Pink Visual
Encyclopedia
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.
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.
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 The award offer was rescinded, presumably after Gingrich's group was informed regarding Pink Visual's background. Vivas consequently turned the tables on Gingrich by offering him the "Family Values Porn Fan of the Year" award.
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.
websites designed especially for iPhone
s.
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.
. This release was followed soon after by the release of MaleSpectrumPad.com, the first gay website designed for iPad compatibility.
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.
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.
revealed that he was offered to star in a Pink Visual porno entitled "Conan the Boobarian" among other job offers.
Gonzo pornography
Gonzo pornography is a style of pornographic film that attempts to place the viewer directly into the scene. The name is a reference to gonzo journalism, in which the reporter is part of the event taking place...
pornography
Pornography
Pornography or porn is the explicit portrayal of sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual arousal and erotic satisfaction.Pornography may use any of a variety of media, ranging from books, magazines, postcards, photos, sculpture, drawing, painting, animation, sound recording, film, video,...
film production company. It began as an Internet pornography
Internet pornography
Internet pornography is pornography that is distributed by means of various sectors of the Internet, primarily via websites, peer-to-peer file sharing, or Usenet newsgroups...
provider before eventually moving into DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
production. Pink Visual also licenses adult content to cable
Cable television
Cable television is a system of providing television programs to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through coaxial cables or digital light pulses through fixed optical fibers located on the subscriber's property, much like the over-the-air method used in traditional...
, satellite
Satellite television
Satellite television is television programming delivered by the means of communications satellite and received by an outdoor antenna, usually a parabolic mirror generally referred to as a satellite dish, and as far as household usage is concerned, a satellite receiver either in the form of an...
, pay-per-view
Pay-per-view
Pay-per-view provides a service by which a television audience can purchase events to view via private telecast. The broadcaster shows the event at the same time to everyone ordering it...
, 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
Reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...
. Pink Visual productions typically utilize amateur performers and are shot in a 'Pro-am' style, utilizing digital video, including the high definition
High-definition video
High-definition video or HD video refers to any video system of higher resolution than standard-definition video, and most commonly involves display resolutions of 1,280×720 pixels or 1,920×1,080 pixels...
format.
History
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
Comcast
Comcast Corporation is the largest cable operator, home Internet service provider, and fourth largest home telephone service provider in the United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers in 39 states and the...
customers had their service interrupted for 30 seconds by an uncensored Pink Visual video.
In September 2009, Pink Visual president, Allison Vivas, was selected by Newt Gingrich's group, American Solutions for Winning the Future
American Solutions for Winning the Future
American Solutions for Winning the Future was a 527 organization created by former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Newt Gingrich for the stated purpose of engaging citizens and elected officials in a dialogue intended to propose solutions to problems affecting American society...
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. Vivas consequently turned the tables on Gingrich by offering him the "Family Values Porn Fan of the Year" award.
Pink Visual president, Allison Vivas, was selected by Newsweek
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
magazine to comment on their Decade In Rewind project as part of Newsweek's list of the decades biggest sex scandals.
iPinkVisual
In 2008, Pink Visual launched iPinkVisual.com and iPinkVisualPass.com, the first major U.S.-based mobile pornMobile porn
Mobile porn also known as mobile adult content, mobile erotica or cellphone adult content, is pornography distributed over mobile telecommunications networks for consumption on mobile devices; mainly mobile phones and smartphones....
websites designed especially for iPhone
IPhone
The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...
s.
In June 2009, Pink Visual tweaked the mobile compatibility of their sites to include functionality with other WebKit
WebKit
WebKit is a layout engine designed to allow web browsers to render web pages. WebKit powers Google Chrome and Apple Safari and by October 2011 held over 33% of the browser market share between them. It is also used as the basis for the experimental browser included with the Amazon Kindle ebook...
based browsers, including the Palm Pre
Palm Pre
The Palm Pre is a multimedia smartphone designed and marketed by Palm with a multi-touch screen and a sliding keyboard. The smartphone was the first to use Palm's Linux based mobile operating system, webOS...
and mobile devices running on Google Android. Pink Visual mobile porn
Mobile porn
Mobile porn also known as mobile adult content, mobile erotica or cellphone adult content, is pornography distributed over mobile telecommunications networks for consumption on mobile devices; mainly mobile phones and smartphones....
sports a limited functionality with certain BlackBerry
BlackBerry
BlackBerry is a line of mobile email and smartphone devices developed and designed by Canadian company Research In Motion since 1999.BlackBerry devices are smartphones, designed to function as personal digital assistants, portable media players, internet browsers, gaming devices, and much more...
devices. Pink Visual has released an app on the MiKandi
MiKandi
MiKandi is an online adult software store launched on November 29, 2009 and developed by MiKandi, a Seattle-based company, for Android devices. MiKandi is the world's first mobile porn app store for a mobile device. The store seeks to get around restrictions placed on adult content by Apple Inc...
app store for Android.
PinkVisualPad
In April 2010, Pink Visual launched PinkVisualPad.com, the first major porn website designed especially for the newly released iPadIPad
The iPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc., primarily as a platform for audio-visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games, and web content. The iPad was introduced on January 27, 2010 by Apple's then-CEO Steve Jobs. Its size and...
. This release was followed soon after by the release of MaleSpectrumPad.com, the first gay website designed for iPad compatibility.
Male Spectrum
In December 2008, Pink Visual premiered Male Spectrum, a new line of gay pornographyGay pornography
Gay pornography is the representation of sexual intercourse between men with the primary goal of sexual arousal in its audience. There is also a tradition, and continuing considerable output, of lesbian pornography....
home video titles focusing on premium, high-quality gay reality porn
Reality porn
Reality pornography is a genre of pornography where staged scenes, usually shot in cinéma vérité fashion, set up and precede sexual encounters. These scenes may either have the cameraman directly engaging in sex or merely filming others having sex. The genre presents itself as "real couples having...
content. In addition to the DVD line, Male Spectrum has also launched two gay mobile sites compatible with the iPhone
IPhone
The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...
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.
Pink Visual Apocalypse Bunker
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. 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. The apocalypse bunker is scheduled to be ready by September 2012 and preliminary blueprints have been released.Green initiative
In recent months, Pink Visual and Male Spectrum have made news by donating a portion of their proceeds to Trees for the FutureTrees for the Future
Trees for the Future is a Maryland-based nonprofit organization founded in 1989 that helps communities around the world plant trees. Through seed distribution, agroforestry training, and in-country technical assistance, it has empowered rural groups to restore tree cover to their lands, protect...
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.
Conan the Boobarian
On January 18, 2010, Conan O'BrienConan O'Brien
Conan Christopher O'Brien is an American television host, comedian, writer, producer and performer. Since November 2010 he has hosted Conan, a late-night talk show that airs on the American cable television station TBS....
revealed that he was offered to star in a Pink Visual porno entitled "Conan the Boobarian" among other job offers.
Fight against copyright infringement
In February 2010, Pink Visual’s holding company Ventura Content filed suit 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.”Awards
- 2006: 7 AVN Award nominations
- 2006: Won AVN Award in 'Best Specialty Release – MILFMILF (slang)MILF, an acronym for "Mother/Mom/Mum I'd Like to Fuck", is a common colloquial term generally regarded as vulgar when spelled out. It denotes a sexually attractive older female, generally between 25 and 50 years of age.-History:...
' category for Milf Seeker - 2007: 17 AVN Award nominations including nominations for Best Marketing Campaign – Overall, and Best Marketing Campaign – Online
- 2007: Won AVN Award in 'Best Specialty Series – MILF' category for Milf Seeker
- 2008: 15 AVN Award nominations
- 2008: Won AVN Award in 'Best Solo Release' category for Extreme Holly Goes Solo
- 2008: AEBNAEBNAEBN, short for Adult Entertainment Broadcast Network, is an Internet pornography company that specializes in delivering material through streaming video in a video on demand format. Subsidiaries include PornoTube.-History:...
VOD Award, Best Amateur - Couples Seduce Teens - Won AVN Awards for two consecutive years in Best Specialty Series – MILF category
- 2009: 20 AVN Award nominations
- 2010: 16 AVN Award nominations
- 2010: XBiz Mobile Company Of The Year & Businesswoman of the Year: Allison Vivas
- 2011: 18 AVN Award nominations including nominations for Best Membership Site - PinkVisualPass.com and Best Membership Site Network - PinkVisual.com