Crypto just entered YouTube’s $100B creator payouts, offering a novel path to finally exit banks
YouTube has added PayPal’s PYUSD stablecoin as a payout option for U.S. creators. The choice routes through PayPal’s payout infrastructure rather than requiring YouTube to custody or transfer crypto directly.
According to Fortune, PayPal crypto chief May Zabaneh confirmed the arrangement. Google and YouTube also confirmed PYUSD was added as a payout option for eligible creators.
The change lands inside one of the largest recurring creator pay streams in media. YouTube has paid out more than $100 billion to creators over the past four years.
That implies roughly $25 billion per year flowing through the platform’s monetization stack. The immediate impact is not that creators must “go on-chain.” It is that a stablecoin is now…
