Stormy Daniels appeared on 60 Minutes on Sunday, March 25th and searches for her name once again saw an incredible boost! From 7pm to 8pm, searches containing “Stormy Daniels” were up to 2052% higher than during the same time period the previous Sunday.
Continue reading “Stormy Daniels 60 Minutes Interview Searches”
Former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal was back in the spotlight this week, as new information came out about her alleged relationship with Donald Trump. Naturally searches for Karen shot through the roof on Pornhub just as they did in February when her story first came out. These Insights follow recent search data for both Stormy Daniels and Trump Jr.’s alleged affair with Aubrey O’Day.
On February 18th, searches for Karen McDougal were 1293% above average, and on March 22 they were 1140% above her daily average. (Average based on daily search volume from February 1st to March 22nd).
Another O’Day, another Trump O’fair. While Stormy Daniels searches are still on fire, today it’s presidential son Donald Jr. who shares the news for his alleged affair with former Celebrity Apprentice contestant Aubrey O’Day. While Aubrey enjoyed a small but consistent number of daily searches on Pornhub, her search popularity shot up 11,105% after the story came out, and continues to rise.
Love interests often cause massive search increases on Pornhub. Searches for actress Meghan Markle shot up 2208% after her relationship with Prince Harry was first revealed.
Polygon contacted the Insights team to see if the media attention around the game Fortnite has had any effect on Pornhub searches. Our statisticians found that while Fortnite had a slow start on Pornhub, it has steadily gained ground over the last several months to become of of our top video game related search terms.
After Fortnite launched in July of 2017, it only resulted in a handful of searches. Things really picked up at the end of September 2017 when Fortnite’s Battle Royale came out, and they have grown steadily since then. Spikes in search volume seem to coincide with major game updates and news cycles such as the 1.36 patch in January and when 60 FPS was enabled in February.
March 8th is International Women’s Day, so in this edition of Insights we’re joined by Newsweek for an exclusive look at female traffic on this day as well as a special report on recent changes we made to better cater Pornhub’s content to the needs of women.
UPDATE: Check out our latest Stormy Daniels data here.
Pornhub Insights last wrote about pornstar Stormy Daniels’ searches back in January of 2018 shortly after her alleged affair with Donald Trump was revealed. At the time, searches for Stormy Daniels went from a daily average of 2500 to more than 2 million searches in just 5 days!
The Economist checked in to see how the ongoing news has affected searches, and it seems that the searches, much like the story, just keep on going. Continue reading “A Perfect Stormy”
