Youtube Partnership Program

[EPsilon933]

Dear UsurperKingZant,

Your video It Takes Guts to be AMAZING has become popular on YouTube, and you're eligible to apply for the YouTube Partnership Program, which allows you to make money from playbacks of your video.
Once you're approved, making money from your video is easy. Here's how it works: First sign into your YouTube account. Then, complete the steps outlined here: http://www.youtube.com/ivp?v=dj_54hAA3f0. Once you're finished, we'll start placing ads next to your video and pay you a share of the revenue as long as you meet the program requirements.
We look forward to adding your video to the YouTube Partnership Program. Thanks and good luck!
The YouTube Team

YouTube Partnership Program: Tutorial

What types of videos are acceptable for revenue sharing

The basic guidelines are simple: for a video to be eligible, you must have worldwide distribution rights to everything in the video, and it must abide by our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines.

Here are some specific examples of things that would make a video ineligible:

Your video contains content that you didn't create or get permission from its creator to use, such as:
music
video images
photographs or artwork
live event
video game footage
any other copyrighted content
Your video shows people from whom you did not get permission
Your video has content that would be inappropriate for children. We limit the YouTube Partnership Program to videos that can be shown to all age groups.
We take our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines seriously, and so should you. Let us help you profit from your videos rather than take them off the site by making sure they conform to these guidelines.

If your video does not conform to these guidelines, it may be removed from the site.

I haven't started any searching yet, but is there anyone at Nintendo I can contact to ask for permission to get a partnership for my video It Takes Guts to be AMAZING? I don't want to risk it being removed.

 

[thegreatkazoo]

I have a decent understanding with this, so I can clear up a few things:

• Since you have a channel which has a main focus on smash, this is of video game footage, obv. (couldn't help it, AS demons )
• This means you can't get partnership to Youtube.
• There is an exception: If you have express written consent from the company that makes and produces the game (viz. Nintendo & HAL Laboratory) and you give this information to YouTube, then you may get partnership for your videos.
• Usually, this partnership is given out to very large corporations, as they have the resources to make the videos (see: Machinima). But it isn't altogether possible for you to get it.
• Your best bet would to be to contact Nintendo of America and HAL Laboratory and ask them for permission to use their footage.

To inquire about possible Nintendo sponsorship for your YouTube videos, go here (this link may help as well.) To contact their corporate line, call (425) 882-2040. I'd give you the links for HAL Labs too, but that is all in Japanese. :/

If you do get this information, be sure to give it to Youtube @ the information listed below:
YouTube, LLC
901 Cherry Ave.
San Bruno, CA 94066
USA
Phone: +1 650-253-0000
Fax: +1 650-253-0001

Hoping this helps, good luck!