Hanukkah, the eight day festival of lights is primarily practiced at home. Traditionally, families gather together and light the Menorah, they sing songs, play dreidel, receive gifts and eat latkes, sufganiot (AKA potato pancakes and jelly donuts, respectively) and other foods which are fried in tons of oil (’tis the season, am I right?). Redtube partnered up with our friends at Maxim to see what traditions users were searching for most during this holiday.

Perhaps a less traditional practice includes individuals cozying up in front of their computer screen- or tablet or mobile phone, during this holy time to search for some of those terms and traditions on Redtube. First up and most searched was “Hanukkah”. In second place not far behind the holiday itself was “Rabbi”, followed closely by “Chanukah”.  The list of course includes traditional terms related to the holiday like “Menorah”, “Yiddish”, “Dreidel” and- one that always makes us LOL, “Hanukkah Bush”.  Increase in these search terms could be explained by the mere fact that spending 8 days inside your home, eating delicious foods and lighting candles would do that to a person.

The volume of search related Hanukkah terms increased in countries like the USA, Canada, the UK and of course the holy land itself, Israel. Other countries did notice a small change in volume, but the above more so…probably because these countries all have decent-sized Jewish populations.

Let us know what you will be searching for this holiday season in the comments section below.

In the past, Disney studios has had to change their movie titles in different geographic areas for a number of reasons. When the studio released their latest film “Moana” they probably never anticipated having to change the title in Italy for this reason; seems as though the name of a late Italian pornstar (Moana Pozzi) resembles that of the hero from the animated movie. In order to avoid people landing on Moana Pozzi when they google search the animated character “Moana”, Disney decided to swap the title to “Oceania” in Italy. We’ve partnered with FHM to see how Redtube traffic and searches are being affected.

After remaining at a pretty steady rate since beginning of November, we’ve noticed searches for the late pornstar increased drastically beginning November 13th up until the 18^th, when they peaked. This very well could be related back to the fact that people who ran a quick google search of the animated movie pulled up some interesting results. Leaving users with curious thoughts, which lead them (inevitably) to our site.

The highest number of searches came from Italy. Being that Moana Pozzi was a popular Italian pornstar, it is very possible that following all the press attention the animated movie received over the last few weeks, Italians were feeling nostalgic about the late star, and decided to look her up for old times’ sake. The U.S of A, Poland and Brazil were not too far behind Italy in terms of searches. This leads us to believe that they too, may have felt a deep connection to Moana.

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Every year millions of Americans gather around the dining table, to feast and to give thanks for everything they have. Then, around 2am on Friday morning, they pack into the car, and drive over to the mall- at which point, they proceed to stomp over men, women and small children for the latest edition Vizio 55-inch 4K TV (at a highly discounted price, of course). This very special Friday is otherwise known as Black Friday, and our friends at FHM were curious to see how RedTube users, traffic and searches would be affected by it- if at all.

Thanks to our anonymized interest data provided by our analytics software, we are able to identify site users based on their interests and shopping preferences this season. This allows us to offer-up more insights on how and why our site is affected. Given Black Friday is the honorary Holiday season kick-off date, it makes sense that the number one category RedTube users are shopping for is “Holiday & Seasonal” items, with a +116% increase in interest. Followed by “Autos & Vehicles” with an in-market interest increase (say that 10 times fast) of +95%, close behind that is “Televisions” and “Kitchen appliances” at +90% and +87%. Could be explained by the fact that usually, these are the items that get marked-down the most. At the bottom of the list is “Men’s Apparel”, “Computers” and “Swimwear” with an increase between +32% and +34%.

Search terms on RedTube that noticed an increase during Black Friday include “Black Friday” which went up by +991%, “Shopping” (+204%), “Mall” (+155%) and finally “Changing Room” and “Dressing Room” which jumped up in the top searched list by +92% and +90% (respectively). With everyone in the retail spirit, these are all terms that clearly tie back to Black Friday so we are not surprised to see an increase there. Some other search terms that saw a more unusual and unexpected increase in popularity include “Rich” (+48%), “Pay Debt” (+46%) and “Fast Food” (+41%). Users may be stressed about some bills they racked up throughout the day, hopefully they found solace on the site.

If we deep dive into the more obvious Black Friday related searches, terms that experienced a high search rate include “Walmart”, “Shopping”, “Mall”, “Changing Room” and of course “Black Friday”. During the two weeks leading up to, and following Black Friday, “Walmart” got the highest number of searches, up +231% on Black Friday, compared to the average. Next in line was  “Mall” (+186%) followed by “Shopping” (+118%).  Strangely enough, “Black Friday” peaked on December 5th (after the big day had passed) at +85%. The peak on November 27th for all of these terms could be explained by the mere fact that people are travelling for the holiday. Once they’ve arrived at their destination and have stuffed themselves full of leftover turkey, traffic to our site skyrockets right back up, before they head home.

Some other searches that experienced an increase include terms relating to our Ebony content. For example, “Big booty black girl”, “Black couple” or “Black sex”, which all saw significant rises. These could be explained simply by the fact that users were inspired by the shopping holiday and are found other (more creative) ways to incorporate it into their searches.

Throughout the day traffic came through the site on all types of devices, as per usual. An interesting note to mention is that between 2am and 5am, traffic on all devices (desktop, tablet and phone) dipped significantly, compared to average traffic rates during this timeframe. Traffic from tablets dropped – 27%, desktops were down -10% and phones, by -24%. Usually shopping begins at that time on Black Friday, so this could be why the traffic is so low. Traffic rates pick right back up around noon, possibly when user have decided they spent enough and need to blow off some steam.  The biggest increase at that time comes from users on phones (+25%) and tablets (+33%), it’s possible these users just couldn’t wait to get home…

On Black Friday users from Wyoming, Colorado, California and Virginia (to name a few) had to set some priorities for themselves and it seems that time with family and friends, shopping or “other”, took precedence over visiting RedTube. Traffic in these states, dropped anywhere from -11% to -2%.  Arkansas, Indiana and Utah are filled with loyal users however, whose viewership on Black Friday actually increased (+19%, +18% and +17% respectively).

Let us know what’s on your shopping list this holiday season in the comments below. If this wasn’t quite your jam, take a look at some of our other articles here.

On November 8th, the people of the United States headed over to their voting stations to elect what would be their 45th President. After a nail-biting election day, Hilary Clinton has conceded her position and Donald Trump will officially be moving into the White House. Much like elections past, masses around the world had their eyes on the voting polls until the wee hours of the morning. People from Canada to the Philippines rallied in front of their TV screens, anxiously awaiting the results of this election period reality show.

When 7pm finally hit, results from the polls slowly started to roll in. Traffic to RedTube took quite a hit in some countries. Namely, Portugal who saw a traffic drop of -26%. Not far behind was Belgium and France (with a -17% and -16% traffic drop, respectively).  Countries like Colombia, Argentina and Mexico experienced a much lesser hit, between -6% and -1% traffic drop.

Looking specifically at the USA, RedTube’s site experienced an increase in traffic between 4am and 6am the morning of. Either the population was extremely excited to get to the polls, or the exact opposite…extremely anxious. From there on out traffic to the site saw a major slow down, dipping to -5% around 4pm and it’s lowest by 11pm (-22%). This can be due to the fact that a majority of Americans were given two hours out of their work day to go vote.

Hourly traffic in Canada experienced a very similar hit as the United States. Traffic to RedTube maintained at a steady rate between 4am and 10am. As of 11am, traffic started slowing down and didn’t stop until early in the morning on November 9th, when normal traffic levels resumed. Unlike their neighbors to the south, Canadians, however, worked a regular day, explaining why traffic levels were more or less regular until later in the evening.

For Brazil, Mexico and the United Kingdom, the hourly traffic rates remained pretty well at par with their norms, very much unlike Canada or the USA. Strangely enough, as results started to come in around 7pm, both Mexico and Brazil experience a considerable spike in traffic.

As part of a special collaboration with our friends at AskMen, we’re taking a look at how different men of different generations enjoy watching Redtube. The following data includes Millennials aged 18-34, Gen Xers from 35 to 54 and Baby Boomers over 55.

Millennials make up over half of Redtube’s daily visitors at 54%, followed by Generation X at 32% and Boomers at just 15%. Out statisticians also found that younger men tend to visit Redtube for shorter periods of time. Millennials come and go the fastest at just 8 minutes 25 seconds on average, whereas Gen Xers and Baby Boomers both take well over 9 minutes. Men make up 74% of Redtube’s  Millennial visitors, 81% of Generation X and 82% of Baby Boomers.

Regardless of their generation, men visiting Redtube enjoy the “teen”, “mature”, “anal”, “amateur” and “milf” categories the most. Those aged 34 and under put “teen” in the number one position, while over 35 men chose “mature” as their top choice. Because so many of the top 10 categories are popular with all men, we can instead look at categories by their relative popularity in order to see how the generations really stand apart.

Proportionately, Millennials are 178% more likely to view the “hentai” category compared to all other age groups, 76% more likely to view “Latina” and 39% more for “ebony”. Gen Xers are 22% more likely to view “Amateur” videos, 18% more likely to view “DP” (Double Penetration) videos, and 18% more for “Lingerie”. Baby boomers like the “Vintage” category 82% more than younger visitors, 56% more for “Mature” videos and 48% more for “Japanese”.

Now that we’ve seen who Redtube’s generational visitors are and what type of porn they’re watching, we’ll turn our attention to how they view it. 70% of Millennials visit Redtube using their mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. But the proportion of mobile users drops as age increases. 60% of Gen Xers user mobile and only 38% of Baby Boomers.

We also found that the type of web browser varies by age group. 60% of Millennials choose Google Chrome as their web browser, whereas only 51% of Gen X and 40% of Baby Boomers do. Safari is more popular with Gen-X than other age groups, and Baby Boomers are far more likely to use Internet Explorer and Firefox when compared to other generations.

 We hope you enjoyed this special collaboration piece with AskMen.  Feel free to let us know what you think in the comments section!

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