2016 AW Awards Winners Announced

2016 AW Awards Winners Announced

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.

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