Ranked by how long each broadcast has run without ever stopping. 160 of these cameras have been live for more than five years straight. Updated 2026-10-30.
Showing the top 100 of 2,308 live cameras with a known start time. Updated 2026-10-30.
What the numbers say
Most live cams do not last. Of the 2,308 broadcasting right now with a start time on record, the median has been up for just 315 days. Past that the field thins fast: 1,051 have run over a year, 487 over three, and only 160 have held a single unbroken broadcast for five years or more.
The current record holder is “Renesse aan Zee” from Hage Hosting in Netherlands, streaming without a break for 8 years and 143 days — since 2018. That is one continuous YouTube broadcast, not a channel that has been posting since then.
The five-year club skews geographically: United States (68), Japan (28), and Italy (15) account for much of it, and a handful of operators carry several each — Paesaggi Digitali (8), Range (7), and Umbria Webcam (6). Longevity tends to follow whoever treats the camera as infrastructure rather than a project.
Subject matter matters more than you might expect. Resort / Hotel cameras run a median 1 year and 307 days, while Walking Tour cameras manage 178 days. Cameras bolted to a building someone maintains outlast cameras set up for a season or a view that shifts.
Frequently asked questions
What counts as "continuously running"?
The clock is YouTube's own start time for the broadcast that is playing right now. If an operator stops and restarts a stream, YouTube issues a new video and the count begins again at zero — so every camera on this list has held a single unbroken broadcast for the age shown. A camera that has filmed the same view for a decade across several restarts will not appear near the top.
How often is this list updated?
Nightly. Camlisted re-checks every stream once a day, and a camera drops off this page as soon as its broadcast ends. That is the point of the list: everything here was still running at the last check.
Why are there so few very old streams?
Because staying live is hard. Across 2,308 live cameras with a known start time the median age is 315 days — power cuts, expired keys, storms and channel changes end most broadcasts long before their first birthday. The 160 cameras past five years are the exception, not the norm.
Which kinds of camera last longest
Grouping the same set by subject shows the gap plainly. This is median age, so it describes the typical camera in each group rather than its record holder — categories with fewer than ten live cameras are left out.
| Category | Median age | Live cams counted |
|---|---|---|
| Resort / Hotel | 1 yr 307 d | 103 |
| Mountain | 1 yr 112 d | 134 |
| Parking | 1 yr 93 d | 62 |
| Plaza / Square | 1 yr 89 d | 105 |
| Park | 1 yr 66 d | 83 |
| Wildlife | 1 yr 37 d | 185 |
| Skyline | 358 d | 129 |
| Harbor | 324 d | 161 |
| Traffic | 319 d | 270 |
| River / Lake | 307 d | 123 |
| Coast / Seaside | 299 d | 106 |
| Street | 294 d | 76 |
| Avenue | 287 d | 96 |
| Construction | 241 d | 63 |
| Train / Railway | 227 d | 200 |
| Beach | 224 d | 235 |
| Other | 199 d | 19 |
| Space | 193 d | 13 |
| Indoor | 187 d | 40 |
| Airport | 185 d | 82 |
| Walking Tour | 178 d | 13 |