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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
The top 10 cam sites are turning over maybe $70 Million to $100 Million a month I would estimate.
Clearing 8% net of that handle pre-tax ain't too shabby ;) |
the top 10 cam sites combined? well cams.com which had public data after IPO is $60M a year or $5M/mo for cams part, let 2-3 sites do more than this, and other 2-3 do a little less... so a total $70-$100M/month for all top 10 cam sites may be the case. Fact is, there's like a dozen cam sites total, rest is semi-dead things doing less than $50k/mo, so whole cam business revenue may be hardly much more than $100M/mo.
Running an own cam site is some secret dream of many in fact many try, but most fail, which at least stops even more to even try, as they figure it is maybe not that dream. Having experience of running a pay site it can even make people more likely to fail cams, because unlikely someone who knows nothing and so starts from clean zero, someone who ran paysites and is confident, applies certain paysite logics to cams which is fatal.
For ex:
CONTENT: paysite content stays there forever after you uploaded, even if you have low or zero sales for a month, you can resume all ok by restart traffic. Instead cam girls must stay online and it's people and they will not stay online unless a continue flow of sales, once you have 3 weeks of no sales they quit and no more return and tell every other cam girl or studio that your site is dead with no traffic so you can't even signup anyone else, no content, have to change name of site. Also never think you can put into cam: porn actresses or photo models, this rarely works, it is different people.
SIZE, SCALE ECONOMY: you can keep up a paysite that makes just $1,000 a month, grow it with time. You can not keep up a cam site that makes less than let's say $50,000 a month (which is also what's asked min for merchant accounts normally), because if you make less than this, you can't have every 2 models online 24/7 for a month that are happy. So either a cam sites makes $100k/mo minimum, and keep stable with no empty periods, or more this cam site is cursed to death. I know of very small cam sites that are up for more than a year, so stable, but I am not sure these are more a profitable business or an expensive hobby of their owners. Like someone who run cam studios so after paid rent and stuff they worked for free, but they own a studio (cool to say this to friends).
HOPE IN AFFILIATES FOR %, NO ADS INVESTMENT: in cams, you can't do like with paysites (esp years ago) where you buy content, put in member area and fhg's, and wait ccbill affiliates to bring you traffic for %, slowly. A cam site must start big immediately to sustain the cam models from day 1 and every next day (or they quit your site, then your members quit because no models). Can't grow slowly or is empty of models, so you have to do a media buying of some $100,000's at launch (untill you have $50k/mo sales) - after which you may also have some affiliates, but will be a small part of revenues, take time to grow (our own program took years to have just few dozen of stable affiliates doing decent volume - first months was nearly no one), main traffic it is still is media buying, own sources.
So perhaps adult business is (mostly) cams, and this business may be still doing well in future (not treated by tubes, piracy or anything I know of) - however only a dozen of companies are there, and very difficult to enter there directly as a new cam site - most others are affiliates, or selling to cams ad space - or real/virtual cam studios. There who sells ad space may be tubes which is also an oligarchy of a dozen big guys
