State of Cams: April 2026

April 2026 averaged 19,387 live cam rooms and 314,875 concurrent viewers across Chaturbate and Stripchat. Rooms baseline month-over-month. Viewers baseline month-over-month. Peak concurrent viewership hit 391,859. This report was auto-generated from 147 snapshot samples.

Headline metrics

Metric Value Month-over-month
Avg live rooms 19,387 baseline
Avg concurrent viewers 314,875 baseline
Peak viewership 391,859
Trough viewership 228,645
LIGHT Index avg 820.5 / 1000
LIGHT Index peak 848.8 / 1000

Platform split

Platform Avg rooms Avg concurrent viewers
Stripchat 9,205 81,349
Chaturbate 8,484 233,526

Streamate viewer counts are not exposed by the SMLive API and are not included in viewer totals. See the methodology page for the full polling stack.

Top performer countries

The top 10 cam performer countries this month by live room count. Rankings reflect the latest snapshot captured before the report was generated.

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Rank Country Live rooms
1 Japanese 5
2 Europe 4
3 Colombia 3
4 Chaturbate 3
5 Canadian 2
6 Bogota d.c., colombia 2
7 Colombian 2
8 Italian 2
9 Antioquia, colombia 2
10 Spain 1

Top 15 cam tags

The 15 most-used tags across all live broadcasters this month, by performer count.

Rank Tag Performers
1 lovense 35
2 hd 35
3 mobile 21
4 couple 20
5 female 18
6 cum 15
7 bigcock 15
8 colombian 10
9 18 8
10 teen 8
11 young 8
12 new 7
13 feet 6
14 trans 6
15 anal 5

What the numbers say

Observations drawn directly from this month of data:

  • Average viewers per room: 16.2. This is a rough proxy for audience concentration in any given room at any given moment.
  • Stripchat carried more live rooms on average than Chaturbate this month. See platform share for the live split.
  • Chaturbate pulled more concurrent viewers than Stripchat, consistent with its historically higher viewers-per-room ratio.
  • The LIGHT Index averaged 820.5 and peaked at 848.8 this month. The index is a composite 0-1000 health score for the live cam industry.

How this report is generated

This report is written automatically from the wp_macksc_snapshots table on the 1st of every month at 04:00 UTC. The polling pipeline behind the data is documented at macksc.com/methodology/. The report template is a PHP function; no LLM is involved in writing the prose.

All numbers in this document are point-in-time averages over the reporting month. Month-over-month deltas compare this month average to last month average. The top countries and tags are from the last snapshot of the month to avoid heavy per-snapshot aggregation.

Cite this report

This report is published under CC BY 4.0. Free to cite with attribution.

MackSC. (2026). State of Cams: April 2026. https://macksc.com/state-of-cams-2026-04/

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