How does YouTube share advertising and subscription revenue with creators?
YouTube's main source of revenue is advertising, which enables businesses to find relevant audiences and grow their businesses and brands.
Creators who are part of the
YouTube Partner Programme
(YPP) are eligible to share in advertising revenue.
We also earn money from our monthly subscription businesses such as
YouTube Premium
. With YouTube Premium, members can enjoy any video on YouTube without ads while still supporting creators. Currently, revenue from YouTube Premium membership fees is distributed to creators based on how much of their content members watch.
How does YouTube ensure creator success while ensuring that ads run only on quality content?
Over the last few years, we've taken steps to strengthen our requirements for monetisation via ads to reward only the most trusted creators making original content.
However, advertising is not the only way for creators to earn money on YouTube. We're always trying to help creators share their stories, deepen relationships with their fans and earn additional money. Over the last few years we've developed and released several tools to help eligible Creators who are a part of YPP find additional ways to make money such as
Super Chat
,
channel memberships
,
merchandise
and
YouTube BrandConnect
. As with advertising, creators and YouTube share revenue from these products.
Isn't YouTube incentivised to promote controversial content to increase watch time and earn revenue?
Responsibility ? not engagement ? is our number-one focus and everything that we do is seen through that lens. Advertisers typically do not want to be associated with controversial or sensitive content on YouTube ? as defined in our
Advertiser-Friendly Content Guidelines
. This content, while sometimes appropriate to remain on YouTube per our Community Guidelines, is not always appropriate for our advertisers. The downsides both from a user and a brand perspective drastically outweigh all other considerations.
