In 2022, YouTube paid a total of nine billion U.S. dollars in advertising earnings to monetizable content creators and channels that were eligible on its platform. The cumulative payout between 2020 and 2022 almost doubled, with the platform paying two billion U.S. dollars to creators in 2021 and 1.5 billion U.S. dollars to creators in 2022.
Cumulative YouTube advertising revenue paid to content creators and channels from 2020 to 2022
(in billion U.S. dollars)
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YouTube, & Google. (December 22, 2023). Cumulative YouTube advertising revenue paid to content creators and channels from 2020 to 2022 (in billion U.S. dollars) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1461178/cumulative-youtube-advertising-payout/
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