For today’s edition of Pornhub Insights, the statisticians have their sights set on Rwanda. We’ve teamed up with our friends over at IGIHE to bring you everything from which search terms are most popular among Rwandans to how site traffic is affected in the country on major holidays. This is our first study in Africa since our post on South Africa, so without any further ado let’s get started! Continue reading “Pornhub & Rwanda”
Tag: search trends
Feeling Good About ASMR
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, or more commonly referred to as ASMR is defined by Wikipedia as a “neologism for a perceptual phenomenon characterized as a distinct, pleasurable tingling sensation in the head, scalp, back, or peripheral regions of the body in response to visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, or cognitive stimuli.” In other words, exposure to certain stimuli like the sound of whispering or watching someone brush their hair triggers a blissful almost trance-like feeling.
Many of these triggers are visual or auditory in nature and as such, Pornhub has video content specifically intended to bring on this “brain orgasm” in viewers. Over the past 18 months ASMR searches have increased 1085% on Pornhub, perhaps in part due to the considerable amount of media attention the phenomenon has received within the same time period.
Horny for the Holidays
Just around this time last year, our statisticians got heavily into the holiday spirit and presented us with some XXXmas-rated data, showing how searches differed both in the United States and throughout the world during the holidays. This time around, we’re honing in on our United Kingdom based viewers with some updated worldwide data to boot. Some pretty interesting search terms tend to trend during Christmas over in the isles and abroad, so let’s get into it!
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Pornhub’s Search History
What does your search history look like? According to Google Trends, it likely includes searches for the World Cup, Malaysia Airlines and Ebola, as these were some of the most searched terms in 2014. For today’s installment of Pornhub Insights, our friends over at Metro UK asked us for a peek at ours and we happily obliged. In fact, we’re coming at you today with a complete retrospective, tracing the top searched terms on the site from 2009 until now. We’ll begin with a look at which search terms climbed and fell from the charts on a global level. Continue reading “Pornhub’s Search History”
Big Beautiful Data
For today’s installation of Pornhub Insights, our team of statisticians have paired up with Mic.com for a look at changing trends in body types. The concept of the ‘ideal body’ is one that has been quite fluid over the past centuries. When we look back at paintings dating to the Renaissance era, fuller figures are clearly revered and celebrated as beautiful subjects. Fast forward to the mid 1800’s and waists are being tightly cinched down to tiny sizes with corsets, a trend which has interestingly reemerged recently in the midst of the current Kardashian-endorsed waist training fad. On the other hand, 2015 has arguably been a major year for body positivity. Continue reading “Big Beautiful Data”