Creator funds, affiliate revenue, and your own offer.
A view pays once. A subscription pays every month.
Ad revenue resets to zero every month and depends on a payout rate you do not control. Recurring affiliate revenue accumulates: the customer you brought in March is still paying you in December without you making another video about them.
That is the whole reason the partner rate does not stop at month four. The tail is the product.
The only kind that survives an audience.
Recommend what you use. Say what it costs. Say what it does badly. An audience forgives a flaw you named and never forgives one you hid.
If you show earnings — yours or anyone's — say plainly that they are not typical. It is required in most places and it is true everywhere.
GPT-Video Partners pays a share of subscription revenue from customers you refer, and — once you have sold to customers of your own — a capped share of the revenue from customers referred by partners below you. It is not an income opportunity, a job, or an investment. Most participants in affiliate programs earn little or nothing. Nothing on this page is a promise, projection or guarantee of earnings. Any figures shown are actual results from named participants and are not typical.