Monetizing on Youtube

[KingJanic]

I have a small youtube channel and I was wondering if I could get permission from the Devs to post Automation games now and in the future and earn money from ads. Is this ok?

[Daffyflyer]

Oh sure, I'll dig up the email we send out for that, though youtube seem to still be a pain about it even when you give them that.

[KingJanic]

Ok thank you!

[Reaper392]

Oh sure, I'll dig up the email we send out for that, though youtube seem to still be a pain about it even when you give them that.

This is slightly off topic, but having followed nerdcubed on youtube, twitter, etc, i found out some of the effects of the youtube changes and figured the OP would be very interested. It looks like youtube has changed its content ID system recently, and now it is flagging up a hell of a lot of stuff it shouldn't. There are also lots of copyright claims from fake companies pretending to be real ones (Valve and Tomb Raider have been mentioned in nerdcubed's videos, but I'm sure there are more). Whats worse is that, when* the video is wrongfully claimed, the money from the monetisation will go to that company that claimed it (with the extortionate 45% cut for youtube still going to youtube). Once the claim has been successfully removed you will have to physically change the video back to being monetised because youtube doesn't do that automatically.

Oh, and don't forget that from January 1st you will not be able to monetise your videos as soon as they are uploaded but you will have to wait until the content ID system has checked the video, so you really ought to leave the video unlisted until the content ID system goes through your video.


*I would say if, but it seems that the youtube content ID change had got everything video game related flagged up