Over the last two years the flash industry has changed dramatically, thanks to a few websites; small flash games have become a massive business that keeps on growing, this is largely because of the increase in portals/competition, high quality games and more people going online for flash games. A few years ago the only way to make money on a flash game was to find a sponsor, it would require e-mailing alot of the popular portals and most of time you would not even get a response or if you did the sponsorship offer wouldn’t be that much and not really worth it.
This is a post to show some of the ways you can make some money on your game.

Sponsorship:

Usually the most you can make on a game is through sponsorship, The easiest way of searching for a sponsor is to head to Flash Game License and sign up, then you just submit your game and get it in front of almost 1000 sponsors. Of course your game must be quite decent to get any sponsership offers at all, but what is great about the site is that you do not have to upload your finished version, you can ask for feedback from other developers while you are in the game making process for feedback on different parts of your game. Once the game is complete and ready to be seen by sponsors, usually you wait for about 2 weeks to a month for an offer. Being patient helps.

You can also send a load of emails to as many portals as possible, the e-mail should ask the sponsor if they would consider the game for sponsorship and provide a link to a version of your game. You might not get a response from the popular portals, but it helps widen your chance of getting seen.

If you do not get a sponsor, It’s not the worst thing in the world, actually it can be a good thing, this means you are completely free with what you do with the game and means you can self sponsor for your website.

Mochiads:

Mochiads is a flash ad network, a great way to make money by displaying an advertisement while your player is waiting for the game to load, you can place ads wherever you want in the game. All you need to do to use this service is to sign up to Mochiads and click add game, you just need to follow the instructions and insert a small amount of code. Once you’ve done this you enter a few details about the game and wait for your game to get approved for paying ads. There are a few problems however with Mochiads, the amount of money you get for the eCPM (1000 ad impressions) differs on the country your game gets played in, for instance create your own TD got 20,000 views in Korea, due to there low eCPM I only got $0.20 however the same amount of ad impressions in the USA makes about $10. Another problem with Mochiads is that you only get payed every $100 which can take a very long time.

Games with sponsorships can also use Mochiads, but it depends on the type of deal you make and how flexible the buyer is.

Kongregate

Kongregate is a flash game website, it does not allow any of the games on the site to show ads such as mochiads, this is because they have their own ad revenue program. the eCPM is very good and does not take that many views to get your first $25, usually around 25,000 views which isn’t that bad and is easier to get payed. There are also other sites that do an ad revenue program like this but Kongregate is most popular.

Good Luck!