Eurovision Song Contest 2016

The Eurovision Song Contest is the longest-running annual international TV song competition. Beginning in 1956, the 2016 edition marked it’s 61st year. The finale took place on Saturday May 14 and lasted for 4 intense hours as the performers sang and viewers from across Europe televoted for their favorites. As often happens with hotly-anticipated televised events like the Game of Thrones premier, the Super Bowl, NBA Finals and NHL Playoffs, we saw major changes to Pornhub’s normal traffic levels before, during and after the Eurovision finale show.

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Germany in Review

Our statisticians last studied German Insights in 2014, so the folks at Welt.de asked us for an update. Since 2014, Germany’s traffic rank dropped from 4th place to 5th for countries bring the most traffic to Pornhub, although the overall traffic from the country grew. In this edition of Pornhub Insights we not only look at Germans in general, but delve into the various regions to see how porn preferences vary across the country.

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Carnival in Cologne Germany

Cologne’s world-famous Carnival celebration (aka Köln Karneval) annually attracts around 1 million visitors to this German city. After seeing how other events like Oktoberfest can affect traffic and searches, the folks at Chip.de asked the Pornhub Statisticians to keep an eye on data related to Karneval.

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Going Down Under: Australia

For today’s installment of Pornhub Insights, our dedicated team of statisticians is digging through the data in a land down under. Australia is currently the country that ranks 7th in the world for most traffic to Pornhub, and we are well overdue for a look at how Aussies get down with the largest adult site in the world. We’re coming at you today with everything from Australia’s most searched porn terms to how Pornhub traffic was affected during the AFL Grand Final. We took note of several fascinating trends here in the country that has blessed the world with inventions like the UGG boots and the selfie, so let’s get started! Continue reading “Going Down Under: Australia”

More of What Women Want

After we initially ran the first installment of What Women Want back in September of last year, we got tons of questions from readers and reporters alike, asking us to go even further and into more depth with regards to the behavior of female Pornhub viewers. As a part of a special collaboration with RedTube (NSFW) as well as our friends over at The Daily Beast, we’re going to be doing exactly that with this installment of Insights. With the number of female viewers continuously growing, the way that members of the fairer sex engage with adult content remains an increasingly fascinating topic to explore. Today we’ll be examining everything from which search terms have increased in popularity among women over the course of the past year, to which countries currently have some of the highest and lowest proportions of female viewers. Continue reading “More of What Women Want”

Pornhub & Chicago

For today’s edition of Pornhub Insights, our dedicated team of statisticians are digging through the data in Illinois with a special focus on the Windy City. Recently we have been especially interested in these more focused type analyses which allow us to tease out data trends in a smaller geographical area, as we have just lately done for the State of New York. It’s fascinating to see how search trends and user demographics vary from one part of the country to another, and we’re at it again today. Let’s get started! Continue reading “Pornhub & Chicago”