Nintendo announces YouTube affiliate program to capture ad revenue from fan-made videos

Nintendo wants some of that money you’re making from YouTube, and if it can’t have it all, it’s happy to just take a piece.

The Japanese publisher revealed today that it will start a YouTube affiliate program that will have it splitting advertising revenue with video creators. People can currently make videos of games like Super Mario 3D World or Mario Kart 8, put ads in front of them, and split revenue the revenue from those commercials with Google. Nintendo’s new program will enable it to come in and take a chunk of the revenue as well. The company did not detail how it will split up the money.