What gets Apple fans harder than Pornhub? New hardware from Apple of course! Apple’s annual fall iPhone Event took place on Tuesday, September 12th and millions tuned in live to watch the unveiling of new phones and other tech. Just as we found during last year’s event, traffic to Pornhub dropped significantly during the live show.
When Ted Tweets
Senator Ted Cruz was in hot water after a “staffing issue” resulted in a September 12th tweet liking a video featured on Pornhub. The Reality Kings video (nsfw) remained at the top of Ted’s Twitter for a few hours until someone hit the panic button and deleted it. Of course that was plenty of time for the press to take notice, and Ted’s Tweet was soon the talk of the town.
By the end of the day, the Reality Kings video featuring pornstar Cory Chase (nsfw) became the fastest video to hit a million views on Pornhub, and currently stands at 1.6 million views. Searches for Cory Chase also shot up +659% above her normal daily search level. Ted Cruz searches also reached an all-time high of more than 50,000 in just 24 hours — far above his normal daily search average of 6.
Transgender Porn Searches
Over the last few years, our statisticians have noticed a significant increase in searches for videos featuring transgender performers. So when the folks at Glamour reached out for more information, we figured it was a great time to take a closer look at what type of transgender porn is being searched for on Pornhub, and where it is most popular.
The Golden Age of Porn Searches
In this edition of Pornhub Insights, we’re going back in time to the seventies and eighties with Men’s Health to see what type of vintage porn is most popular with Pornhub’s visitors. Today you can enjoy thousands of classic porn scenes on Pornhub without wearing out your VHS tapes from excessive pausing and rewinding.
Burning Man Festival Insights
The 31st annual Burning Man festival took place in the Black Rock desert of Nevada from August 27th to September 4th. It is estimated that 70,000 people attended this year’s festival, and while there they become part of the temporary metropolis of Black Rock City. At the conclusion of the festival, Inverse asked Pornhub’s statisticians to take took a closer look at how traffic to the site was affected, and if any interesting search trends appeared.
Portugal Insights
Today Pornhub Insights will be taking a look at the porn viewing habits of Portugal, in collaboration with our friends at Correio da Manhã. This Southern European country ranks 41st for worldwide traffic coming to Pornhub, while it’s population ranks only 88th. More than half of Pornhub’s visitors from Portugal are using mobile devices such as smartphones (47%) and tablets (10%), which is far less than the world average of 72%.