Hunting Warhead Introduces: The Pornhub Empire: Understood

Hunting Warhead

CBC

True Crime

4.9 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

With about 100 million visits per day, Pornhub is one of the biggest websites on the planet. This four-part series pulls back the curtain on the scrappy, Montreal-based startup that revolutionized sex on the internet — and the massive scandal that exposed its dark side. The Pornhub Empire, season 2 of Understood, releases March 11. Hosted by journalist Samantha Cole (How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex). About Understood: Know more, now. From the fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, to the rise of Pornhub, Understood is an anthology podcast that takes you out of the daily news cycle and inside the events, people, and cultural moments you want to know more about. Over a handful of episodes, each season unfolds as a story, hosted by a well-connected reporter, and rooted in journalism you can trust. Driven by insight and fueled by curiosity…The stories of our time: Understood. More episodes are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/ZdC_XwwL

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0:00.0	Listen now to the Proof Podcast season two, the Murder at the Warehouse. How did you
0:07.1	found out something that happened? My mom called me and said, Marie, the
0:11.0	police found a body and they're pretty sure it's Renee.
0:14.8	Right away, right away.
0:16.8	In my head already, I thought it was Jake.
0:19.2	Season 2 of Proof is available now, wherever you get your podcast. I don't think that they
0:23.9	arrested the right people. It's about time somebody's trying to do something.
0:28.9	This is a CBC podcast.
0:37.0	Hi, I'm Samantha Cole, host of the new season of Understood,
0:41.0	the Porn Hub Empire.
0:43.0	Over the course of four episodes,
0:45.0	I'll tell you how a horny YouTube knockoff from Montreal
0:48.2	came to dominate the adult industry.
0:50.6	With billions of visits a month,
0:52.4	Porn Hub would become one of the biggest websites in the world, more popular than Netflix.
0:57.5	But there was a dark side to this giant.
1:00.0	The Pornhub empire is a new season of Understood from the CBC.
1:04.1	Find it wherever you get your podcasts.
1:06.3	Now here's the first episode of the Pornhub Empire. empire.
1:17.0	Colin Roundtree makes pornography. We were sharing a lot in Montreal.
1:20.0	We've got a fem-dom up there who's worked with us for 20 years at this point.
1:24.7	That we would go up usually every other month or so.
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