
The video hosters and players it used included Openload, Streamango, and M圜loud. ġ23Movies included HD, HD-RIP, Blu-ray and camera qualities of films.

In October 2016, Business Insider reported that 123movies.to was the "most-used pirate website" in the United Kingdom.

123movies.to had 9.26 million worldwide unique visitors in August 2016 according to SimilarWeb data". In October 2016, the MPAA listed 123Movies in its Online Notorious Markets overview to the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), stating that: "The site has a global Alexa rank of 559 and a local rank of 386 in the U.S. It was changed to gostream.is, and then to memovies.to, before changing to 123movieshub.to/is and remaining there until shutdown.

The original name, and URL, was 123movies.to, which changed to other domains including 123movies.is before redirecting to gomovies.to and later gomovies.is. The site went through several name changes after being shut down from different domains sometimes the name appeared as "123Movies", and other times as "123movies".
