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A comment on YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin. Parent comment

Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin by Jensson on Sunday October 29, 2023 @10:52PM (#38065193)
> YouTube gets the content for almost free

Google pays out about 50% of ad revenue to content creators, that isn't "almost free" that is many billions of dollars.

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Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin by userinanother on Sunday October 29, 2023 @11:08PM (#38065258)
Yeah but what percentage of subscription costs go to paying creators?
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Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin by Jensson on Sunday October 29, 2023 @11:16PM (#38065301)
This site says 55% since youtube take 45%:

> In the end, YouTube takes a 45% cut of a creator’s Premium earnings, just as it does for ad-generated revenue.

https://vidiq.com/blog/post/youtube-premium-creator-revenue/

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Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin by kerkeslager on Monday October 30, 2023 @03:02AM (#38066479)
If a channel hasn't make any ad/premium revenue yet, Google still has the content for the cost of supporting the upload--i.e. they got it almost for free.

The fact is, Google takes on no risk and does none of the work of creating content, and takes a 45% cut for distribution, and is free to continue changing their terms to make things worse for content creators.

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