OnlyFans - statistics & facts
OnlyFans is a Tube-style video and content platform launched in July 2016 that allows creators to upload their own material. The revolutionary features that made OnlyFans stand out in the latest years — and contributed to its 500 million-strong monthly website visit count revolve around the company’s content monetization strategy given to performers.
OnlyFans creators can put their content entirely behind a paywall and only allow access to users who subscribe to their channel, as well as receive tips from subscribers, create exclusive personalized content for users, and post pay-per-view material.
While adult entertainment performers were the first major group to join the platform, OnlyFans reported that its 4.1 million creators may focus on any type of content, from fitness and cooking videos to music lessons, makeup tutorials, and gaming live streams.
OnlyFans is one of the more promising social streaming and online gig economy hubs thanks to the growing number of creators in its ranks and the increasingly large volume of content hosted. The OnlyFans parent company, Fenix International Limited, has seen both revenues and profit grow from 2019, when the COVID pandemic first led to platform adoption among internet personalities and influencers. Although controversial, OnlyFans revolutionized the creator business, especially when it came to adult entertainment. The platform hosts different types of content, but NSFW and pornographic material made OnlyFans a media and internet phenomenon.
OnlyFans creators can put their content entirely behind a paywall and only allow access to users who subscribe to their channel, as well as receive tips from subscribers, create exclusive personalized content for users, and post pay-per-view material.
Fenix International Limited financial
OnlyFans’ parent company is the London-based Fenix International Limited, which grossed approximately 6.63 billion U.S. dollars for the fiscal year ending in November 2023, mainly from the content-sharing platform. The company’s profit before taxes in the same period was reported at 658 million U.S. dollars, an increase of over 51 percent from the 433 million U.S. dollars registered in 2021. Net revenues sat at 1.3 billion U.S. dollars for the last reported fiscal year.Adult entertainment on OnlyFans
Since its launch in 2016, OnlyFans monetization possibilities have made it popular among adult entertainment performers and sex workers. For adult performers — who are often forced to split their revenues with the platform’s providers — the direct monetization features and the possibility to receive tips from subscribers represented a game-changing addition to the adult entertainment industry. OnlyFans’ 20 percent commission rate is applied to all transactions taking place on the website but remains lower than the standard commissions applied by adult webcam services. In August 2021, OnlyFans shook the content creator community when it announced that the platform would no longer permit the hosting and distribution of adult entertainment material or “sexually explicit conduct,” only to revoke the decision shortly after.While adult entertainment performers were the first major group to join the platform, OnlyFans reported that its 4.1 million creators may focus on any type of content, from fitness and cooking videos to music lessons, makeup tutorials, and gaming live streams.
OnlyFans growing content library
Between 2019 and 2023, the number of registered users on OnlyFans rose from 13.5 million to 305 million users. In February 2025, OnlyFans counted over 51.47 million pieces of content, an increase of almost 22 percent compared to the previous year. Similarly, numerous aspiring creators attempt every month to register to the platform. In February 2025, approximately 179,000 creators submitted requests to join the platform , while only fewer than 36 percent were approved to join.OnlyFans is one of the more promising social streaming and online gig economy hubs thanks to the growing number of creators in its ranks and the increasingly large volume of content hosted. The OnlyFans parent company, Fenix International Limited, has seen both revenues and profit grow from 2019, when the COVID pandemic first led to platform adoption among internet personalities and influencers. Although controversial, OnlyFans revolutionized the creator business, especially when it came to adult entertainment. The platform hosts different types of content, but NSFW and pornographic material made OnlyFans a media and internet phenomenon.
