How YouTube is calculating creators’ ad-revenue shares for Shorts
Starting next month, YouTube will share ad revenue with Shorts creators. However, the originator of the creator ad revenue-sharing program has introduced a new twist with its short-form video service.
Unlike YouTube’s traditional revenue-sharing program or TikTok’s revenue-sharing program Pulse, YouTube is not attaching ads to individual Shorts videos in order to directly split revenue with creators and publishers. Instead, it will pool revenue to divvy up among eligible Shorts makers — but only after accounting for the platform’s music licensing costs.
In other words, the YouTube Shorts revenue-sharing model isn’t as simple as “advertiser pays platform, platform gives creator a cut.” Calculating how YouTube Shorts ad revenue will be split is more like doing taxes than basic arithmetic, as the video below breaks down.
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Future of TV Briefing: CTV continues to be a black box to programmatic marketers
This week’s Future of TV Briefing digs into the CTV-related, behind-closed-doors discussions among brand and agency executives during last week’s Digiday Programmatic Marketing Summit.
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Future of TV Briefing: The big questions heading into this year’s upfront market
This week's Future of TV Briefing highlights the top questions facing TV and streaming ad buyers and sellers heading into this year's upfront market.
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Future of TV Briefing: How TV and streaming businesses fared in the first quarter of 2023
This week’s Future of TV Briefing reviews the state of the TV and streaming business in light of companies' latest quarterly earnings reports.
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SponsoredWhat the measurement and currency discussion really means to TV advertisers
This article is also available in Spanish. Please use the toggle above the headline to switch languages. Visit digiday.com/es to read more content in Spanish. Ali Mack, head of TV and agency, Experian Major streaming video providers have recently made headlines by adopting new currencies for ad measurement, threatening Nielsen’s long-standing TV ratings monopoly. NBCUniversal, […]
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TelevisaUnivision’s Donna Speciale sees TV’s measurement shift shoring up underrepresentation issue
The Hispanic-centric TV network has seen its core audience undercounted by measurement panels by as much as 35%, Speciale said in the latest Digiday Podcast.
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How YouTube is mixing up the TV ad market
Now that YouTube has become the streaming service people spend the most time watching on TV screens, it’s becoming hard to argue that YouTube isn’t TV.
