Patreon is elevating its charges for brand new creators this summer season

After August 4, creators organising a paid membership web page on Patreon must pay a ten % charge on their earnings below the platform’s new customary plan. Whereas Patreon presently gives Professional and Premium plans, which carry charges of 8 % and 12 % of creators’ revenue, respectively, it is merging the 2 right into a single possibility transferring ahead. The value improve solely applies to creators publishing a brand new web page; Patreon says it can proceed to honor the decrease Professional price for anybody who has locked it in by August 4.

As soon as the change is in place, issues will even get a bit cheaper for creators who had been working below the Premium (12 %) plan. Reasonably than persevering with to pay 12 %, Premium creators shall be shifted to a customized “Professional + merch” plan that can include an 11 % charge. In the event that they take away the merch possibility, the charge will drop to eight %.

Patreon additionally says it is growing the quantity of free storage it’s going to present for creators utilizing Patreon Video. Whereas it beforehand mentioned it will present storage for as much as 100 hours of video throughout the account’s lifetime and cost for something past that, Patreon now says it can start providing 100 hours of video monthly at no cost later this summer season. The transfer comes shortly after the platform teased new tools including a built-in livestreaming feature, Stay Video. Patreon started assessments of Stay Video amongst choose creators this spring, with plans for a summer season rollout.