Author: mike

Italian Crime Series Gomorrah Kills Pornhub Traffic

During the last few weeks, anticipation grew as Italians waited anxiously for the airing of a new season of Gomorrah. The TV show, produced by Sky and broadcast in 130 countries, has developed a cult following all around the world. After a two year wait, on Tuesday May 10th Italians were happy to finally see a new episode of their favorite TV show. The first two episodes recorded an audience of nearly 1.2 million, so our friends at Fanpage asked us to take a look at Pornhub traffic to see if Gomorrah-mania hit our Italian visitors as well.

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Watching Over Overwatch

On May 5th, Blizzard Entertainment’s hotly anticipated new first-person shooter Overwatch officially entered public beta. We’ve seen other game launches such as Fallout 4 and Minecraft change our visitor’s search habits, so Pornhub’s statisticians teamed up with our friend over at VentureBeat and checked to see if Overwatch had a similar effect. As it turns out, May 5th saw an 817% increase in ‘Overwatch’ searches on our site.

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May The 4th Beat With You

The force is strong with Pornhub users. So much so that ‘Star Wars’ searches increased an incredible 510% this May the 4th. And with Star Wars consistently being one of the most searched for porn parodies among our 60 million daily visitors, this number represents an empire worthy increase.

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Happy MILF’s Day!

The first Sunday of every May is Mother’s Day – a special day set aside to show your mom how much you appreciate her. At Pornhub we prefer to celebrate MILF’s Day and show our appreciation for other people’s moms. In collaboration with our friends at Mic.com, we checked to see how much Pornhub’s visitors love moms, seeing as ‘MILF’ (Mom I’d Like to Fuck) and ‘mom’ have remained two of the top searches on Pornhub for several years. Now before you jump to any conclusions, searching for ‘mom’ is just a common way to see videos featuring mature and experienced ladies, and as we discovered in our 2015 Year in Review, there’s a growing trend toward more specific searches for ‘step mom’.

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Ireland Insights

When are Irish eyes smiling? When they’re watching Pornhub of course. The Irish Mirror asked us to take a look at how Ireland watches porn so our statisticians set to work. While Ireland’s population of 4.7 million ranks it 124th worldwide, they rank an incredible 28th for traffic to Pornhub. In fact, in our 2015 Year in Review we found that Ireland had 161 visits per capita, making it 4th worldwide just behind the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. Good on ya Ireland!

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Game of Thrones Season Six Has Come

For fans of the HBO series Game of Thrones, Sunday April 24th saw the arrival of the highly anticipated Season 6, so the folks at Cinema Blend asked our statisticians to look for all data relating to Game of Thrones, and the results – especially those immediately after the premiere – were surprising. We discovered that Game of Thrones has remained a popular search on Pornhub due in part to various porn parodies and also from fans hoping to find a glimpse of the nudity and sex that the series is known for.

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