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Wetland PeekShows (or peekshow) has nothing to do with
peepshow though the name is obviously intended to make you think of that. It is actually a service provider that provides webcam
feeds to other sites. It sits clearly in the "professional" space,
there is no way for you as a girl to sign as a model -- and the models are
sure of high quality!
I understand it is actually a very old established company that
originated in Las Vegas in 1999, pretty ancient by the standards of
most web sites so good but amazing to still see it going. This of
course may also explain the slightly dated look of some of the screens, with
black backgrounds and the use of lots of frames.
 Click above to go to the PeekShows
where you can choose the host to look at. You need to do a free signup
(needs an email address, which is not checked) before you can get text chat.
After a while you get prompted to "Upgrade to Premium Membership
(FREE) Membership is FREE! You will only be charged if you purchase time for
your Private Shows", which is their way of saying give us your credit
card so you can spend money on the hosts.
You don't have to though, you can continue in the regular chat by just
going back to that screen.
In the actual chats, even the free ones, you'll find plenty of girls
nude, topless or bottomless and playing with themselves and stuff. I
guess they feel that because this area is adult verified they don't have to
restrict the girls in public chat like other sites do.
You don't see a lot of nudity here, if any. Go into the paid chat
if you want to see that.
Slightly annoying is the lack of a clear link on every page to go back to
the who's online now page -- sometimes it's possible to get "lost" and not
know where to click to get back into chat.
The actual video is either "High speed" which means smooth WMP streaming,
but in a small window not full screen, or "low speed" which is a typical
java few-frames-a-second video.
Peekshow has many sections under different names -- apparently at least some
of these are separate companies running under the peekshows system.
AdultWebcamWorld for example manages their own model support, provides special
deals for hosts to buy the Sinulator
and so on.
If you are looking for more free teaser chat, you should check out
Cams.com. Read my review
about Cams.com.
Peekshows is now offering custom software (PeekshowsX) to "improve
the user experience"; great idea
technically if you can get people to trust you enough to install. At
least with peekshows it is an option rather than the only way which is what
old camania did (and failed in the end for them).
With the downloaded software you get : room list sorting/ viewing
options, fast room changing, full screen video. It's the full
screen video in free chat which is the most attractive, and with their
latest version you get text chat at the same time as full screen video.
There is also a separate piece of software (PX) that
runs in your system tray and notifies you when your selected "favorite"
girls come online, also lets you go directly bios and so on.
Another new thing is "happy hour" -- this is not the same as
imlive happy hour which is basically hosts
rotating through a discount area and is available 24x7 -- but at peekshows
happy hour is an actual time of day/week where you can buy tokens cheaper.
Used to be buy 3 tokens and get 1 free from 5am-9am and 5pm-9pm PST every
Tuesday is the deal, but now it's buy 4 get five.
If you want even more good deals they are doing a lucky draw for 50
free Peekshows tokens every day and 1000 free tokens every month. To
be entered into the draw you have to purchase some tokens at the right time.
But you don't actually have to purchase tokens to offer -- you can
send in a postcard instead! See their members page for details.
This is some kind of legal requirement right? I see it all the time on
cereal boxes "No purchase required, just send in a postcard". First
time I've seen it on a cam site though!
Peekshows no longer hires models directly. They must work through a 2nd
party contractor.
For models there is now an incentive program for models who attract new
customers to the site -- should like an encouragement to poaching if you ask
me but there you go -- it's 20% of the amount a new customer spends after
the signup via the models dedicated signup page. Models can also earn
1% just for getting a new user to signup from their chatroom.
Pay rates for models have also been adjusted to a sliding payrate scale
starting at $1.75 and going up to $2.50 if the model does enough minutes per
week -- but this only applies for models based in the USA working directly
for peekshows.
Not studios and not Europeans.
No comment on that but I think you can guess my opinion of these
"US-only" rules!!
Peekshows has full
screen video in free chat on it's optional downloadable software.... The new
tray icon favorite model list is pretty cool too.........
You can use their internal email system to send messages from viewers to
hosts, provided the viewer has already got a relationship (e.g. spent time
in private) with that host. Mobile version of Peekshow is available too so
you can cam chat any time anywhere you want with your phone. If
you have comments about Peekshows please feel free to post them
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