The Observatory

Real-time Live Cam Intelligence Layer

Live Network
20,602
Concurrent Viewers
739,256
Snapshot Cadence
Every 10m
Economic Health
OPTIMAL

Platform Concentration

Stripchat
52.3%
10,785 rooms active
111,671 live viewers
Chaturbate
39.2%
8,067 rooms active
627,585 live viewers
Streamate
8.5%
1,750 rooms active

Geo-Economic Density

🇨🇴 Colombia 2,436
🇮🇳 India 1,771
🇪🇸 Spain 948
🇺🇸 United States 816
🇩🇪 Germany 764
🇮🇹 Italy 654
🇨🇦 Canada 564
🇹🇭 Thailand 477
🇫🇷 France 258
🇵🇭 Philippines 232

Segment Distribution

Female 72%
6,177 gender-labeled rooms
Male 15%
1,323 gender-labeled rooms
Couple 5%
406 gender-labeled rooms
Trans 8%
709 gender-labeled rooms
Shares are of rooms with gender labels (42% of the live network); the platforms do not publish gender for every room.

Viewer Concentration

🇮🇳 India (61 viewers/room) 108,609 viewers
1,771 rooms in the tracked pool
🇨🇴 Colombia (43 viewers/room) 104,811 viewers
2,436 rooms in the tracked pool
🇮🇹 Italy (97 viewers/room) 63,122 viewers
654 rooms in the tracked pool
🇺🇸 United States (76 viewers/room) 62,384 viewers
816 rooms in the tracked pool
🇩🇪 Germany (66 viewers/room) 50,316 viewers
764 rooms in the tracked pool
🇨🇦 Canada (77 viewers/room) 43,334 viewers
564 rooms in the tracked pool
🇫🇷 France (122 viewers/room) 31,473 viewers
258 rooms in the tracked pool
🇧🇷 Brazil (478 viewers/room) 29,142 viewers
61 rooms in the tracked pool
🇪🇸 Spain (29 viewers/room) 27,409 viewers
948 rooms in the tracked pool
🇹🇭 Thailand (40 viewers/room) 18,945 viewers
477 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 (24.6% of estimated) 170,447 viewers est.
Germany (7.6% of estimated) 52,771 viewers est.
Spain (7% of estimated) 48,543 viewers est.
Mexico (6.2% of estimated) 42,942 viewers est.
United Kingdom (5.9% of estimated) 40,905 viewers est.
Rest of world (5.2% of estimated) 36,332 viewers est.
China (4.8% of estimated) 33,031 viewers est.
Japan (4% of estimated) 27,664 viewers est.
Brazil (3.9% of estimated) 27,018 viewers est.
Italy (3.8% of estimated) 26,386 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Estimates, not measurements: the platforms do not publish viewer geolocation.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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