YouTube says it paid out over $8 billion to music industry between July 2024 and June 2025
YouTube paid out more than $8 billion to the music industry between July 2024 and June 2025, the Google-owned company’s global head of music, Lyor Cohen, has announced in an open letter to partners. He called it a milestone, highlighting how central the platform has become to the global music economy. Cohen also discussed a string of defining cultural moments that went viral on YouTube.
A year of landmark moments for YouTube
