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Disney Buys Maker - Does Hollywood Need To Up Their YouTube Game? Forbes

Disney Buys Maker - Does Hollywood Need To Up Their YouTube Game? Forbes | Must Play | Scoop.it

Disney's purchase of the YouTube game channel with hundreds of millions of subscribers for half a billion may be a starting gun for other similar mergers if the rest of Hollywood is listening. Is YouTube the new Hollywood. Disney is hedging their bets either way.


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This is funny:

But it’s probably best known for channels like PewDiePie, a Swedish “bro” who makes silly videos about video games like the one below. PewDiePie alone accounts for 25.5 million of Maker’s subscribers. Now he’s part of the Disney family.

Funny to think Disnney has taken some of the stuffing out to pay big bucks for something that feels so unlike them.

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Open Source Rules: Gaijin Games Allows Customers To Riff Videos For Money

Open Source Rules: Gaijin Games Allows Customers To Riff Videos For Money | Must Play | Scoop.it

ATTENTION YOUTUBERS: We grant you full permission to post videos of our games, and to monetize said ...

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Loved this note from Gijin Games granting permission to its users to riff videos on YouTube and make money from them. The world is moving open source and every product is a series of services waiting to happen.

By granting users the right to do what they were doing anyway Gaijin looks like a hero and they can mine the videos created by their users to learn how to tune their game. Brilliant example of being open to the new age instead of clinging to old memes like copyright and intellectual property.

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