» Sat Aug 25, 2012 12:46 pm
As far as I know it's the companies that make those trailers who decide they want to protect their trailer. I watch a weekly podcast which as part of their program used to show and discuss trailers of games, both triple A and indie. But since a month or two every time they put the podcast on youtube it gets copyright flagged for the trailers within it, so now they only show indie trailers.
Which makes no sense. Each of those podcasts gets about 150,000-200,000 views on youtube. That's quite a lot of people who get to see your trailer, and hear your game get discussed for a couple of minutes, generally in a positive manner, without it costing you a cent.