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Your studio site can now carry your sponsors and your products

Two new ways for a studio site to earn, both sold by the studio itself. We supply the formats and check every ad; the deals are yours.

Tina T.Creator Partnerships|

In short

Generated Worlds studio sites now carry two kinds of ads, only on the creator's own site. Studio ads show businesses the creator partners with, and GW takes no cut: a card over an episode, or a picture or video slide between episodes. Shopping ads put up to 3 products inside an episode from pasted store links, earning through the creator's own affiliate programme. GW checks every ad before it serves and takes no cut of the deal.

Until now, a sponsor who wanted to be in a creator's series had one place to go: a line in a caption. Now the sponsor can be in the episode, on the creator's own studio site, and the creator can show them how often it was shown and tapped.

01Studio ads

  • Overlay: a sponsor card rises over an episode at the second the creator picks, with a short line and a button to the sponsor's link. Viewers can close it after 5 seconds. Starter and up.
  • Between episodes: a full slide after the episode the creator picks, with a picture or an MP4 video of up to 90 seconds and 30 MB. Viewers can skip it after 5 seconds. Growth and up.
  • The creator finds the sponsor and agrees the price. The deal and the payment are between the creator and the sponsor; GW takes no part in that payment.

02Shopping ads

  • The creator pastes a product link, from Amazon or another store, and the product's name and picture fill in.
  • The product appears as a small card at the second the creator picks, up to 3 products an episode. A tap opens the list while the episode keeps playing, and each product opens on its store.
  • Every product is labelled "Ad · Affiliate". The creator earns through their own affiliate programme, such as Amazon Associates; GW takes no cut.

03Where they run, and what each plan includes

Both run only on the creator's own studio site, at yourname.ongw.tv or their own domain, and only on episodes open to every viewer. They never appear in the Generated Worlds feed, and a studio site shows no GW promotions of its own. Each episode carries one kind of ad at a time.

  • Starter ($39 a month): 1 studio ad and 1 shopping ad live at a time (3 products).
  • Growth ($99 a month): 3 studio ads and 5 shopping ads (15 products), slides between episodes included.
  • Scale ($499 a month): 8 studio ads and 15 shopping ads (45 products).
  • Established (from $2,500 a month, by contract): unlimited.

04What we check, and what the creator sees

A person at GW checks every ad and every product before it serves: the words, the link and the picture or video. Editing any of them sends the ad back for checking. Once it is live, the creator sees how many times each ad was shown and how many times it was tapped, which is the report a sponsor asks for.

What it does not do

We do not find sponsors, sell space or set prices: a studio with no sponsor shows no studio ad. Shopping ads pay only through the creator's own affiliate programme, and the sale happens on the store's site, so we cannot report purchases. Both need a paid studio plan, and neither runs on paid episodes or in the Generated Worlds feed.

Questions

Can I run my own sponsor ads on my Generated Worlds studio site?
Yes, on a paid plan. Overlays come with Starter ($39 a month) and up; slides between episodes, with a picture or a video, with Growth ($99 a month) and up. You sell the ad and settle with the sponsor yourself.
Does GW pay affiliate commissions on shopping ads?
No. You paste your own affiliate link, and your affiliate programme pays you for sales on its store. GW takes no cut and is not part of the sale.
Will these ads show up on the Generated Worlds feed?
No. Studio ads and shopping ads run only on your own studio site.

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