I think long term, so any figures for today are pointless.
As more girls who speak English or the language of the client find out how easy it is to go independent. Or companies set themselves up to make it easier for independent girls to operate. Customers will move towards them for their entertainment.
These girls will market themselves rather than the people who market a studio with a selection of girls in the hope the surfer sees one that catches his attention.
The benefits for these girls is the money. Besides processing or a small cut to a facilitator they earn more than the studio girls can hope to. No publishing company, studio, and affiliate taking a cut out of the girls earnings.
They can set up appointments to be online for a specific customer, not wait all night for someone to like them enough to spend money. Girls work 6-8 hours at a time. The indies don't have to spend that much time marketing themselves.
The big pull will be the whales. The men who want a quality experience, spend lots of money and hours online with a girl who is talking with them. Want to know the girl rather than chat via a translator who is tapping on a keyboard. These guys are easier to land if the girl herself does her own marketing.
Here's the cruncher. Can a few savvy marketing guys build a site that will sell individual girls properly? So the site can buy traffic at a few bucks a 1,000 and convert it? Very few of the Third World Studios convert that well. A Camsite that can't convert a decent client at 1-5,000 people clicking on a webcam link, tells us one thing. The site can't sell itself.
Barry, come back and tell me I'm wrong in 4-5 years. Remember all those who told me I was wrong before?
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