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!
Anyways, my favourite gaming walkthrough channel has to be Yamimash - if you haven't heard of him, LOOK HIM UP!
He does mostly scary games and his reactions are truly priceless!
Any other favourites?
Rooster Teeth achievement guides I have definitely used a couple of times and their podcast is pretty funny.
[ October 17, 2012, 09:41 AM: Message edited by: Andy-Laa ]
Posted by Iowas foot slave (Member # 28971) on :
I wish I could make that kind of money off of gaming. I need yo get a capture card and start making gaming tuts now.
Posted by Patrick (Member # 1169) on :
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
Posted by Andy-Laa (Member # 31511) on :
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.
Posted by kingler (Member # 40920) on :
I know a few of the high profile walk-through uploaders. They certainly don't make that much!
Posted by Andy-Laa (Member # 31511) on :
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."
Posted by Patrick (Member # 1169) on :
Thanks Andy,
I knew people couldn't just record, say Tomb Raider, post the walk though and make money off the Tomb Raider name like that.
Patrick
Posted by Andy-Laa (Member # 31511) on :
quote:Originally posted by Patrick: Thanks Andy,
I knew people couldn't just record, say Tomb Raider, post the walk though and make money off the Tomb Raider name like that.
Patrick
Ironically though, you'd have to break copyright in order to be considered good enough to be partnered...