YouTube Premium is $13/month and I get access to a huge variety of channels.
Here’s the thing… if you divided up that $13 among all the channels you watch, and gave the creator that amount, they’d be making more than the money that comes to them from YouTube.
As an extreme example, let’s say you benefit from 50 unique channels per month. That’s around $0.26 each channel ($13 / 50), which is MORE than what YouTube would pay them for your views.
If you only watch 10 channels on a regular basis, that’s $1.30 per channel, per month - way, wayyy more than what youtube pays out for a single user per month.
With enough paying simply paying creators pennies per month, they’d make more than enough money to cut out ads, sponsors, and other unsavoury forms of monetization.
Louis Rossman has talked about this a few times, but as someone who has a YouTube channel, I can confirm this to be true.
But that’s my point. If these creators on different sites charged between $0.26 and $1.30 I would have subscribed to a bunch of them. But when they are charging $5/month that is quite a different amount to pay. Something that I would only really be considering for my absolute favourites.
Here’s the thing… if you divided up that $13 among all the channels you watch, and gave the creator that amount, they’d be making more than the money that comes to them from YouTube.
As an extreme example, let’s say you benefit from 50 unique channels per month. That’s around $0.26 each channel ($13 / 50), which is MORE than what YouTube would pay them for your views.
If you only watch 10 channels on a regular basis, that’s $1.30 per channel, per month - way, wayyy more than what youtube pays out for a single user per month.
With enough paying simply paying creators pennies per month, they’d make more than enough money to cut out ads, sponsors, and other unsavoury forms of monetization.
Louis Rossman has talked about this a few times, but as someone who has a YouTube channel, I can confirm this to be true.
But that’s my point. If these creators on different sites charged between $0.26 and $1.30 I would have subscribed to a bunch of them. But when they are charging $5/month that is quite a different amount to pay. Something that I would only really be considering for my absolute favourites.