I hear you juggernaut, and I know you're right.
I set up a female friend as a chathost at CamContacts last March and she performed from my place for about six months. She made lots of money actually but quit to have a baby. Great girl, and very popular too as a real British amateur with great English/chat skills among loads of non-English hosts.
She also got some really weird offers. Some guys are crazy! lol
Anyway, on the CamContacts chathost forum there was always a guy called "RedBaron" who'd help the girls to market themselves. I was led to believe he was very good at promoting camgirls but often the hosts were worried as his requests for content etc from them were very specific. I was never sure if he was genuine or not, but I'm pretty sure if, like you said, I ask the website owners for permission before approaching any hosts for content, I should be okay.
As far as actually getting any content from them.....who knows, but I'm pretty certain that to be successsful with webcam freesites you need that content to be able to promote a specific host.
I'm Live is currently converting for me at around 1:1500 or so from just text links and banners on my freesites, which is very nice, but I long to be able to find a good set of photos or videos and link to that specific online host just to see what the difference is in conversions.
I'll get round to digging deeper into webcam freesites soon and see what happens. The trouble is - I'm discovering that the more pies you have your fingers in the less you can wiggle them freely. Daily freesites, a hub or two, a few webcam sites and the time soon ticks away!
