Edit: I can no longer suggest
ManyVids as a sex-worker friendly clipstore. They took money from me to appease a member who was a timewaster and thought that his $15 tip meant that he had unlimiated ownership over my time.
For a 40% paycut, it's not worth it, especially not when they can take your money whenever they please.
I strongly suggest looking at safer alternatives. One large chargeback or refund could be the difference between paying or bills on time or being in the red financially.
Original: Years ago,
ManyVids used to be my favorite platform. It and
Chaturbate were where I started my career in the adult industry.
The negatives:
It seems times have changed. Their "discoverability" prioritizes top models. Small creators are drowning on the platform. The highest my rank got was top 750-ish monthly and top 3 daily; and I got *zero* extra traffic from that achievement.
They've lightened up on the contests, but there was a time when they had a new one every time the old one expired. For small creators, it's almost 100% necessary to join them to get any traffic, and they're exhausting to have to market for votes.
Their video upload tool is hit or miss, and wastes so much time. It will randomly stop my upload, and I'll have to manually start it again. For people uploading overnight, multitaskers, or those who are just distracted; this is a huge waste of time.
My final straw was, I uploaded very consistently. 2/3 times a week, always got sales, always got custom and ratings requests. Well, after so much consistency, good sales, and great traffic for 3 months straight; all of that suddenly dropped. The last 9 videos I uploaded over 3 weeks flopped. I can't waste my time on a site that's killing my traffic with their bad decisions.
I went from 400 - 1000 views daily to 10. I assume it's because of something they changed, but I'm not sticking around to find out.
The positives:
- They have every feature you could ever need to make money. (Good luck getting the traffic to use them, though!)
- Very active Twitter community.
- The average customer is very nice, respectful, and there to spend money.
- Very few freeloaders/timewasters in my DM's.
- I've never had issues with their support team. They always help me, even when I have silly questions.
- I'd go back to MV if they fixed their traffic and discoverability issues in a heartbeat.
- They've never missed a payment for me. (But, they did have an issue where they paid some models too much and made them pay them back months later. Also, the $2 transaction fee? Wtf?)