FanCentro

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FanCentro
FanCentro Logo.png
Type of site
Premium social network
Available inEnglish, German, Spanish, Russian
Headquarters
Matawan, New Jersey
,
United States
Country of originUnited States
Area servedWorldwide
Founder(s)
  • Stan Fiskin
  • Alan Hall
CEO
  • Alan Hall
Services Social Media monetization, Direct Messaging, Clip store, Subscriptions, Feed
URL fancentro.com
LaunchedFebruary 8, 2017;7 years ago (2017-02-08)
Current statusActive

FanCentro is a subscription-based website platform created in 2017 [1] that allows adult film performers and other influencers to sell access to their private social media accounts. Due to deplatforming and shadow banning of sex-related content on social media sites, [2] the platform began allowing fans to subscribe to content feeds directly on the site. [3] The rise of premium social networks such as FanCentro, OnlyFans [4] and JustForFans is a significant shift in the structure of the porn industry, as performers can own and continue to profit from their work and better control working conditions. [5]

Contents

FanCentro has been a vocal defender of the rights of sex workers. [6] [ non-primary source needed ]

History

The FanCentro platform was developed by entrepreneurs Stan Fiskin [7] and Alan Hall [8] of AdultCentro following the success of their ModelCentro tool, which allowed individual adult performers to create their own subscription websites. [9] [10] Unlike earlier platforms, which relied on social media or external visitors, FanCentro provided content creators with the ability to build their audience from within the platform's existing audience. [11]

House Of FanCentro

In May 2019, FanCentro launched House Of FanCentro, a free one-week workshop in Miami, connecting models on its platform with professional photographers, with the goal of improving their content. [12] [13] [14] Another House of FanCentro event was held in Los Angeles later that year, and in Medellin, Colombia in 2020. [15] [16] Further events were cancelled following the outbreak of the coronavirus. [17]

Growth During COVID-19

During the 2020 coronavirus pandemic and shutdown, paid social networks experienced significant growth after mainstream adult production was halted. [18] [19] FanCentro said it saw a rise of 65% in new daily sign-ups in the first weeks of the shutdown. [20] By May 2020, the site boasted over 190,000 models (up from 15,000 in September 2019 and 6,000 in July 2018) [21] with 19,000 signing up in the preceding two months alone. [22]

FanCentro encouraged influencers on its platform to help encourage people to stay home and to fight misinformation about the COVID-19 virus. [23]

Centro University

In September 2020, FanCentro launched Centro University (stylized as "Centro U" or "CentroU"), an online business school for adult influencers. [24] [25] The program had been in development for two years but was prioritized after large numbers of new people began using the platform and others like it to sell adult content during the 2020 production holds in the adult industry. [26] Online classes in marketing and promotion, film and video production, privacy and censorship, health and safety and other subjects are taught by sex workers and available for free for anyone using the platform. [27] [28]

Features

Like other premium social networking platforms, FanCentro allows content creators (or "influencers") to interact with and directly sell to fans.

Promotions

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Riley Reid announces the winner

Lamborghini Giveaway

In June 2019, FanCentro sponsored a Lamborghini URUS in the Gumball 3000 charity race, from Mykonos to Ibiza. The Lamborghini was covered in a colored duct tape matching the style and colors of FanCentro brand, as part of a collaboration with Miami's Black Tape Project. [36] [37]

FanCentro simultaneously announced a promotional giveaway for the Lamborghini URUS to a model on its platform. Each $69 earned by a model on the platform would result in one raffle ticket. [38] On October 12, FanCentro conducted a raffle hosted by porn star Riley Reid in Los Angeles. Porn star Lela Star won the car. [39]

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