Every year on May the 4th (aka Star Wars Day) we see a big increase in Star Wars related searches on Pornhub so Mashable asked the Insights team to take a closer look. In 2018, searches on the day grew 748% above average. That’s less than May 4th 2017 when they increased by 1048% but higher than the 633% increase in 2016.
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Avengers Search Popularity
When the last Avengers Infinity War movie was released in 2018, it caused a 356% surge in ‘Avengers’ searches on Pornhub. At the time, that seemed like a sizable increase for an already popular search term. That was then, and Avengers Endgame is now. Men’s Health asked the Insights team to see what effect the new movie has had on searches.
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In an unexpected turn-around, Virginia’s Cavaliers defeated Texas Tech 85-77 in the NCAA championship on April 8th. While game-time only caused a minor drop in traffic in the playing states (-5% Virginia, -3% Texas), post-game fans in Virginia celebrated their big win with a +18% surge in traffic at Midnight, compared to +7 in Texas.
‘Fleabag’ Leads to Religious Search Increase
Huffington Post asked Pornhub’s statisticians if the March 4th return of the BBC show Fleabag has any effect on Pornhub users. We found that immediately after the Season 2 premiere, searches for ‘religious’ increased by 162%, ‘nun’ by 145% and ‘priest’ by 103%.
Of the three terms, ‘nun’ is by far the most popular with more than half a million monthly searches, about four times that of ‘priest’.
Are You a Cock Hero?
The folks at LADbible asked Pornhub’s statisticians to find an interesting porn genre that we haven’t already taken a detailed look at. Challenge accepted! To be honest, even after 400 posts on our Insights blog, people’s tastes are so varied we’re still spoiled for choice. So today we will be taking a detailed look at… Cock Hero.
Trending Game Searches
In the 2018 Year in Review, Pornhub’s statisticians revealed many of the year’s most searched for games and characters including Fortnite, Overwatch, Red Dead Redemption and more.
The first three months of 2019 have seen numerous new game releases, so our friends at Kotaku asked which ones sent gaming fans to Pornhub in search of the hottest new game-play and porn parody videos.
So get your joysticks ready, here are the Top 6 trending game searches of Q1 2019.
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