{"id":2134,"date":"2012-10-01T15:57:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T15:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/10\/01\/after-14-million-plays-the-dead-kennedys-received-a-few-hundred-dollars-from-youtube\/"},"modified":"2012-10-01T15:57:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T15:57:41","slug":"after-14-million-plays-the-dead-kennedys-received-a-few-hundred-dollars-from-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/10\/01\/after-14-million-plays-the-dead-kennedys-received-a-few-hundred-dollars-from-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"After 14 Million Plays, the Dead Kennedys Received a Few Hundred Dollars from YouTube&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/0\/0f\/Dead_kennedys.jpg\/220px-Dead_kennedys.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"146\" height=\"155\" \/><br \/>YouTube absolutely eclipses Spotify when it comes to the amount of music streamed. But YouTube&#8217;s payouts on those streams appear to be substantially worse, with similar problems in transparency.\u00a0   <!--more-->  <br \/>We&#8217;ve seen some really sad numbers for YouTube superstars like Susan Boyle and even Rebecca Black.\u00a0 But when it comes to depressingly-low YouTube royalties, Dead Kennedys may take the cake.\u00a0 According to stats just shared by the group, YouTube paid just &#8216;a few hundred dollars&#8217; on an aggregate of 14 million streams.\u00a0 And, the band has no idea how they arrived at that number.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what guitarist Raymond Pepperell (aka &#8216;East Bay Ray&#8217;) told NPR over the weekend: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know \u2014 and no one I know knows \u2014 how YouTube calculates the money.\u00a0\u00a0 What YouTube claims is irrelevant until they produce how much they&#8217;ve made off my band and how much they&#8217;ve shared with my band.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t let them bulls&#8211;t you that it&#8217;s too complicated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In discussions with YouTube, the Dead Kennedys were told they&#8217;d receive 45 percent of ad revenue on their plays.\u00a0 But Pepperell says the band is yet to receive any information related to those calculations.<\/p>\n<p>On a broader scale, Dead Kennedys&#8217; earnings have dropped by more than half over the past few years alone.\u00a0 &#8220;[Users] should ask YouTube and Google to pay the artists. Yes, the students are getting free music, but they should still care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Digital Music News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube absolutely eclipses Spotify when it comes to the amount of music streamed. But YouTube&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}