The highly anticipated Game of Thrones Season 7 premiered on Sunday July 16, so our friends at Cinema Blend checked in to see what effect it had on Pornhub’s traffic during the first episode. Our statisticians found that across the United States, traffic to Pornhub was down by 4.5% during the airing. That’s a considerable change in visitors as Sunday night is one of the most popular times for people to visit Pornhub.
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Pornography of any sort is officially banned in North Korea, but Google Analytics does still report regular incoming traffic — albeit only a few thousand visitors to Pornhub over the course of 2016 and 2017. While much less than the 80 million visitors arriving at Pornhub each and every day, it’s still enough traffic for our statisticians to make some generalizations about what type of porn is most often watched in North Korea, and how it’s consumed. The folks at Inverse checked in to see what Insights we found.
In celebration of Gay Pride Month, Pornhub Insights and VICE are taking a look at what type of gay porn is popular across the United States, and how preferences differ by age group and in comparison to non-gay viewers.
In the ongoing affairs of a new administration, few evidentiary events have been as anticipated as the testimonies of James Comey and Jeff Sessions before the Senate. Both were aired live in open sessions, and it seems that especially in Washington, D.C., people were putting even Pornhub on hold to tune in.
Live sports events like the Super Bowl, World Series and Euro Cup often cause major changes in Pornhub traffic, especially in the cities that are playing. Last year we found that during the 2016 NBA Finals, fans of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors dropped everything, including Pornhub, to cheer for their favorite teams. So our friends at Men’s Health asked how the same cities shaped up for this year’s finals.
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The U.K. General Election took place on June 8, 2017. Just as we found during the U.S. Presidential Election, anticipation of a government change can have an effect on daily traffic to Pornhub. When our friends at Metro UK inquired, our statisticians soon found that across the United Kingdom, traffic was down as much as -14% compared to an average Thursday. In the afternoon and early evening, traffic was up 10% above daily averages, but then fell by -8% at midnight as people awaited results from a hung parliament. After 2am, traffic shot up well above average levels in the wee hours.
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