Sponsorship
Sponsorship
People in the community who have been approached by sponsors, sponsored deals, sponsorships,
companies that want to sponsor the stream or sponsor some videos. It's all about whos Freelancing,
whos Media. People don't understand that there are people out there that think that someone's
working for Bandai if they are helping the Dragon Ball community or paid by Nexon for helping out
with content with Maple Story or are working with a Mangaka at the personal level because you help
a really old animanga that no one remembers.
Sponsorship
When people first hear that someone gets sponsored no one knows what the internet is going to bring. You got people who are totally
cool with it and then some go bat shit crazy with the "sell out" accusations. The haters will make noise even when its things a person
already does, already plays, already has done, and make it such a big headache for the community. When people with moderate numbers
or lower numbers gets a sponsorship deal they are not in a financial situation to make the sort of choice to ignore offers of sponsorship
as the amount of sponsors could be from one to a two per month at best, because they aren't hitting those huge numbers.
There are always those that are only motivated for money, so the internet brings a big need to always have long explanations of things for
people to understand where they are coming from. A sign that this is happening is if it is something that seems really off from the person
who is accepting a sort of sponsor like if the person said they hate plastic and they are anti-plastic, but they are running a plastic cup add,
thats suspect. It would be like shoving down ads with ad revenue down their trusted audiences throats and it bugs people a lot and
creators who have more moral grounds it bugs them too.
Things can be bad for your health as if a Energy Drink company came to you, you might have to drink lots of the drink during the steam. If
its a candy company and you have to eat lots of that candy and you know its bad there is only so long you can go on eating that stuff.
Everyday eat bacon everyday for your stream for a month, so many times there has to be considerations about what's being eating for
your health. But, say you like nuggets and you get a nugget sponsorship? great! but it has to fit for the person for many reasons and
health being one of them.
The amount of bank a person with the biggest subscriber base of a particular audience could bring in tons of money if they took every
sponsorship for example fifty to three hundred offers for sponsorships per day. Sponsors often times will look for the largest numbers,
even if it is out of their expertise and it doesn't make a lot of sense. When someone has solid donators, solid YouTube, and solid
subscriber base the streamer gets to choose their sponsors rather then being financially strapped and the sponsor really choosing them.
So many large streamers aren't in a position to take sponsors they don't care for like a toilet paper sponsor or a cigarettes' sponsor or a
beer sponsor. When your streaming possibly something like Sailor Moon? your better off being sponsored by a parfait shop or Japanese
fashion brand.
Sponsors are looking for "The Biggest" subscriber bases of a specific audience. Promotions also have to make sense for the streamer
and if what they are streaming is what they are already doing it's a good fit and they let people know its a sponsored stream. If someone
is sponsoring you and you don't say on the stream with the contract and it is not disclosed it can charge so much it can put someone out
of business. Some of them you have to be careful with because you can be charged 10,000$ if you don't say your apart of a sponsorship
or partnership on a stream. There are three different situations: (1) when they offer you to footage for their game and you play their game
that's media trades, (2) someone comes to you with work for a game that's a contract, and (3) you do work on a game that's a contract.
Media Trades, People choose channels that have provided enough content on the channel to see if it is what they think their audience will
be watching it. They choose certain streamers who they feel can provide them with the content that they already expect from what they
think is a good channel. Then they trust a person with footage or something for publicity, but they dont expect the publicity, but they just
trust the person will be covering it anyways. The person doesn't need to use the footage, but it helps build company to person trust
between two parties. It's called a media trade that the person and audience are interested in the channel. It helps sell more of the product
or service and it helps grow a person's channel.
Media Contract, People go and sign a contract to go and work on a title, but not paid to sell the product that the person is working on. The
person doesn't care they can break a sponsorship, so often times people will keep their opinions on that until the end of a contract is up.
This can be working on trailers that are monthly till it comes to a release of some kind for the year and that would be working for
someone else.