151,781 YouTube plays earned this musician $10

Composer/producer PJ Wassermann recently wrote an article for Digital Music News, where he revealed the low amount of income he earned from YouTube ads.

Wassermann asks, “How is a musician supposed to make a living with this kind of payout?” He then reveals his payout, or lack thereof: “151,781 views with 681,104 minutes playtime in eleven months generated an income of 10.02 US Dollars!  One million views would generate about $65, one single view boils down to $0.000065.”

“A lot of musicians have recently complained about low payments from Pandora and Spotify,” Wassermann says. “To me it looks that YouTube is even worse. They allow anybody to upload music that they don’t have any rights to and the payout for the rights holders is extremely meager.”

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