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Read More »Minecraft beats out GTA for top gaming franchise on Youtube
A new study on YouTube gaming franchises draws one inevitable conclusion: There’s Minecraft, and there’s everyone else. NewZoo and Octoly’s infographic (shown below) ranks the top 20 gaming franchises on the popular video-sharing website, and it’s little surprise to see Mojang’s title out in front. Research also shows that 96.6 …
Read More »Devolver says Yes! to YouTubers
Hotline Miami publisher allowing channel owners to keep all ad revenues for their videos
Read More »Devolver Digital gives backing to YouTubers
Can you post and monetise videos of Devolver games? Yes, emphatically yes. The MCV Awards nominated indie publisher has, in a presumed response to Nintendo’s controversial revenue sharing demands, made it clear that it is perfectly happy for video makers to stream its games and keep all the ad revenue …
Read More »PewDiePie and other YouTubers dismiss Nintendo’s proposed revenue sharing plan
Nintendo’s latest attempt to reach out to YouTubers has been ill received. Fuck you Nintendo,” PewDiePie said of the latest proposal, in which Nintendo would offer video creators between 60-70 per cent of their ad revenues in return for permission to create videos featuring its products. What they are missing …
Read More »Nintendo to share ad revenue with YouTubers
New Nintendo Creators Program promising up to 70 per cent share
Read More »Nintendo Creators Program wants to recruit YouTubers with new ad sharing offer
Wii U and 3DS platform holder Nintendo is taking another step toward repairing relations with video creators by launching a new ad revenue sharing video model. The Nintendo Creators Program offers users a 60 per cent share on ad revenue form any videos using footage from a Nintendo title. Those …
Read More »Sony removing PS Vita features
Sony will discontinue a few notable PlayStation Vita features in its upcoming series of system software updates. Games Industry reports on Sony’s updated customer support database, which details plans for the removal of YouTube and Maps apps as well as the pulling of some features from the Near social networking …
Read More »PewDiePie rules YouTube once again with 4.1bn views in 2014
UK-based Swede Felix ‘PewDiePie’ Kjelberg was the single most watched person on YouTube in 2014. The Guardian reports that his videos were watched 4.1bn times over the year, a period at the end of which he boasted 33.5m subscribers. This time last year he had 20.9m. There may be signs …
Read More »Microsoft happy for users to make money from their Xbox game footage on YouTube and Twitch
The greenlight has been given to gamers to monetise footage of their Xbox gameplay on YouTube and Twitch. Microsoft has granted users personal, non-exclusive, non-sublicenseable, non-transferable, revocable, limited license” to use game content to generate ad revenue on both video services. Any content not posted to YouTube of Twitch, however, …
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