Eyes on Chaturbate - April Edition
Updates on Chaturbate, the camming industry and CB Cam Insights.
Welcome back to another addition of our newsletter. It’s been a while since our last edition, so this is a partial update which (hopefully) will be followed by the remaining updates in May! Too many to put into one update!
Chaturbate
There have been 111,927 performers active (at least one broadcast) on Chaturbate over the last 7 days (numbers from 04/27) - roughly 3% below the summer highs. There’s another low point around Easter (up until April 1st) where a lot of models took time off. All Chaturbate traffic stats are also available online.
Off the charts
mashayang passed both caylin and hotfallingdevil to become the most followed active model on Chaturbate, but still neck and neck with hotfallingdevil with both north of 1.7 million followers.
CB Explorer Updates
We’ll get to the full list of updates in the next addition - just a quick shoutout here that you can search tip menus in CB Explorer now to help you price your own tip menu.
Additionally model profiles got a big lift with our redesign and you can add your own customized profile image to stand out on CB Explorer. Just create an account, verify your Chaturbate profile ownership and upload an image!
CB Cam Insights Updates
Of course since we haven’t published this newsletter since December 2022, a huge number of things changed, but a lot stayed the same.
I should note that CB Cam Insights is a paid subscription (❤️ my subscribers) - but there's some features for free users both on the website as well as with the chrome extension.
Before I get into the other updates, let me mention we also have a referral program now that pays out 20% on all paid referrals - if you like CB Cam Insights you can subscribe to get your personalized link to track your referrals!
Dashboard overview
The dashboard overview got a big upgrade - you now also have heatmap charts for your stats so you can see which week days work best for you.
Additionally all chart stats now are accurate for your time zone, that means for broadcasts that crossed midnight in your time zone, you'll see some of the stats on the first day, and some on the next as you would expect.
The only exception to this are broadcasts that are still live - as soon as the broadcast is finished, the stats will update across the days.
If you had any private during the chosen time period, the overview dashboard will now show you in your bar charts how much time you spent in private and how many (approximate) tokens you earned during that time.
Performance pie chart in studio overview dashboard
The studio overview dashboard now has a pie chart with the relative earnings contributions for each model.
The studio model table also got an improvement - it now has an additional column showing the income/h for each model.
(And yes I had ChatGPT make up all these names for me 😂).
Chat interactions
Previously only available in the CB Cam Insights chrome extension, the cam session details now have a breakdown of all chats in your room - see when your room is most engaged and what viewers contribute the most to the conversation.
This gives you insights into engagement - do more of what causes engagement to spike and your room interested!
Viewer interactions and fan club membership
The tipper details modal now also has information about public chats they had in your room.
If the tipper is a fan club member, an icon is shown with information about their join date.
Top chatters
Did some overall UI cleanup in the cam session deep dives, and added the top 3 chatters to the Insights widget
As you might suspect there's a lot of folks that chat a lot but don't tip well at all.
Additionally fixed a couple bugs - the tip menu widget is now ordering by tip count as intended and the tip menu distribution pie chart is not cut off.
Tip menu item stats in cam session details respect price history
The token amount displayed in the cam session details for tip menu items is now not the most recent token amount, but the token amount that was active at the time of the broadcast.
If you change the price of a tip menu item in the tip menu editor and go back to a cam session before the price change, you should now see the correct token amount.
Fan club tracking
CB Cam Insights now can track your fan club over time. The data is only approximate here based on room observations since Chaturbate does not make data available about Fanclub purchases when you're not camming. Instead, active fan club members in your chat are observed. If any of their status changes the data is updated, so we see who joined your fan club and who left as long as they are in your room.
With the help of this data you can see if your fan club promotion is working and perhaps give viewers that recently left your fan club some attention so they don't forget to rejoin.
Tipper Tip Times
The tipper details dialog now also has information about tip times from individual tippers.
With this information you can see what weekdays and times a tipper tips you the most, informing your cam schedule and when to expect that particular tipper.
Talk to me
And this concludes this issue - feedback on the format & what's interesting to you is very welcome, this is work in progress! ❤️
You can reach me on twitter (@cb_explorer) or the CB Cam Insights support email - hoping to hear from you!