Positives:
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Great traffic
Depending on the time of day, you usually get anywhere between 20 - 100 people in your room. If you feel uncomfortable in silent rooms, this will not be a problem as many members are willing to talk here.
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You can select your own mods
And also choose how long they have mod status.
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Apps and bots
This is what really makes
Chaturbate shine: the community-made apps and bots. They are commonly used and will greatly improve your streaming experience.
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Payment
CB guarantees pay within 7 days (outside of checks). Daily Pay is available for USA models, and soon for international models. I've chosen wire transfer and as a European broadcaster, I've gotten my payment consistently after 2 days of requesting payout. I'm very pleased.
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Promos
Chaturbate's official Twitter promotes all kinds of models (women, men, trans, couples) to their 174k followers.
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Software
Customisable and beginner friendly. I love it! The chat settings are very nice. You also have options such as only allowing members who have tipped you to be able to talk in chat; which kind of user you get notified of when they join your chat (users with tokens, mods, fans), what the font should be displayed to you, and a little more. You can also choose to set your own private, group, and spy show rates from the set options available, or turn them all off altogether, and set how many tokens a user needs to have to request a show with you, and how many minimum minutes the show needs to be for them to enter private. You can also choose to send an email to your followers anytime before or during broadcasting to let them know that you're online. All very nice, and very appreciated.
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Privacy
For the shy models, you'll be happy to hear that
Chaturbate allows models to wear masks on cam, and do not force you to show your face. The only time they need to see your face is during the verification process.
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Support
I communicate with support a lot as I like to ask many questions. They usually get back to me within a few hours; at the most, within two days. I recommend talking to the admins (like Shirley) if you need help with individual cases as general support may struggle to address your problem directly. For generic questions, such as "is x allowed," general support is fine and helpful.
Negatives:
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Not everybody tips
While the traffic is great, they will be mostly greys and anonymous users. You will be catering to a great deal of freeloaders.
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Selective rule enforcement
If top models are breaking the rules,
Chaturbate won't bat an eye. If a smaller model tries to do the same, they will certainly risk being banned. Their official Twitter has actually retweeted models announcing rule breaking streams (golden showers, drinking shows, and so on) quite a few times. And speaking of bans, your personal bans will only last 60 days. Why have time limits on member bans? It's very annoying. We ban them for a reason, and they should stay banned.
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Babyface? Better try elsewhere
Chaturbate will discriminate against young looking models without warning by banning them, even if the banned models have been age verified and worked on CB for over a
year. I would NOT recommend to sign up if you look young. Join at your own risk.
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'Offline'
Every broadcaster has this problem on
Chaturbate. Your stream will go offline for a few seconds at random no matter how good your internet connection is. You won't notice it, but your viewers will. It's not too annoying, but it's still a persistent problem.
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Lack of HD video support
The videos you upload to this site are resized, and the resolution is heavily affected. It looks like pixelated garbage and is usually muted even if you don't have any music playing in your video. Disappointing.
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Exhibitionists
There are a lot of them, especially in the male category. Male models have a hard enough time in the camming world as it is, and on CB they will be pushed back further into the last pages, replaced by exhibitionist labels who have more viewers than them.
Chaturbate, PLEASE consider having an option to hide exhibitionist streamers so that members can see what rooms are accepting tokens in the categories. I have no doubt this will be benefiting both to CB and male models if this is implemented.
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PIRATED RECORDINGS
This is by far the most important consequence of streaming on
Chaturbate and other token sites. EVERY SINGLE SHOW will be recorded by bots. No "maybes," they WILL be recorded and uploaded elsewhere to be sold. Are you comfortable with that? Ask yourself this before joining.
Chaturbate categorises the rooms on their pages by the amount of individual people holding tokens in your room.
And to clarify something in the bio here on WCG: on
Chaturbate, you earn 50% of every token given, not "up to 60%." You can earn money for referrals and receive 20% revshare money spent from a member (lifetime), or earn $0.01, $0.10, or $1 (varies from the member's country) from every person that signs up for free (no email required), or get 5% lifetime affiliate income + $50 from referred models. It all depends on what affiliate link you're using.
What's nice about the affiliate links is that you can choose exactly where the link directs you: you can choose for it to go to the
Chaturbate homepage; your room; directly to a sign up form, and many more.
Overall, I recommend the site. It is very beginner friendly; the software is easy to use, and the community is welcoming.