I had given this a try because I was intrigued by the kinds of models they have and it seemed like it was a tight-knit community (they have a forum, etc). I was actually hoping for the hourly rate but they have since discontinued it. The owner stated things were going well on the site so I figured, what the heck? I'll give it a try.
I was logged on for an hour and knew afterwards that I would never return. The UI was awful, the members I brought (I have a following) were upset because, after 30 minutes, they couldn't see my stream anymore without purchasing credits. I can see how this may be a feature that many would like, but it wasn't a good fit for me or my following. The entire hour I was logged on, I had 3 or less people in my room (1-2 people were members I brought personally to try it out with me).
If this wasn't bad enough, their contract is a HOT MESS. Wow. Watch out before you sign anything. I had crossed so many items out. There's a clause in it (that I crossed out) that states you cannot "bad mouth" the company and, if you do, you may be charged $100 per offence, must pay all these legal fees, among a whole bunch of other crazy clauses but this one stood out to me.
For the cherry on top of all of this, they state that all models MUST as in all models are REQUIRED to do a bunch of monthly tasks to maintain being a model. Such things include: making 2 blog posts per month (which requires a separate sign up), uploading at least 1 video per month (which requires a separate sign up), uploading x amount (I forget how much) of photos per month, and making 10 forum posts per month. Like... really? Really....
All in all, I can see why this website is on the decline. The owner claims that the small group of members they do have are large spenders but... I couldn't give it another hour of my time to find out for certain. I made $0 with a 40% cut, haha.
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CamContacts is a wonderful site to have, in addition to your main camming site. I think every cam girl should have this website at her side. The cut is 50% and you can set your own rates and be placed in the category you're comfortable with for that night (hardcore, non-nude, glamour, etc).
There is no free video chat so you can do anything you'd like while you have this running and wait for someone to connect with you on cam (you hear an obnoxious alert sound, haha). Even if the user stays for 10 seconds, you still get paid for a full minute. Most of the time though, the guys stay for a long time and want to chat and hang out as oppose to a quick fix.
Fantastic!
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Is there a trick to getting people in your room on this site? I signed up, went live and had literally nobody in my room for hours. I'm always very busy at Streamate but wanted to find a 'back-up' site. Am I missing something here? xxx
It's a very small site. I don't usually have more than 2 people in my room, sometimes 0. It's not you. It's best to use it as a back up site.
I gave this site a try, only to be extremely disappointed on my first night. So much so, that I am never going back.
First of all, the model platform and software are extremely buggy and outdated. I felt like I was in 1999 or something. It's unreliable and is in desperate need of something modern, updated and smooth.
Secondly, I am convinced that their "traffic" are mostly bots (the guests). I have a following that came with me to Naked and each one of my members said that my room count was something different. My counter said I had 136 people in my room, one member said their counter was at 800 and so on. At one point, one of my members said that I had 1,200 guests in my room and I hadn't even logged on once yet.
Next, it was very annoying that my members had to purchase $20 worth of "Credits" so they could even be able to text chat in the free chat. Some may like this feature, and I can see where it may have some value, but I did not like this feature at all.
As for my saga with Naked, I had set a countdown (The "GoldShow" like option) to $50 and had Person A tip 20, Person B, C, and D tip 10 each. During the show, only person B, C and D were there watching it. I did the show and ended the night and promptly checked my earnings. To my horror, $50 wasn't even earned - it said $30. Of that $30, I kept only 40% (not the 50% that the website claims) so it was a whopping $12.00 earned.
I contacted their live support and was treated very rudely. They said that there's no way I could have set the countdown for $50 and it must have been set for $30, as it states in my account. He said their log only showed person B, C, and D tipping $10. I even had a screenshot, which I sent them showing the countdown was set to $50, and he rudely told me it proved nothing because anyone can set the countdown and screenshot it. Long story short, after an hour of arguing, it was discovered that because person A left before the show, his $20 was refunded back to him... yet it still counted in my $50 countdown. It was a bug in their system. However, since there was no way for me to prove this, they said I was out of luck.
I messaged support to have them delete my account. Much to my surprise, they wanted to know why and I re-told the story. They did credit me $10 of it but I'm still not so sure I would put myself in that position with them. The whole experience felt really off and it just was not for me. I wouldn't recommend this to anybody.
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I'm addicted! All I wanna do is work lol yes it has it's slow times but then BAM you get a huge tip. The traffic is the best you'll find anywhere, payment is 50% once again best you're gonna find support is quick to answer and the software yes some people said it was dated but I like that I can stream right from my internet browser. Run smoothly, isn't chopping no lag or anything and if you get disconnected it doesn't matter because once someone tips thats your money. I was happy before making 700 in about 4-5 hours I didn't think I could do any better. 1400 the last two days i've worked there, tonight I worked 6 hours. Best thing i've ever come across i'm in love with a cam site.
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omg ...good kelly ...but im ugly ill never do that snif
Sugar, you'll like a cow in the market with that site. Don't believe what you read! Believe me
I'm just telling my experience
@fonenora...not sure why you'd tell someone else i'm lying? I have pictures to back up basically everything I say for those who try calling me a liar
Do u make 1400 dollars a night or 1400 tokens honey? Btw way u look awesome
I make great money on NF! Best of all I can be ugly and in my pjs doing it. I don't cam on there ever! It's strictly for phone sex. But I'm making some good money. I wish they would add payoneer or have a faster payout system. Traffic can be a bit slow, but it all balances out, like camming. I have found in camming less now. I recommend.
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I found the encoder intitially really hard to configure and use, and i was constantly frustrated that my low broadband upload speed (a common problem in the UK and Canada) worked against me in placement. Having said that, traffic was constant and even though it is a free chat site, it is the only free chat site i can stand. I made very good money there over the years and only stopped as i needed to focus on sites where my upload speed was not such an issue.
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I was on MGF twice over the years and both times I cultivated a few great regulars who i enjoyed talking to and made good money from. However I don't feel it is a site for serious camgirls. There are too many girls selling all of their content in one bundle for something silly like $5. It is only really a site for those with extra content they don't mind selling off cheaply.
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I love this site. Support is okay, but most always helpful. You get banned easily, which sucks. The customer is almost always right. The rules are strict, but they're there for a reason and that's why the payouts are higher. The customers require a little more effort, but they're always friendly and generous.. You can cash out whenever you want, even a couple times a day. You get out what you put in.
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Helpful staff and trainers.
Webcam freezes if you navigate on other tabs of your web browser (probably a problem with flashplayer)
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Very good site i love it there, good customers
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I gave this site 2 stars for traffic because I wasnt sure if it was indeed trafic or just admins hired by the admin to keep the girls online. When I went into member mode hardly anyone was a member Smh.
I enjoy sites that have traffic not sites that want us as the hosts to do all the promoting. Whats the point in taking a percentage if your not going to do anything with it?
Needlive sucks you will never get your money and there is a lot of people who sit in your room and watch you.
One good thing about needlive is you can walk away from cam but the bad thing is when people pay you dont even know. way too much noise/alerts going on.
The needlive payout is terrible to use. Site needs a lot of work.
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Was good while it lasted it is now needlive.com and needlive sucks you will never get your money and there is a lot of people who sit in your room and watch you.
Hard to believe they are the same company. One is so good and the other is soooo bad.
One good thing about need live is you can walk away from cam but the bad thing is when people pay you dont even know. way too much noise/alerts going on.
The needlive payout is terrible to use. Site needs a lot of work.
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I have a love hate relationship with SM overal its a good site ,great if you just want to make a quick buck unlike the more community build up a fan base kind sites like ifriends and imlive,as I am a porn star and listed in the porn star section I get tons of fans in my room as well as other people,I have constant traffic and can earn a lot quite quickly,my probem with streamate is gold shows and pushy customers,I hate gold shows and never do them I find them way to intense by having to please a load of guys in different ways at the same time but I am always asked to do them,gold shows are just for the tight arsses that want to pay as less as possible and the odd time I have done them I have not noticed much difference in earnings because most of the GS money goes to SM so I personally find them pointless,the encoder I cant deal with,I never like how I look on it and can glitch but my traffic isn't affected by not using it,Guys bug me a lot to go topless in free chat probably because other girls do it so they expect it and just to disrespectful for my liking.,it is a very full on site and I cant take it for more than a few hours,unlike ifriends and imlive where on a whole guys are respectful and you can build up regular customers and just relax and chat and just go with the flow and if you are not in the mood for free chat you can skip free chat,that set up suits me more,if you are the kind of performer who just wants to get straight into sexual acts and doing toy shows constantly without the whole intimacy personal experience for the customer that is the site for you.
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this why i wont work there yet.. i hate going right into sexual acts. lol. . i dont always want to when im streaming. my kitty can take but so much. i limit my use of toys.. i like your review
Thank you CoCo,you shouldn't dismiss it completely you could try it out for a day as you may have a different experience if not there are similar sites you can use
oh no NOT completely. i will try it out when i fully ready to commit to it. i dont cam a lot of days

thanks for responding denise
This is an okay website. The traffic is alright, but sometimes I only get 1 or 2 customers at the same time and that's not even 40 cents per minute. At busy times I have an average of 4 customers and then the money is alright. They never tip.
When you go into a private chat the others should turn into viewers but they usually leave. Later they told me they couldn't see me if I went private. Pretty anoying.
When I go online I'm on the site immediately but with my 'old' snapshots from my latest show. It takes a while for my new snaps to come in. I hate the fact that they make snapshots without any warnings. You have to keep smiling and looking pretty the first minutes otherwise your promotion is a sad face cause you had no customers yet.
You get a private website and if customers visit your show or any other camgirl via that site you get more money. However, whilst I'm sharing my site everywhere and I do get clients via twitter (the site link is on there) I don't see any extra money..
Overall it's okay, not perfect, but when I don't get a lot of traffic on other sites I go back to this one.
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I started at this platform as a new camgirl. The 1 on 1 private shows really helped me to get started in this business because you start and end almost every conversation. You get to feel how you keep the conversation going and what turns men on.
In between shows I usually only had a minute to put my clothes back on, always busy.
You only get 50% of what the customer is paying you. If you have a mobile phone you get even less money per minute. They pay every week.
They have an okay forum but have very strict rules. I tried to help camgirls with their questions because I was going to interview a famous (Dutch) camgirl but they ended up deleting all of my posts and that hurt my feelings.
The support sucks because of that. If you're not on line for two weeks they start calling you and they want to know what's up. That's pretty anoying when you don't want other people to know what kind of work you do.
They have a lot of updates on their software. Sometimes I wouldn't appear on the site or customers couldn't see me. I had a lot of trouble with it and when I emailed they usually said it was a known problem, and working on it.
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This is by far the lowest money maker for me. I very rarely get calls, but the custies I've picked up are extreme regulars, which makes up for the low traffic. I like that they have the express pay option which automatically transfers to your bank account without having to click a thing. It's also free! It does take a week and a half to get the payouts, but it's like extra money just popped into my bank account once it arrives.
Payout is 60% which I like. I've never had to feal with support nor have ever had an issue working on their site.
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I have a love/hate relationship with these guys. They are by far my biggest money maker. I just wish we got a higher percentage than 35%. Although, I can't complain when I never have a problem hitting my daily goal early than expected no matter what. The quality of traffic is high. It's a plus that I can set my room to only allow members that have a credit card on file to save from wasting time on guest users.
You are given a special link to promote also. If a custie signs up as a new user on streamate using your link, you get 70% of what he spends on you plus 20% of whatever he spends on another girl. It's really a great feature when you can get a few sign ups that become your regulars or even heavy users on the site.
Another feature I like is that you can put your camming feed onto your own personal website. So if you have people visitng your own site frequently, it's a great feature to have.
Support isn't the greatest. It always takes 3-5 days to get some vague and unhelpful response. Being the squeaky wheel will get you what you want, but you have to be polite and it takes a bit of time.
They also pay weekly, but even with my payoneer option, itends up being a week in arrears from the payout date.
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