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

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

As soon as the change is in place, issues may even get a bit cheaper for creators who have been working underneath the Premium (12 %) plan. Relatively than persevering with to pay 12 %, Premium creators will likely be shifted to a customized “Professional + merch” plan that can include an 11 % price. In the event that they take away the merch choice, the price 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 stated it might 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 is going to start providing 100 hours of video monthly totally free later this summer time. The transfer comes shortly after the platform teased new tools including a built-in livestreaming feature, Stay Video. Patreon started checks of Stay Video amongst choose creators this spring, with plans for a summer time rollout.