Irving Azoff still has a bone to pick with YouTube over the streaming giant’s royalties to artists.

“YouTube is by far the worst offender,” the famed artist manager and entrepreneur said on Friday (Sept. 26) at The Wrap’s TheGrill 2025. “I’m really not fond of when companies take advantage of creators.”

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Citing numbers available through Global Music Rights (GMR), the performance rights organization he founded in 2013, Azoff said YouTube’s royalty rates are a fifth of its nearest competitor despite having five times that competitor’s annual revenue. That g

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