Portals that Offer Revenue Share
Revenue sharing is a nice option that allows developers to make money from a portal’s advertising. Since site advertising, which can include CPC, CPA, and CPM methods, generally pays much better than in-game advertising it is an excellent additional revenue option when you are distributing your game. Here are a couple site’s that offer revenue share.
Kongregate
Kongregate does a good job of securing high ad revenues for their portal. I’ve heard stories of upwards of $10-$15 eCPMs for some games. Of course the eCPM varies, but Kongregate has by far the highest of all the portals reviewed in this list. All developers that submit their flash games to Kongregate earn a 25% revenue share from the ads on their game page but if you add all of their API’s, you will net a 35% revenue share. On top of that, if your game is exclusive to Kongregate you will earn an extra 15%; making it possible to earn 50% of the ad revenue generated by your game. Payouts occur when you reach $25, and can be received through the mail, PayPal, or MoneyBookers.
Newgrounds
Newgrounds offers revenue share for both flash developers and musicians. The metrics package for tracking your stats looks nice, but the eCPM is fairly low. To enable revenue share, you must create an account on Newgrounds and go to your account page, then find the Revenue Box and follow the instructions.
GameGum
GameGum’s system of revenue sharing is a bit different from Newgrounds and Kongregate. They reward you for being an active user of their site. Depending on how many community points you have, you can earn anywhere from 25-50% revenue share. To be eligible, you’ll need a google Adsense account to enter your publisher id into your account page on GameGum.
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July 11th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
I wasn’t aware of GameGum, I’ll have to check them out. Using this in my link dump, good stuff.
July 12th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
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July 13th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Thanks Porter. My alexa toolbar seems to be broken in Firefox 3.5, but they had a decent ranking last I checked. It’s not as big as the others, but you could still probably make a little bit off them if your game got featured or frontpaged.
July 15th, 2009 at 10:27 am
Gamegum seems to be down. I keep getting an error when I try to upload games, and they still haven’t gotten back to me.
July 15th, 2009 at 11:51 am
Are you registered? Perhaps that is it.
If not, then I’m not sure what the problem would be. I checked their recent games and they have ones that were submitted 2 hours ago, so it can’t be that all games aren’t submitting. Wait a little for their email reply, portals usually take up to a week to respond. If not, ask around in their forums.
I liked your game Arian Starfighter. The voice acting was a nice touch, and gameplay was pretty fun too. Good luck submitting it.
July 16th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Thanks. I am registered, but it still didn’t work. I’ll try again later. I’m working on the prequel to Arian starfighter right now lol. It’ll be from the Japanese perspective.
July 16th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Hmm… I’m not sure then. Sorry I couldn’t help more. And sounds interesting, let me know when it’s finished so I can play it.
July 20th, 2009 at 3:43 am
Yeah. i keep getting this error:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 12582912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 8634468 bytes) in /home/gamegum/public_html/backend/functions.games.php on line 653
I tried contacting them, but they haven’t responded.
July 20th, 2009 at 7:25 am
What’s the MB size of your game? Perhaps your game is too large for their site.
July 20th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
My game is about 4.3 MB.
July 21st, 2009 at 7:39 am
Hmm… I’m not sure then. It says 10MB is the maximum filesize. So it can’t be that. Try posting about it in there forums, maybe you’ll get more luck there. Besides that, I’m out of ideas. Sorry, best of luck submitting it.