Open cam industry dataset
Continuous first-party measurement of live cam broadcasting — when performers are on air, how large the audience is by hour, how fast the leaderboard turns over, and what performers ask to be paid. Free, machine-readable, openly licensed.
We run live cam directories, which means we query a major platform's public feed continuously. Rather than throw those observations away after rendering a page, we keep them. Over time that has produced measurements that, as far as we can establish, are not published anywhere else — most usefully, when performers are actually on air.
The written analysis lives in The Cam Clock Report. The raw numbers are below.
Downloads
| Dataset | Rows | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Observed broadcast hours by UTC hour | 24 | JSON · CSV |
| Mean concurrent viewers by UTC hour | 24 | JSON · CSV |
| Weekly cohort persistence in the top rooms | 4 | JSON · CSV |
| Token figures named in room titles | 1 | JSON · CSV |
| Performer country composition | 40 | JSON · CSV |
Cached for six hours and cross-origin readable, so you can pull them straight into a notebook or a chart without proxying.
Provenance
Observations run from 2026-07-06 to 2026-08-01, covering 16,337,142 individual room sightings across 114 countries. Sampling is continuous rather than scheduled, and each performer-hour is counted once no matter how many times we observe it inside that hour, so a busy day on our side cannot inflate the totals.
Scope, stated plainly: the feed returns at most 200 rooms per request, ordered by popularity. This dataset describes the most-watched rooms — not the platform. Room counts are pinned at that cap and are therefore excluded from everything we publish. The report's limits section covers the rest.
Licence and citation
Published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Use it commercially, republish it, build on it — the only condition is attribution.
Working on something with this and want a cut we don’t publish, or a longer window than the one above? Write to retrobezel@gmail.com.
