


Millions of people find music on You Tube and decide that they want to keep it. That’s an astonishing amount of music content being moved through a “video” site. In fact, in November of 2018 YouTube reported that it had paid out $1.8 billion dollars to the music industry as a whole in the previous year. One of the biggest sources of YouTube content is the music industry – it’s not just small-time and hobbyist musicians using the platform to promote their music on the site. Major record companies and stars use the platform to sell their music around the world.

A whole new generation of YouTube video channels has arisen, filled with people making real money in all sorts of ways. Everyone from filmmakers to corporate marketing departments to garage-band musicians is using YouTube to showcase their videos and content. YouTube got its start as a small online community of folks sharing videos of their pets and vacation trips, but it’s now a huge company under the Google umbrella that has become the go-to site for video of almost every description.
