[bpodgursky]

If the payment is proportional to the view distribution among Youtube Red subscribers, I'm not sure whether the methods would work out very differently.

Actually I guess one way it could get skewed if the viewers of one channel on average watch more/fewer videos than the population at large. Hopefully they figure out how to weight the value of a given minute of "view time" for fix-it videos etc vs music videos which are running in the background.