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Chang: YouTube Paid Creators $70B Over 3 Years, Surpassing Netflix Content Spend

Emily Chang · Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg) · Acquired · Sep 30, 2024 · at 50:08

Bloomberg host Emily Chang compares YouTube's creator payouts against Netflix's content spending budget.

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“I think seventy billion dollars to creators over the last three years, which again is more than Netflix spends on content.”

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YouTube paid $70 billion to creators over the preceding three years, exceeding Netflix's total content spend over that period.

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Assessment

In his February 6, 2024 annual letter ('Letter from the YouTube CEO: 4 Big bets for 2024'), YouTube CEO Neal Mohan stated that the YouTube Partner Program had paid over $70 billion to creators, artists, and media companies across the preceding three years (2021–2023). Over that identical three-year period (2021–2023), Netflix's official SEC Form 10-K filings show total cash spend on content additions of $47.10 billion ($17.70B in 2021, $16.84B in 2022, and $12.55B in 2023) and cumulative content amortization expense of $40.45 billion. Thus, YouTube's payouts exceeded Netflix's total content spend over the three-year window under either metric.

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan's February 2024 letter confirmed that YouTube paid over $70 billion to creators, artists, and media companies over the preceding 3-year period (2021–2023).
Netflix SEC Form 10-K filings report total cash additions to content assets of $47.10 billion and content amortization of $40.45 billion across 2021–2023, both well below YouTube's $70 billion payout.

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[1] blog.youtube [2] indiatimes.com [3] scribd.com [4] stock-analysis-on.net

"Additions to content assets" Netflix "Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows" "2023" "2022" "2021" YouTube paid 70 billion creators three years Neal Mohan 2024 letter "12,554,703" Netflix

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