Newgrounds now Offers Revenue Sharing
Good news for flash developers, the popular flash portal Newgrounds has decided to start sharing revenue with developers. The system works on a performance based advertising method, meaning you will earn money when people click on your ads (versus earning money for the number of ads that are shown). This is to counter any spam tactics that users of Newgrounds may use to drive traffic to their game pages.
Revenue share isn’t limited to game pages though, you can also earn money from Audio Portal pages as well as your profile page on Newgrounds.
The revenue sharing system comes with a nice looking metrics program to track your earnings. It includes daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly stats as well as the type of advertising the revenue comes from (flash pages, user pages, audio pages, etc.) Payments are made every month when your total reaches $50 or more.
eCPM’s differ for the new system, but they aren’t nearly as high as Kongregate’s. Still it’s a nice addition to see Newgrounds offering to share their revenue with a community that was built by developers. So head over to Newgrounds, and be sure to visit your account page to opt in to their revenue sharing program.
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April 17th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
How might another games portal offer this same type of program? Are there vendors that offer this service?
A fun games site like Chinese Gum could use that type of service.
April 18th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
I believe Newgrounds runs their own ad company, and has been working on a system for sharing revenue for some time.
I am fairly sure that Kongregate brokers their advertising directly with the advertising, which is how they get such high eCPM’s. Being such a big company, I think they integrated revenue sharing into their portal right when it came out.
I don’t focus on the workings of game portals too much, but I’m assuming you would have to program some sort of system into the portal to offer revenue sharing.
December 18th, 2009 at 5:27 am
Yes, Newground’s programmers created their own ad revenue sharing system. http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1050288