Primary sources (audited)

  • [FENIX-2024] Fenix International Ltd — UK Companies House annual filing, fiscal year 2024. Audited by registered accountants. Covers fiscal year ending 30 November 2024. Public document, retrievable from Companies House by company name. Used for: gross fan payments, creator payouts, platform net revenue, pre-tax profit, creator and fan account totals.
  • [FENIX-2023] Fenix International Ltd — UK Companies House annual filing, fiscal year 2023. Used for prior-year comparisons and YoY growth calculations.
  • [FENIX-2022] Fenix International Ltd — UK Companies House annual filing, fiscal year 2022. Used for historical revenue and account growth charts.
  • [FENIX-PRIOR] Fenix International Ltd — Prior Companies House filings (2019–2021). Used for the long-run growth charts spanning 2019–2024.

Regulatory and compliance disclosures

  • [NCMEC-2025] National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) — CyberTipline reports, calendar 2025. Public NCMEC reporting on platform takedowns and content moderation. Used for: compliance volumes, content-moderation takedown numbers.
  • [OFCOM-2025] UK Ofcom — Online Safety Act enforcement reporting and transparency requirements. Ofcom's 2025 reporting cycle. Used for: UK regulatory compliance context, OSA enforcement timeline.
  • [EU-DSA-2024] European Commission — Digital Services Act enforcement and transparency report obligations. Used for: EU regulatory context.
  • [KJM-2024] Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz (KJM) — German Jugendmedienschutz-Staatsvertrag (JMStV) enforcement on adult-content platforms. Used for: German regulatory context on /germany.
  • [FSC-2025] Free Speech Coalition — US state-level age-verification law tracker. Used for: state-level regulatory landscape on /us.
  • [CH-2025] UK Companies House — Director filings and registrations of OnlyFans-related Ltd companies (creator small-business registrations). Used for: UK creator-ecosystem density estimates on /creators-by-country.

Audience and traffic panels

  • [SIMWEB-2025] Similarweb — Traffic estimates, audience demographics (age, gender), country traffic share, mobile/desktop split, ranking, session depth. Panel-based, drawn from a global tracked-user sample. Used across: /users, /users-by-country, /users-by-age, /users-by-gender, /us, /uk, /germany, /europe, /2025, and others.
  • [SIMWEB-2024] Similarweb — Prior-year panel data for YoY comparisons.
  • [SENSOR-2025] Sensor Tower — Country-level fan spend estimates and year-over-year growth rates. Estimated rather than reported. Used for: top-spending countries 2025, country-level YoY growth figures.
  • [STATISTA-2024] Statista — Cross-validation of audience demographics, historical creator and fan account counts, gender split panels. Used for: triangulation of demographic figures, historical context.
  • [PANEL-2024] Third-party panel analyses — Aggregated creator-earnings distribution analyses based on payout-data leaks and creator self-reports. Used for: earnings distribution percentile estimates on /earnings, /creators.
  • [AGENCY-2025] OnlyFans-focused talent agency benchmarking guides — Industry insider data on creator earnings benchmarks. Used for: post-statistics benchmarks, creator earnings calibration.

Press, interviews, and self-reports

  • [FORBES-2024] Forbes — Coverage of celebrity OnlyFans creators, earnings disclosures, industry analysis. Used for: top-earner figures (Cardi B, etc).
  • [VARIETY-2024] Variety — Interview-based earnings disclosures, industry coverage. Used for: top-earner figures (Iggy Azalea, etc).
  • [MTV-2023] MTV — Blac Chyna interview citing $20M peak monthly earnings. Used for: top-earner figure on /top-earners.
  • [REUTERS-2025] Reuters — Coverage of FY2024 filing release and platform business reporting. Used for: contextual reporting on /2024.
  • [SELFREP-2024] Self-reported (creator social media, podcasts, interviews) — Direct disclosures from creators themselves on Instagram, X, podcasts, and recorded interviews. Used for: top-earner figures across most named celebrity creators.
  • [CREATOR-2024] Creator interviews and educational content — Aggregated context from creator-side educational content for benchmark figures. Used for: post-statistics benchmarks.

Platform documentation

  • [OF-DOCS] OnlyFans creator help center — Official platform documentation on the creator dashboard, payout schedule, and statistics panel. Used for: /post-statistics, /profile-checker.

What's not in our bibliography

We deliberately don't cite:

  • Scraped third-party data from sites that violate OnlyFans's terms of service.
  • Anonymous "industry sources" without verifiable provenance.
  • Press coverage that re-cites our own figures — circular citation chains aren't sources.
  • Numbers we can't independently verify against at least one of the sources above.

How this bibliography is maintained

New sources are added when we cite them on a published page. Source IDs follow the format [ORG-YEAR] (e.g. [FENIX-2024]) for stability across page updates. If you spot a source we should add or correct, email data@onlyfansstatistics.com.

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