YouTube has just gotten a LOT more friendly to content creators.

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Today YouTube announced a number of new ways that creators can now monetize their work, the key one being the ability to use professionally licensed music from a growing list of major recording artists and just opting to share your ad revenue instead of just forfeiting it to them. In addition, they are opening up more ways to join the partner program and are also setting up programs that will give creators the ability to make money off of the company's growing TikTok alternative, YouTube Shorts. Only time will tell how this will affect the streamer economy, but at least you can get paid when you post a thirst-trap dance on the platform.