Chaturbate

Chaturbate is an adult website providing live webcam performances by individual webcam models and couples, typically featuring nudity and sexual activity ranging from striptease and erotic talk to masturbation with sex toys that is often highly explicit. The site is divided into six categories: female cams, male cams, couple cams, transgender cams, private shows and spy shows. The gender-specific categories are free to watch but viewers have to pay to join a private show. Spy shows are private shows where viewers do not interact, and hence they are cheaper to view than private shows. As of October 2020, Chaturbate was the 65th most popular website in the world and the 5th most popular adult site.

"Chaturbate" is a portmanteau of "chat" and "masturbate". Viewers are allowed to watch for free (with the exception of private shows), but pay money in the form of "tips" in order to see certain sex acts performed. There are popular chat rooms, that can have more than 500,000 followers and can get up to 20,000 viewers at once. The site itself earns revenues by taking roughly 40% of what performers make. In addition, Chaturbate generates revenue from the audience when they purchase tokens using their credit cards.

As of November 2019, the site was ranked 22nd in the Alexa global rank and was the largest adult camming site competing with European BongaCams and LiveJasmin. It is estimated that the site has about 4.1 million unique visitors each month. Cam performers can earn money by being tipped with tokens. Each Chaturbate token is worth $0.05 and a model needs to earn at least $50.00 to receive the payment.

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