MAMAIA, Romania — The AW Awards, which celebrates the best of the best from the live cam industry — models, studios, websites and all of the other components in the business segment — were announced Wednesday evening.
Cam industry vet Douglas Richter, whose been busy representing Supermen.com, and cam chat host LittleRedBunny, who in 2015 received Cam Girl of the Year at the AW Awards, hosted the awards presentation.
The AW Awards, noted as “the Oscars of the live cam industry,” is held as the culminating event of the AW Summit, a leading trade convention that launched in 2014 for the benefit of companies, models, product manufacturers and technology firms involved in the camming biz. The awards presentation, a formal gala dinner show, was launched last year.
The AW Awards this year included votes numbering about 800,000 industry and fan votes, with 465,000 of them voted during the nominations phase, organizers said. Chaturbate, LiveJasmin, CAM4, Studio 20, Flirt4Free and SkyPrivate were among sponsors of the 2016 program.
Here are the 2016 AW Awards winners:
Best Payment Company
Paxum
Best CMS Platform
ModelCentro
Best Online News or Community
XBIZ
Best Ad Network
PlugRush
Emerging Studio of the Year
ManeQueen
Non-Adult Model of the Year
BunnyAngel
Model-Friendly Affiliate Program
CamContacts
Live Cam Affiliate of the Year
FireCams.com
Best Solo Website
PatriciaGoddess.com
Best Mobile Interface
XLoveCam
Emerging Camsite of the Year
FreeWebcams
Most Innovative Studio of the Year
AJ Studios
Boy/Gay Camsite of the Year
Flirt4Free
Best White Label
CamBuilder
Fan Vote — Best Smile
AriannaEden
Social Media Star
LiviaChoice
Most Appreciated Company Representative
Zsolt Kovács
Best Newcomer
Taniussha
TS Model of the Year
Kelly Price
Best Broadcaster Software
LiveJasmin
Best Affiliate Program
BongaCash
Most Innovative Camsite
Chaturbate
Cam Boy of the Year
Stefano
Fan Vote — Most Attractive Model
JuliaBlake
Freemium Camsite of the Year
Chaturbate
Premium Camsite of the Year
LiveJasmin
Business Man of the Year
Shay Efron
Cam Studio of the Year
Studio 20
Alternative/Fetish Model of the Year
SeductiveGoddess1
Fan Vote — Best Entertainer
DeviousAngell
Camsite of the Year
LiveJasmin
Cam Girl of the Year
SuperbBianca
Honorific Awards
CAM4
Payout Magazine
Nightprowl Studio
An unedited video of the entire 2016 AW Awards in Romania can be viewed here.