2013-05-17, 05:48 PM
Link Wrote:$10 a month? Really? A single video a month can still easily make you more than that, unless you get absolutely zero people watching your videos. Hell, I haven't uploaded a single video in months, yet up until last month, my average Adsense income was $30 a month. The average Let's Play-er, who uploads videos regularly and gets a decent amount of views, probably makes at least double that. Anyone who has a steady viewer base will make hundreds easily.
Now, while that's not a great amount of income - certainly not something one can live off of - it does make a huge impact on livelihood, as well as the ability to maintain one's channel for the purpose of supplying future content.
While that has been there since forever, Google's Adsense service, the one Youtube provides by default, contradicts that, as you can see in my previous post, where I liked to that rule. Video game footage is not in the red, unless you're not doing it right.
Oh, what, you mean this?
Quote:What can I monetize?
Video game content may be monetized depending on the commercial use rights granted to you by licenses of video game publishers. Some video game publishers allow you to use all video game content for commercial use and state that in their license agreements. Likewise, videos showing software user interface may be monetized only if you have a contract with the publisher or you have paid a licensing fee.
This thing, that says that you can only monetize video game footage with the express permission from the copyright holder? And makes it even more express when it points out it "may only be monetized only if you have a contract with the publisher or you have paid a licensing fee."? Which completely contradicts the point you made?
Nintendo specifically retracted their permission for people to monetize their videos. If the idea that you can't make money off your Nintendo videos discourages you from doing them, then, well, have fun on your 360 I guess.