Your mobile site is awful. No links what so ever and paragraphs are cut off. Also Five Star Chat? I recognize that white label. Your services are free, but you slap your white label or affiliate link. Which is fine, just seems shady to not be transparent.
I also recognize most of those models are from Streamate. You arent even properly marketing them on the correct site. I don't mind white labels, but it seems a bit misleading to claim they are affliated with your whitelabel. That just creates confusion when a member tells me I'm on another site, when in fact I'm on Streamate.
Also a good chunk of those models listed are not at all or barely camming anymore. You need to update your list.
Im also confused with the ads. Here is
@Emberblaze's ad.
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So how exactly does your traffic get routed to their rooms? Does this email them directly?
Hello Audri,
Thanks so much for being so generous with your time. For a person not vested in our success, you certainly devoted a good amount of time to offer your very helpful comments... sincere thanks! I'll respond to your comments in the same order they were offered.
-- "Your mobile site is awful. No links what so ever and paragraphs are cut off.
Answer: Sorry you think our mobile site is awful. The first page you're referring to features mostly preview or teaser copy. You would probably be surprised to hear that what you cited as design flaws are actually "strategic design features"... at least that's how they were viewed a couple years back when webmasters paid a fair amount of money to have them hand-coded into the site. Today they can be incorporated into a site as a low-cost plugin.
The articles being cut short and the absence of links is intentional. Compressing elements for small mobile formatted sites was a goal in this strategy. There was also a school of thought that said as a matter of getting site visitors interested in your site, you should flood them with content; particularly true of adult sites. But, not with words... with images. So, newer design concepts then tried to jam as much imagery into a site as possible... and for quick reveal too.
The code I mentioned automatically cuts the article from its original word count and displays an excerpt of about 50 words, it also strips out all links in the preview (teaser) copy.
If you click the headline or model's name in any article, it will open to the full article complete with links. Instead of being an article of 50 words, you might have 500 words or more to read and several links to follow. If we were to display the complete copy block and image for each, we would not be able to present as much content on the first page and not nearly as many total images.
-- " I recognize that white label. Your services are free, but you slap your white label or affiliate link. Which is fine, just seems shady to not be transparent."
Answer: Our FiveStarChat is an old Streamate white label... one of the very first. Back then, you had to qualify for WL ownership. If memory serves me correctly you had to have been an affiliate for 2 or 3 years and achieved a certain level of sales success. We had to ask Streamate for permission to develop the site.
The goal of having a WL was in having your own brand. Being "transparent"... is counterproductive to having a WL. Even Streamate would preach, counsel and advise us to be as different and unique from the Streamate site as you can be. The last thing a WL owner wanted to be was operator of a site that appeared to be a clone of Streamate and was NOT a separate, and completely different entity. To be successful as a WL operator/marketer the last thing you probably want is a visitor landing on your site and thinking, "oh, this is just Streamate". But, it certainly happens all the time.; mainly because they quickly recognize a model or two.
We have to go about our business with the idea that Streamate is competition just like MFC, Chaturbate, Jasmin and so on... and hope the general consumer public thinks the same. This is the way it works with all cam networks who operate WL programs. It is NOT just a Streamate thing.
-- "I also recognize most of those models are from Streamate. You arent even properly marketing them on the correct site. I don't mind white labels, but it seems a bit misleading to claim they are affliated with your whitelabel. That just creates confusion when a member tells me I'm on another site, when in fact I'm on Streamate."
Answer: Yes, most, if not all of the models are Streamate models. Streamate would tell you that "their" models actually are affiliated with the WLs they are seen on. (Isn't this what CamModels does?) We have no choice but to feature Streamate models. That's true of all Streamate WLs. I'm sure you are familiar with PornHub. PornHub owns a Streamate WL. It's called PornHubLive.com.
You seem not to be aware of the fact that all of these sites are almost exactly the same. The only control a WL operator has over his/her site is its name, logo design and color scheme. We all have the same models; same shows, same features; same pricing. As a model, when you are seen on the Streamate network, you are simultaneously seen on more than a thousand sites... maybe more. Pull up Streamate.com, PornHubLive.com and FiveStarChat.com in three different browser windows and then switch back and forth from window to window. You will see the same models in all three windows at the same time.
This is not secret information being revealed. It's not done to confuse models. It's just how a network of WLs are opertated by a huge broadcast platform like Streamate.
One way we have a chance of being different and standing out from the crowd is in how we market or promote out WLs. One brief way we are different is that we enable models to promote what Streamate and other WLs won't... things like their Twitter account, official website, ManyVids page and so on. There's more, but that 's a whole other story.
-- "Also a good chunk of those models listed are not at all or barely camming anymore. You need to update your list."
Answer: As of Tuesday morning, all models that we had the opportunity to check were still active. These ads are fairly recent so they're should not be that much turn-over.
-- "Im also confused with the ads. Here is
@Emberblaze's ad."
Answer: I'm a little confused too. We owe her an apology for referring to her in an incorrect way. Right now and until I have a chance to research this a bit, I have no explanation for this. We do NOT make assumptions about anything regarding what we publish. We would not even assume a person's race or ethnicity if we did know it for sure. My best guess is that incorrect information was pulled from another source... we relied on it, or never thought to question it... which is just NOT our standard MO. We'll dig on this so it doesn't happen again. Our most sincere appologies.
-- "So how exactly does your traffic get routed to their rooms? Does this email them directly?"
Answer: Each ad contains a link that reads: "Visit website." If that link is clicked it takes the surfer directly to the model's chat room... or any other web page that accommodates automated checkout... such as a ManyVids page. If the ad is for something like a Skype show or a custom video, then the model can be initially contacted anonymously through a form that is sent like an email. The model's email address is never revealed.
