- Ads API FAQ
- Payment FAQ
- Distribution FAQ
- Translation Service FAQ
1.Services Youyouwin could offer？
(1) Process the registration of copyright for your flash games in China and Guarantee piracy protection by both technological and legal means;
(2) Work as a faithful consultant to help you find out the most perfect China-specific business models to expand China games market;
(3) Offer free localized Flash products, set up local development team & office on your behalf or any other customized services which we can negotiate due to real condition;
(4) Brand your games and company in China;
(5) Distribute and promote your games in China;
(6) Build up public relationships with local companies, agencies, media, etc;
(7) Attracting and serving local advertisers;
2. What’s Youyouwin Ads API Platform？
Free advertisement embedding and revenue statistics system specially designed for original Flash games developers to monetize, distribute and track your games.
3. How to cooperate？
For your old games:
You offer distributable games list and releasing date information;
We forward this info to our games evaluation team;
They provide the basic data about click and popularity of your games in China. We work out the flat fee Youyouwin could offer;
For your new games ：
You offer basic game info to us.
We forward this info to our games evaluation team;
They evaluate your new games and finally decide it is match Chinese players' taste or not;
If match, we’ll finally decide how to work with each other. Currently we support sitelocked, primary, exclusive sponsorship and ads revenue share model.
4. Can I register several accounts？
No. For protecting your profit, you can register only one account. All the games will be under this account for revenue share. The info which you use repeatly cannot pass the platform examining.
5. Where will the Ads display？
Currently we mainly support loading ads (pre-game ads) and inter-level ads.
Pre-game ads are showing when loading and inter-level ads display between different levels.
It’s essential to add loading ads but optional for inter-level ads.
You can read our instructions or watch our radio to get known how to embed our ads into your games.
6. Where could I find the Ads code？
It’s unnecessary for you to add any code into your game. Our managing system supports to embed the code into your swf file automatically. It means less effort but higher return.
7. Should I pay fees to join in youyouwin ad service？
No, the platform is totally free for members.
8. Should I pay fees to join in youyouwin ad service？
Our Ads API support AS1, AS2, AS3 and Flex Builder.
1. How to track your earnings？
We're developing one managing system for foreign developers and you're able to track your revenue through the website below http://dev.youyouwin.com
2. The interval that the revenue is paid？
Generally Google process the payment for last month at the end of the following month. We acquire the payment through cheque collection which means we’re able to get the payment about 3 month later for the 1st month from Google.
Therefore our payment to partners is always processing in three months later after the first month we began to operate your games.
What we mean, Revenue in April could be paid in July; Revenue in May could be paid inAugust, and so on.
If you don't want to withdraw the revenue, it could be cumulative to the next month.
3. Through what way can you get the payment？
For international payment, we support PayPal, Moneybookers, western union and wire transfer.
There will be RMB 260 wire transfer fee and RMB 150 cable charge involved.
We each side affords half of it, about US$30.00.
For PayPal, no payment handling fee involved.
For western union, there will be about 10-40 dollars handling fee involved. It's up to how much we delivered to you. We each side affords half of it.
We'll pay you in US dollars.
4. Should I pay fees to join in the platform？
No, the platform is totally free for members.
5. What's the minimum payment？
We settle the payment once a month. You can request for payment once it reaches $10. If the income is less than $10 this month, it will be accumulated into next month.
6. When Could I be Paid？
We settle the last month's payment before the 11h of each month, please check the time table:
(1) System Clearing Time: Before the 11 of every month
(2) Application Period: The 1-15th day of every month.
(3) Remittance Period: 20-55th day of every month
7. What eCPM you could expect from China market？
We've set up cooperation with many foreign developers.
Several examples for you:
Civiballs Xmas : http://www.youyouwin.com/download/index
For this game, average eCPM could $6.71
Bucketball: http://www.youyouwin.com/download/index
For this game, average eCPM could $2.77
http://www.youyouwin.com/download/index
For this game, average eCPM could $3.28
Zombie Massacre: http://www.youyouwin.com/download/index
For this game, average eCPM could $2.88
We may fail to give a promision or exact eCPM your games could reach.
Because it is also relative to games popularity and plays in China.
Hopefully this data is helpful for your furture decision.
8. Where’s the Ad revenue coming from？
We’re using Google Adsense currently and most of your income is from Google. We also introduce customized Ads into our games but it will be added into games with certain category based on specific requirements of our advertisers.
1. Where could I find my game after it’s released by youyouwin.com？
Youyouyouwin set up formal cooperation with more than 200 channel partners which includes not only popular flash portals like game.com.cn, 2144.cn, pcgames.com.cn, 17173.com, 178.com, 3839.com and 7k7k.com, but also famous Chinese medias like sina.com, qq.com, sohu.com. We set up featured area for all national and international games. You can see links below:
http://www.2125.com/youyoujingpin/index.html?view=subject&id=0
http://flash.17173.com/down/newlam/cn/cn.shtml
http://www.pcgames.com.cn/flashgames/all/1009/2011680.html
http://www.pcgames.com.cn/flashgames/all/1008/1986811.html
http://www.game.com.cn/game/topic/youyou.html
http://flash.178.com/zt/zhongwen/
http://www.1000you.com/html/tag/2092/
http://flash.52pk.com/zt/zhongwen/
http://xyx.15game.com.cn/specail/youyouyuanchuang.htm
http://www.3145.com/list/2youxi.htm
2. Am I able to track the links for the games you released？
Yes. We add a new functionality into our new managing system. You can check the details through following path: Login –Developer Center - Game Distribution
3. How long could my game be approved by youyouwin.com after I upload it？
We’re available from 9:30 AM to 18:30 each working day. Games submitted before 16:00 of local Beijing time will be approved and published immediately. Games you submitted after 16:00 will be published on the next working day.
4. If my game was failed to be accepted by youyouwin.com, what’s the possible reasons for this？
1. You don’t add our Logo into “Start” page and link it to youyouwin.com.
2. Ad does not show normally.
3. You don’t remove the Ads API from the third party.
4.There’re clickable links or “Start” button on the loading page or before the Ad comes out.
5. Will the links be normal in my game？
Our ads API do support all browsers and there's no relationship between Ads API and blocking issues. But Chinese flash portals block the outgoing links by default. Most of our partners will unblock the links in the mainstream browsers.
5. Why does the links not work well in Safari？
Browsers Chinese like best has been listed as below. You’re able to view the proportion that each browser takes up in China market.
Internet Explorer 7 1.71%
IE6 83.6%
MYIE 7.7%
Tecent Travele 4.7%
IE total 86.7%
Firefox in China 0.6%
Google Chrome no data, too little
Safari no data, too little
Chinese portals didn't pay enough attention to the browsers that not very popular in China.
7. Will the links be normal in my game？
In China our eCPM is generally higher than the other platform, but lower than English-language country. Please don’t compare our data with Europe or US. We’re not able to control the average eCPM to Chinese market.
8. What kind of protection would your team use to protect my game against decompilers？
For the security of your games, all games authorized to Youyouwin may get the strong professional swf encreyption. It may protect the developers’ profit by avoiding the illegal reproducing with blocking the ads and links in the games.
9. What kind of protection would your team use to protect my game against decompilers？
1. All Chinese portals hate Ads in the games, hate out-going links. That's why before youyouwin.com began to do the distribution, international developers and sponsors gain no revenue and traffic from China. Even if for Mochimedia, the eCPM is quite low for Chinese market only.
2. There are some security problems in flash. That's why no matter how you work hard, the game still could be decompiled by some bad editors and ugly website. Before youyouwin.com began to set up this platform, did you get any order from China market to buy sitelocked or primary or exclusive license? Almost none, right! That's the problem! China doesn't have relative law to protect this, and also no website realize that they should ask for permmision before use, they should pay cost for using...
3. Chinese Flash market is still at the starting stage. There even if no Ads revenue available before 2010 but virtual items and microtransaction have been quite popular in international market. If you expect or require too much about Chinese market, you may lost hope to Chinese market Thanks.
1. What do you need to translate my game (s)？
The words for translation can be sent in .txt or .xls/.xlsx, jpg or .doc etc
2. What happens after I send my game text file？
After you provide us the txt / xls file of all the text in your game, we will send it to the translation team in China. They will provide all of the Chinese equivalents of your text in a new file. You will then replace existing text in your game with the translated text, leaving you the ability to customize and make sure everything fits the way you want it to.
3. Will you just translate my game and keep my original design and style? They won't do any changes inside game engine and ads showing engine (number of ads, liveupdate, preloader ad), right？
No design changes, JUST text.
4. Will I have any control on this translated version in my Dashboard (for example 'Chinese translation' as new active game in my Dashboard panel)? What if they will do something wrong (for example broken link to my website)？
You will have full control over this version. No links will break because we will only be supplying you text. You can still publish your live updates no problem.
5. How long would it take you to translate my game and publish it？
We promise that each game’s translation can be finished within 2 working days after we received your translation file!
6. What should I do if my game appears on sites with the links & ads broken / not working？
Contact us immediately! flash@youyouwin.com
7. Is this initiative available to all game developers who use ads from Youyouwin？
Yes!
8. Are there any examples of games that have already been translated by your team？
Yes, you can see some of them：
http://www.youyouwin.com/download/index
http://www.youyouwin.com/download/index
http://www.youyouwin.com/download/index
http://www.youyouwin.com/download/index
http://www.youyouwin.com/download/index
9. What font should I use after it is translated？
SIMHEI.TTF
10.What if the text is embedded in images？
Send along .jpeg's or .gif's of these and we will handle it (along with the text transcript)
11. How many games can I get translated？
As many as you want. It’s totally free offered and we do not ask for exclusive distribution right and you’re allowed to use the Chinese version on Mochimedia platform or somewhere else.
12. Do I have the right to sell non-exclusive versions of the English versions of the games to any other Chinese portals？
Yes, our youyouwin public version cannot restrict exclusivity.
13. There are some elements in my game that may be difficult to translate, with numerous levels, etc. How much can you translate？
We will handle these on a case-by-case basis. Don't worry if your game seems complicated to translate, we will work with you to find a method of translation that will work.