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FEATURE
Wearing a sheer black lingerie ensemble,
the statuesque Devivre repeatedly stopped
traffic at the Flirt4Free booth. One of the
first cam stars to ever have a Fleshlight
mold, the 31-year-old said she has tried
other sites but clicks better with Flirt4Free.
“How they treat their girls it’s
outstanding. They are there for you,”
Devivre said. “Every year we have a
summit, and they take us to Mexico and
other places and they pay for it and we just
come to chill and have a vacation. That’s
the only company out there that does
it. It’s amazing. For me it’s all about the
relationship you know.”
It seemed like everywhere one looked
at the AVN Show the live-cam business
occupied prime real estate. If last year’s
convention was a major coming-out party,
this year will be remembered as the year
the live-cam companies flexed their muscle
with the largest presence of any major adult
industry sector at the four-day event.
“I think live entertainment is the future,”
said Daron Lundeen, president of CamSoda,
which was situated near the entrance of
Artist Hall. “The majority of AVN is cams.
Cams is growing. At the end of the day this
is the future of adult entertainment.”
Lundeen & Co. amped up their
presentation for this year’s event, coming to
Vegas with a larger, more high-tech booth
that featured several name porn stars lining
the perimeter greeting fans and going live.
“We want to always introduce new
technology. So at this show we did a
hologram; last year we had VR. We still
have VR but a lot of people are doing that
this year,” Lundeen explained. “We always
want to show what’s new, what’s going to
give the models a new way to make money.
The better our models interact with their
fans the more money they make, the more
we make, the more our business grows.
It’s very simple and logical and they’re our
partners which is different than in the past
where the models are just shooting content
and you’re trying to monetize it as best you
can and you only need her for one day. We
need the models every day.”
Lundeen said his booth was quadruple
the size of his 2016 space.
“Fans are coming for the models and our
models wanted to sign for us so we said
let’s figure out a way to make all this work,”
he continued. “We’ve got amazing partners
in our models. A lot of models wanted to be
here supporting us.”
He said CamSoda’s distinctive pink and
blue logo colors were selected for a reason.
“It pops. You can’t ignore it.”
On the other side of Artist Hall, Toronto-
based Cam4 kept the mood up with its
bustling booth full of models and staff.
LIVE FROM LAS VEGAS Opposite, Chaturbate.com,
MyFreeCams.com and Cams.com booths. This page, from top,
FreeWebCams.com and LiveJasmin, Bang and Flirt4Free;
CamSoda and Shirley Lara of Chaturbate; MyFreeCams.
MFC photos by Jay Allan; Bang, CamSoda and Cams.com by
Rick Garcia; others by JFK/FUBARWebmasters.com.
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