YouTube Pays $6 Billion In 12 Months to the Music Industry

Looking to make money? Head on over to YouTube, it’s been announced that in the 12 months between July 2021 and June 2022, YouTube paid over $6B to the music industry. This is a $2B increase from the $4B contribution they announced in 2021.

That’s not all, check out some of the insights given:

  • UGC drove over 30% of payouts for artists, songwriters and rights-holders, for the second year in a row.2
  • Shorts generates 30 billion views per day, with 1.5 billion monthly logged-in users3 — and we’re just getting started. In addition to our $100M Shorts Fund, we’re creating long-term monetization solutions for Shorts, and we’ll have more to share on this soon.