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Youngtek Solutions Ltd
10 September 2025
We are investigating whether Youngtek Solutions Ltd has failed, or is failing, to comply with its duties under the Online Safety Act 2023 to prevent children from encountering pornographic content on its services through the use of highly effective age assurance.
We are also investigating whether Youngtek Solutions Ltd has failed, or is failing, to comply with its duty to respond accurately to an information notice sent under the Act.
Sections 12 and 102(8) of the Online Safety Act 2023
In accordance with section 132 of the Online Safety Act 2023 (‘the Act’), on 26 May 2026 we issued Youngtek Solutions Ltd (‘Youngtek Solutions’) with a Confirmation Decision in relation to its failure to comply with section 12 of the Act and its failure to comply with its duty under section 102(8) of the Act to respond to a statutory information request.
Failure to comply with section 12 of the Act
Ofcom has determined that, from 25 July 2025 to 22 September 2025, Youngtek Solutions failed to comply with section 12 of the Act in relation to empflix.com, imagefap.com, moviefap.com and TNAflix.com. Section 12 imposes a duty on providers of Part 3 services that allow pornographic content, and that are likely to be accessed by children, to ensure that children are prevented from encountering pornographic content through the use of highly effective age assurance.
We are imposing a penalty on Youngtek Solutions of £500,000 in respect of its contravention of section 12. This penalty was set having regard to our Penalty Guidelines.
Failure to comply with section 102(8) of the Act
Ofcom has also determined that Youngtek Solutions has failed to comply with section 102(8) of the Act by failing to respond to a statutory request for information within the specified timeframe issued as part of the investigation.
Following the issue of Ofcom’s Provisional Decision on 11 February 2026, Youngtek Solutions provided Ofcom with the outstanding information from the statutory information request initially requested during the investigation, however this was after the deadline had passed.
Ofcom is therefore imposing a penalty on Youngtek of £100,000 in respect of the contravention of section 102(8). This penalty was set having regard to our Penalty Guidelines.
A non-confidential version of the Confirmation Decision will be published in due course.
Following an investigation, Ofcom has provisionally determined that there are reasonable grounds to believe Youngtek Solutions Ltd (‘Youngtek Solutions’) has failed to comply with section 12 of the Online Safety Act 2023 (‘the Act’).
Section 12 imposes a duty on providers of Part 3 services that allow pornographic content, and that are likely to be accessed by children, to ensure that children are prevented from encountering pornographic content through the use of highly effective age assurance.
Ofcom therefore issued a provisional notice of contravention to Youngtek Solutions on 11 February 2026 under section 130 of the Act.
The notice also sets out our provisional view that Youngtek Solutions has infringed its duties under section 102(8) of the Act by failing to respond to a statutory request for information issued as part of the investigation.
The notice sets out the facts that Ofcom has relied upon to reach its provisional view, the actions we propose to take, and the rationale for those decisions. Youngtek Solutions will now have a period of 20 working days to make representations to Ofcom, which will be carefully considered before reaching a final decision.
On 10 September 2025, Ofcom issued a formal information notice to Youngtek Solutions Ltd under section 100 of the Online Safety Act. As at the date of this announcement, we have not received a response to the information notice. Ofcom has therefore now expanded this investigation to include considering whether Youngtek Solutions Ltd has failed, or is failing, to comply with its duty to respond accurately to an information notice sent under the Act.
On 10 September 2025, under our enforcement programme to protect children from encountering pornographic content through the use of age assurance, we opened an investigation into Youngtek Solutions Ltd in relation to the following adult services it operates: www.imagefap.com, www.empflix.com www.moviefap.com, www.pornrepublic.com and www.TNAflix.com. As part of our investigatory process, if we identify further adult services operated by Youngtek Solutions Ltd that fall within the scope of the Act, we may expand the investigation to include those services.
Ofcom’s investigation will examine whether there are reasonable grounds to believe that the provider has failed, or is failing, to comply with its duties under section 12 of the Act, to prevent children from encountering pornographic content through the use of highly effective age assurance. These duties have applied since 25 July 2025.
Ofcom’s Online Safety Enforcement Guidance sets out how Ofcom will normally approach enforcement under the Act. This includes our approach to information gathering and analysis and the procedural steps we must take to fairly determine the outcome of the investigation.
We will provide an update on the investigation in due course.
CW/01319/09/25