The Observatory

Real-time Live Cam Intelligence Layer

Live Network
15,402
Concurrent Viewers
806,843
Snapshot Cadence
Every 10m
Economic Health
OPTIMAL

Platform Concentration

Stripchat
51.9%
7,986 rooms active
81,385 live viewers
Chaturbate
39.4%
6,075 rooms active
725,458 live viewers
Streamate
8.7%
1,341 rooms active

Geo-Economic Density

🇮🇳 India 1,376
🇨🇴 Colombia 1,129
🇪🇸 Spain 822
🇺🇸 United States 653
🇮🇹 Italy 537
🇩🇪 Germany 510
🇹🇭 Thailand 449
🇨🇦 Canada 403
🇵🇭 Philippines 275
🇫🇷 France 244

Segment Distribution

Female 73%
4,821 gender-labeled rooms
Male 14%
917 gender-labeled rooms
Couple 5%
347 gender-labeled rooms
Trans 8%
543 gender-labeled rooms
Shares are of rooms with gender labels (43% of the live network); the platforms do not publish gender for every room.

Viewer Concentration

🇮🇹 Italy (283 viewers/room) 151,827 viewers
537 rooms in the tracked pool
🇮🇳 India (83 viewers/room) 113,872 viewers
1,376 rooms in the tracked pool
🇺🇸 United States (172 viewers/room) 112,368 viewers
653 rooms in the tracked pool
🇪🇸 Spain (123 viewers/room) 101,157 viewers
822 rooms in the tracked pool
🇹🇭 Thailand (159 viewers/room) 71,396 viewers
449 rooms in the tracked pool
🇬🇧 United Kingdom (316 viewers/room) 69,507 viewers
220 rooms in the tracked pool
🇨🇦 Canada (154 viewers/room) 61,867 viewers
403 rooms in the tracked pool
🇩🇪 Germany (107 viewers/room) 54,644 viewers
510 rooms in the tracked pool
🇫🇷 France (192 viewers/room) 46,799 viewers
244 rooms in the tracked pool
🇨🇴 Colombia (30 viewers/room) 33,402 viewers
1,129 rooms in the tracked pool
Viewers are of tracked rooms (Chaturbate full list; Stripchat top-400 sample). Streamate does not publish viewer counts and contributes 0. The supply-side room totals for the same segments are in Geo-Economic Density above.

Estimated Viewer Geography

United States (25.6% of estimated) 256,939 viewers est.
Germany (6.7% of estimated) 67,350 viewers est.
Spain (6.5% of estimated) 64,849 viewers est.
United Kingdom (6.1% of estimated) 61,664 viewers est.
Mexico (5.7% of estimated) 57,365 viewers est.
Rest of world (5.3% of estimated) 52,747 viewers est.
China (4.8% of estimated) 47,951 viewers est.
Italy (4.2% of estimated) 42,468 viewers est.
Japan (4% of estimated) 40,038 viewers est.
Canada (3.9% of estimated) 39,300 viewers est.
Estimates, not measurements: the platforms do not publish viewer geolocation. Built by distributing measured segment viewer totals across countries using platform audience-geography data (Gitnux 2026-02, HypeStat 2026-08) and a language-affinity model; method and sources at methodology.
MACKSC DATASET
Aggregated time-series cam industry metadata. Licensable via Creative Commons CC BY 4.0. Data points include room count, concurrent viewership, and geo-density trends. Snapshots are recorded every 10 minutes. Viewer counts are estimates where a platform does not publish concurrency, such as Streamate.

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