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Sizzle reels: Dan at Game Boy Geek creates videos mostly directed at retailers that feature an overview of components and core concepts.One price I’ve heard quoted is $ followers. Promotions: Some creators showcase content (photos, descriptions, etc) on Instagram, leveraging the audience they’ve built.Giveaways and Contests: On Instagram, it’s fairly common to pay a content creator to use their platform to give away a game in an effort to increase awareness.Advertising: Some content creators sell ad space on their website or channel.Creators sometimes do this live for more audience engagement, posting the video on YouTube afterwards for anyone to find (e.g., Gaming Rules).

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Playthroughs: This format lets the viewer watch the content creator play a few turns or even a full game (e.g., Before You Play).

Unboxings: These videos focus purely on opening the game and showcasing the components.

Among other things, The Mill does this for Stonemaier Games ($250/month).

Previews: A preview is a brief overview explaining the core concepts of a game (a summary of the rules instead of a full rules-replacement video).

Rodney at Watch It Played is perhaps the first creator in the game industry to do this (10 years and running now), though there are others who provide a similar service now.

How-to-play videos: This is a paid service, and is entirely opinion-free.

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There is an abundance of content in the game industry that is free of opinions, and creators are frequently compensated for the time they spend on this content. Let’s start with the primary area of the gaming industry where money actually does exchange hands, and then we’ll explore the ethicality of paying the media to form and broadcast opinions. Underneath this conspiracy theory is a much bigger and more relevant discussion about reviews, previews, compensation, bias, and ethics. I recently became aware of some accusations floating around the gaming community that some publishers are paying prominent reviewers to express positive opinions about their games, which–if it were true–would be incredibly unethical.* However, that content creator alerted me that they no longer offer to form and broadcast their opinions in exchange for monetary compensation, so I removed that example as materially irrelevant to the current state of the industry. In the original version of this article, I mentioned an example in the context that perhaps it’s actually fine for creators to get paid for the immense amount of time and effort they spend on their content, even for opinions, as its impossible to completely avoid bias whether or not money is involved.