much attention to be the first to film a boy-girl scene with popular porn star Hanna Hilton[5] before she signed exclusively with another production company.

In 2008, Brazzers created Mofos Network,[6] a harder-edged site. Mofos Network focuses on girls who are less experienced and relatively unknown in the industry with lighter, uncomplicated storylines.

Brazzers was featured on an episode of MTV’s True Life.[7] The MTV crew followed porn star Jayden Jaymes at the 2009 AVN, capturing the star meeting and greeting fans while at the Brazzers booth.

[edit] Picture Quality

Video Quality: Brazzers offers their members the choices of viewing formats, the two most popular formats are WMV and FLV (Windows Media Player and Adobe Flash respectively). Both of which are encoded and filmed in HD 720x480 resolution. As of June 2009, they began offering content in 720p High Definition video.

Picture Quality: Original picture averages 3000px by 2000px (width vs. length)

[edit] Parental Control

Brazzers adheres to strict parental control standards by using the ICRA labeling system,[8] ICRA is part of the Family Online Safety Institute. Brazzers regulates[9] its site to prevent children from accessing their adult content.

[edit] Navigation

Brazzers releases all information of the networks on the tour pages. They list the amount of sites, exact total of episodes, information on the videos including the synopses and average length of episodes; along with how many times the network updates daily.

[edit] Criticisms

Brazzers came under industry criticism for associating with tube sites such as Pornhub.[10] In response, in 2009, Brazzers initiated an anti-piracy campaign.[11]

In 2008, after being fired by Brazzers, producer Bobby Manila charged Brazzers with a lawsuit for fraud and violating the terms of contract. The lawsuit was eventually settled out of court.[12]

[edit] Awards

* 2009 AVN Awards – Best Adult Website[13]
* 2009 AVN Awards – Best New Video Production Company
* 2009 AVN Awards – Best Big Bust Release, Big Tits at School
* 2009 XBIZ Award - Affiliate Program of the Year

Bang Bros is a network of Internet-based pornography; the network has a total of 29 websites, seventeen of which are active, and twelve no longer updated.[1]

The site claims to be the most popular adult website[2]. Since 2008, daily page views have descended, as well as its daily traffic rank trend. [3] In 2007, the network generated a sales total of 1.9 million dollars. [4]

[edit] Legal problems

BangBros Inc was sued by the U.S. government in June 2005 for violating the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) Adult Labeling Rule and Federal CAN-SPAM Act [5]. The company failed to follow the rule that requires commercial emailers of sexually explicit material to use the phrase "sexually explicit" in the subject line. The company settled the lawsuit for $650,000 and also agreed to allow its operations to be monitored to ensure that it will comply with the law in the future. It has been reported that the company did not actually send out the emails, but is still liable because they hired third parties to do so on their behalf. [6]