A YouTuber's decade-old music videos licensed to AI companies (about 1,000 hours in a year)
$33,000 in the last year ... a thousand hours of old videos
Dated 31 Oct 2025Source checked 11 Oct 2026Quote found on its page again 17 Oct 2026Basis: reported
In the source's own words
“has made $33,000 in the last year just from licensing a thousand hours of old videos”
Where it was read
Also read from the same source
- Terabytes of creator video licensed through Troveo, deals negotiated by a creator manager (Night Media)
- A large creator's video catalogue licensed through Troveo, total paid to each of a handful of creators
- Peter Hollens (YouTube creator, via Troveo) to Undisclosed AI companies: About 1,000 hours of old a cappella videos licensed for training video-generation models; library can be resold to multiple buyers.
What it is about
- Peter Hollens
- Video and footage
Figures it counts in
- $0.55 a minuteWhat one creator realised per minute of a video back catalogue
- $0.55 a minuteA creator's realised rate for licensed footage, per minute
- $33 to $120 an hour of footageThe valuation's price for general footage
- 55%A creator's realised rate as a share of the bottom of the quoted creator rate
- 14%A creator's realised rate as a share of the top of the quoted creator rate
- $42 per hour of videoVideo and footage, sales that happened, per hour of video
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