YouTube’s first major YPP restructuring since 2018 changes both who can enter ads/Premium revenue sharing and which Shorts creators can earn from the monthly pool, while existing YPP membership itself is grandfathered.
Zipchat is useful as an operating case study, not a comeback story. Founder-reported figures show how a prior platform dependency failure influenced a new AI SaaS model built around reply-based pricing, channel diversification, revenue-based financing and tighter hiring discipline.
Shopify's App Pricing migration is now clearer: directly matching subscriptions can move through plan setup, while usage-based and price-mismatched subscriptions stay on the Billing API until a separate Migration API arrives.