By Jonathan Bilski
I was trying to explain it some friends and it's kind of weird as no one else has the deal. I didn't even realize I already ready about here over at IndieWire.
Markiplier Made $50 Million at the Box Office. YouTube Wouldn’t Let Him Sell It on His Own Channel
So, everything else on YouTube you buy or rent is from a third party. No one has the deal the streamer Markiplier has. You just buy it from Mark and he has to give some profit to YouTube. Everything else on YouTube uses a third party to do this. So, another hand takes money from the pot of your movie. In Mark's case, it's just YouTube as it's the place hosting it for purchase.
The article alludes to YouTube not really caring about changing this up and Markiplier going to some great lengths like having to ask the CEO of YouTube to even do this. But, it means a lot more money for him.
It raises the question, why doesn't YouTube allow this a let's creators earn as much as they can on their platform.
