The star of Fortnite is Tyler “Ninja” Blevins. He is arguably the most popular gamer in the world and has numerous followers on YouTube and Twitch. Now he reveals how much money he made with Fortnite in 2018. It is about 10 million US dollars.
This is how much money Ninja made: He made “about 10 million US dollars” in 2018, says the 27-year-old streamer to the business site CNN Business in an interview. That is about 8.6 million euros.
Ninja earns 7 million $ through YouTube and Twitch
How does Ninja earn so much money? Ninja himself estimates that about 70% of his income, or about 7 million US dollars, comes from YouTube and Twitch.
Every time his 20 million YouTube subscribers see an ad on his channel, he makes some money from it. And Ninja’s videos have been watched by a lot of people on YouTube. In total, his channel has over 1.6 billion views.
On Twitch, he has 12.8 million followers who regularly watch his live streams. Ninja also earns money on Twitch through advertisements.
Additionally, there are about 40,000 Twitch subscribers. They support him monthly by signing up for a paid subscription on Twitch for one month. One tier costs 4.99$, 9.99$, or 25$. Ninja receives a part of this money.
However, Ninja says that Twitch could do better at encouraging people to purchase the more expensive subscriber tiers.
The remaining 30% of Ninja’s income comes from sponsorship deals with companies like Samsung, Uber Eats, or Red Bull.
This is how much Ninja worked for the money: Ninja says he spends about 12 hours a day in his “Coffee Shop”, as he calls his streaming setup, from which he goes live.
He estimates that he worked about 4000 hours on Fortnite in 2018. The year has only 8760 hours. This means that Ninja spent almost every 2 hours of 2018 playing and streaming Fortnite.
Every time Ninja is not streaming, he and his wife/manager Jess calculate how many subscribers and how much money they lose.
The couple rarely takes vacation. The last time they went on a trip together was during their honeymoon.
Does the current figure match what we thought before? The 10 million US dollars a year is even more than what his colleague DisguisedToast estimated. He calculated his own numbers to Ninja dimensions and came up with about 700,000 US dollars in monthly income.
However, Disguised Toast did not factor in the sponsorship deals, but excluded them. His calculation was therefore quite correct, as we know today.
