1. Liberty Valentine (1)
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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* Model appears to be active in site, which is a good sign for longevity
* Good quality 720x480 vids with decent number available considering the relatively new age of the site
* Sexy British accent!
* Performs camshows on occasion |
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* Very teasy content - really mostly topless. Nothing pink to see yet (unless you buy an extra-cost zipset). This will be fine for some folks, but meant I was a bit bored.
* Extra-cost zipsets only available to members, which means if I decide I want to buy it in a couple of months, I'd have to join the site again
* Site is young, and at the current rate it will take a few months to build up content
* Pictures not zipped for easy download |
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I gave this site a 79, which puts it in the "does some things good, some things poor", though I don't know that it really does anything poorly. I mean sure $24.95 seems a bit much right now for the 20ish vids and picsets that are available (an estimate - I was a member about a month ago and 16 were available), but the pics look good, the vids look good, and Libi looks great. There's just not a lot here just yet. It would be nice to see archived camshows, some longer and more revealing vids (with less of them being photoshoot vids), zip files for the picsets, and altogether just more sets of everything and this would be a pretty good site!
All in all, Liberty is a hottie, and her site appears to be in good working order for the time being. If she continues to build up content, I could see her site gaining popularity in the coming months. Hopefully she doesn't go the way of so many other solo models and stops updating before the site has a chance to be great.
My one big gripe would be the extra-cost zipsets. These are always disappointing to me because it usually means that you're not likely to see content in her paysite that is more revealing than what is in the zipset. I know a lot of models probably make some good cash off of that trick (the "spunky" and phil-flash sites sure have enough of them that they must be profitable), but my porn budget, while probably above average, still doesn't usually allow me the luxury of a $39.99 charge for what usually amounts to a single set of photos with usually a short vid attached. Peachez is a good example of a model who has established a pattern with her site's normal content, but sprinkles in some wilder stuff on occasion. She has resisted the urge to go the zipset route, and her fans still clamor desperately for her next wild video to come out. Liberty Valentine could do the same, and I think her site would catch my interest a little more. As it stands, I have to recommend that you wait a month or two to let some content build up before you join, and know ahead of time that the content is going to be pretty soft, with expensive upsells to the more interesting stuff. If you're ok with that, you just might love Liberty Valentine. |
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2. Club Sophie Dee (2)
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Was a member approx. 3 months prior to this review.
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-Official site of Welsh-born, USA-based porn star Sophie Dee.
-Sophie Dee's blue eyes and sexy accent.
-Most content is exclusive and very diverse: from the goofiest to a bit too fetishy.
-70% solo, 10% boy-girl, 10% girl-girl, 5% fetish, 5% BTS.
-200+ picture galleries, 30 pics per gallery.
-130+ videos, 7 minutes on average.
-Videos are available in WMV, QT. WMV are 720x480, 2000+kbps.
-Member-only message board. Sophie Dee and her webmaster always reply.
-Site has a nice design and is easy to navigate.
-Small extras section with Sophie Dee games (puzzles, strip poker, etc).
-ccbill. Special price when joining through TBP/PU.
-No DRM or download limit of any kind (speed or amount).
CURRENT UPDATE RATE
-2 weekly photo galleries; 1 weekly video (there used to be 2 weekly in the beginning).
-3-4 weekly short diary entries with photos; 1 monthly chat (not part of any cam network). |
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-Pictures and videos are somewhat amateur looking.
-Pictures are small. 1024x700 pics is low for today's standards.
-Usually there's poor lighting in the pictures; Sophie Dee looks great even though.
-No zip file option to download full galleries.
-No categories: only Photos and Videos sections although content is quite diverse.
-Mainly solo content; they try interesting variations but it can get repetitive.
-Too few boy-girl scenes; the existing ones are quite good, though.
-Recent videos are more disturbing than fetish: 7-8 in a "Sex Slave" series or a non-sex one where she fights a guy who is trying to choke her.
-Free tour isn't good at getting an idea on the amount of content available. |
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If you are a fan of Sophie Dee, do not hesitate about giving the site a try. Do not expect the content to be top quality but you will get 3 different exclusive updates per week (2 pics, 1 video) and more than decent interaction: almost daily blog entries, the model is active in the message board and there's a fair amount of behind-the-scenes pics and videos. This is much more than the average official porn star site offers.
Although it has flaws, I feel this is the kind of site every porn star should attempt to have. According to iafd, Sophie Dee appeared in 50 movies in 2007, 20 movies so far in 2008. Despite this, she also manages to constantly update the site with exclusive content and keep in touch with members via the diary and message board. I think it's pretty remarkable because it's also extremely rare. For instance, only a couple of days after the last Adultcon, a gallery was posted with photos of her there.
Be warned, though, that the content is probably different than what you might have seen of Sophie Dee in movies. Most videos and pics are endless variants of solo: goofy posing, masturbation, playing/masturbating with food, body parts closeups, holiday greetings (New Year, Easter, St. Patrick's, ...). It also has quite an amateur flare: it feels like her webmaster comes to her house from time to time to get a bunch of pictures and videos with very little setup apart from makeup. The results are often more than OK but do not expect Suze Randall quality. Also, there's very little boy-girl and half of it is a recent series with a masked "sex slave" humiliated in endless ways.
All in all, I feel this is a very recommendable site. The model is sexy and works hard to keep the site fresh. There's a lot of content so a little categorization would be more than welcome. Some more professional shoots, bigger pictures and less fetish videos would also benefit it. |
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3. Nikki Benz (1)
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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-Official site of Canadian, LA-based porn star Nikki Benz.
-Easy to use; good content categorization.
-175+ video scenes (54 sets), mostly from DVDs. 15 minutes on average.
-Video categories: 65% boy-girl, 20% girl-girl, 15% solo.
-5 thumbnails per video set: nice for single files but not useful for whole movies split in 10 files.
-200+ picture galleries, 80 images per set, zipfiles, dated, picture count stated.
-Photo sets: 30% solo, 30% candids, 20% girlfriends, 10% boy-girl, 10% girl-girl.
-Professional photography, stylism, elaborate settings. A few Matrix HD but others must be exclusive.
-30% of photo sets published in last 6 months. Not all shot recently.
-Cool search function for pictures and videos: clothing type, clothing color and scenario.
-Long blog entries with pictures (1-2 times a week).
-Model is answering all questions members post in the message board.
-Free tour lists most recent updates. Also has a detailed calendar (feature dancing, shoots, travels).
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-Low download limit: as soon as you download 1Gbyte, you get blocked for 6 hours.
-Expensive for a solo model site.
-Pictures are somewhat small. 50% are 1200x800; 50% are 1024x700 or lower.
-Most videos are and look very low-resolution. 70% are 320x240 (400kbps), 20% are 512x384 (650kbps).
-All videos but a couple recent ones are non-exclusive (come from DVDs).
-Although, according to Nikki Benz posts in message board, she has shot new content, I was only able catch 1 new video.
-Free tour hints she might do cam shows but she currently doesn't.
-Content from other models is mixed with Nikki Benz-only content and diminishes the good impression of the site.
-For instance, I believe girl-girl scenes without her should be listed under girlfriends category and not girl-girl.
-Album / Favorites is broken: all members probably share the same favorites and thumbnails don't work there. |
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Looks like Nikki Benz recently regained control of her site. I was a member about a year ago and I feel the core video content is still the same, though. Release dates of video updates are most prior to 2007 except for a handful of DVDs that have been posted this year. Recent content this year has consisted mainly of picture sets although I am not sure they were shot recently: Nikki Benz had her boobs redone earlier this year and she is still sporting the "old" ones in these sets. 20+ solo sets (professional / high-end glamour with toys and masturbation) or 20+ candid ones (outings, parties, conventions).
On the other hand, according to her blog, calendar and posts in the message board, she's been shooting new content. I only had time to catch a solo anal masturbation update but it was pretty good: high-end location, good performance, well-lit, decent camera work. It was a 6 minutes 640x480 (4000kbps) WMV file so this will probably the standard for new content that will be released in the immediate future (probably right now).
The tour claims the site has her entire collection of movies. I did some research and there's probably everything she did while under contract with Pleasure Productions (videos from 14 movies here) and Jill Kelly (10). Other videos I could identify were from Zero Tolerance On Demand (5), Diabolic (3), Third Movies / 3rd Degree (3), Wicked Pictures (1) and Vivid (1). According to iafd, she has appeared in 86 titles. The tour also claims that most video content is exclusive. This is also currently not true as these DVDs are the main video content. This will change as the new content is uploaded. As I said, new content looks quite promising.
All in all, I got the impression she is pretty busy (feature dances across the US almost every weekend and shoots adult videos several times a month) but still manages to get back to site members via her blog a couple times a week and reply to all message board questions. Site is updated several times a week with new Nikki Benz content so I really don't see why they also release so many content from other models and mix it with her content. |
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