YouTube Creator Ad Revenue

The cluster discusses YouTube's ad revenue sharing with content creators, including impacts from Premium subscriptions, ad blockers, demonetization, and criticisms of Google's profit cuts.

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Groxx Apr 29, 2020 View on HN

Advertising seems to be hit - there are quite a few articles around e.g. YouTube paying substantially less to creators.

patatino Aug 1, 2016 View on HN

Maybe it means the ad revenue youtube pays the creators?

gmiller123456 Sep 20, 2025 View on HN

Youtube pays them per (ad) view, and also recommends the video to more people based on how many people click on it. So giving people another way to watch it will decrease their revenue and audience.

notatoad Jun 30, 2023 View on HN

yes, but those creators typically don't turn off youtube monetization. they just decided they wanted even more money than they were getting from youtube ads.

imiric Jul 1, 2022 View on HN

Google takes 45% of YouTube's advertising revenue. Videos criticizing their most popular channels directly impact their profits. The company doesn't care about protecting content consumers, it only cares about their customers (advertisers) and maximizing profits. They tolerate content creators since they actually get them views, but otherwise they would rather run ads 24/7 if people would watch them.

wesd Oct 22, 2015 View on HN

How does this subscription affect content creators on youtube who monetize based on ads?

jijji Jan 17, 2018 View on HN

its all about keeping the advertiser money flowing and reducing payments to content creators, that way youtube makes more money

Workaccount2 Dec 14, 2025 View on HN

Youtube has a 60/40 revenue share with creators for long form video (inverse for shorts). 60% to creators 40% to youtube. It's also dependent on watch time and split evenly among channels (unlike spotify where big names get all the money and small guys get nothing). Youtube premium viewers are the juiciest viewers for creators, by a large margin.Also blocking-ads/pirating on youtube provides the creators with nothing. I'm not sure how people justify this besides the establ

joe_guy Aug 9, 2023 View on HN

A lot of very talented people make a living by posting videos to YouTube.YouTube gives them a platform to remain independent content authors. It's not perfect. Nothing is.YouTube shares ad revenue with them. That's their living. If you pay for premium, you do not see ads but YouTube still pays them for your view. I don't know the full details, I'm sure it isn't perfect.I'm not sure what part of that you were concerned about knowing, but I am glad I can not

X6S1x6Okd1st Sep 20, 2018 View on HN

It seems like for many creators on youtube the ad revenue sharing is no longer a notable source of their income.