INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
PornHub, a popular site that features people in various stages of undress, saw 33.5 billion visits in 2018
There are currently 7.53 billion people on Earth.Y’all have been busy.The company, which owns most of the major porn sites online,
produces a yearly report that aggregates user behavior on the site
Of particular interest, aside from the fact that all of us are horndogs, is that the U.S., Germany and India are in the top spots for porn
browsing and that the company transferred 4,000 petabytes of data, or about 500 MB, per person on the planet.
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We ignore this data at our peril
While it doesn’t seem important at first glance, the fact that these porn sites are doing more traffic than most major news organizations
Further, like the meme worlds of Twitter and Facebook, Stormy Daniels and Fortnite made the top searches, which points to the spread of
politics and culture into the heart of our desires
TV manufacturers should note that 4K searchers are rising in popularity, which suggests that consumer electronics manufacturers should start
getting read for a shift (although it should be noted that there is sadly little free 4K content on these sites, a discovery I just made
while researching this brief.)Need more frightening/enlightening data Here you go.Just as ‘1080p’ searches had been a defining term in
2017, now ‘4k’ ultra-hd has seen a significant increase in popularity through-out 2018
The popularity of ‘Romantic’ videos more than doubled, and remained twice as popular with female visitors when compared to men.Searches
referring to the dating app ‘Tinder’ grew by 161% among women, 113% among men and 131% by visitors aged 35 to 44
It was also a top trending term in many countries including the United Kingdom and Australia
The number of Tinder themed fantasy date videos on the site is now more than 3500.Life imitates art, and eventually porn imitates
everything, so perhaps it’s no surprise to see that ‘Bowsette’ also made our list of searches that defined 2018
After the original Nintendo fan-art went viral, searches for Bowsette exceeded 3 million in just one week and resulted in the release of a
live-action Bowsette themed porn parody (NSFW) with more than 720,000 views.Bowsette
Moving on.The Bible Belt represented well in the showings, with Mississippi, South Carolina and Arkansas spending the most time looking at
Phones got the most use as porn distribution devices and iOS and Android nearly tied in terms of platform popularity.Windows traffic fell
considerably this year, while Chrome OS became decidedly more popular in 2018
Chrome was popular when it came to browsers used, while the PlayStation was the biggest deliverer of flicks to the console user.Porn is a
the canary in the tech coal mine, and where it goes the rest of tech follows
All of these data points, taken together, paint a fascinating picture of a world on the cusp of a fairly unique shift from desktop to mobile
Further, given that these sites are delivering so much data on a daily basis, it’s clear that all of us are sneaking a peek now and
again… even if we refuse to admit it.
