Spotify’s new long-term deal with Universal Music Group, which will provide a framework for deals with other labels, sees the service pay about half of its revenue to labels. In Canada, on-demand audio streaming services also pay 12.78 per cent of revenue to publishers and songwriters via SOCAN and CSI. With YouTube, even these types of broad numbers are unknown.
Source: Canadian Musician Features » Blog Archive » YouTube: Friend or Foe of the Music Industry?