Game Jolt and Ad Revenue Sharing

[CROS]

Hey guys, it's been a while. This is CROS from Game Jolt.

Just wanted to keep you updated with some new developments on the site. While we've hinted at it in the past, we're finally revealing some information on Ad Revenue Sharing on Game Jolt. This has usually been reserved for just Flash/casual games, but in our long fight to rid the world of greedy publishers, here ya go!

http://gamejolt.com/developers/ad-sharing/

Tell us what you think.

[fred]

I think the revenue sharing is a very good initiative, in fact I signed up and uploaded one of my games. The site looks very good too, although I wish I could specify width and height of my uploaded SWF (600x450 in this case, to avoid margins.)

Maybe you can reveal more details about the revenue sharing - payment options and expected earnings? Does gamejolt have many visitors yet, etc?

Abstracta on GameJolt.com

[CROS]

Hey there,

Nice game you got there. I was impressed. Pretty funny to get a flash game from the AGS forum.

The reason there's margins is because the chatroom will eventually be popped in the right side of the flash game. This way people can chat while playing. It does go based off of the aspect ratio of the game, but if we let users set the site, we'd have a hard time designing around it.

As for more details about the revenue sharing, we'll be releasing more information on the rates and payment options and what not when the closed beta launches. You should expect more information hopefully within a few weeks.

To give you an example for now, though, I Wanna Be The Guy, which gets a fair amount of visitors since it's a popular game, would probably be getting around $5-10 a month. These revenues WILL go up the more people use the site. Since it's fairly small right now, we can't haggle for great prices. The more it grows, the better prices we will be able to negotiate with ad networks.

Glad you signed up. If you've got any other games, be sure to stick them up.

By the way, this isn't the only way we plan to give back to the developers. Just a place to start. Be sure to check back often, or sign up for the newsletter.

[Dualnames]

Not sure if I got this right, but we get a share sort of, from the ads that people go to from our game page, without paying game jolt anything for that privilege?

[fred]

Hey there,

Nice game you got there. I was impressed. Pretty funny to get a flash game from the AGS forum.

The reason there's margins is because the chatroom will eventually be popped in the right side of the flash game. This way people can chat while playing. It does go based off of the aspect ratio of the game, but if we let users set the site, we'd have a hard time designing around it.

As for more details about the revenue sharing, we'll be releasing more information on the rates and payment options and what not when the closed beta launches. You should expect more information hopefully within a few weeks.

To give you an example for now, though, I Wanna Be The Guy, which gets a fair amount of visitors since it's a popular game, would probably be getting around $5-10 a month. These revenues WILL go up the more people use the site. Since it's fairly small right now, we can't haggle for great prices. The more it grows, the better prices we will be able to negotiate with ad networks.

Glad you signed up. If you've got any other games, be sure to stick them up.

By the way, this isn't the only way we plan to give back to the developers. Just a place to start. Be sure to check back often, or sign up for the newsletter.

@CROS Ok, thanks for the explanations, I'm looking forward to the beta. I'll upload some more games soon.

@Dualnames I think it's a fair deal - GameJolt provide the portal, including file hosting and growing user base, while developers provide the actual game content for the site.