Whether you’re into camgirls or not, you’ve probably already heard of Onlyfans. For the general public, it’s a site where pretty girls sell nudes or other naughty videos. For camgirls, it’s mostly a way to manage their fanclub by offering exclusive content for a monthly subscription. A great way to increase and diversify your income.
In this article I will detail the platforms specialized in fanclub management (onlyfans but not only, I recommend MYM.fans instead) as well as some tips to take advantage of this new vector of visibility (and income)
Before we get into the nitty-gritty, I think it’s important to remind you of the benefits of creating a fan club. In other words, why create a fanclub?
Of course, the first benefit for a camgirl to create a fanclub is financial. By creating a fanclub you are creating a new source of income and therefore mechanically increasing your cash flow.
A few simple calculations. You propose for example your subscription at 7$HT/month which is rather cheap. After subtracting the platform’s percentage (about 20%), you are left with $5.6/month per subscriber. With 200 subscribers, you get an income of 1120$/month. This is already not negligible but imagine that you reach 1000 subscribers? In that case, it’s no less than 5600$ per month!
And that only takes into account subscription-related revenue. By offering custom content (=specific to a subscriber for a few extra € or $), you can significantly increase your revenue as we will see later.
Warning, I’m not saying that getting 1000 subscribers is a simple thing within reach of all (but there are some who manage it). Nevertheless getting 200 subscribers after a few months is far from out of reach for a beginner camgirl offering quality content to her subscribers.
Creating a fanclub also allows you to diversify your money sources. You no longer depend solely on your shows to make ends meet. Like an affiliate, a fanclub allows you to get diversified and more stable income than shows.
This diversification also allows you to reduce your dependence on a cam platform. If the latter closes for reason X or Y or you want to change it, your fanclub will still exist and you can direct it to your new cam platform. Please note that this means that you don’t have to use the fanclub service linked to your current cam platform, but an independent service. This is what I recommend but we’ll come back to that later.
Additional advantage, if you are not in shape to do cam shows (no motivation, overwhelming heat (I’m writing this article in August with more than 35°C outside temperature 😉 ), the “wrong” period,…), then it’s easier to make a few photos or short videos for your fanclub than to spend 3h in front of your webcam.
It’s obvious that you’re not going to post the same content to your fanclub as you would on traditional “mainstream” social networks such as twitter. Otherwise, your paying subscribers might unsubscribe very quickly…
You should therefore segment your publications between the classic social networks and your fanclub so that your paying subscribers get something extra, that they feel privileged. The easiest way is to leave the “hottest” content to your fanclub and post softer, but desire-inducing content to want to see more, on mainstream social networks.
This technique has the advantage of protecting your privacy by limiting your exposure on networks visible to everyone. At the extreme, there’s nothing to stop you from masking your face (out of frame, blurred, or through a mask) on public networks to keep your anonymity while showing off in a very sexy way to your paying fanclub.
Having an account on platforms such as Onlyfans or MYM also allows you to gain visibility. It’s not something you think about at first, but you can use these fanclub platforms to find new customers for your showcams.
Fanclub platform customers are people who are very likely to pay for showcams. In marketing jargon, they are called qualified leads. They are indeed interested in pretty girls and are willing to pay (otherwise they wouldn’t subscribe to fanclubs). So be active in posting and direct your subscribers to your shows.
There are several technical ways to create and manage your fanclub. As always, each has its advantages and disadvantages. Details on these different possibilities below :
A new type of platform has appeared in recent years, these are platforms specialized in sharing visual content (photo and video) in exchange for a monthly subscription. The original idea was to financially support creators of artistic content, a crowdfunding of sorts. The operation was quickly taken up and adapted by the porn world, the fanclub platforms were born!
At their beginnings, these platforms were not very well known. So it was hard to convince people to sign up and pay on platforms that were entirely unbranded, let alone in the porn world. Nowadays, fanclub platforms have a reputation and are known by many people. Onlyfans, the most famous of these platforms had over 20 million subscribers in early 2024 (source wikipedia).
The advantages for camgirls are many:
The benefits
Disadvantages
Onlyfans is clearly the market leader. It’s a young platform (2016) but ultimately quite old in the Fanclub world.
The Payout is 80% (Onlyfans takes 20%), in the average of the market. The functions offered by Onlyfans are very numerous and adapted to the management of a camgirl fanclub.
Now, because there is a downside, the after sales service/support is, in my opinion, to be improved. Hard to get a clear answer if you have a problem, or even to get an answer at all. They are leaders and clearly take advantage of the situation by resting on their laurels. Watch out because the competition is coming.
MYM for Meet Your Model is a recent platform, opened in 2019. It is a French project (cocorico!!) that is expanding abroad as I write this (December 2021).
The payout is about 80% (75% of subscriptions, 80% of private/personalized content and 90% of tips). The features are close to Onlyfans except for two points: the support in case of problems/questions is infinitely better and they offer a tracking system that constantly checks that your content has not been “stolen” and published elsewhere on the internet.
MYM is clearly the outsider to onlyfans for me and the platform I’m advocating at the moment.
Newcomer to the fanclub platform market, Swame (formerly MarciFans) defines itself as “a social platform where you can monetize your content (photos and videos) either by subscription or per unit”. The very principle of the fanclub.
These creators are not unknown in the adult field because it is neither more nor less than Jacquie and Michel! Who doesn’t know them in France?
The features and the payout (80%) are in the market standards. As I write this article (December 2021), the platform is only a few months old and already has a substantial number of models.
So worth testing, especially if your audience is 100% French!
Justfor.fans is a fanclub platform launched in 2018 by Dominic Ford, a gay porn star. As a result, the proportion of gay models is much higher than on the other platforms mentioned. There are plenty of girls too, rest assured.
Also, the features needed to run a camgirl fanclub are present. The payout is a bit lower than its competitors (70%) but this is explained (and can be compensated) by a 10% affiliate system on purchases made by referred customers.
It’s also a safe bet.
Patreon is something of a dinosaur in the world of adult fanclubs. The platform was actually founded in 2013.
Patreon is historically a crownfounding platform for content creators (music, comics, short films…). It had the particularity of allowing monthly funding for content creators and not only per work. That’s why Patreon was quickly used (hijacked?) by adult content creators to run fanclubs.
While Patreon doesn’t prohibit adult content it’s clearly not its core business and even less a part they focus on. More adult specific platforms (see above) have since emerged and it is, in my opinion, best to use them.
I have only listed the main ones but in my opinion these are the platforms to focus on. For your information, there are others: frisk.chat, admireme.vip, ismygirl.com,…
This is the oldest way to monetize a fanclub as a camgirl: paid subscription to mainstream social networks. You post content for your fanclub on a traditional social network (snapchat most often) but only people who have signed up for a subscription can follow you and thus see your content. This is called a premium account, for example SnapChat premium.
The operation is quite similar to that of specific fanclub platforms except that the management of the subscription and payment is delegated to a third-party platform. The latter takes care of monthly subscriptions and re-subscriptions, informs you of new subscribers as well as non-renewed subscriptions.
The advantages are numerous: ease of use for your customers (these are classic social networks they already know), diversification of your revenue sources (unless your cam platform allows subscription sales and you use it), new visibility vector,…
The use of Snapchat premium or otherwise has some drawbacks though. The use of these social networks is hijacked to manage your FanClub, so they don’t have all the functions of a dedicated platform. Also, managing subscriptions and payments calls for a third-party platform which is less fluid than dedicated fanclub platforms like OnlyFans.
But above all, if social networks like Snapchat currently tolerate porn, it is absolutely not certain that this will be the case in the future! This is because mainstream social networks like Facebook, Snapchat and others live on advertising. Advertisers who pay to display their ads generally do not want to associate their products and brand image with porn. The sustainability of this type of service is therefore far from obvious.
The benefits
Disadvantages
Fancentro is the most well-known and widely used site for selling Snapchat premium subscriptions. And it’s not for nothing. This premium subscription selling platform is owned by the company ModelCentro which is a leader in creating “adult” sites for models, camgirls, pornstars,…
The payout is 75%, in the average of the market and the platform handles very well “one shot” and recurring subscriptions. The models appear in addition in the FanCentro directory.
This is personally the platform I use to sell my SnapChat and therefore recommend. Used by over 15,000 models, it’s clearly a good choice.
Erotifix defines itself as a platform for models to earn money by offering a wide variety of products and services such as selling SnapChat Premium subscriptions.
You have the option to sell subscriptions for 7 days, 1 month, 6 months or lifetime. The platform’s advertised payout is 85% (good). Unfortunately, you have to add $5 per transaction (not good). While that $5 may be acceptable for a 6 month subscription, it’s quite different for a 1 month subscription (let alone 7 days, more tax than subscription…)
So certainly, Erotifix works and I know a few camgirls who use it. Now I find that overall this platform is still inferior to what Fancentro offers.
More and more cam platforms are integrating this service directly. In exchange for a few tokens per month (you set the amount), your subscribers will benefit from some advantages: specific/personalized content (photo, video), colored nickname to differentiate them in the chat, shows in restricted committee, private chat…
If the advantages are obvious for the showcams platform (increase of their turnover) and for their customers (integrated payment, same platform), it is quite different for the camgirls that we are. We can note:
The benefits
Disadvantages
As mentioned before, the biggest webcam show platforms include this fanclub feature. Now, I don’t think it’s useful to list them because:
There is another method to manage your fanclub, it is to have your own site with a paid member section. This way your fans register on your site and have access to privileged and specific content: photo, video, see shows that are reserved for them.
To do this, several methods:
The advantage for camgirls is twofold: you create a strong brand image (a site at www.votrepseudo.com) and your payout may be higher. Indeed, the payout will be around 100% (if you make your site yourself or via freelance/agency) or around 75% via services like modelcentro.
I’ll be writing a more comprehensive article on creating a camgirl showcase site soon. Getting back to the fanclub topic, creating a site for this sole purpose is in my opinion not the appropriate solution and is even clearly overkill. Indeed, even if you are already an experienced and famous camgirl with a large fan base, the number of fans will be decreasing (some unsubscribe after a few months) if you don’t find new ones. And your site will not be a vector of traffic acquisition (little chance that a person falls on it if it does not know you). So you will still have to use external traffic acquisition vectors like twitter or onlyfans.
In conclusion, creating a site with a paid member section is a complement but not a substitute for creating a fanclub on an external platform (specific or snap premium) unless you are a high profile camgirl with a large and very active twitter account.
The benefits
Disadvantages
ModelCentro is a great platform to create a paid member section site. No need for HTML or CSS knowledge, the structure is already ready and you just have to choose the template and theme you like best.
You don’t need to invest for the creation or pay for the hosting and maintenance of the site. ModelCentro gets paid by keeping a part of the earnings (25%) you make on your site. The payout is therefore 75% which is really very correct considering the features offered by the platform. Some examples:
ModelCentro is a great choice for creating your camgirl site.
Some examples of sites: amg-69.com, sweetymisty.com or even juliarain.com
AdultMemberSites provides you with all the tools to create an adult site with member section. The main features are:
The payout is 75% minimum (the more you make in turnover, the higher it is) and Adultmembersites takes care of everything (hosting, maintenance,…).
AdultMemberSites is also a good choice for camgirls wanting to create their own site.
Now that I’ve detailed the pluses and minuses of each solution, you should have an idea of which solution to adopt. In summary, from least to best solution:
So I recommend you to first use a specialized platform like onlyfans or mym.fans. Nevertheless, Snapchat currently works very well and is a very user-friendly platform. So it would be a shame to deprive yourself of this possibility especially since managing several fanclubs does not take much more time than one. Indeed, the most time consuming part is still creating the content, not publishing it. That’s why many camgirls use multiple fanclub platforms in parallel.
I personally opted for this solution (onlyfans + mym.fans + Snapchat premium via fancentro) and I have about the same amount of fans on each platform. Might as well not go without!
Now that you’re convinced of the value of starting your fanclub and you’ve certainly signed up on one or more of the previously mentioned platforms, you’re going to need some tips for success. Answers below:
Content is king, content is the key! You absolutely must provide your subscribers with quality content. When I talk about quality, I’m obviously talking about sexy, sensual content that meets the expectations of your audience but also FHD, light, exposure,… Your subscribers give you money in exchange for this content, no way to send dark, pixelated or poorly framed photos/videos.
Your fans are paying to see quality and exclusive content. So it’s also not conceivable that you publish the same photos/videos on your fanclub as on your free social networks. It’s up to you to segment your offer well so that they have an interest in subscribing without making your twitter account (or other free social network) totally insipid.
As always, videos are more successful than photos. So, give preference to this type of content. Unfortunately, making videos takes more time than making photos but you don’t get something for nothing! You can even make a promotional video that you will post on your twitter account to insist your “free” subscribers to join your fanclub.
One final note. Remember to upload enough content before offering your fans to subscribe. It would be unfortunate if your first fans end up subscribing to an account with only 3 sexy photos… Hello disappointment and unsubscribing…
This advice applies to both your free social media, showcams and fanclub. It is imperative that you post new content regularly. For your fanclub, the ideal frequency is daily content. So sure, it’s work but don’t forget that your subscribers have paid (and you want them to continue)! Don’t worry, you don’t have to post a feature every day, but a nice picture seems to me to be the minimum.
To help you with this task, some fanclub platforms provide scheduling tools. This way you can prepare your posts in advance for several days, the platform will post them at the time you choose.
But remember, your fans are paying for content, so offer them content. If you only post once or twice a week, there’s little chance your followers will stick around.
To keep your fans subscribed for many months, you have to offer them content that interests them. Logical. But even if you think you know what they’re interested in just from your shows, the easiest and most effective way is still to ask them, to survey them.
This is an overlooked point by many camgirls/models and also a reason why they make little or no money (little underwriting or few tips during shows). Don’t be ashamed, don’t hesitate to ask your audience for their feedback on the content you offer and what kind of content they would like. Publishing what they like will be the best way to thank them.
By listening to what your fans like, you build loyalty to your audience and therefore subscriptions to your fanclub. You can also do FAQ sessions to talk directly with your fans about you (that’s the hook) but especially about what they would like to see. Prepare some proposals in advance to start the debate.
Customized content is something that is in high demand by subscribers and can be very interesting for you. It is about offering your subscribers to make a personalized photo/video according to their wishes.
Most fanclub platforms offer this feature. Of course, this is not free. It’s up to you to define the prices according to the demand you have and the time you spend there. Depending on the platform, the payment can be in the form of money or token like on camgirl website.
Some examples of requests I’ve been made (from the most classic to the most exotic):
By making her personalized videos or photos, your fans will feel closer to you, you’ll be a bit like their girlnextdoor (albeit virtual 😉 )
Of course and as always in the adult realm, set and respect your boundaries. If a subscriber asks you for a video of anal insertion of a carrot and then eating it,… Ba if it’s not your trip, don’t do it (yes it’s the same subscriber as with the cucumber 😉 )
A little tip: one way to acquire new subscribers is to offer a personalized photo/video for each new subscription. This technique works pretty well for me. Of course, the content you then offer on your fanclub has to be interesting for subscribers to stay.
Teasing on your social networks like twitter is a great way to promote your fanclub. You need to show your followers a glimpse of what you share on your fanclub, but a glimpse that makes them want to subscribe. Your followers should feel like they are missing out if they don’t subscribe.
I mainly use two methods to achieve this teasing. The first one is simply to post on my social networks a short excerpt from one of my hot videos that I just published on my fanclub. The extract is obviously cut at the most appropriate moment by indicating a message like “the next part on onlyfans.com/monsuperpseudo”, leaving your followers in the desire to see the next part and thus to subscribe. The second method is quite similar, but the excerpt is a little longer and the hot parts of my anatomy are then blurred.
There are many other strategies, the main point being to get your followers hot enough to want to see the sequel but not so hot that they need to see the sequel. The happy medium in other words.
There are two things to keep in mind. First, you are looking to build stable and ideally growing revenue with your fanclub. Second, it’s easier to retain a customer than to perpetually find new ones. So in order to achieve a fairly large and consistent revenue stream, it’s critical to build audience loyalty.
There is no magic secret to building loyalty in your fanclub. First, follow the tips previously mentioned. You also need to create your own loyalty methods so that your subscribers get their money’s worth and re-subscribe. Some examples:
Rome wasn’t made in 1 day, neither was your cam audience, let alone your fanclub! It is with perseverance that the greatest works are achieved and camgirl jobs are no exception to this rule.
During the first few months after creating your fanclub, you will most likely feel like giving up and this is unfortunately natural. Indeed, it’s hard to stay motivated to create content, beautiful photos and videos when they are only seen by 4 subscribers (see 0 at the very beginning). But giving up is the biggest mistake not to make!
All the girls on onlyfans currently having hundreds or even thousands of subscribers have gone through this phase and preserved. So take it easy, keep posting quality content, promote it and the number of subscribers will increase little by little.
A great way to get your followers to subscribe is to offer a promotional signup offer. So sure, it’s a marketing technique seen over and over again in every field but why not apply it to your camgirl fanclub?
There are basically two strategies:
To promote your fanclub, there’s no secret, you’re going to have to use all the communication channels at your disposal. Overall, this means your webcam show platform and your mainstream social networks.
Promoting your fanclub on your cam platform during your shows is obviously the easiest way to gain subscribers. For this, several solutions exist depending on the possibilities offered by your cam site.
Many showcam platforms allow camgirls to add one or more links to their profile.
It’s simple, quick and easy to set up. If possible, feel free to add a few catchy phrases as well as the benefits your viewers will get when they subscribe to your FanClub (excusive content, private show, personalized photo/video…). You have to make your viewers want to subscribe.
Some platforms like chaturbate offer a lot of latitude to camgirls to customize their profile. Icon, button,… many things are possible.
I’ve already addressed the importance of speaking in the article 10 tips for successful shows. Tip #5 was “Don’t be afraid to use your voice” and it applies here too.
It will be easier to get your viewers to join your fanclub by offering the subscription verbally. Viewers will be more receptive and it will be easier to talk to them about the benefits.
Another s implements way to promote your fanclub on the showcam platform is simply to pass the message in writing in the chat.
If your platform offers it, you can use bots (robots) that will take care of doing it automatically for you. Be careful not to spam too much. First, the chat will become unreadable and second, your viewers will feel like you’re taking them for cash cows (or pigeons depending on your animal preferences 😉 )
Add a watermark (=watermark) to your show videos is a subtle way to promote your fanclub without talking about it. It involves adding a message like “onlyfans.com/monsuperpseudo” in a corner of the video you’re playing.
I’ve written an entire article about the value of a camgirl using watermarks. I invite you to check it out.
After the cam site, social networks are obviously the second best lever to promote your fanclub. Twitter is currently the most tolerant mainstream social network about eroticism and is therefore for a camgirl the most suitable network to find clients for her shows but also to sign up for her Fanclub.
I have already written several articles on this subject including become an expert in community management on twitter. I invite you to read it. It’s up to you to slightly adapt the tips to promote your fanclub in addition to your chatroom. In a few words: quality content but keeping it exclusive for your fanclub, link of your fanclub in your bio as well as in the pin post, tweets encouraging your followers to subscribe to your fanclub and of course a strategy of acquisition of new followers (Follow/Unfollow).
Here is a very underrated way to promote your fanclub and acquire new customers. What is it? Simply using the fanclub platform to find new customers for your fanclub and shows.
But then, how do you promote yourself on the fanclub platform?? I don’t have a universal solution because it depends on the platform you use. Some only offer their users a search field to find the models while others offer by default similar models or a directory gathering the different models classified by categories.
It’s up to you to take advantage of these features in order to be visible to a maximum number of potential customers. So fill in your bio as accurately as possible and don’t hesitate to add keywords (hashtag following platform). Also make sure you are present in the right categories if the platform you use includes this feature. If the fanclub platform allows you to display public photos (=visible to visitors who have not subscribed to your fanclub), use it to lure new customers.
Whatever the case, remember one thing: if these platforms have less users than twitter for example, they are on the other hand much more qualified: they are interested in adult content and are willing to pay. So don’t neglect them!
This technique is valid for promoting your fanclub but also your show cams. It involves cross-promoting with other models. In other words: you promote the AAAA camgirl’s fanclub/showcam to your audience in exchange for her promoting your fanclub/showcam to her audience. It’s a win-win deal.
A variation of this technique is to pair up shows/videos/photos (or more!) with another camgirl. Your respective audiences will then be “mixed” and each of you will gain new clients. Obviously, it is necessary that you get along very well with the second camgirl.
