Super Bowl XLIX was packed with many now memorable moments. There was that rather questionable play call during the game’s final moments, the brawl, the giant tiger transformer that Katy Perry rode in on, all of which was capped off by Gisele Bündchen’s husband taking home the award for MVP. Here at Pornhub and YouPorn HQ, what we will remember forever about 2015’s big game is how our traffic stats were affected. As we have seen during other sporting events such as the recent CFB Playoff game or the World Cup, traffic changes surrounding a major sporting event tend to cause a pattern resembling an upside down parabola. This year’s Super Bowl affected traffic on both Pornhub and YouPorn in this same way but let’s take a closer look at some of the specifics.
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Pornhub Traffic During the CFB Playoff
The Ohio Buckeyes overtook Oregon in a 42-20 win, claiming the inaugural College Football Playoff National Championship title on January 12th 2015. While most eyes last night were glued to Heisman winner Marcus Mariota and Ohio State star QB Cardale Jones, the Pornhub and Youporn statisticians were carefully tracking traffic patterns. Let’s take a look at how this latest sporting event shaped the flow of visitors to the greatest sites in the world.
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2014 Year In Review
2014 was a huge year for us here at Pornhub HQ. We put our team of statisticians to work time and time again to deliver the data and bring you the most fascinating facts having to do with the world’s #1 porn site. Focusing largely on search trends and how user interactions react to major events around the world, we’ve covered everything from the traffic changes during the recent Scottish referendum to America’s obsession with anal sex and everything in between. Be it sports, politics, climate or demographic related, we found a way to relate it to porn trends and offer up some awesome insights. Today, we’re going to relive the magic one more time and take a long and hard look at how Pornhub’s user habits have evolved over the course of the past year, when compared to our 2013 review, as well as introduce some exclusive new and updated data. Let’s get started!
Nationality Searches During the 2014 World Cup
The 2014 FIFA World Cup set new records for viewership around the world. Between June 12 and July 13, fans from 31 countries tuned in to watch their teams advance through the tournament. As with other major events, the Pornhub statisticians already discovered that 2014 World Cup games had a significant effect on traffic to our site. Whenever a match took place, the number of visits to Pornhub would drop, particularly from the countries playing in that game.
In studying the porn viewing habits of various countries, our statisticians have also found that many countries tend to search for their own nationality more than other terms. For example, Russians combine their searches with “Russia” and “Russian”, while Germans mostly search for “German” and “Deutsch”.
So if individual countries tend to search more for their own nationality, what might happen during an event like the World Cup where countries from all over the world face off against each other? Would fans from opposing countries be more curious about their opponents? Read on to find out!
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Pornhub Traffic During the 2014 FIFA World Cup
As the world followed the 2014 FIFA Finals, the Pornhub Statisticians followed the world by seeing how the semifinal and championship matches affected traffic to the world’s best and biggest adult site.
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Pornhub Traffic Change During Super Bowl XLVIII
The Super Bowl, for many men and women in America, is something that can’t be matched by anything else in the world. The Pornhub Insights team has previously studied how major world events affect porn viewing habits. This time around, our number-hungry statisticians eagerly awaited the kick-off of the year’s biggest game, not just to watch the action unfold, but to also see how traffic changed on the world’s biggest porn site.
The traffic drop on Pornhub just prior to the big game showed the level of excitement going on across the entire United States. The two states with the highest traffic drops to Pornhub were of course Colorado State with an 18% drop and Washington State which saw a decrease of 20% – they must have gotten their porn viewing out of the way earlier. The national drop to the site was 6% which is significant for a country of 314 million people!
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