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# 2M creators earn money via YouTube’s Partner Program ($7B in the last 3 months)
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/2m-creators-earn-money-via-youtubes-partner-program-7b-in-the-last-3-months/
- Published: 2021-08-24T12:55:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-08-24T12:55:26.000Z
- Description: More than 2 million musicians and other creators are now earning money using YouTube’s Partner Program. Over the last three years, YouTube says that it has paid more than $30. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2021/08/2m-creators-earn-money-via-youtubes-partner-program-7b-in-the-last
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: DIY Advice & Tips, Music Marketing, YouTube & Video, YouTube, YouTube Partners Program, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 09:48

More than 2 million musicians and other creators are now earning money using YouTube’s Partner Program.

![Gold medal with a dollar sign icon representing music industry awards and recognition.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/spcdn-shortpixel-ai/spio/ret_img-q_cdnize/www-hypebot-com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/youtube-.jpg)

Over the last three years, YouTube says that it has paid more than $30 billion to creators, artists, and media companies.

In the second quarter of 2021 alone, YouTube ad revenue hit a record $7 billion, and “we paid more to YouTube creators and partners than in any quarter in our history,” according to Neal Mohan, YouTube’s chief product officer.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/storage-googleapis-com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/original_images/rewards_icons_v3_1-1_1.png)

Creators who qualify for the YouTube Partner Program with at least 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of overall watch time on a channel in the past 12 months can earn money through 55% of ad revenue plus subscription fees, donations, livestreaming, and a share of YouTube Premium revenue.

**Bruce Houghton* is Founder and Editor of [Hypebot](https://www.hypebot.com/) and [MusicThinkTank](http://www.musicthinktank.com/?ref=hypebot.com) and serves as a Senior Advisor to [Bandsintown](https://www.bandsintown.com/?ref=hypebot.com) which acquired both publications in 2019\. He is the Founder and President of the[ Skyline Artists Agency](https://skylineonline.com/?ref=hypebot.com) and a professor for the [Berklee College Of Music](https://online.berklee.edu/courses/touring-101?ref=hypebot.com).*