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There's this little tool called Socialblade which approximates the money made from advertising on Youtube through their partnership program.
One of the most prolific gamer I know of is the channel, PewDiePie - he has just south of 1,000 videos on Youtube with upwards of 1,000,000 views on each video.
His socialblade stats (based on number of videos/views per day/ views per video/number of likes, comments etc) show he's making:
$3,000 - $27,600 per day or: $1.1M - $10.1M per year!
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So, since he's posting guides using someone else's created media (the game & its name), do those game companies grab that cash? Curious to how that would work being people wouldn't go for them if there product's name wasn't associated with it.
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I believe it's a bit of a legal grey-area, Patrick.
I'm sure, in time, the game companies will make it impossible to make money in such a way, but I believe the current reasoning is that you don't watch these kinds of videos for the videogame - it's all about the personality of the commentator.
quote:Originally posted by Patrick: So, since he's posting guides using someone else's created media (the game & its name), do those game companies grab that cash? Curious to how that would work being people wouldn't go for them if there product's name wasn't associated with it.
Patrick
Have just seen something that addresses this very point:
"You need to have contract agreements with every game company in order to be allowed to show videos of their games. To do this you need to be partnered with a "Gaming Channel" that puts forth the effort to get contracts with all of these companies in order to put advertising on the games in question."
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