Every person who had already tried to start his own webcam site understands the key problem of starting it up: while you don’t have models you could not send traffic and your models would not stay online without traffic. Such closed cycle is hard to break. Cam site beginners usually have an option to get 3-5 online performers but it is not enough to run business and you have to get more to make website looking interesting for customers.

What a good idea to merge models working on video chat websites based on WebVideo into a video chat network. Such network would have following benefits:

1. Models would like to broadcast into multiple websites at the same time in order to increase income but the same time they are getting problems because of high CPU usage for encoding, high Internet bandwidth usage and in it is not really easy to keep communicating with user in multiple chat windows
2. When new webcam site is created his owner facing first problem – where to get models? This problem is hard to solve because models don’t want to work on website where no visitors and users don’t want to stay on the website where they can’t find models. This vicious circle is hard to break and it stops further marketing.
3. If we overview successful video chat website startups we can realize most of them have about 10 models online on average. This is good enough for the beginning, customer could stay on the website and use it but other big players of adult market with hundreds of models offers more choice for customers and ` in this means

If we find a way to merge models from different websites into one video chat network and allow each user of than network to publish models on his own website we would be able to create big webcam site for every website owner!

And we have developed innovative system of merging models into common network and the same time we keep each webcam site personalized because:

1. Each video chat website owner has his own database of models which he can extend independently from ModelNet
2. Clients registered in his website also stored in the database along with account balance, option to add and spend funds and accounting.
3. Owner of webcam site could decide on his own which models should be provided into ModelNet and which should be published on his website from ModelNet.
4. He can also use ModelNet only for the beginning and later on avoid using it to work independently. Or use ModelNet only for providing models into the network. But honestly saying it does not make sense to me.

How it works? It is pretty each easy to setup, there are 2 types of websites in ModelNet:

• Provider – such website provides models for ModelNet and receives additional profit from those models.
• Consumer - publish models from ModelNet into his own website and also receives income from sales made with those models. What is important, your clients would never leave your website, they would not be registered in another website, they would not receive advertising or spam messages from them and if they pay for your models they would make more profit because of higher commission you could set for your own models.

Very important benefits of ModelNet

1) each website could be Provider and Consumer at the same time

2) this is not co-branding or whitelabel at any point. You keep everything on your own website and exchange only models to improve quality of your website and increase profit.

Financial workflow:

1. Each Consumer should make guarantee deposit in a minimum amount of $100 minimum however I would recommend to consider at least $500, you would see why after reading full scheme. This deposit would be used to pay Provider of models for paid chat and tips and Consumer receives payments directly from customer. That’s why we need Deposit, based on it we can guarantee payment to provider. Consumer would  be charged 80% of transaction price (deducted from deposit amount) and remaining 20% is his profit. Consumer do not pay any other fees, payments are based only on the actual transactions.
2. Provider also do not pay fee and the same time don’t need to make deposit because he is providing models and receives payments for private chats made by them. Provider receives 70% of transactions amount for Paid chat and tips. This payment is made directly to bank account of Provider.
3. Payment between Provider and Consumer are made using our company and we guarantee correct payments between all parties of video chat network.

See example below for better understanding::

• Provider adds a model Jessica into ModelNet
• MOdel has a price of $5/min and if she had a private chat for 10 minute customer have spent $50 for it.
• Actually consumer received $50 from customer but should pay $40 (80% of chat price). This payment is deducted from guarantee deposit.
• Provider would receive $35 for this chat (70% of $50) as payment to bank account.

Payment are made on a weekly basis.

Consumer can choose websites and categories of those websites to publish in his video chat system

Provider can choose categories of performers to make available in the network

ModelNet is available in beta-testing since April 1st, 2015 and official release is planned for May 1st 2015.

One of the good marketing strategies of a video chat site is splitting it into several different looking website. You can even make a small website for each performer registered in the system.

You can split them the way you like, for example:

• Website with muscle guys
• Website with dancing girls
• Dating website
• etc…

It is better to target specific traffic for each website. If this is the traffic from dating website that would be much better to concentrate on the dating niche rather than video show. The same time if your traffic is 99% straight oriented men that means they most likely will be interested to see a website with girls rather than guys.

Our software allows making unlimited skins with certain performer categories assigned to that website skin and unique domain.

Affiliate program is effective marketing tool where other people can drive traffic to your website with a commission in rewards. Usually in webcam industry commission is set to 20% which means in case affiliate refers a client who buy credits for $100 he will get 20% of $100 = $20 commission. Commission should be paid by video chat website owner and it is not deducted from earnings of performers or studio managers. More information about general affiliate advertising could be found in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affiliate_marketing

That would be not enough to say that WebVideo has integrated affiliate software. Our system has many options of commissions and bonuses for customers, performers, studio managers and affiliates references.

With our marketing tools, you can easily build up unique and effective advertising campaign to help a promotion of your video chat website.

Here is the brief list of the available commissions set up which can also be used in combination. Keep in mind that all those options can be turned on and off easily to keep affiliate marketing the most effective:

• Each customer gets a link which can be used to refer a friend and get a commission from the payments made by the friends
• Each performer can refer a customer and can get a commission from the money spent by that customer
• Each performer can have his own subdomain on the main server and if a customer visits that subdomain, register and purchase tokens/credits, the performer who owns that profile will be automatically credited with the commission
• Performers can refer other performers and get personal commission rate increased in exchange or get an additional reward as a percent from earnings of referred performer
• Affiliates can register in the system and refer to a customer for commission (classic affiliate marketing)
• Affiliates can refer performers and earn their commission from earnings of performers
• It is possible to integrate WebVideo with NATS system which provides many options for marketing.

• ccBill
• Verotel
• Zombaio
• Paycom

We can integrate other payment gateways as well, please contact us for details.

List of supported payment gatways: ccBill, Zombaio, PayCom, Verotel FlexPay, Verisign, NOCHEX, psBill, InterCash NetPay, Eletegate, SegPay, QC.NET, 2000Charge, Epay.BG, EuroBill, Moneris, Merchant Solutions, Paypal, Webstream, 2charge, GreenWorld, CommerceGate, VerifiedOrder, Interkassa, WebMoney, liqpay, DigiSeller, OnPay, Centili, GTBill, zPayment, Lamba, PagSeguro, Robokassa, Allopass, BitPay,  OKPay, W1, Authorize.net

For our clients we can offer credit card processing using our merchant account at Verotel. We charge 5% on top of standard Verotel.

It is also possible to do integration with custom payment gateway using special Internal callback where script can add credits to any user by his Identity number. For more details refer to our documentation.ß

In WebVideo there is no certain currency because customer purchase credits which can be purchased with USD, EUR, British Pounds or any other currency. For example, 100 credits could cost 100 EUR, or 155 USD, or 70 Pounds. Webcam chat system can support multiple currencies as well as multiple billing at the same time. Payment for per-minute chat is made on the pre-paid basis. Customer purchases credits that could be spent with any performer.

Customer can visit one of the 4 video chats with a performer:

• Free video chat (if allowed)
• Private video chat. It is pay per minute chat that could be initiated by the customer. Other customers could join it too.
• Voyeur video chat. It is available when private chat is already established between a performer and another customer. In addition, it is pay per minute chat with separate rate for each performer
• VIP video chat. Strictly 1-to-1 pay per minute video chat.

Administrator of system can set allowed minimum and maximum rate for each paid mode. Performer can set own per minute rate in that range.

Additionally it is possible to set minimum chat price, in this case customer would be charged minimum price from the beginning of the show and could stay in the chat without being charged based on amount paid and per-minute price. Once paid time is over customer would be charged on per-minute basis. For example, if performer set a price of 5 credits per minute and minimum char price of 50 credits that means customer would be charged 50 credits in the beginning of chat and could stay in chat for 10 minutes without more payments, after 10 minutes period is over he will be charged on per-minute basis.

Our company specialized on video conferencing software development since 2003 and now we have WebVideo product with all features required to run webcam  site with online video streaming. Below you can find a list of main features we have, every feature was carefully discussed and analyzed in order to get it done the best way. We are the actual developers of this video chat script and our team always works on the enhancement of our software and making new features which become available to our customers as update. You can see the list of main features we provide.

Technologies we use:

• Server-side code is written in Java
• Chat application is built on HTML with use of WebSocket
• Video streaming is based on h264 video
• Flash Player is used for broadcasting from models
• On customer-end can be used Flash Player or HTML page
• Web pages are based on JSP and code is opened for changes
• Database: MySQL
• Streaming server: Red5
• Video conferencing is secured and protected from possible attack
• Mobile devices supported (additional module)

General services:

• Real time video chat conferencing with small latency
• Quality of video is adjustable
• No need to download for both model and customer, works directly from any Web Browser, even mobile
• Integrated billing
• Tips and per-minute billing
• Built-in affiliate program for: webmasters, models and for customers
• Private and public video/photo gallery
• Every paid  video chat session is saved as video
• Blocking by a country or a city
• Option for models to sell videos

Models area:

• High quality, fast and professional chat application
• Video/audio and text chat
• 1 free and 3 paid modes: group, private and voyeur chat
• Ability to receive tips from customers
• Option to set room topic
• Gold chat
• Emoticons
• Kick/Ban customer from chat session
• H264 video chat
• Manage own profile: change personal information, interests
• The view of Earnings and visits statistic for selected period
• The view of all payment transactions for a period
• Detailed statistics of time spent in each chat mode
• Nude and Public photo/video gallery management
• Change own pricing for paid mode
• Can use video chat directly from any browser at any Operation System

Client area:

• Join page
• List of all models registered in the system
• List of online models available right now
• Free area and members’ area
• Ability to view model’s profile: personal information, public and nude photos, public and nude videos.
• Add funds page
• Transactions reports
• Paid sessions and tips report
• View of online video in Free, Private, VIP or Voyeur modes
• Add to Favorits models.

Administration control panel:

• Total and daily money earnings, customers joined, billed and spent time info
• Real-time stats on who is currently located on the site and whom he is watching now.
• Customers management
• Block/Unblock by IP, country, city or region
• Performers management: view/change personal info, manage photos, manage videos, enable/disable, manage per minute rates, allow/deny free chat and set up commission
• Logs of chat with videos of paid sessions
• The view stats of visits, unique visits and earnings by performer for period
• Detailed list of all transactions in the system
• Default rates for paid video for all modes
• Webmasters’ management
• Adjustable commission for webmasters
• Ability to make website mirrors with personal look & feel
• Assign categories for each mirror, you can make girls’ and boys’ site and fix the categories for every site
• Export of reports to Excell file for analyse
• History of all text chats
• Video conferencing logs are saved FLV format
• Can set kbps rates for each mode Public/Private/VIP chat, can asjust show of video/text in free modes
• USC 2257 Compliance support

Affiliates area:

• View/change personal profile
• Reporting: visits, unique visits, money earned and refunds
• List of announcements
• List of campaigns
• Detailed statistic per each campaign of visits, unique visits, money earned and refunds
• Code for banner to add into your own site
• Detailed transactions report for a period

Quality of video is our top priority and our goal to provide best quality video for online conferencing

H.264 takes pretty much CPU usage and those models who broadcast to multiple website should make sure her computer has powerful processor and encoder requires to have better computer configuration:

• Multi-core processor
• High speed and stable Internet connection (at least 1Mbps upload speed)
• High quality webcam or mini-DV cam with camcorder will give the best results
• Pay attention to the light of the room, usually the more light is better because webcam can easily capture video frames – better light saves Internet bandwidth

Bandwidth usage would be automatically adjusted based on the Internet speed of chat host and client, but fast and stable Internet would always give better result.

Live video streaming has few important requirements, they are:

• Automatically adjustable video/audio compression to fit the Internet bandwidth of different users connected to a Conference
• Minimum video latency a time delay between the move translation (one person moves and the other sees it after a short delay)
• Synchronization between video and audio stream.

Moreover, if there are more than two clients connected into conference room, video should be transferred through the server. Otherwise, every person will share the part of performer bandwidth between all the people connected into video host. As a result, video transfer speed for each person will be slow. When video and audio transferred through the central server, there are several additional requirements:

• Automatically adjust video stream to fit the Internet bandwidth of the connected customers.
• Each connection should be processed with minimal use of server resources such as RAM, CPU and Hard Disk drive
• Optimization of video streaming to save bandwidth when it is possible
• Minimum latency is minimum even when video transferred through the server.

Secondly important parts, which are specific for web conferencing:

• Lightweight video chat client
• Architecture allowing to skin video chat client for both chat host and person who watches the video
• Ability of 2-way video and audio conferencing
• Video chat client embedded into the browser
• Multi-platform support. Opportunity to use webcam video chat on Windows, Linux and Max OS.

After review of available video streaming technologies our team has decided to use Flash technology. Flash allowing to develop lightweight, browser based, multi-platform client for video chat and the same time Flash has pretty impressive video/audio encoding capabilities and transfer of stream through the server.

We use Red5 server which is open source and free for Flash video streaming on server side and we recommend using our hosting services

We recommend to use our hosting, we are working with 2 datacenter: in Europe and in USA. Our prices are competitive and having both hosting and software support at one company would help to fix possible issues faster and efficient.

If you choose to be hosted with another company it is not a problem, contact us to get hardware recommendations. Use CentOS Linux latest stable version.

Technologies we use includes:

• Java and JSP
• Javascript/Ajax
• CSS
• MySQL
• Flash/SWF
• Red5 streaming server

We install software into CentOS based dedicated linux servers and in case of high load we use nginx server for static content loading distribution.