{"id":7495,"date":"2016-05-26T21:22:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T21:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/?p=7495"},"modified":"2016-09-14T16:58:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T16:58:57","slug":"overwatch-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/overwatch-update","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch Game Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pornhub Insights <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/overwatch\">recently reported<\/a> a large\u00a0increase in searches for &#8220;Overwatch&#8221; when the game\u00a0entered public beta on May 4th. At the time\u00a0of our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/overwatch\">Watching Over Overwatch<\/a>\u00a0story,\u00a0we\u00a0recorded\u00a0a peak search increase of 817% on May 5. Much of the\u00a0increase was driven by news\u00a0coverage of the overly-sexualized\u00a0content\u00a0found in earlier beta versions.<\/p>\n<p>Our statisticians continued to monitor Overwatch searches throughout the month, and found a second\u00a0increased occurred when\u00a0the final game officially launched on May 24th. As the following chart illustrates, the post-beta searches peaked 1102% on May 9th before slowly tapering off, then jumped again 947% above average on May 25th.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7497\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/pornhub-insights-overwatch-game-search-increase-may-update.png\" alt=\"pornhub-insights-overwatch-game-search-increase-may-update\" width=\"620\" height=\"670\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Please note that the index\u00a0value representing\u00a0average Overwatch searches has been re-calculated for this chart to include\u00a0the new search volumes in\u00a0the month of May. Based on the earlier average, searches on May 9 would have increased\u00a0as much as 5143%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pornhub Insights recently reported a large\u00a0increase in searches for &#8220;Overwatch&#8221; when the game\u00a0entered public beta on May 4th. At the time\u00a0of our\u00a0Watching Over Overwatch\u00a0story,\u00a0we\u00a0recorded\u00a0a peak search increase of 817% on May 5. Much of the\u00a0increase was driven by news\u00a0coverage of the overly-sexualized\u00a0content\u00a0found in earlier beta versions. Our statisticians continued to monitor Overwatch searches throughout the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/overwatch-update\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Overwatch Game Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[564,563,364,731,586],"class_list":["post-7495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stats","tag-gamers","tag-games","tag-hentai","tag-overwatch","tag-parody"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7499,"href":"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495\/revisions\/7499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}