Pornhub to Host its First-Ever Awards Show, Honoring the Best of Adult Entertainment

The highly anticipated awards show will be hosted by industry mega-star Asa Akira in Los Angeles, California on September 6, 2018

 

NEW YORK, N.Y. (August 7, 2018) - Pornhub, the premier online destination for adult entertainment, announced today it will be hosting its first-ever awards show, honoring adult entertainment’s biggest and best.  Scheduled for September 6, 2018, the star-studded show will be hosted by industry legend Asa Akira in Los Angeles, California.

 

The awards will be broadcast with four full, live-streamed, 360-degree virtual reality views, providing fans with an immersive experience unlike anything before. Fans who tune in can also experience it in the first ever Social VR virtual world, Oasis, where VR viewers can virtually interact with one another via an avatar during the event. 

 

“At Pornhub, we live and breathe innovation. It’s important that we keep people coming back for more.  That being said, for our first-ever awards show, we are not only leveraging state-of-the-art technology to allow for all 90M of our daily visitors to participate, we’re also honoring the amazing performers, as well as the fans, because it is their dedication and feedback that helps us offer the best adult experience out there,” said Corey Price, VP, Pornhub. “We couldn’t be more excited for the awards show and we hope our millions of fans from every corner of the world tune in for the big night.”

 

With a number of the world’s most famous pornstars giving and receiving awards, the highly anticipated event will also include musical performances by Young M.A., who will also be accepting the highly anticipated Visionary Award for her directorial debut on adult film The Gift, released under the Pornhub Visionaries Director’s Club earlier this year.

 

“What an honor to be hosting the very first Pornhub Awards! I’m so excited and this show will be done in typical Pornhub fashion, said Asa Akira. “I had a sneak peek at some of the award categories, and I think it’s safe to say this is going to be a very fun event. Plus, it’s going to be broadcasted to tens of millions of people around the world - I need to start thinking of what I’m wearing, ASAP!”

 

Fans looking for a true VR experience and equipped with a HTC Vive or Oculus Rift headset, can attend the event in full virtual reality as an avatar within Oasis, the world famous social VR world available for download at https://oasis.game.

 

For regularly updated information about the awards, categories and nominees, please visit www.pornhub.com/awards.

 

About Pornhub:

Founded in 2007, Pornhub is the leading free, ad-supported adult video streaming website, offering viewers the opportunity to upload and share their own videos. With over 5 million videos and over 90 million visitors a day, Pornhub truly is the best adult site in the world. Pornhub has built the largest dedicated membership base in the adult community, with over 10 million engaged and loyal members, offering viewers a fun and sophisticated social experience directly in site, complete with messaging, photos, achievement badges and much more.

 

About Utherverse Digital:

Utherverse Digital is the leading developer of the Virtual World Web (VWW), a software platform which currently consists of more than 110,000 independently operated virtual reality business-worlds and millions of personal virtual worlds including the Oasis(tm) that is available for download at https://oasis.game. The company was formed in 2002 with the goal of supplementing the flat web with a VR web that could bring a new kind of efficiency to businesses and users, in entertainment, education, commerce and charity.

 

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