We track cam industry award winners across all of the major categories, with archives of major events since 2013, including: AVN, XBIZ, Lalexpo, YNOT, AW Awards, Live Cam Awards and Venus Awards.
Please note that this is not an exhaustive list of every single award a cam company has won. It's simply not practical for us to include every single accolade.
We are still in the process of archiving results from other events where the historical winners are difficult to verify, or where the event has been discontinued.
2024's award season kicked off with the XBIZ Awards at Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. BongaCams took home Company of the Year honors for the first time since 2019.
Cherry.tv won its third Emerging Platform title in the space of 3 years. Warehouse-x.io picked up an LCA for Fastest Growing Platform with its sleek Big Brother-style voyeur experience. Streamate took the coveted XBIZ Premium Cam Site award for the third year in a row.
LiveJasmin was overshadowed by its crowd-pleasing freemium rivals during the pandemic, but it returned to winning ways with multiple key awards in 2022. LiveUnicorns would pick up an 'Emerging Platform' award from AWA. Don't waste your time with that one - it's dead already!
Major award ceremonies from XBIZ and AVN were held virtually. Lockdowns would gradually ease through 2021, but sites like StripChat, BongaCams and Chaturbate were still seeing massive numbers from the impact of working from home (clearly, more fapping from home). Unsurprisingly, it was a dominant year for the freemium sites.
BongaCams briefly became the most visited cam site in the world, before Covid-19 struck. Lockdowns saw a massive spike in cam site usage with StripChat adding a staggering 300,000 models and doubling its traffic in a single year. Award ceremonies went ahead at the start of the year, but were carried out virtually from the spring onwards.
Competition among the freemium sites was starting to heat up. Newcomer StripChat took another Emerging Platform title, as well as the top Freemium Platform from AWA. BongaCams hit a double-whammy with Best Cam Company from XBIZ and Best Cam Site at the Venus Awards.
StripChat picked up Emerging Platform awards from LCA and AWA for the second year running, foreshadowing the massive spike in growth that was to follow during the Covid-19 pandemic. LiveJasmin continued its dominance in the flagship categories.
BongaCams celebrated a year of successful acquisitions by collecting Best Freemium Platform at the AW Awards. The company acquired RusCams.com and Runekti.com, adding thousands of popular Ukraininan and Russian models to its roster. It would soon become known as "the European Chaturbate".
2016 marked the arrival of StripChat, a site that would eventually become the most visited cam platform in the world. LiveJasmin was still the premier 'paid' cam site, but Chaturbate had wrestled a large percentage of the freemium market away from MyFreeCams. 2016 also saw the arrival of Cam4VR, an early take on virtual reality camming led by Ela Darling on the Cam4 platform.
IMLive enjoyed its most successful year, sailing past 33 million members. CamPlace.com was seen as the hottest new site on the block, but it would fizzle out and close by early 2022.
More top honors for LiveJasmin and MyFreeCams in what was a quiet year for cam industry awards. 2014 saw the launch of CamSoda by Daron Lundeen, a platform that would become known for its quirky PR stunts.
LiveJasmin swept top honours at the 30th annual AVN Awards, as well as Berlin's Venus Awards. MyFreeCams was still the dominant free cam site, but newly launched Chaturbate was gaining traction fast.