Noticed this today as well, and it seems that Udemy have updated the Instructor Terms: When a student purchases your Submitted Content, we calculate the gross amount of the sale as the amount actually received by Udemy from the student ("Gross Amount"). From this, we subtract any Transaction Taxes, any mobile platform fees applied to mobile provider checkout sales, a 3% service and processing fee (except in Japan, where we subtract a 4% fee) for any non-mobile provider checkout sales, and any amounts paid to third parties in connection with the Promotional Programs to calculate the net amount of the sale ("Net Amount"). That is really upsetting, since the messages about the new revenue share policy focused on the organic reach and ads/affiliates promotions, and this fee was mentioned very briefly. Meanwhile, since all these revenue share changes took effect, I'm having a phenomenally bad month on Udemy. I don't see any increase from ads and affiliate program sales, but I do feel a major decrease in revenue from the organic sales. And now also this 3% transaction fee... Honestly, I feel like I've been robbed.
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