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# YouTube Paid Music Industry $1.8B In Past Year
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/youtube-paid-music-industry-18b-in-past-year/
- Published: 2018-11-08T09:32:00.000Z
- Updated: 2018-11-08T09:32:00.000Z
- Description: YouTube paid the music industry $1.8 billion in advertising revenue from October 2017 to September 2018, according to Google. YouTube has paid the music industry $6 billion since launch.
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Indie Music, Major Labels, Music Business, Songwriting & Music Publishing, YouTube & Video, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:00

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[](https://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2022ad378d74e200c-popup?ref=hypebot.com)YouTube paid the music industry $1.8 billion in advertising revenue from October 2017 to September 2018, according to Google. YouTube has paid the music industry $6 billion since launch.Google and YouTube say that they have invested $100 million to build and staff the Content ID system which underpins YouTube's copyright protection and payment efforts. The news came in a new Google report ["How Google Fights Piracy."](https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/protecting-what-we-love-about-internet-our-efforts-stop-online-piracy/?ref=hypebot.com)**Other findings from this year's Google Piracy report:**
- **$3 billion+:**The amount YouTube has paid to rights holders who have monetized use of their content in other videos through [Content ID.](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2797370?hl=en&ref=hypebot.com)
- **$100 million+** **:** The amountYouTube invested in building Content ID, including staffing and computing resources.
- **3 billion+:**The number of URLs that were removed from Search for infringing copyright since launching a submission tool for copyright owners and their agents.
- **10 million+** **:** The number of ads that were disapproved by Google in 2017 that were suspected of copyright infringement or that linked to infringing sites.