Originally Posted by adultmobile

I run cam sites from 2004 and before had run studios so I could write a reference book on what they do in private, also because that's the same schema always, it is an exact science.
Let's take a lonely person who it is shy to meet women (feel ugly or old or whatever) and/or feel guilty or afraid to meet real girls as they're married or fear be caught for reputation (rich guys get scandal for hookers bust), so the secret affair with cam girl it is perfect and can't be replaced with anything else, neither real hooker or recorded porn.

Especially for the whales i.e. who spend biggest. Either they have one only girl they chat hours a day (I had some on the $90k a year range), or they have several girls as like variety. In both cases, at the end of them month they spent $2k to $10k - yes I have even now guy(s) who spend the $10k a month, it is not just in the good old years, the cam whale it happens no matter the financial crisis, the tube and torrent sites, they will sell the own home to chat all day with the girls if are broke, they're addicted.

Most cam sites esp. the small ones would have not survived if it was just 3-7 minute wankers, also some girls would not keep online if it was just 3-7 minute wankers.
So let's take a girl (pornstar or else) who stay online only 2 hour a day and not even all days - if she get a guy, he will miss her too much, she's not available enough, it is the same if you get a gf and she is never available, you get pissed and get other gf.

Because those guys will do like with a real gf: 80% talk and 20% sex, so 8 hours blah blah and 2 hours action - if you have a gf you not do sex with her all days all hours eh?
So a cam girl should be online always, so her bf can talk her all days - if she miss 2-3 weeks it is the same a real gf miss 2-3 weeks the guy feel bounced and relationship broke.

This explains why only the proper cam girl who is online always can do the most money, of course not all the girls who ar online always do money, it depends on the luck too, for example 1 or 2 whale customers more or less can make it 10 to 20 times more or less money, I mean make $1k or $10k a month, for 1 only customer difference!

Except the private chats; for the new biz model of tips, it is interesting to see that there the guys battle to be noticed (by bigger tips) and to win against others - however believe me, the whale/bf suffer from being there together with all those others and sort of in line to wait his turn. That make the private chats happening despite some girl show all the action in free show - then the bf take her in private to talk clothed. It is counter intuitive, the girl do sex action for free in public, then the guy pay per minute to talk her clothed. Due to this phenomenom, we launched tubecamgirl and it work this way, private chats happen after the girl shown with 3 dildos for few tips, to the guy and everyone else - a guy taking her in private at $3/minute after make no sense unless you have read this post. In general the cam biz make no sense unless you see it happen, it is not intuitive and this is why most cam sites who are planned on logics, simply fail.