{"id":998693,"date":"2026-03-18T11:44:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T06:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998693"},"modified":"2026-03-18T11:44:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T06:14:55","slug":"youtube-says-it-paid-out-over-8-billion-to-music-industry-between-july-2024-and-june-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/18\/youtube-says-it-paid-out-over-8-billion-to-music-industry-between-july-2024-and-june-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube says it paid out over $8 billion to music industry between July 2024 and June 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube paid out more than $8 billion to the music industry between July 2024 and June 2025, the Google-owned company\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>A year of landmark moments for YouTube<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube paid out more than $8 billion to the music industry between July 2024 and June 2025, the Google-owned company\u2019s 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}