While Spotify pays unsigned artists for every stream, YouTube doesn't pay anything unless their ridiculous thresholds are exceeded. While parent company Google famously expressed their promise not to be evil, YouTube are starting to have a particularly vicious glint in their eye when it comes to unsigned artists.
In 2017 YouTube's offer to unsigned artists changed for the worse, not better. Now musicians can only monetise their YouTube channels if they have racked up 4,000 hours of watch time within the last 12 months and have 1,000 channel subscribers. Targets which are frankly beyond the vast majority of unsigned artists.
These changes mean most unsigned artists won't make a single penny from YouTube.
Why are YouTube still not paying unsigned artists for every stream? There are 400 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every day, driving projected net advertising revenues of $3.96 billion in 2018. Google are starting to look evil.
Please sign and share this petition on behalf of unsigned artists and bands everywhere.
This petition was created by Right Chord Music. Read the original article here. http://www.rightchordmusic.co.uk/how-youtube-betrayed-the-friendship-of-unsigned-musicians/
