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Karen McDougal 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).

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Aubrey O’Day Searches

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.

Fortnite: Pornhub Battle Royale

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.

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A Perfect Stormy

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”

Argentina’s Millennials

In this edition of Pornhub Insights, we’re joined by our friends at UNO to take a closer look at Argentina’s Millennials, specifically those visitors between the ages of 18 to 34 who make up 59% of Pornhub traffic from Argentina. Millennials last an average 9 minute and 48 seconds when they visit Pornhub, which means they come and go 76 seconds faster than visitors over 35.

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