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Looking at my YouTube watch video, and that creates get about 45%, it tends to be about 50p an hour (I watch about 12 hours a month and pay about £12) so say 10 cents per 10 minute video.

From what I see ad views tend to net about $1-5 per thousand views, or well under 1 cent per video.

Ie a creator makes 20-100 times as much per view from me rather than a typical viewer.

Im not sure how it works if you end up watching music on repeat for 200 hours a month and 10 hours of new content. Probably fairer than the way Spotify distributes my subscription fee.




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