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

After August 4, creators establishing a paid membership web page on Patreon must pay a ten p.c charge on their earnings beneath the platform’s new commonplace plan. Whereas Patreon presently provides Professional and Premium plans, which carry charges of 8 p.c and 12 p.c of creators’ revenue, respectively, it is merging the 2 right into a single possibility transferring ahead. The worth improve solely applies to creators publishing a brand new web page; Patreon says it’s going to 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 may even get a bit cheaper for creators who had been working beneath the Premium (12 p.c) plan. Slightly than persevering with to pay 12 p.c, Premium creators shall be shifted to a customized “Professional + merch” plan that may include an 11 p.c charge. In the event that they take away the merch possibility, the charge will drop to eight p.c.

Patreon additionally says it is rising the quantity of free storage it will 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’s going to start providing 100 hours of video per thirty days at no cost later this summer season. The transfer comes shortly after the platform teased new instruments together with a built-in livestreaming characteristic, Dwell Video. Patreon started exams of Dwell Video amongst choose creators this spring, with plans for a summer season rollout.