The short answer
The VR roster has a predictable shape across the week, and the money is in the gaps. Our crawler polls both platforms every five minutes; the schedule table aggregates 30 days of that into an average-concurrency picture by hour and weekday. The current numbers live on the statistics page; this page explains how to read them as a performer.
The shape of the week
The stable structural pattern (verify current numbers before planning):
- North American evenings are the global peak - the live roster and viewer counts crest in the UTC evening hours.
- The trough lands in the late UTC night - the same window where the audience is thinnest and so is the competition.
- Weekday evenings carry the bulk of the volume; weekends spread flatter across the day.
Why gaps beat peaks
In a room with a few hundred concurrent VR models, your visibility is a ratio: you vs everyone else live. Broadcasting into a demand gap - hours with audience but a thin roster - means every viewer who opens the live list sees you near the top. The measured way to find yours:
- Open the hourly table.
- Note the hours where average concurrency dips but your audience region is awake (e.g. late UTC evening for Latin American and North American audiences).
- Cross-check with your language flags - a Spanish-speaking room holds its audience later into UTC night than an English-only room.
A schedule that builds regulars
- Fix two blocks per week (same days, same hours) and hold them for a month before judging results.
- Put one block in your region's peak, one in a gap - the peak block harvests, the gap block converts.
- Keep the heatmap honest: our per-model heatmap is built from actual sightings; models whose heatmap fills in solidly accumulate regulars measurably faster. Random hours reset it.
- Announce absences; the heatmap decays smoothly, so a missed block costs less than an unannounced disappearance.
Timezone cheat sheet
| Your base | Audience window (UTC) | Typical gap to exploit |
|---|---|---|
| Europe (CET) | 18:00-02:00 | Late-evening hours after CET midnight |
| Latin America | 22:00-04:00 | Post-midnight slots in the biggest language group |
| North America | 00:00-06:00 | Early-morning UTC while the European roster sleeps |
| Asia | 08:00-16:00 | The entire afternoon UTC window |
The workflow
- Read the current hourly and weekday numbers.
- Pick your two blocks (one peak, one gap).
- Hold them for four weeks.
- Watch your own profile's heatmap fill in - it is the same data your potential regulars see.