Best Platform Features for Selling Adult Content?

[sugar_cribs]

Hey creators

When choosing a platform to sell adult content, what features matter most to you?

• Payouts & Fees – Do you prioritize high payouts & low fees?
• Content Control – How important is ownership & minimal restrictions?
• Privacy & Security – Do you look for anonymous payments & strong data protection?
• Marketing & Discovery – Do you need built-in promo tools?
• Customization – Do you prefer branded profiles & storefronts?
• Ease of Use & Support – How much does a smooth interface & good support matter?

What platforms have worked (or not worked) for you? Let’s discuss!

 

[Vixxen81]

Yes.

 

[AmberCutie]

The only thing that would make me sign up for a new content/fan site would be traffic. If there was a site that had a ton of new good paying traffic, it would incentivize me to put all my existing content there and hopefully tap into a different market than what I can bring to myself via my existing social media presence.

It would have to have a great internal discovery process, so that people coming to the site for the first time could discover me by my keywords and bio description.

Outside of that, it obviously HAS to also have everything you mention. But without the traffic and discoverability, none of that matters.

 

[NaomiNSFW]

Money.
Ok not really a feature but as AmberCutie says traffic and a paying audience. You can already pick and choose which sites you want to use quite easily.

1. Payouts and fees - Most Fan / Clip sites already have a decent payout percentage and low fees
2. Content Control - Again most aren't very restrictive. Fansly for e.g. really just allows most things which might be an issue in the future.
3. Privacy and Security - You can only have so much privacy but most sites already have 2FA, some are introducing DRM protection like Onlyfans and offer free takedown requests. Most sites now offer free watermarking.
4. Marketing & Discovery - Most Fan & Clip Sites have built in promo tools already. Some are moving towards AI suggestions and linking Twitch / Twitter accounts to new users to provide better suggestions. 1 new site owned by Streamate is even paying Models to promote their content.
5. Customization - This would be neat tbh. Most sites limit customization. MFCShare is really good for that but I can't join MFC so the opportunity is lost on me.
6. Ease of Use & Support - Important but it's not a game changer really. I Cam on Chaturbate and in many ways it's a difficult site to navigate but it makes me money & brings in a lot of traffic.

 

[HPB-Larry]

I think it's the need for a good commission system with exposure to extra traffic. It's actually like the Tiktok platform where great videos can go viral. And of course an honest partnership system that can pay on time is needed. After all, making money comes first.

 

[NaomiNSFW]

I think it's the need for a good commission system with exposure to extra traffic. It's actually like the Tiktok platform where great videos can go viral. And of course an honest partnership system that can pay on time is needed. After all, making money comes first.

Damn good point. I did see a site recently called MintStars that allowed others to resell your content and you could set & collect royalties from it. Since privacy is basically unheard of anyway if you're on a free site it didn't seem like a bad idea.

I think Streamate is paying Models for promotional content at the moment as well from it's fan site alternative. I wish I could remember what it's called tbh I joined just to see whats up. I think my content was a bit niche though lol.

 

[Marceline]

The only thing that would make me sign up for a new content/fan site would be traffic. If there was a site that had a ton of new good paying traffic, it would incentivize me to put all my existing content there and hopefully tap into a different market

It would have to have a great internal discovery process, so that people coming to the site for the first time could discover me by my keywords and bio description.

I don’t like posting to social media much, so I don’t have any work related social media accounts. No X, Instagram, TikTok etc. I just want to be able to post my content and not have to advertise it to make sales, which is why all the clip sites I’m on have good internal traffic and internal search engines.

I wouldn’t bother signing up for a site and taking all the time to upload my massive content library on a site that didn’t have good internal traffic.

 

[AudriTwo]

a wide range of paying traffic. high percentage of zero dollars is zero dollars.


i don't think its wise for all the traffic being just from the models' current audience. there needs to be an additional source. a model's audience is more than likely going to spend on the original model than others.

 

[AmberCutie]

I don’t like posting to social media much, so I don’t have any work related social media accounts. No X, Instagram, TikTok etc. I just want to be able to post my content and not have to advertise it to make sales, which is why all the clip sites I’m on have good internal traffic and internal search engines.

I do have a Twitter, Tiktok and a previous following from many years on MFC, but that market is tapped out for me lol so I have no reason to start a new site just to duplicate what those followers already ahve access to with my OF page (and let's face it, no one is signing up to a new untrusted site over OF to see my content there instead.)

i don't think its wise for all the traffic being just from the models' current audience. there needs to be an additional source. a model's audience is more than likely going to spend on the original model than others.

yeah that.

My above statements are why I don't also have a Fansly, Loyalfans, Etc.

I almost started AVN stars cuz it seemed they had a bit of an algorithm to allow fans to find you, but... RIP AVN stars.

Some sort of tiktok like algorithm where creators could post snippets of content and users could view those like tiktok FYP and fave/skip it to build a "who you may like" list would be epic.

 

[KingMarti]

The only thing that would make me sign up for a new content/fan site would be traffic.

Nothing else matters unless this is in place.

 

[LaceyRoyce]

I currently have major issues with all of the 6 platforms I post regularly to.

Some of them have no internal discovery, some have buggy sites, some are super hard to use, some have shit support, shitty payouts, some are targets for piracy, some don’t let me vpn block, some don’t let me message clients, some are too restrictive in content, basically all the things you said …. All the sites I use are shitty at in one way or another.

I use them because they make me $$$. More $$ than what I pay my content manager to upload. More $$ than I would make if I send my own fans.

so, bottom line, it’s economics. I pay someone to do my uploads. If I can pay his rates, and taxes and still make a profit without having to divert any of my paying fans from other sites… I’ll use it.

Also, new sites im leery of initially. I may make a profile for anything new thats trending, but I won’t pay someone to upload my video library until I’m reasonably certain the site and its traffic is here to stay.

 

[MarieElise]

Everything mentioned above. I am also extremely risk averse financially, and with my time. The only thing that gets me to try a new site, frankly, is the word of mouth of other models I trust.

When a model I don't know, who is new to these forums, promotes a site, I won't believe it. But if someone I already know, from posting in these communities a lot, recommends a site, I'm more apt to try it out. But I go complete on word of mouth, of people I trust only. Because my schedule is so limited, and my time so stretched, that I literally don't have time to investigate it all up and down myself. I never trust the words of strangers either. So I'm super careful what I get into. But I also rarely have regrets or waste the little time I have idly, so it pays off.

 

[SuperPookie]

As others have said traffic and being easily discovered on the site. I have 0 need of another high percentage/low traffic site as 100% of 0 is 0.

 

[sugar_cribs]

I don’t like posting to social media much, so I don’t have any work related social media accounts. No X, Instagram, TikTok etc. I just want to be able to post my content and not have to advertise it to make sales, which is why all the clip sites I’m on have good internal traffic and internal search engines.

I wouldn’t bother signing up for a site and taking all the time to upload my massive content library on a site that didn’t have good internal traffic.

This is excellent insight. A well-performing site should have inbound search engine traffic from places like Google so that there is a loyal audience of fans who will find exactly what they are looking for.

 

[AudriTwo]

This is excellent insight. A well-performing site should have inbound search engine traffic from places like Google so that there is a loyal audience of fans who will find exactly what they are looking for.

You are missing the point why we need traffic. Every fan has a shelf life. Traffic is to help maintain and grow your audience. You dont want your income to be just based on fan loyalty or other models fans.

That is not sustainable income.

 

[sugar_cribs]

You are missing the point why we need traffic. Every fan has a shelf life. Traffic is to help maintain and grow your audience. You dont want your income to be just based on fan loyalty or other models fans.

That is not sustainable income.

That's why I said that organic traffic from search engines is important for a well-performing site because of the targeted reach. Fan loyalty is useful if its an influencer with millions of followers.

 

[sugar_cribs]

You are missing the point why we need traffic. Every fan has a shelf life. Traffic is to help maintain and grow your audience. You dont want your income to be just based on fan loyalty or other models fans.

That is not sustainable income.

A strong site can attract loyal fans to its content creators through organic search traffic.

 

[NaomiNSFW]

A strong site can attract loyal fans to its content creators through organic search traffic.

Not really. The market is way too saturated already, especially for Fan / Clip Sites. You get good traffic from 3 main sources...

- Good affiliate schemes & partnerships with other established sites. This is what most Cam Sites do such as Streamate, Chaturbate, Stripchat and part of why they are so popular.
- Worth of mouth & link advertising by Models. For e.g. when a Model links your site via Linktree.
- Running paid advertisements on other NSFW sites.

Newer sites largely rely on word of mouth & link advertising from Models because thats all they can afford and if you set a high payout percentage you likely wont be able to afford a high paying affiliate scheme.

Obviously other sources are possible like attending events, creative ad choices like what Fansly did with Creator Clash but you still need at least one of those 3 main sources.

 

[AudriTwo]

That's why I said that organic traffic from search engines is important for a well-performing site because of the targeted reach. Fan loyalty is useful if its an influencer with millions of followers.

this is the first you are saying organic but w/e- semantics. every veteran model here is all aware of SEO. that isn't a sure-fire way to create traffic, especially in a flooded market.

speaking which, are you trying to have a discussion or trying to use as many buzzwords for SEO?

 

[NaomiNSFW]

this is the first you are saying organic but w/e- semantics. every veteran model here is all aware of SEO. that isn't a sure-fire way to create traffic, especially in a flooded market.

speaking which, are you trying to have a discussion or trying to use as many buzzwords for SEO?

Exactly. At the moment if you search "Cam Sites" or "Fan Sites" into google you get everything except individual links to Cam Sites. You get review sites, forum and reddit discussions between Models etc... instead.

 

[NaomiNSFW]

Not really. The market is way too saturated already, especially for Fan / Clip Sites. You get good traffic from 3 main sources...

- Good affiliate schemes & partnerships with other established sites. This is what most Cam Sites do such as Streamate, Chaturbate, Stripchat and part of why they are so popular.
- Worth of mouth & link advertising by Models. For e.g. when a Model links your site via Linktree.
- Running paid advertisements on other NSFW sites.

Newer sites largely rely on word of mouth & link advertising from Models because thats all they can afford and if you set a high payout percentage you likely wont be able to afford a high paying affiliate scheme.

Obviously other sources are possible like attending events, creative ad choices like what Fansly did with Creator Clash but you still need at least one of those 3 main sources.

I missed one actually. Sites that "review" Cam, Fan, Clip sites etc... are important as well. Sometimes these review sites are genuine and actually base their review on how good the site is but other times it's just how good your affiliate scheme is.

 

[sugar_cribs]

Money.
Ok not really a feature but as AmberCutie says traffic and a paying audience. You can already pick and choose which sites you want to use quite easily.

1. Payouts and fees - Most Fan / Clip sites already have a decent payout percentage and low fees
2. Content Control - Again most aren't very restrictive. Fansly for e.g. really just allows most things which might be an issue in the future.
3. Privacy and Security - You can only have so much privacy but most sites already have 2FA, some are introducing DRM protection like Onlyfans and offer free takedown requests. Most sites now offer free watermarking.
4. Marketing & Discovery - Most Fan & Clip Sites have built in promo tools already. Some are moving towards AI suggestions and linking Twitch / Twitter accounts to new users to provide better suggestions. 1 new site owned by Streamate is even paying Models to promote their content.
5. Customization - This would be neat tbh. Most sites limit customization. MFCShare is really good for that but I can't join MFC so the opportunity is lost on me.
6. Ease of Use & Support - Important but it's not a game changer really. I Cam on Chaturbate and in many ways it's a difficult site to navigate but it makes me money & brings in a lot of traffic.

What types of customization are important to you? Please explain further.

 

[NaomiNSFW]

The reason why Fan Sites get away with those 80% payouts is because they don't need to use high paying affiliate schemes to convince other sites to list them @sugar_cribs.
If you want your site to the grow to this point you need to convince Models to join your site first and then traffic is piggybacked off other sites.

Here is a listing for the top referring sites to Fansly as of Feb 2025. If SEO was their main priority google would be in there

 

[NaomiNSFW]

What types of customization are important to you? Please explain further.

Early 2000s levels of customisation without the headaches of having to code everything from scratch in HTML and CSS like you would for a Chaturbate bio.
At the moment most sites allow you to change your avatar, colour scheme, about me section, socials links etc... but that's not real customisation thats just filling in basic info. Being able to make a storefront that is completely unique to me without having to build an entire site from scratch would be neat I can't lie.

 

[Dan Epstein]

SEO can generate traffic, yet SEO doesn’t guarantee converting traffic, user acquisition, positioning and an actual valuable interaction. You can’t expect models to do the homework for you.

 

[KingMarti]

You can’t expect models to do the homework for you.

So many of the "we are making a new site" posts do though

 

[Dan Epstein]

So many of the "we are making a new site" posts do though

This is where 99% of my Vanilla beginner clients get stuck too. They have no Go To Market plan, just a “Monkey see, monkey do approach”, while they try to imitate a mega brand that’s already in the stages of economy of scale. Show us a plan how to acquire and keep a 100 loyal and active users for 6 months first. Be specific, gain trust, build, grow, and only later, scale. Mic drop

 

[sugar_cribs]

Early 2000s levels of customisation without the headaches of having to code everything from scratch in HTML and CSS like you would for a Chaturbate bio.
At the moment most sites allow you to change your avatar, colour scheme, about me section, socials links etc... but that's not real customisation thats just filling in basic info. Being able to make a storefront that is completely unique to me without having to build an entire site from scratch would be neat I can't lie.

We'll have a robust graphical interface on our platform that will make it easier for you to customize your profile without needing to know code.

Is the ability to sell custom videos on your storefront also important?

 

[NaomiNSFW]

We'll have a robust graphical interface on our platform that will make it easier for you to customize your profile without needing to know code.

Is the ability to sell custom videos on your storefront also important?

Yes definitely. Honestly just more sales options in general.
I use ManyVids just because it gives me the ability to easily list different buying options for custom clips and I have a chance to sell a bunch of different items like used clothes as well.

If you could make something similar to ManyVids with better customisation you could probably distinguish yourself from the others.

 

[NaomiNSFW]

So many of the "we are making a new site" posts do though

In a fair economy we would be paid for advice lol