Chaturbate

Chaturbate
Chaturbate logo
Type of site
 Adult Website, live streaming, webcam
Available in Multilingual (15)
Headquarters California, U.S.
Area served Worldwide, except blocking countries
Industry Adult camming
Website chaturbate.com
Alexa rank Increase 114 (March 2018)[1]
Advertising Yes
Registration Optional
Launched February 26, 2011 (2011-02-26)[2]
Current status Active

Chaturbate is an adult website providing live webcam performances by amateur camgirls, camboys and couples typically featuring nudity and sexual activity ranging from striptease and dirty talk to masturbation with sex toys. The site is divided into five categories: female cams, male cams, couple cams, transgender cams and spy shows.

"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.[3] The site itself earns revenues by taking roughly 40% of what performers make.[4] In addition Chaturbate generates revenue from the audience when they purchase tokens using their credit cards.[5]

As of December 2017, the site is ranked 114th in the Alexa global rank and is the largest adult camming site competing with European BongaCams and LiveJasmin.[1] It is estimated that the site has about 4.1 million unique visitors each month.[6] Cam users can earn money by being tipped with tokens and 20 tokens are worth $1.[7][8][9][10]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "chaturbate.com". Alexa Internet. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Chaturbate.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS. 2016. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  3. ↑ Rachel Hosie (2016-11-18). "'We walked away with more than just £5': Couple who had sex for 400 strangers on webcam say it helped them fall more in love". The Independent. Retrieved 2016-12-26.
  4. ↑ King, Hope (2015-03-20). "Pornstar entrepreneurs find new homes on messaging apps - Mar. 20, 2015". Money.cnn.com. Retrieved 2016-12-26.
  5. ↑ https://chaturbate.com/tipping/purchase_tokens/
  6. ↑ Rabouin, Dion. "Camming Gives Internet Porn Fans a Personal Touch". Newsweek.com. Retrieved 2016-12-26.
  7. ↑ Jamie Bartlett. "The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld". Books.google.com. Retrieved 2016-05-11.
  8. ↑ Witt, Emily (20 January 2015). "Are you 'internet-sexual'". Medium. Retrieved 2016-05-11.
  9. ↑ Wright, Mic (21 November 2013). "Chaturbate is one of the friendliest places on the web". The Kernel/The Daily Dot. Retrieved 2016-05-11.
  10. ↑ "The unstoppable rise of DIY porn: How an army of 'amateurs' who are uploading homemade footage online are giving mainstream stars a run for their money". Daily Mail. 15 August 2013. Retrieved 2016-05-11.
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