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FEATURE
AVN SHOW 2017 | By Dan Miller
“This is our biggest showing,” assured Gunner
Taylor, director of content for North America
who is based at the company’s L.A. office. “We
look around and see the competitors and see the
space and we know it’s all about branding. So if
you want to have that presence this is the place
to be.”
Half of Cam4’s black, orange and white booth
was all about VR and the other half about live
cams.
“We decided we wanted to showcase VR.
We wish we would’ve gone with a bigger space
because we didn’t have enough room to do
everything we wanted to do,” Taylor said. “When
we got the size, we decided to split it down the
middle—VR on one side and camming on the
other.
“We do want to showcase the VR product.
We’re pretty proud of that having been the first
really to the space in a big way. It’s impressive
VR. A lot of people have been talking about; it’s a
buzzword being thrown around but we have VR
that works and we can showcase it right here at
the show, which is cool. And it’s been met with a
great reception.”
Taylor said the girls and guys at the show were
a mix.
“Some are new and haven’t been with us
for very long and some are tried and tested
performers,” said Taylor, who manages all the
talent and studios in North America as well as
does the business development. “We’ve done
really, really well as a cam site without a focus on
North America.
Developed originally as a community site about
10 years ago, Cam4 has built robust gay and
fetish sections of its site, which is something that
differentiates it from many others.
Back in Muse Hall, Avery Black grabbed a
corner spot in the jam-packed Chaturbate booth
and broadcasted live from the show floor.
Looking pretty in pink, the 24-year-old model
said this marked her second time coming to the
annual expo but her first time with Chaturbate.
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“It is overwhelming but in the greatest way
possible,” Black told AVN. “I love it.”
Now 24, the Oakland, Calif., native who lives
in L.A. said she’s been camming full time for the
past three years and still recalls the struggle to
make money before she discovered the fastest
growing area in adult.
“I was working really shitty minimum wage
jobs. I worked retail. I was working in an office.
I was working at two different restaurants. And
then slowly I was able to quit one job at a time
over the span of like four months. And then I
was just like yes!” Black said, noting she got into
camming with a guy.
“It was a little bit easier at first because we
used to cam together and it’s a lot easier when
you’re feeding off someone else’s energy right
next to you. But then I got comfortable and I was
able to cam by myself. I like it because there’s
always a lot of traffic in my room and always
someone willing to talk to me.”
Christophe Peyras, marketing director for
Streamate, told AVN his company teamed up with
partners CherryPimps and Bang for its booth in
Vegas this year.
“It’s a big test for us because we’ve never really
done this,” Peyras said as her surveyed the traffic
through The Joint, where he and the crew were
positioned near the stage.
“I know more and more cam companies do
it. We try to do things a little different than
everybody else. That’s why we’re also partnered
with two of our biggest partners which are Bang
and CherryPimps. Because they bring all those
sexy ladies. We brought some cam girls as well.
So far it’s a great experience. It’s also a learning
experience for us because it’s our first time doing
that.
“We’re at the point where we don’t really feel
like we have to be too much in your face. I know
it’s a strategy for a lot of other cam companies
but we don’t feel the need to do that. Most of the
people in the industry by now know who we are.”
CherryPimps girls Natalia Starr, Natasha Starr,
Alyssa Lynn, Britney Amber and Morgan Lee all took turns
signing and posing for photos at the Streamate/CherryPimps/
Bang space.
ImLive, meanwhile, extended its presence at the 34th annual
AVN Awards Show Saturday night, continuing what has become
a tradition at the ceremony. The live cam juggernaut bestowed
special gifts upon the two recipients of top performer awards—
Female Performer of the Year Adriana Chechik and Male
Performer of the Year Mick Blue.
Colombia is widely regarded as a hotbed for cam girls, so it
was no surprise to see the gorgeous Danna Smith turning heads
at the Cams.com booth.
The 24-year-old from Medellin, Colombia, said she had been
camming for five months.
“I like so much, make a lot of friends,” Smith said. “I love my
work.”
Smith worked as a “graphic communicator” before she started
modeling, calling her profession a mix between “graphic design
and social communicating.”
“Now I do this all the time. This is my first time in Vegas. It’s
very big and I love it,” said Smith, who cams eight hours every
day from 11 a.m. to around 7 p.m.
“When I’m not working I have a little company that makes
clothes so I work with that in my free time,” she added. She
creates items such as shirts, pants and jackets.
“I make it for their pleasure. I don’t sell them, I just make for
the other person,” she said.
On the other side of The Joint, Anna Mejia took questions at
the FreeWebcams booth, telling AVN she runs the company’s
Colombia office.
“We have a lot of tools for the models and for the users to
have fun. They have multiple options. They have free chats,
private chats. Everything that the user could want,” Mejia said.
“We are all over the world. We have Colombian girls, Romanian
girls, American girls, a lot of them.”
Mejia said FreeWebcams in the past year “developed new
tools.”
“We have more support now, 24-7 people answering
questions,” she said, noting she’s been with the company a year
and a half. “I support the models, the users, the studios, the
agents.
“It’s really easy to use. Users like it because you find a lot of
different models and the models like it because it’s private. And
they have a lot of support.”
Back at MyFreeCams’ booth, stunning Reya Sunshine flirted
with members in her room in between smiling for pictures with
passers-by.
A native of the Bay Area who has a degree in psychology from
UC Santa Cruz, Sunshine started camming just 20 days before
AEE 2016.
Now she’s a vet.
“I cam almost every single day. I love it. It just gets better and
better,” Sunshine, who is also an exotic dancer, told AVN.
Sunshine said her fanbase has grown considerably in the past
year, so it made sense for her to add a premium Snapchat to her
list of offerings, not to mention she loves snapping. She brought
her ReyasRoom T-shirts with her Snapchat on the back to the
show floor.
“And I’m taking myself on tour right now so I’m going to be
feature dancing at lots of clubs throughout the U.S. in many
different cities. I’ll also be camming from there and making my
own content to sell,” Sunshine revealed.
“I’m doing to one to three months in each location. Right now
I’m in L.A. for a few months. Everywhere else is a surprise. I’ll
be a bunch of clubs. They’ll have to tune in to see.”
NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT MyFreeCams model Reya Sunshine, on the job while
she was at the AVN Expo. Photo by Jay Allan. For many more photos of adult stars, cam models,
AEE events and parties, and much more, go to AVN.com/galleries.