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How to Host a Group Show on Cam4

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What is a group show?
Group shows give broadcasters a chance to have a private show with multiple viewers.

When the Group show begins, everyone who has purchased an entry ticket has access to the show and can watch, listen and chat with the broadcaster.

How much does a Group Show cost?
You can set the cost of each ticket: 10, 25, 50, 100, 150, 200, 250 or 300 tokens.

How to start a group show?

Create a group show, describe your show, define the price and duration.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Launch your “Ticket Sale” by setting a “Ticket Goal” or set a “Time Limit” if you have an large audience of viewers and hitting a ticket goal might be too easy.

Time Limit –  Once the grouped show has been created and launched, the countdown starts, you have a set amount of time to complete the sale of tickets to hit your goal.

What happens if I sold tickets and the goal is not reached?
If the predetermined goal is not reached, you can restart the countdown, so you give extra time (5 or 10 min more).

How do I modify and extend my countdown?

Click on the red “Cancel” button. You will then get a confirming the canel.

 

 

 

 

 

If  you have almost reached the goal, do not cancel the group show, confirm your group show in order to validate the sale of your tickets.

To confirm your group show, let the countdown end, the group show will start automatically.

However, In the event that the show is canceled for x reason, the tickets purchased by the voyeurs are refunded immediately.

How to optimize the sale of your group shows?
As soon as you broadcast:
• Add value and exclusivity to your show group. To do this, show up dressed in lingerie (no direct nude).
• Greet everyone by announcing the sale of group show tickets at 50 tokens for 15 minutes (recommended). You can always set the cost of your ticket to 10, 25, 50 or 100 tokens, and the duration to 10, 15, 20 or 30 minutes.
• ANSWER and be chatty to set the mood with your viewers by always having control of the conversations on your chat.
• STAY FOCUSED ON YOUR OBJECTIVE: ticket sales!
Important: do not let any viewers devalue your session, for that silence (or ban) the bad comments as well as the viewers who question the price of the ticket.

Why do I have to silence or ban a bad viewer immediately?
When you let viewers bash your show, you can have potential ticket buyers who hesitate and not buy tickets.

BRAVO you sold grouped show tickets!!
Tips :
• Thank the ticket buyers live, followed by the question “Who’s next, to complete the goal, so we can all go on a group show together?!”
• You can also offer private shows for those who wish.
• Make it easier and increase your chips by using your Lush Lovense (sex toy) during your group shows!!!

~That’s all for this lesson!

Happy Camming!
Love, Your Coaching Team!

Making Money

Connecting a Wishlist to your Profile

Let your fans SPOIL you!

Fans are always looking for ways that they can help and spoil their favorite broadcasters. Create a Wishlist on one of these great sites and let your fans know exactly what you need!

What do I need to Do?

  1. Visit the website of one of the CAM4 supported stores listed above.
  2. Create an account on their site and use their registry or Wishlist function to start building your list.

    If you are having issues, please contact the store you are building your Wishlist on. CAM4 does not provide support these platforms.

  1. Once your list is complete copy the Registry or Wishlist URL that they provide you and go to CAM4.com.
  1. Login into your CAM4 and hover your mouse over your profile icon on the top right-hand side of the homepage. From the menu click on “My Account”.

 

 

5. Click on “Wishlist” and add the URL below the logo for the store you used and click “Save”

When you visit your profile on CAM4 you will see your wish list appear on the bottom left under you “Detailed Bio”.

 

 

To add a list for another CAM4 supported store, just repeat the process and you will see the logo linking you viewer to your list appear under “Wishlist” as well.

PRO TIP: When creating your Wishlist, DO NOT use your real name. All Wishlist will hide your mailing info but some will show the owners name when viewing the list. If you want to hide your legal identity, always use your fake name.

~That’s all for this lesson!

Happy Camming!
Love, Your Coaching Team!

 

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Your Tip Menu

Launch Your Very Own Custom Tip Menu to Improve Engagement and Increase Earnings!

Tell your fans what to tip for and earn more tokens, set up yours now!

What Is It?
The CAM4 Tip Menu is a fun tool that allows you to create a customized list of actions with the corresponding token amount a viewer needs to tip for you to perform the action during your performance. We’ve recently upgraded our tipping menu functionality to allow for simple set up and easy viewer access. Performers who’ve launched their own tip menus have reported heightened activity and ultimately an increase in show earnings! 

Benefits of Creating a Tip Menu:

  • The tip menu is an easily customizable list that you control and can change / update at any time
  • Your viewers know exactly what they can tip for each performance action without having to ask
  • You won’t need to set up an HTML bio
  • The tip menu is easily accessible via your profile during every show
  • Less chatty viewers are more likely to engage

Quick & Easy Tip Menu Set Up
Locate the Tip Menu feature near the Game Center and enter each action and the required tipping amount. *Please note you must enter at least four (4) actions to activate your tipping menu for viewers

You can add up to 12 tip menu options; click the trash can icon to the right of each option to delete and update. Once you’ve completed your list, click SAVE to activate.

You will receive a special notification in your chat window every time a viewer selects an item in your tip menu


Tip Menu Ideas
What you include on your tip menu is completely up to you, and the great thing is you can add and update the menu as you learn what your viewers want and need in your shows!  Here are some sample tip menu options to get you started:

  • Blow kisses
  • Custom shout out message
  • Flash boobs
  • Oil rubdown
  • Spanking
  • Twerk
  • Insert toy for 15 seconds

Get creative here – the sky really is the limit!

The Key to Tip Menu Success
Our best advice for making the tip menu work for you is to keep your list of options fresh and creative while continuously directing viewers to it during your show.

We’re Here to Help You Win!
If you need help setting up your tip menu or are looking for ways to maximize this fun tool, please reach out to support@CAM4.com at any time and one of our experts will guide you.

~That’s all for this lesson!

Happy Camming!
Love, Your Coaching Team!

Getting Started, Broadcasting, Broadcasting, Broadcasting, Broadcasting, Broadcasting

How To Start Your Broadcast

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All the basics to start your broadcast: from launching the broadcast window, to how to put all the settings in place!

Step 1: Launch the Broadcast Window

Start your show by hitting ‘Broadcast’ on the CAM4 header bar (at the top of your screen) in your Dashboard or any other page on CAM4.

Please note: only ID verified broadcasters can live stream. If you are not ID verified yet you will be asked to go through this process first. 

Step 2: Select Broadcast Type 

Regular Broadcast – This is the default broadcast type for CAM4. 

External Encoder – If you have experience with external encoding software, you can use this tab to connect your external stream to CAM4. 

Learn more about External Encoding here.

Let’s have a look at what it will look like when you start Regular Streaming:

Step 3: Video / Audio Settings

It is important that you give permissions for CAM4 to use your video and your microphone. Once you give these permissions, CAM4 will detect your video and audio devices: 

You don’t have to worry about the aspect ratio of your video. This will be chosen automatically, based on the ideal proportions for your hardware.

Usually you don’t have to tinker with these settings and CAM4 will detect the right devices automatically. But here you can select your preferred video and audio input if you wish, or choose to use an external encoder like OBS. 

You can flip your image horizontally by toggling Mirror video.

Step 4: Show Details

Underneath your audio and video  settings, you will find your show details:

Category

Here you can select whether you will broadcast by yourself (Solo) or with another, verified user. Depending on your gender, you’ll be shown the options (Male-Female, Male-Male, or Female-Female). 

Select the appropriate category. 

Mode

By default this is set to public. If you are an approved CAM4 performer (2257/ID approved) then you can choose to have a password protected room. 

Step 5: Set your tags

Tags are a great way to communicate to potential viewers what to expect from your show. 

Choose tags that are appropriate to what your show is all about. This will make sure viewers will get to see what they want, and you get viewers that want to see what you want to show!

We recommend picking about 3 tags.

Step 6: Check your stream quality

Below the area where your video is shown, you’ll see information about your stream quality and FPS:

It’s useful to give these a quick glance before you start your broadcast, just to make sure that your video quality is to your viewers satisfaction.

Stream Quality
Indicates any stream issues so you can fix them before you start your broadcast. The light bulb shows troubleshooting suggestions.

FPS – Your cameras frames per second (FPS). 25-30 FPS is ideal.

When you see a low Stream quality and/or FPS, it may be worthwhile to do a speedtest and/or a reset of your router. 

Step 7: Go Live!

Once your settings are correct you can go live and start your show!

~That’s all for this lesson!

Happy Camming!

Love, Your Coaching Team!

 

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Use C4Broadcaster on your Windows Browser

If you’re using both Windows on your computer and a Samsung device for streaming with C4Broadcaster, you can now mirror your phone through wi-fi and enjoy the app directly onto your PC.

REQUIREMENTS:
1. Windows 10
(running the Windows 10 May 2019 Update) 

2. Samsung device
(listed below in the supported devices list running Android 9.0 or above)

Follow these simple steps to set it up:

On your PC: Go to > Start and search for Your Phone. 
Windows 10 users with running the Windows 10 May 2019 Update will have the abillity to mirror their screen through wi-fi.

Log in with your Microsoft account in the application.
Follow the on-screen steps.

ON YOUR PHONE:

Check if the device you’re using is listed below as one of the supporting devices.

If yes, then check if you already have preinstalled on your Samsung device, “Your Phone Companion – Link to Windows” application. If not, it can be found on the Google Play Store and be downloaded from there.

Follow the on-screen steps

Make sure your phone and your PC are both connected to the same wi-fi network

After the initial setup, you can access C4Broadcaster from the Apps button in the Your Phone menu.

Accept the request on your phone and voila, you can now use C4broadcaster on your PC.

The experience is the same as on mobile, you can switch the camera, rotate the device, play tipping games and apply image filters like you did when using solely your phone

SUPPORTED DEVICES:

Samsung Galaxy Fold
Samsung Galaxy Note20 5G
Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra 5G
Samsung Galaxy S20
Samsung Galaxy S20+
Samsung Galaxy S20 FE
Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra
Samsung Galaxy XCover Pro
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5G
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold2 5G
Samsung Galaxy A8s
Samsung Galaxy A30s
Samsung Galaxy A31
Samsung Galaxy A40
Samsung Galaxy A41
Samsung Galaxy A50
Samsung Galaxy A50s
Samsung Galaxy A51
Samsung Galaxy A51 5G
Samsung Galaxy A60
Samsung Galaxy A70
Samsung Galaxy A70s
Samsung Galaxy A71
Samsung Galaxy A71 5G
Samsung Galaxy A80
Samsung Galaxy A90s
Samsung Galaxy A90 5G
Samsung Galaxy Note9
Samsung Galaxy Note10
Samsung Galaxy Note10+
Samsung Galaxy Note10 Lite
Samsung Galaxy S9
Samsung Galaxy S9+
Samsung Galaxy S10
Samsung Galaxy S10+
Samsung Galaxy S10e
Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite

~That’s all for this lesson!

Happy Camming!
Love, Your Coaching Team!

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Streaming 2.0 Troubleshooting

Can’t see or use your camera and microphone set up in CAM4

Streaming 2.0?

Please make sure that you are logged into Cam4 and can access
Streaming 2.0 tab in the Broadcast window

I get a message that my camera or microphone is disabled / No camera or microphone appears on my CAM4 Streaming 2.0 broadcast page.

  • The camera and/or microphone are disabled in your browser. Please
    enable them by clicking the “Allow” button near the address/URL bar to allow cam access for the site – Select Continue allowing / Allow -> Done – and then refresh the page.
Allowing access to Cam and mic

or from browser settings

Please note: This may require a browser restart rather than just a page refresh as other tabs or browser windows may interfere with the change

Your camera and/or your microphone could be in use by another app. In many cases, your browser might not be able to access them directly if they are already in use. To fix this please close any other tabs/browsers or applications that are currently using your camera
( Tip: your camera in use indicator is lit before reaching the CAM4 website it generally indicates something else is using your cam.)

 

Problems streaming on more than one platform.

You may experience issues trying to broadcast on multiple platforms while using streaming 2.0.  If this is an issue you will need to create a virtual cam while only using one physical cam. The most common option would be to use the combination of OBS + OBs browser plugin. This will give you an additional cam in the dropdown list of an OBS virtual cam

    1. Install OBS Studio. It can be downloaded here, instructions for auto-configuration can be found here
    2. Install OBS Virtual cam based on your platform. Windows, Mac, Linux. Please note for Windows this will require a system restart to complete the installation.
    3. Open OBS Studio
      • Select Tools / VirtualCam in the main OBS Studio window
      • Press the Start button, then close the dialog
      • Open your browser and choose OBS-Camera as your webcam.
      • You don’t need to press Start Streaming in OBS, but you need to have the proper settings for sources in OBS ( Camera and Microphone)
      • Start Streaming on CAM4 using Streaming 2.0 or External Encoder tab.
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Open Broadcaster Software (OBS)

CAM4 is an official streaming platform on OBS! This means OBS will auto configure your exact setting needs for optimal streaming on CAM4.

Here’s how it works:

 

  1. Login to Cam4.com > Select Broadcast
  2. Select > External Encoder
  3. Select > Get Stream Key
  4. Highlight Stream Key and Copy key as it will be pasted into OBS
  5. Open > OBS
  6. Select > Tools. Then select > Auto Configuration Wizard
  7. Select > Optimize for streaming, recording is secondary
  8. Click > Next
  9. Base (Canvas) Resolution select: Use Current

** Base canvas = your primary monitor’s resolution**

  1. FPS: Select 30
  2. Click > Next
  3. Stream Type: Streaming Services
  4. Service: Cam4 (show all if Cam4 is not listed)
  5. Stream Key: (clear if populated; paste key previously copied from your Cam4 broadcast window)
  6. Estimate bitrate with bandwidth test: CHECKED
  7. Prefer Hardware Encoding (if an option): UNCHECKED
  8. Click > Next
  9. Stream Warning pop up box: Select YES and wait while settings are configured
  10. OBS then shows Final Results for your settings.

              Select Apply to use the new settings.

              Settings will not be applied if you select Cancel

Other Article to check out:

What Is External Encoding?

How Do I Improve My Broadcast Quality?

How To Use Lightstream Studio

~That’s all for this lesson!

Happy Camming!

Love, Your CAM4 Coaching TEAM

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Auto Pause after a Private or Group Show

Auto-Pause is designed to give you time to prepare to be in front of your regular viewers again after your Private or Group show ends.

Go grab some food or something to drink, clean up, use the washroom, or change your outfit. You have 5 minutes to do whatever you need to do before going live on cam for your viewers again.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

Start your Private or Group show as you normally would.  At the end of the show, your stream will pause for a maximum of 5 minutes .

What YOU will see:


What your VIEWERS will see:

The stream is resumable at any time by clicking on the “Resume Stream” button. 

If you do not resume the stream during the first 5 minutes, the stream ends automatically. 

Private Show requests are not available while your show is paused. 

~That’s all for this lesson!

Happy Camming!
Love, Your Coaching Team!

Promoting Yourself, Broadcaster Tools, Broadcaster Tools, Broadcaster Tools

BOOST: The Ultimate Way to Grow your Audience

 

 

 

 

 

Struggling to build an audience? Just logged on and want to kickstart your show?

Now you can BOOST your room higher in the directory for just 25 tokens!

CAM4 has put YOU in the drives seat, giving YOU the ability to increasing your rank on the page so you  will get more viewers in your show!

How it Works:  

BOOST will display on your screen once you start a LIVE broadcast and is visible to you and your viewers.

This feature (once purchased) will  position you within the top percent of cams currently on the site for the duration of the BOOST.

Click on the “BOOST” button to start the feature.

It costs 25 tokens to BOOST your cam for 5 minutes, or until you have gained 10 new viewers in your room (to a max of 30 mins).

When you click on “Proceed” the cost of the BOOST will be deducted from your CAM4 account and your cam will be re-positioned on the directory page. 

What Happens when BOOST starts?

  1. You will see a message in your chat letting you know who purchased the boost.
  2. There is a bar on your broadcast window that will slowly fill up as the time runs out. 
  3. The BOOST button is now inactive, this mean you cannot click on it. The text has also changed to read” Boost Active” and includes a count down. 

PRO TIP
When your boost is active, more people will be seeing your thumbnail. This is your moment to try to attract more viewers to your show! Switch it up with an alluring pose, a sexy strip tease, wet t-shirt show, or closeups. Anything you can do to attract the attention of the new audience you now have access to.

What Happens When the BOOST ends?

  1. The button will say “Boost” again become active enabling you to click on it again.
  2. You will see a message in the chat window that will tell you that the BOOST has ended and display how many viewers you gained during that BOOST.
  3. Your directory position will change, but not necessarily back to your original position – because your new position will reflect increases in your viewers due to the boost.

Viewers can BOOST you too!!

Viewers are always looking for ways to  support of their favorite broadcasters. Why not encourage them to use the Boost feature on you?  With their help, boosting can really make a difference in your performance and exposure on CAM4. 

~That’s all for this lesson!

Happy Camming!
Love, Your Coaching Team!

Contests

Cam Of The Month Contest

Our CAM-Of-The-Month contest is open to ALL broadcasters on CAM4 awarding 20 prizes totalling $15,000 USD each month.

CAM OF THE DAY
Each day CAM4 recognizes 20 broadcasters who have the most logged-in viewers in their room during a single broadcast. In addition to the award, each of the 20 broadcasters is awarded points according to their position.

DAILY POINTS BREAKDOWN

1st                    7 points

2nd                   6 points

3rd                   5 points

4th                   4 points

5th – 9th          3 points

10th – 14th     2 points

15th – 20th     1 point

CAM OF THE MONTH
At the end of the month, the top 20 broadcasters with the most points from CAM Of The Day, who meet the minimum earnings requirement,  and are within the guidelines stated in the rules are eligible to win a cash prize!

PRIZE BREAKDOWN

1st                    $2,500

2nd                   $2,000

3rd                   $1,500

4th                   $1,000

5th – 9th           $750

10th – 14th      $500

15th – 20th      $250

AWARD RULES

Minimum Earnings: Must earn a minimum of $250 during each month’s contest period. Bonuses and contest prizes are excluded.

Tip Restrictions: Tips from other performers/studios do not count toward the minimum required earnings.

Peak Viewers Only: Only logged-in viewers count towards peak viewer total.

One Win Per Period: A broadcaster can only win once per day/month.

Valid Contact Information: A valid email address must be on file so we can contact you if you win.

Eligibility: Employees, contractors, and coaches of CAM4 are ineligible to participate.

Terms Compliance: Shows violating our Terms of Service will be automatically disqualified.

Zero Tolerance for Cheating: Cheaters will be disqualified for that month. Repeat cheaters will be permanently removed from the contest.

Harassment Policy: Threats, harassment, or abusive behavior directed towards other broadcasters, moderators, tippers, or CAM4 staff will result in immediate disqualification. Repeat offenders will face permanent removal from the contest. This includes harassment by moderators or tippers associated with a broadcaster.

Final Authority: CAM4 Admin decisions are final.

Note: Peak viewers are members who are logged in and viewing your broadcast. You can view the number of peak viewers for any broadcast by going into the Broadcaster Dashboard > Insights > Live Broadcasts.

The competition rules can be found at http://www.cam4.com/contest/rules/