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

After August 4, creators establishing a paid membership web page on Patreon should pay a ten % price on their earnings beneath the platform’s new normal plan. Whereas Patreon at the moment 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 enhance solely applies to creators publishing a brand new web page; Patreon says it can proceed to honor the decrease Professional fee for anybody who has locked it in by August 4.

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

Patreon additionally says it is rising the quantity of free storage it will present for creators utilizing Patreon Video. Whereas it beforehand stated it could 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 without cost later this summer season. The transfer comes shortly after the platform teased new tools including a built-in livestreaming feature, Reside Video. Patreon started assessments of Reside Video amongst choose creators this spring, with plans for a summer season rollout.