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Please know that content creators get paid SIGNIFICANTLY less from Premium subscribers than they do from ads. If that's your reason for giving google $25, I think you should know.
I used to have Premium, but when I discovered that they were still serving me ads and using trackers, I cancelled.
FWIW, if you want to support content creators, a literal donation of $1 a year to your favourite ones will make them more money than your Premium subscription. I say this as someone with a 20k subscriber channel.
No they don't. I literally said in the post you're replying to that Technology Connections confirmed YouTube premium pays more.
https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/111319895234933188
Pretty wild that you ignored my original comment to spread misinformation.
I don't know who "technology connections" is or whether they've posted screenshots of their revenue breakdown from YouTube, but I'm telling you from firsthand experience of operating a channel with tens of thousands of subscribers that Premium pays peanuts.
From my own YouTube Studio analytics, YT Premium represents 1.3% of my revenue over the last 365 days. Ads make up the rest of it.
In fact, it looks like an entire year of YT premium pays out less than a few days of ad revenue.
You might call it "misinformation", but I have no reason to lie as a content creator.
A single "Super Thanks" I received the other day paid out twice as much as the entire month of YT Premium revenue. That's why I say that donating a single dollar is considerably better than paying Google.
And from my own experience, as I mentioned, Google was still using trackers and showing ads (on my TV) when I had Premium.
You can believe it or not, but you can't accuse me of spreading misinformation.
EDIT: Here are some large channels posting their revenue screenshots:
1.8M subs (YT Premium earned no more than 14.8% of her total revenue, but it was usually <10%) : https://youtu.be/KkKYMD1KTw0?si=0mkQzstlyG8MlhKB&t=97
42k subs (ad revenue vs YT Premium at the bottom of the screen): https://youtu.be/FawckyZqCPU?si=z7Xc60DqnpBmCiES&t=686
135k subs (YT Premium revenue is shown quickly when he scrolls the page... $148 vs $5000 from ads): https://youtu.be/jY-Rf3HsvK8?si=YyqnpBPNpf9eo532&t=382
I can go on, but you get the point. I have NEVER seen a channel that would claim AND PROVE that YT Premium makes more money than ads.
I literally linked both Technology Connections and Linus Tech Tips.