Viewers Who Stayed 10+ Minutes Generated Nearly All My Earnings.

One thing I’ve been trying to understand is:

How much of my public earnings come from people with short vs long visits?

So I looked at 1,021 viewer visits across six streams and measured how long each person stayed in my public room, then connected dwell time to their public tips.

The distribution was extremely lopsided.

Most viewers don’t spend—yet

Almost 6 in 10 viewers left within two minutes.

Collectively, those viewers generated just 1.7% of my public earnings.

At the opposite extreme, only 12.2% of viewers stayed for 40 minutes or longer. That tiny group generated 79% of my public earnings.

Put another way:

Only 27% of my viewers stayed 10 minutes or more. They generated 94% of my public earnings.

That makes me think raw viewer count may be a much less useful metric than I assumed.

This changes what I want to optimize

I've been paying a lot of attention to things like peak viewers, unique viewers, and the rank my room appears on the site.

Those still matter. You can't retain someone who never enters.

But I'm starting to think of the funnel differently:

Enter → don't immediately leave → stay → engage → spend

Getting 100 additional people to briefly click into my room may be much less valuable than getting a handful of people to move from a two-minute visit into a 20- or 40-minute one.

So the question I'm interested in now isn't just:

How do I get more viewers?

It's:

What makes someone stay longer?

Data: 1,021 viewer-session observations across six streams. Earnings include observed public tips only; private-show earnings are excluded. This is observational data, so longer visits aren't necessarily causing higher spending—high-intent viewers may simply be more likely to stay.