[concerned_user]

> Sponsors don't pay a fixed amount to creators. They pay for (estimated) views.

This can't be right, I've seen many videos from creators that say the opposite, it is a fixed amount per contract which can be one or more videos. Maybe it is different with creators that have more than 1M subscribers.

[addaon]

The estimation is on the front end of the contract, not the back end -- the amount offered to a creator whose videos average 10M views is 10x than what is offered to one whose videos average 1M views, in general. If you think about it from the advertiser's point of view, this is the only sane way to manage the risk of a video going viral and exceeding expected number of views, while still providing a reasonably constant valuation of a view event.

[VikingCoder]

You're correct, for at least a large fraction of the sponsored videos I've ever seen.