[Cederfjard]

In the article it said that the creator makes around 60% of their income from AdSense, 40% from Patreon (which Google sees nothing from).

A quick search says that Google pays the publisher/creator 68% on the AdSense revenue.

So how does Google make an order of magnitude more of this channel than the content producer?

[paulryanrogers]

Creators who could take CC payments via their own merchant account would pay about 3-4%.