$500, 000 per month.
Or at least that’s what Tyler Ninja Blevins recently told CNBC’s Squawk Alley concerning
how much he rakes in a month from streaming Fortnite.
This statement was also confirmed with Forbes as well.
Ninja currently has over 11 million followers on Twitch, with over 300 million channel views,
and on his youtube channel, and as of this recording he has over 18 million subscribers.
According to the interview, which happened in March of this year, Ninja credits Amazon
Prime subscribers who donate to his Twitch channel for a solid chunk of that income.
In case you’re out of the loop, Amazon recently acquired Twitch for 970 million dollars back
in 2014, and Twitch’s popularity has been booming, with many a streamer being able to
make a living playing video games.
It’s become a viable career option to many, but it’s still a difficult industry to crack,
especially when it comes to Fortnite since so many streamers play the wildly popular
game on the platform.
Earlier this year, Ninja smashed records on Twitch thanks to a stream he did with a handful
of celebrities, including mega star Drake.
It broke the record for being the most-viewed live stream on Twitch ever, having more than
680,000 cocurrent viewers.
The previous record was 388,000 viewers.
The stream also featured rapper Travis Scott and NFL player JuJu Smith-Schuster, and the
banter during the match consisted of Drake talking about how he likes pineapple on pizza,
and Drake and Ninja talking about the further of the game.
On Twitch, viewers pay five dollars every month to subscribe to a Twitch streamer.
Twitch takes a dollar fifty from that, with the streamer taking in 3 dollars and fifty
cents.
So with around 100,000 subscribers, this means he’d be make around 350,000 dollars any
given month.
With donations, that’s where that rough 500,000 number comes from.
Plus, that’s not including any public appearances he gets paid for, so it’s safe to assume
that that number fluctuates ever so slightly, circumstances depending.
He once went on record saying he earns about 3.5 million from endorsements.
Back in June he signed a deal with Redbull, and he’s also had endrosements from Uber
Eats, Budweiser and PSD underwear.
And let’s not forget merchandise!
Most of his shirts range from 22 to 25 dollars US, with stickers and phone cases being between
3 dollars to 15 dollars.
For around 35 dollars you can get yourself a bag, and for 59 dollars, a hoodie.
It’s hard to say how exactly the merch profits are divided and how much goes back into making
more merch, but surely he’s turning a decent profit.
So if you calculate all that together, according to various speculations online, we’re looking
at between 16 to 18 million per year if his numbers are consistent.
Kinda puts the whole thing into perspective, doesn’t it?
But here’s the thing; this interview, as we mentioned, was back in march, when Ninja
had 3.7 million followers on Twitch, and 5 million subscribers on Youtube.
His numbers have skyrocketed since.
And from YouTube alone, his income would have almost tripled.
So while no specific numbers have been released in terms of how much the streaming celebrity
makes, it’s safe to assume that Ninja has hit millionaire status.
According to SocialBlade’s estimated earnings stats, Tyler’s channel rakes in between
42.9 thousand to 686.3 thousand a month, which adds up to about 514.7 thousand to 8.2 million
a year.
That’s a big stretch in between those numbers, but regardless, if the dude is making a minimum
of half a million a year on YouTube alone, that’s definitely something to still be
gawked at.
Based on those same stats, he’s making at least a thousand bucks per video on his channel,
which goes out daily, with an daily average view count of 4.5 million.
In the last 30 days alone as of this recording, he has gotten over a million subscribers,
and 135 million views.
According to Tyler, “I think that I offer a combination of high-tier game play that
they really can’t get with a lot of other content creators.
It’s very difficult to be one of the very best at a video game.”
He went on to say that his persona also helps with getting him the views, since he acts
goofy and does impressions and what not, making the combination of the experienced gameplay
and his own brand of entertainment something that has fans constantly coming back for more.
So what do you guys think?
If you had to estimate how much Ninja makes yearly, what would you guess it is?
We can only really speculate since hey, wouldn’t be fair for us curious folks to demand to
see his taxes or anything.
Dude isn’t a politician, now is he?
Just a humble lovable Fortnite streamer.
If you made as much money as Ninja did, what would you buy with it?
Give us a shout in those comments below and let us know!
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