Thanks for the reply. I hadn't really thought about mobile growth. I don't mind checking emails or stock prices on a phone but that's about all. I guess if there's an issue paying, the girls will simply disappear?

They would run out of girls if you listened to some of the stories here about how little they earn.

A little tip to all. Any person representing a webcam site will tell everyone his girls are making a fortune, tales of whales being landed every day and all is fine in their webcam site. Go figure out why. :winkwink:

Im so tempted to set a few girls up to prove you wrong

I represent a webcam site (two actually) and I can tell you some model does $10 or zero (nothing) per month, and others (very few) does $5000+ per month. Those doing so much, often are doing 90% of the money from 1 single whale boyfriend, whic has soon as may stop to be in site, could change revenue of a girl from $5000+ per month to $100- per month, even she is same cute and working same hours online.

The case of myfreecams it is different. Such a site got lots of members, and unfaitly rank the girls by camscore which is hard to change. So there's a few girls who are in top page since years and getting tremendous exposure which is lots of money in any case. Still 99% of the other girls can't reach the top page, so their revenue "varies" like on small sites.

Visitors don't tip for prercordngs

Why do you think the camscore system is unfair? Is it open to unfair manipulation? I'm not too familiar with how the camscore is determined. Algorithm?

This prerecoding thing it is a legend, there's no cam sites with prerecordings really - except some promo tools mostly made by affiliates, not even by cam sites. Just it may seem recording as most cam girls opens 10 sites plus may be chatting on the side in yahoo/skype at same time. So you type "hello", and she takes some 5 minutes before to switch to your site, see it, and reply. Also some girls are seeing the "hello" in real time, but they don't reply purposely: they will only care to reply to a tip, or during a private, and wait there lazy and silent - this is of course not an useful behaviour from the cam girl, but well they do it. On the contrary, some will even harrass everyone who logins, befor ethey could say hi, especially filipina they greet instantly every nick who appear in userlist, and begs them in whisper window if possible.

The algorithm it is secret, but, it can be guessed. I am not stating it is manipulated, I say that more the tips, higher the camscore. Who got high cam score it is in first page, and who it is in first page gets more tips. Accordingly, who is in top already gets more possibility to keep in top and raise, while who is at bottom gets less possibility to raise and instead more likely to go down. This is however working very well for the site business model! If myfreecams wants to keep doing money, should not change it. In fact it exists some models doing $50,000 per month being at top, and this is know by the other 1000 models doing little per month, so they accept to be online for little in the hope one day they will go in first page. If the sistem it was reshiuffling the girls and so every girl got the same opportunity to go up and down, no one wolud do $50,000 per month and it would be yet another normal site, so models would quit it if not doing money, as no legendary $50,000 per month in first page lottery win dream to keep them waiting with no tips all day.

I'm sure you can. I was talking about the entire industry girls.

Seems like there are really two questions here.

1. What is possible on cam sites today?

2. What is actually happening on cam sites today?

We have seen increasing opportunity. But not everyone puts in the required effort.

Re possibility: I would submit that a correctly trained, motivated, average looking girl can consistently make $2500/wk on either MFC or Streamate

Possible? Yes, of course. Do more than 5% of all correctly trained, motivated, average looking girls make $2500 per week? Nope. A super fucking hot motivated cam girl with the right personality who works her ass off (literally) can do $2500 a week consistently.

Edit: This statement does not include models who do their own marketing and/or have a fan base. That is a different story.

Exactly. However, for a hot model to do what she wants when she wants and make even 1k a week is still a pretty good deal. They used to make 2k in strip clubs maybe, but to hear them tell it that is very difficult work. Cams are much easier, no touching, they can ban assholes, work any time of night or day, stop when they want, don't have to wear ridiculous makeup or outfits, no "bigwigs", no "friends of the owner", no selling drinks, no tip "sharing", no drug pushers, no fights, no favorites, no "producers" giving them their card every 5 minutes, etc it goes on and on.