$33,000 in the past year for about 1,000 hours
Peter Hollens (YouTube creator, via Troveo) to Undisclosed AI companies: About 1,000 hours of old a cappella videos licensed for training video-generation models; library can be resold to multiple buyers.
Dated 31 Oct 2025Source checked 31 Oct 2025Quote found on its page again 17 Oct 2026Basis: stated
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“Hollens, who now oversees a variety of creator-focused startups and still occasionally posts a cappella videos, has made $33,000 in the last year just from licensing a thousand hours of old videos for training purposes. He makes more than $33 per hour of content used by an AI company”
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