• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    9 hours ago

    A cap of 50% of your youtube premium goes to the creators.

    Small creators are given a pittance, large creators get the lions share, even with equal watch hours.

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      5 hours ago

      And even the pittance is more than 3x your AdSense view. As far as I’m concerned, premium is paying creators i watch while providing me with a more than serviceable music app and an ad free experience on both.

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        3 hours ago

        If you pay $14 for YTP and watched literally only one channel, ever, that channel could get up to a max of $7, less transaction fees. Alphabet eats the other $7. If you use uBlock and SponsorBlock, you get the same ad-free experience and can then control how the $14 gets distributed. I technically spend more than the cost of YTP each month on the creators I support, but I can see my contribution going directly to the creators in nearly the full allocated amounts. That’s a huge difference to small channels. Corporate lackeys will go ‘but the server costs!’ but Alphabet made ~$34B off of other people’s creations last quarter alone and have consistently made the user experience worse since they acquired YT, so any complaints from Alphabet’s C suite can be safely filed under BS.