Hey Dani,
You've told us it is now your ambition to forsake traditional "commodity" (mass sales) video for live cam shows, so I'd like to bring your attention to several information sources which I hope may prove useful in helping you.
First is an article that advocates for the wisdom of your new path which, at the least, should provide encouragement. It writes in part:
DVDs are dead, pay sites are struggling and porn is free and unlimited... Why live cams, Twitter and Skype may be the porn industry?s last hope.
Find this September 5, 2012 publication
here.
The suggestion is made that if you can beat back the ample camming competition and serve the one-percenters, it's not impossible to rake in enormous profits:
Maitresse Madeline, Dominatrix, Auctions One-On-One Webcam Session For $42,000 writes the article of 01/09/2014
here.
It seems that the mass-media has picked up on the erotic camming industry, because recent months have seen the broadcast of not merely one, but at least three English-language documentaries on this subject! You can thank my informal UK source for the discovery of the two from Britain.
Sadly, I can't tell an American how to purchase a copy of any of them, although perhaps your provider Cox has a means of selling you the HBO program about which I don't know. The two British programs are among those typically made available via free Internet VoD, at least for a limited time after broadcast, but only to British IP addresses via common geolocation tools.
But guess what? Just because it's hard or impossible to buy legitimate access, doesn't mean you have to forgo this very timely crop of vital business intelligence. As I write, you can find at least one copy of each program on
YouTube, and goodness knows how many other places less subject to easy scrutiny. Now, onto the programs themselves.
First, this year HBO effectively resurrected the breakthrough series it launched a generation ago and retired in 2009, called
REAL SEX. The new half-hour series is called
SEX // NOW. The pilot episode, airing in January, consisted of three different segments on erotic camming. Find a preview of the show
here and a chat with its creator, plus the pilot trailer,
here. The most shocking (and unsubstantiated) text-based claim it makes is this:
There are an estimated 6 million cam models globally. (sic.)
To paraphrase Mr. Morse's quotation of
Numbers 23:23, "What hath Jennicam wrought?"
The second program on this subject is from the UK's BBC 3 and called
The Truth About Webcam Girls. The BBC describes it
here, which includes a two-minute trailer and notes that this program about UK camming debuted to Britons in February.
The third program, also British, was broadcast by Channel Five in early April. It is called
Webcam Girls - At Your Service and is profiled by Five
here. It glibly claims a mere 10,000 British women do erotic camming - which would be barely a fifth of the global rate which the HBO program asserted. It also claims that earnings average 800 pounds sterling weekly. I found the handful of remarks posted on its legitimate (UK-only) playback Web page, especially by claimed camming pros, interesting.
I hope that, one way or another, you arm yourself ASAP with these information sources, which I am sure no small number of your competitors will. Even if they provide you little or no new insider wisdom, I think it's also important to keep tabs on what the public at large (including potential clients) is being told about one's industry.
Best of luck!
P.S. With all this broadcast media interest in camming, I would not be at all surprised if someone took up the suggestion I posted the other month about telling the
Jennicam story to a new generation.