YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced in a blog post today that YouTube will be launching a pilot program with a small group of users in an attempt to address and ameliorate its creators’ continued concerns regarding demonetization and other recent, largely unpopular changes to the YouTube Partners Program.

In the post, which was largely an update from the past year and in particular the past few months, Wojcicki acknowledged the frustrations of many content creators who have voiced their concerns, saying that the last two weeks had been “challenging” and that YouTube was “committed to communicate more with all of you,” while trumpeting that “channels earning five figures annually grew more than 35 percent, while channels earning six…

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