| Industry | Pornography |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2004 |
| Headquarters | Van Nuys, California, USA |
| Products | Pornographic films |
| Website | www.pinkvisual.com |
Pink Visual, based in Van Nuys, California, USA, is a reality and gonzo pornography film production company. It began as an Internet pornography provider before eventually moving into DVD production. Pink Visual also licenses adult content to cable, satellite, pay-per-view, hotel chain channels, and other Internet content licensees. Currently marketing their content with the tagline of "Raw. Raunchy. Real.", Pink Visual content is largely reality-based, taking inspiration from reality television. Pink Visual productions typically utilize amateur performers and are shot in a 'Pro-am' style, utilizing digital video, including the high definition format.
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Founded in June 2004, Pink Visual evolved out of the formerly established TopBucks webmaster affiliate program, which gave Pink Visual the content and marketing resources to launch into the DVD market. Pink Visual currently has over 300 titles in its portfolio. Typically it releases eight to ten new titles monthly throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia.
On February 4, 2009, Pink Visual offered a $10 discount on selected sites in "compensation for (the) Super Bowl porn mishap" in which Tucson, AZ area Comcast customers had their service interrupted for 30 seconds by an uncensored Pink Visual video.[1][2]
In September 2009, Pink Visual president, Allison Vivas, was selected by Newt Gingrich's group, American Solutions for Winning the Future to receive the group's “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2009. The award offer was rescinded, presumably after Gingrich's group was informed regarding Pink Visual's background.[3] Vivas consequently turned the tables on Gingrich by offering him the "Family Values Porn Fan of the Year" award.[4]
Pink Visual president, Allison Vivas, was selected by Newsweek magazine to comment on their Decade In Rewind project as part of Newsweek's list of the decades biggest sex scandals.[5]
In 2008, Pink Visual launched iPinkVisual.com and iPinkVisualPass.com, the first major U.S.-based mobile porn websites designed especially for iPhones.[6]
In June 2009, Pink Visual tweaked the mobile compatibility of their sites to include functionality with other WebKit based browsers, including the Palm Pre and mobile devices running on Google Android. Pink Visual mobile porn sports a limited functionality with certain BlackBerry devices. Pink Visual has released an app on the MiKandi app store for Android.[7]
In April 2010, Pink Visual launched PinkVisualPad.com, the first major porn website designed especially for the newly released iPad.[8] This release was followed soon after by the release of MaleSpectrumPad.com, the first gay website designed for iPad compatibility.[9]
In December 2008, Pink Visual premiered Male Spectrum, a new line of gay pornography home video titles focusing on premium, high-quality gay reality porn content. In addition to the DVD line, Male Spectrum has also launched two gay mobile sites compatible with the iPhone and other multimedia capable mobile devices, iMaleSpectrum.com and iMaleSpectrumPass.com. Recently, Male Spectrum made an initial donation of $2500 to the Human Rights Campaign to assist in the HRC's fight against discrimination.[10]
In September 2011, Pink Visual announced that in preparation for the 2012 apocalypse predicted by the Mayan calendar, they are building a massive underground bunker.[11] The bunker will contain all of the obvious emergency supplies and facilities as well as a few amenities. The bunker will have multiple fully stocked bars, an enormous performing stage with a rotating hydraulic platform and a sophisticated content production studio.[12] The apocalypse bunker is scheduled to be ready by September 2012 and preliminary blueprints have been released.[13]
In recent months, Pink Visual and Male Spectrum have made news by donating a portion of their proceeds to Trees for the Future as well as for releasing an environmentally friendly DVD line, Plant Your Wood. The company is also working to turn their web sites carbon neutral.[14]
On January 18, 2010, Conan O'Brien revealed that he was offered to star in a Pink Visual porno entitled "Conan the Boobarian" among other job offers.[15]
In February 2010, Pink Visual’s holding company Ventura Content filed suit[16] at U.S. District Court in New York against the owners of Brazzers, alleging that four company-owned tube sites poached content from 45 copyrighted movies and have streamed them “tens of millions of times.”[17]