Minecraft Server Sponsorship Bought on Verified Joins

Published server player counts are self-reported and, on the large lists, partly manufactured. We value sponsorship on one number instead: unique joins by player UUID, recorded by a plugin we install on the network and posting to an endpoint you control. Where a network will not allow that plugin and will not share raw logs, we do not recommend the network, and that rules out a good portion of the top of the ranked listings. The rules you are buying inside: Mojang's commercial usage terms are the shape of every deal in this channel. A sponsor cannot be sold gameplay advantage, cannot appear in a way that implies Mojang endorsement, and cannot put its name into the server name or domain. Anything touching player payment is off the table. We read that document at term-sheet stage and design the activation to sit inside it, which is cheaper than the rewrite three weeks after signature. Java or Bedrock, and why it decides the deal: Bedrock reaches console and mobile players and the official Marketplace. Java reaches the modded and creator-adjacent audience and permits the plugin telemetry everything here depends on. Networks claim both and concentrate in one. We establish where the joins actually come from before valuing any inventory. Where the brief is really about Bedrock reach, the honest route is often official Marketplace content produced through a partnered creator, with the revenue share that comes with it, and we will tell you when that is the better spend even though it is not this engagement. What the activation looks like: A playable region rather than a logo. A limited-run minigame in the hub, a quest line with a completion state, a resource pack, a build that stays after the campaign ends and keeps earning. The plugin records first join, return join, time inside the branded region and objective completion, at the identifier level with nothing else attached. Data, and the age of this audience: No email capture, no account linking, no personal data collected inside the server at all. A large share of these players are under thirteen, which makes consent unavailable rather than difficult. Everything we measure is a pseudonymous game identifier and a timestamp. If the spend has to produce leads, this is the wrong channel and you will hear that on the first call rather than in the wash-up. What is not included: No YouTube or Twitch creator buys against the network, which is a separate negotiation at separate rates. No Bedrock Marketplace production. No moderation staffing; the network moderates its own community and we will not indemnify player behaviour on your behalf. No paid votes, no list ranking work, no boosting of any kind. Who this is not for: Brands who need their name in the server name, since that is the one thing the terms forbid outright. Brands unwilling to have creative reviewed by the network's moderation team, who understand their community better than either of us and are usually right. Advertisers whose success measure is peak population, a figure that can be manufactured over a weekend for very little. And anyone expecting to launch a build and leave it alone: a hub minigame that never changes gets played twice and then walked past.