Wasn’t it always like that?

Yeah it’s very clear to me the top creators make far too much money and I agree that business model bears fruit.

However, the cost of YouTube isn’t the storage, it’s serving views of the videos. That payment scheme you’ve suggested doesn’t scale well with number of views of single videos, that’s why they chose to increase income per view and not per video.

Objectively wrong.

YouTube could not be profitable showing one quick ad per video, especially if it’s longer content.

Stop posting paywalled articles