24 Aug: See
here
announcement of special offer for chathosts on a newly launched cam
site allamericamgirls.com
.
12 Jun: Here is the
latest World Cup Celebration promotion from imlive - throughout
June, the first 6 people who bought credits at 6am ET and the first
6 who bought credits at 6pm ET will get their money back. A
bit easier than lucky draw I suppose, at least you feel that you get
some control over it. Cam girls and guys should probably hang
around at that time as there will be more viewers! [visit
site]
26 May: Another European site, this time in Spain which
means spanish speaking which of course would be good for those in
the US and Latina American regions as well. Site is
EspanaCams and has a large
range of hosts online. I've added this one to the list of ones
I need to review properly, until then
visit the site and
let me know what you think about it.
19 May: Found another European, this time Dutch, site
CamsHolland.NL, not
reviewed yet but looks big and international; no problems with
English here I suspect. Still collecting details; let me know
if you have any inside info.
14 May: Cheap-ish European site
MyDirtyHobby emphasizes real
amateurs only. See what I've found in my review. [read
review][visit
site][comment]
10 May: Some subtle changes over at
Flirt4Free (aka FLIRT$FREE if you keep the caps key down ;-)
when you are anonymous guest. Instead of being asked to create
a nickname (which we know is an arduous task which puts many people
off) you can go
straight into chat with a randomly generated name which is based
on your location such as "NewYork_12345". I can see that
annoying some people who would rather not say where they are from.
However that all goes away when you get up the courage to create a
real (free) account there! [read review][visit
site][comment]
9 May: New site starting up called
adultcamswork.com, so far
nothing really working and it is based out of Romania which I know
may put some people off but it is offering 70% cut for the chathost
so perhaps at least take a look.
7 May: Had reports that
DaysDreams.EU is sold and is closing operations. Certainly
nobody is online. Will check back and see if it revives. Perhaps try
RIVCams for an alternative
European site.
5 May: Promotion over at
LiveCamNetwork - every
Friday in May there is a drawing and lucky winner gets prize of 100%
of their last credit load.
[visit site]
18 Apr: MyFreeCams
continues to grow, I see 435 hosts on the main page and 300 on the
Asian page. Even allowing for some overlap that is still a
very big number! [Visit site][Read
review][Comment]
14 Apr: Went back to look again at
webcamclub and found they now have a
chat roulette clone going. Lets you go straight into
cam2cam in free chat!
22 Mar: Review of
WebcamClub.com, a good looking site that I've been ignoring for
too long. The review is quite brief and I'd be glad to hear
your comments as I update and develop it with more details. [read
review] [visit
site] [make
comment]
4 Mar: Neoncams.com has
now been sold to the company behind
CamPrime, but for now it still functions separately. Not
sure about money owed under the old company, let me know if you hear
anything.
2 Mar: New review of RIVCams. I think they have some
work to do from a usability point of view, but you will see hosts
here that you have not seen before I suspect. [read
review] [visit site] [comment]
25 Feb: Flirt4free are having a chathosts photo competition.
Check out the
girls
here and the
guys
here. Interesting to see the mix of "off-duty" and photo-model
images the chathosts have uploaded.
24 Feb: Imlive have
opened a new site called sexier.com
which is supposed to be an all new experience, but at first glance
seems to be just a basic version of
imlive.com. Let me know in the forum
if you know what the idea is here. Update: Ah,
appears to pay the hosts 42%, but only under certain (difficult
to achieve) conditions.
22 Feb: Know who
Kagney Linn Karter is? no, me
neither. But apparently she is a porn star and she is doing
her own live "webcam show" today 07:00 - 08:00 PM, PST. Check
it out at
kagneylive.com
9 Feb: Porn star chat on
imlive on 17 Feb 11p.m. ET with Vanilla Deville.
8 Feb: Do you webcam on your mobile phone? See how
do you compare with the average and extreme users.
See Statistics (Data from
Camsense(CamContacts)).
4 Feb: Just so an announcement from
WildOrchidz (who have 96 hosts
online at the moment) that they are changing their billing system "to
guarantee that the transactions are carried out in the correct way
with full liability shift (aka payment guarantee)" which I guess
is another way to say they are trying to avoid charge backs.
So members need to go and register their credit card again.
This is all to avoid the cheating viewers who take shows, they get
their money back by claiming to their bank that it was fraud.
We will see more of this as adult webcam sites come under more
pressure from these kinds of scams. At the moment they get hit
not just with the loss of income, but fines from the credit card
processor, plus the backlash from the chathosts who of course don't
want their income withdrawn when they did in fact provide a show.
2 Feb: Ever thought about
what types of cam girl are most common? Click through. [comment]
28 Jan: Well yumyum cams
didn't last long, the site is already gone.
27 Jan:
Caribbeancomgirl.com, a sister site to
DxLive, has 18 girls online; 5 in
private and the rest in free preview (that is video, no chat).
Almost all pure Japanese. The style is so different from
European sites, a lot more fun-teasing-cuteness and less hard core
holes-and-toys. Over at
Sakura Live
there are 42 though, which is strange as it is the same company.
18 Jan: Fairly cheap new site found - most girls charge
$1.99/min on Daysdreams.eu.
Take a look! [visit
site] [read review]
14 Dec: Camcontacts
have a banner up saying "Sweet Holiday Dreams" is coming, a
promotion of some sort no doubt, but where are the details?
9 Dec: Want to watch porn star live? What about
Riley Evans - the one who feature in Hustler's 2009 best reseller
"This ain't happy days xxx"? Go to PrivateCamz tonight at 8pm
EST. It's only $10 for a one-hour show. [visit
site] [read review]
6 Dec: Ever dreamt of starting your own webcam chat site?
For most people the up-front costs are a deal killer, but now
2much has come out with an
(almost) free way for people to try their hosted webcam chat system.
See their
price list. The "Basic" edition is effectively free, you
only pay a one-off $100 set up fee, and then they take 12.5% of your
gross as their cut. However, do read the fine print very
carefully; my feeling is that the unhappy webmaster-customers that
2much sometimes have (you've read them complaining in the forums)
are a result of people not fully understanding what they are getting
into.
3 Dec: I love this thought from
GirlTime -"Asking a cam girl
for a tease to make you horny is like asking a restaurant for free
food to make you hungry." The catch of course is that this
is exactly what restaurants will do, at least when starting up and
trying to get a reputation, provide small samples or a just a
wonderful smell coming from the kitchen...
29 Nov: Flirt4free has their own beefy hunk model to
perform a feature show on 3 Dec 6:00-7:00p.m. ET. No schedule
for girl show yet. [get
VIP membership to watch it free]
22 Nov: Congratulations to
Myka19, a forum member from long ago, who this month is the
Penthouse
Pet of the Month as Yumi Kai! And she still cams on streamray/ cumtv/ cams.com as
Yumi. [See
her spread at Penthouse.com]
[Chat with her at Cams.com]
[comment]
3 Nov: Took a look at NeonCams which when last visited was
a small but nice looking site, and is now a medium size one with a
bit more than a hundred hosts online, including a few guys. [visit
site] [read review]
[comment]
28 Oct: Disappointed to find that
MetroBabes,
which appeared to be a new site, is merely another front end to the
same
streamray/cumtv/cams.com site which we have come to love/hate
(delete that which does not apply). It looks very
different, it isn't just a white label, and possibly a different
payment scheme so I do need to see if there is any advantage one way
or the other; but ultimate you find the same chathosts and the same
video technology either way you go. [visit
site anyway] [compare
with cams.com]
27 Oct: From now until end of this month
Cammatrix is offering a 5% bonus
on all credits purchased. This is in celebration of Dress Like
A Slut Day (aka Halloween). [visit
site] [read review] [comment
in the forum] [get
a last minute sex Halloween costume]
8 Oct: Another new site, feels just like the good old days
:-),
ClubXXXCams.com is launching this month. Looks well
thought out and they
have
a plan to get hosts and viewers both. Lots of cash prizes
to give away, take a look.
7 Oct: New site
SexPrivates.com
is
looking for new studios, at 50% pay and with variable prices
available for the shows.
16 Sep: Seeing more British webcam girls? Read
this article by the BBC about it! Not particularly
insightful, but it does show that the main stream news is starting
to notice the webcam world.
11 Sep: Looks like a complete redesign for
Metrobabes.com,
another one I still need to do a review of! Free chat, Nude
(group) chat, Private and Voyeur mode all included as is cam2cam.
Fan clubs also exist at MetroBabes with discounts for members etc.
If you have any inside info on it please let me know via the forum.
[Visit site]
1 Sep: Was announced today that the company who owns
Pornication (Gamma
Entertainment ) is buying up the company who runs
privatefeeds (Inoveo
Communications). They have worked together for a long time I
think, really Pornication was a front end to Privatefeeds I think,
so I'm not sure what changes if any will actually happen for viewers
or hosts.
29 Jul: Saw a post that
CupidoCam is
for sale. That's a shame as it is/was the one of the few
serious sites for gay camming.
15 Jul: Starting today a summer promo at
CamContacts which can win you
up to $2,000 credit. It's a puzzle so not random luck, you
need to do privates to get the pieces for the puzzle though.
[visit
site]
22 Jun: Remember how the owners of
Cams.com, e.g. streamray aka
AdultFriendFinder aka Various, Inc aka Penthouse Media Group
were planning on going public with an IPO? I was wondering how
that went and seems it never happened. Most recent thing I can
see is around March they were still looking for an underwriter,
seems the normal banks won't touch them. I wonder why?
26 May: "VideoChat.com"
is run by Flirt4Free and has
most of the same hosts online. Difference is that all
"privates" are actually group private, and start at $3/minute
instead of the $6 of F4F. Given that group privates are often
a group of one that's a good deal.
14 May: German and Spanish speakers can chat in their own
languages with the cam girls at
Camcontact.
German
version of Camcontacts is camcontact.com and
Spanish version of Camcontacts is camcontactos.es.
10 May: Flirt4free is doing their "new user gets 120
credits free" promotion. It worth 2 minutes private 1-on-1 or
6 minutes voyeur mode. Also noticed that there are girls in
Flirtforfree claim to be
squirters. I haven't tried, let me know if you've seen them
really squirt. [read review][visit
site][comment]
4 May: Recession time:
Camshow.com delisted as it has given up and now has a page
saying they are closed; in this case they didn't sell out to another
site. And Camazon.com too soon as well due to "lack of
interest".
3 May: PrivateFeeds
adds cam2cam, no extra charge for two way video during privates.
[read review]
[visit site]
[comment]
27 Apr: The mostly non-nude cam site
OnHerCams is doing a special tonight with free cams and a
photoshoot of one of their models. See it 6pm PST / 9pm EST /
2am UK. Considering their normal high charges any free cams
are certainly to be checked out!
[View the show]
24 Apr: As a chathost you do pay your taxes, right? If not
and you are in Sweden then watch out as the law is on to you!
[read more]
23 April: This weekend is Giant Dildo Weekend! no,
it's not a national holiday 9sadly), but it is a promotion over at
21 April:
Lovelycamgirlslive.com announces they no longer will charge
extra for cam2cam in privates.
8 Apr: Visit Camcontacs
this weekend to play their Happy Easter Egg Hunt game. Viewer
and host have to work together on a memory game to gain points
which turn into lucky draw chances for prized up to $1,500.
[try your luck]
7 Apr: Just realized Ifriends also has 3D with color
glasses, not just livejasmin. Any more 3D choices? Does
anybody actually USE them?
1 April:
Lovelycamgirlslive.com has a promotion; if you purchase $50
credits during April you could win another $50 in credits in the end
of month lucky draw. Trouble is, I see zero chathosts online
at the moment so perhaps there will be nothing to spend your credits
on! Meanwhile
sizzlingcamgirls is soft launching so
check it
out.
31 Mar: Can't say I like the name of "Your-Free-Cams.com"
very much as it is of course promising something it doesn't deliver.
In fact it delivers less free than many other sites as there isn't
even free teaser video, but at most a still image and text chat.
24: Is it a good sign or a bad sign when sites start to
think outside the box? imLive
starts to do non-English language promotions in German, French,
Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Turkish, Greek,
Russian, Hindi, Punjabi, Swedish, Norwegian and Danish.
While
LiveJasmin are doing 3D with
red/blue
glasses!
18 Mar: XCams, the
French/English site, claim to have registered their 16,000th
chathost. I think it would be more meaningful to mention how
many are actually online, which is not at all clear from their site.
17 Mar: As a host would you go and work on a
brand
cam site that pays 80%? Sounds too good to be true, but
you never know -- maybe finally has worked out a way so let us hear
what you think. [more
in the forum]
16 Mar: St Patrick's Day is coming so expect to see a
bunch of green and blarney promotions.
PrivateFeeds will be doing
Red Head specific shows on the day.
13 Mar: Friday the 13th Discounts? Seems a weird
topic, but you'll find a 9% off at Flirt4Free today only. [
Visit
Flirt4Free ]
8 Mar: Classy non-nude cam site
OnHerCams opens a sister site
which does promise fully nude cam shows,
SizzlingCamGirls.
Seems like a great idea, but they currently lack hosts online. (Update,
apparently it is not officially launched yet, stay tuned as they
say).
26 Feb: Ok that's it --
spread4u is history, all links
there now end up at
Cams.com. I feel strangely sad
about it for no real reason -- one of the big names just
disappearing like that. Where you a regular at spread4u?
Either viewer or host -- drop into the
forum and let
me know how the "transition" has been for you.
24 Feb: Porn star Sinnamon Love is doing free cam shows
weekly for members her site and CamZ.com.
The shows are one hour and can be seen Wednesdays at 1 p.m. and
Fridays at 10 p.m. What do you think of that?
Obviously this is basically a promo for her which is cool and
everything and if it increases peoples awareness of the pleasure of
a good camshow then I think in the end it benefits everybody!
[visit camz]
23 Feb: An email in my inbox this morning from
spread4u owners WebcamCash tells
me that they have just been bought up by the owners of
Cams.com, e.g. streamray aka
AdultFriendFinder aka Various, Inc aka Penthouse Media Group.
No news on what is going to happen -- whether they will continue to
operate separately (seems unlikely), will be integrated (maybe) or
if Spread4u viewers and hosts will just be moved over toe the
cams.com site (that's my bet).
17 Feb: Latest promotion at
NeonCams is Mardi Gras Party is the next event, running from the
23rd to the 25th February, get 10% free bonus credit for all
transactions during the event and will also earn double member award
points. [visit
site] [read review]
[comment]
16 Feb: Changes over at
Cams.com / cumtv in how pre-recorded videos are charged.
They used to be on a per minute basis, but now it is a flat $5 fee
per video. Premier members get 5 free shows a month as well.
No word on how much the host gets for this. Let me know in the
forum if you have that detail.
13 Feb: At the
XBIZ Awards, that's like the
Oscars for adult companies,
Flirt4Free owner Video Secrets won Live Video Chat
of the Year, and imLive
owner PussyCash won Outstanding Achievement in Online
Marketing and Promotion. What does one
wewhatsitsabob have to do to
win these anyway? Personally I think
Flirt4Free, which is on the
premium price side, will have difficulty to keep up this year.
Their video and their hosts are top notch but in 2009 I think
cheap-and-cheerful-saves-my-money is more the moto than
top-shelf-quality-is-worth-the-money.
12 Feb: PrivateFeeds
has Valentine’s themed shows at $0.50/minute leading up to a
live 5 girl orgy on February 14th at 9 pm EST. How romantic!
[read review]
[see show]
[comment]
10 Feb: Update to
TheDailyPeep, they got rid of the annoying peel ads.
Member and model contests are still running, and there is a $10 free
credits if you buy $100 offer still going. [read
review] [visit
site] [make
a comment]
[see top
hosts]
[see top viewers]
28: If you are a chathost or model a new must-read by
Danigirl is "Health
Tips for Chat Hosts", viewers may also be interested in some of
the challenges faced by their favorite hosts!
13 Jan: PrivateFeeds
have changed technology for their video. It is flash now so -
no more Java and also no more streaming Windows video. The
flash video is very good, but lacks the excellence for the broadband
streaming option they offered before.
12 Jan: Virtual 3D sex anybody?
Redlightcenter.com offers this if you'd like to have a
secondlive.com experience but with less clothes and more sex! [visit
site]
5 Jan: Just noticed this -- the parent company of
Cams.com has
filed for IPO! That isn't as good as it sounds though as
they are doing it to try to raise cash to cover more than $400
million debts they have! I don't know much about finance but
that doesn't sound good to me.
Webcam
Wizard!
