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That's not true. The revenue share has been stable at 55% to the creators / 45% to YouTube for more than a decade.



Youtube takes half their revenue?! That's crazy. Man, I thought the app store 30% was bad.


That's for ads.

After a quick googling, Youtube takes 30% of direct memberships. And apparently Twitch takes 50% of the membership fee, reduced to 40% for its bigger channels.

It looks like Patreon will take 12% of direct memberships at the tier that lets you upload video, but Patreon is shit for discovery, especially video discovery, so it's not necessarily pure upside.

Either way, people like to parlay the fact that Youtube has a revenue share into some sort of moral justification for giving the content creators $0 on that platform.


What cracks me up is that this is the obvious perspective, but not the one the poster you responded to ever considered.


Someone has to pay for bandwidth,storage, compute etc.




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