Studio 20

What it is

Studio 20 is a videochat company founded in Bucharest in 2000. It hires webcam models, trains them and pays them a commission on what they take in on international cam platforms. Its own "Ce este Studio 20" page says it operates 5 offices in 3 countries and works with more than 500 models. The Romanian site, studio20.ro, is aimed at people looking for a first videochat job, and a second site, studio20.live, carries English recruitment pages for applicants abroad. The business model is spelled out on the Romanian site: the company acts as an intermediary between models and the platforms, supplies rooms, equipment, internet, training and administration, and the revenue is shared between platform, studio and model. The same page says models carry no equipment or space costs.

Applicants must be adults. The site says recruitment is exclusively for people over 18, on the basis of a valid identity document, and that age verification is mandatory at hiring. No experience is required.

The offices listed on the Romanian site are Bucharest (the head office at Piața Unirii, sector 4), Pitești (Complex Fortuna, Bld. I.C. Brătianu no. 3), Cluj-Napoca (Strada Lunetei 15), Los Angeles (1253 Vine Street) and Bogotá (Carrera 69c). The English site lists further studios in its contact form, among them a Brașov address and Eva Agency in Bucharest, which works exclusively on Flirt4Free.

How earning works

The model performs on videochat sites by webcam and messages and is paid a commission from her takings. The Romanian pages describe the platforms only as international ones and say the model picks which of them she works on. The English site names LiveJasmin as its exclusive traffic partner and describes Studio 20 as a Jasmin Gold certified studio, a status it says brings preferential conditions and dedicated support. The model decides whether she works non-adult or adult, "fără presiune" (without pressure), and the English site says a model can work without undressing. The Romanian site adds that members from Romania are blocked, and its FAQ says access from other countries can be blocked as well.

What the studio sells to the model is the team around her. The trainers page says trainers take over new conversations in busy shifts and hand them over "încălzite", warmed up, and guide the model from the first shift. Behind her the site lists colleagues, a marketing team that brings traffic, IT technicians and a models-relations team. The English site breaks the staff of a studio into 8 departments, from management, training and technical support to photographers, a makeup artist and a hairstylist, and says a new model gets a dedicated trainer for her first 5 days, with the training extended if she needs longer. It also lists free English, general knowledge and makeup courses.

A start follows a set path. After selection comes a paid training period with a guaranteed minimum, described in the next section. A model then works from an office or from home: "poți lucra din sediu sau de acasă, cu același sprijin din partea echipei", you can work from the studio or from home with the same support from the team. The locations page says the guaranteed minimum, the commission, the training and the support are identical in every office, and that someone outside the office towns can work from home. A reply in the comments of the English site says home work needs a laptop, a nice room and some lights.

Freedom of schedule is a stated principle. The company page says it imposes no program, sets no hour targets and attaches no minimum volume of work to the collaboration. The offices are open around the clock, and the model chooses her days, hours, breaks and holidays, her trainer and her promotion strategy.

The Pitești and Cluj-Napoca pages repeat the same offer and tell applicants to apply online or come to the office for an interview. The English site asks overseas applicants to call or use the contact form, after which an interview is scheduled.

For men the Romanian site gives two answers on one page. Its opening section and first FAQ say Studio 20 no longer has male models on camera and offers men roles behind the studio instead: trainer, recruiter, account manager, marketing and traffic, support and operations, many with a fixed part plus performance bonuses, mainly in Bucharest, Pitești and Cluj-Napoca with some remote. Further down, the same page says boys and men can earn from videochat and that a gay niche is welcome. A male applicant should take the first answer as the current one until the interview says otherwise.

The English site lists extras tied to length of stay. The studio buys a beginner's makeup kit and work wardrobe, which become a gift after 3 months; a model who leaves earlier has their value retained from her last payment. After 6 months a model can ask the studio for an interest-free loan toward a car or an apartment, repaid in monthly installments from her earnings. After 12 months without interruption there is a fidelity bonus.

Money and rules

The durable terms come first. The model signs an artist-performer contract (contract de artist-interpret) on her first day and receives a copy on the spot. The English site says that at each payday the studio issues an addendum listing the earnings from each cam site for the period, the percentage the model takes, the taxes owed and the net amount, and that this net amount is transferred to her bank account. It describes that addendum as signed once every 2 weeks. The Romanian site says income is declared and taxed legally and that the company helps models declare income and pay tax. Identity is protected: the model works under a nickname, and the site says personal data is never made public.

On the split, the Romanian FAQ read in October 2026 states "comision 50% + bonusuri peste 60%", a 50% commission plus bonuses that take it past 60%. The English site spells the bonuses out as additions to the 50% gross commission for hours online in a period, for takings above a set level in a period and for a full year on the team, and puts the cumulative ceiling at 65%.

In October 2026 the Romanian site advertises a guaranteed minimum income of $1,000 a month during the paid training period. It also publishes what it calls typical earnings, 3,000 to 5,000 $ a month in the first three months and more than 10,000 $ a month afterward, depending on hours worked and involvement. Those are the studio's own marketing figures, and the same site argues that it gives realistic numbers where other studios promise unrealistic ones.

The Romanian pages print no payout threshold and no list of prohibited content beyond the adult or non-adult choice.

Who it suits

Studio 20 suits a beginner who wants a floor under her while she learns and who values a large team: the guaranteed minimum during paid training, the trainers who take over chats in busy shifts and the payday addendum are the most concrete protections in the offer. It suits a model who wants to start in an office and move to home work later, or who lives away from the office towns. It suits someone who wants the legal side handled, with a contract in hand and help with tax. The offices in Los Angeles and Bogotá make it an option for applicants outside Romania, who would use the English site.

A few caveats apply. The base share is half of takings, and the higher figure depends on hours, results and tenure, so a part-time model should expect to sit near the base. The two sites do not match in every detail: the English pages describe a larger network and a bonus ladder that the Romanian pages only summarize, so the contract and the first addendum are the documents that count. The makeup and wardrobe help turns into a deduction for a model who leaves in her first months. And men should not assume on-camera work is open to them.