The relationship between the various platforms content creators use is a fickle thing. YouTube has muddied the waters ever so slightly with a new update that requires creators to activate YouTube's ...

Patreon, a San Francisco-based crowdfunding platform for artists, on Monday announced it has acquired Subbable, a video subscription service founded by YouTube star Hank Green and his brother John ...

Patreon is creating a video-hosting solution and native player for all its content creators.CEO of Patreon, Jack Conte, confirmed the news to The Verge, and added that the company is also launching a ...

YouTube has made it more difficult to use crowdsourced-funding platforms like Patreon with a recent out-of-the-blue update. The update forces creators to become part of its partnership program — which ...

YouTube's sometimes uneven crackdown on ads placed on offensive content has driven some video creators to the crowd-funding site Patreon for a more reliable source of income. But that alternative may ...

YouTube has a mission: help make their creators money — but not exclusively through ads. At VidCon last week, the company announced a number of new alternative monetization updates rolling out over ...

YouTuber Greg "Onision" Jackson has been banned from Patreon after allegedly doxxing a woman online. On Sunday night, Jackson posted text messages and the phone number of said accuser, who claimed ...

YouTube has come under criticism from creators who say they can’t link out to their Patreon accounts on video end slates anymore. A YouTube representative confirmed to Polygon that links to Patreon ...

When YouTube wanted to punish political pundit Steven Crowder amid widespread outcry over his homophobic comments, its first move was to disable Crowder’s ability to run ads on his videos. The ...

It’s May 7, 2013 and Jack Conte is, in his own words, “totally exhausted, slash, totally wired, in that really weird in-between zone.” He has spent 18 hours per day for the last 50 days building a ...