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NEWS: Kadokawa, YouTube to Share Ads on User-Generated Videos

Personally, I am just glad Kadokawa is able to make some extra money. Because they are involved in several anime series, so this is good for them.

I just hope they only allow the best of the best and ignore the cut and paste video's that constantly foat around on the internet.

The economy isn't great, so power to Youtube and Kadokawa for steping out of the box.

forcibly inserting advertising for their products into anime series and making it painfully obvious that they are there as if the viewers are too stupid to notice on their own. This is something SEGA pioneered arguably for the worse in their later Dreamcast years and look where they've ended up.

They're also almost comically money grubbing though to the point where I picture their CEO as a Scrooge McDuck type personality. They'll find a way to make this backfire I'm sure, be it through overkill or just plain trying to police their products to much with this hands on approach.

Their anything for a quick buck mentality really irks me and has led to more then a few bad decisions regarding certain TV anime series. For example forcibly inserting advertising for their products into anime series and making it painfully obvious that they are there as if the viewers are too stupid to notice on their own. This is something SEGA pioneered arguably for the worse in their later Dreamcast years and look where they've ended up.

Or it could possibly be that Kadokawa is trying to be fan friendly, started looking at the MADs and their popularity, and said "Wow, some of these are amusing. Maybe we can do something instead of deleting them."

Teriyaki Terrier wrote:

Personally, I am just glad Kadokawa is able to make some extra money. Because they are involved in several anime series, so this is good for them. I just hope they only allow the best of the best and ignore the cut and paste video's that constantly foat around on the internet. The economy isn't great, so power to Youtube and Kadokawa for steping out of the box.

They're also almost comically money grubbing though to the point where I picture their CEO as a Scrooge McDuck type personality. They'll find a way to make this backfire I'm sure, be it through overkill or just plain trying to police their products to much with this hands on approach.

Their anything for a quick buck mentality really irks me and has led to more then a few bad decisions regarding certain TV anime series. For example forcibly inserting advertising for their products into anime series and making it painfully obvious that they are there as if the viewers are too stupid to notice on their own. This is something SEGA pioneered arguably for the worse in their later Dreamcast years and look where they've ended up.

But the MADs that they are aiming for would have come from people who have access to the physical media to obtain source material to make the videos. This is different from watching a fansub or raw video.