We have the identity of Crowder's Big Con contract
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If they want Crowder to get docked for demonetization they should pay him as a cut of advertisements. Where's the clause where if Crowder expands his advertisement revenue by 2x from having a great show he gets paid more?
Instead their plan is to spam ads for two years, take the lion's share of the profits, and dump him or 'renegotiate' after his audience flees. Basically a leveraged buyout; buy the company, extract all the value, then bankrupt it and move on.
It's actually much worse than I thought:
So if just Apple cancels him then he's out 45% even though Daily Wire is still making probably 95% as much as before. That's a huge risk for Crowder to take. This adds up to Crowder getting -10% of his Fee if he gets Alex Jones'd.
And that's without considering any scheming like making him read ad copy for something they know Apple will ban, for instance Daily Wire getting ad revenue from PornHub and also $25 million they don't have to pay Crowder.
They could have said if he gets a channel banned then his fee is reduced by the percent that channel contributed to revenue. They could have guaranteed him a smaller amount worst case, like 5% of the fee if he gets Jones'd.
Apple podcasts are clearly not 50% of revenue. They don't believe that, nobody believes that.
So they made him an opening offer that's fundamentally insulting to his intelligence and they're upset that he called them out.
Fair point, but they could peg it to the ratio at signing the contract. It might be off by a lot after a while but ultimately the point of it is so that neither party wants to get a channel banned.
Instead Daily Wire made an offer where they profit from Crowder getting a channel banned, right from the start.