B4 - General Topic 2025 #7 (February)

[moules]

2 hours ago, Xarvaz said:

I think it's a good thing that you can't watch anything without a subscription, maybe we are now also freed from the trolls who come here endlessly to proclaim their belief that they never watch and that paying people are idiots, RLC is now helping them get rid of their addiction... good luck Fra (peeep)

Xlife still has previews without a subscription.  I expect that RLC will return to the previews model.  They may be trying to adjust the load balancers with the new apartments / tenants.   And there is supposedly one new apartment slotted for Barcelona.  Plus, they need to upgrade the number of cameras in the XLife spotlight apartments in Barcelona.

[StnCld316]

18 minutes ago, moules said:

Xlife still has previews without a subscription.  I expect that RLC will return to the previews model.  They may be trying to adjust the load balancers with the new apartments / tenants.   And there is supposedly one new apartment slotted for Barcelona.  Plus, they need to upgrade the number of cameras in the XLife spotlight apartments in Barcelona.

I read their script on the elements and it shows they currently have a Guest Blocking software installed that's preventing anyone without a subscription access. 

[itohkata]

8 hours ago, Detrez said:

 In September reallifecam.com received 7.7M visits with the average session duration 09:42.

How many subs do they really have?

actually that should be "received an estimated amount of 7.7M". Unless RLC shared them publicly (and we know how much they like to share things), nobody knows for sure the real number.
But let's work with that number and round it up to 8M.

Out of curiosity I wondered how much they could be making :

RLC is a very "niche" website and the free cams never offered much. Internet standard for freemium is about 2% of paying vs 98% not paying. But in case of RLC I think they might be at least 10%. But let's lowball it to 2%. So, that's 160 000 subscriber each month (might be recurring, might be not recurring, doesn't matter). If we suppose ppl use the 90 days @18.31 / month, no replay, that's almost 3 000 000 € in revenue. 

Of that, let's remove 6K/villas (rent/mortgage/utility), 3K/apt in Spain/Rome and 2K/apt in the rest of the world. So, 13*2 + 6*3 + 2*6 = 56K/month. but to be on the safe side, round it up to 100K/month. 

53 participants, working on the 850€/month that they theorically earn for sitting on their ass, 45K. But to be safe, rounding it to 100K/month with the bonuses.

I'll throw in 100K/month of support staff, because why not ? 

Hosting ? I got you !

They host their own solution (that's cheaper), but let's use Google Cloud Live streaming prices for HD (yeah, I know) : 0.43€/streamed hour. So let's suppose on average a sub'd user watch 6 hours/day, that is 412 800€ of streaming. But you know me now, I'm generous, so let's make that 1 000 000€ in hosting costs. 

I would add the cost of running a company (lawyers, accountant, etc) but that's a drop in the ocean compared to those numbers. 

So where does it put us  in terms of costs : 1 000 000 hosting - 100 000 support staff - 100 000 tenants - 100 000 rents/mortgage = 1.3M
Even if I'm wrong with my estimations and that you double the costs to 2.6M, that would leave them with 400K/month of revenue (before taxes).

Sounds like a very profitable busines.

8 hours ago, cupid30 said:

"I've got mine,fuck you!" I get it✌️

You got that perfectly right 😄 

7 hours ago, Detrez said:

But has she showered yet?  The first thing most people do after a day of travel is shower, she's going on to day 2.

Are you the one always posting about showering (about Jessi for ex) ? If so, is that a fetish of yours, or are you germophobe. If not, nevermind that.

[jove]

Are the cameras blurry in your house too?

[corvette08]

1 hour ago, jove said:

Are the cameras blurry in your house too?

I don't have cameras in my house.

[itohkata]

48 minutes ago, corvette08 said:

I don't have cameras in my house.

If you're interested I know X-Life is looking for new places. 

You're probably not my type but I'm not the standard !