If you’ve been watching YouTube videos long enough, MrBeast won’t be an unknown name. This 23-year-old American, the highest-paid YouTuber, is well known for his expensive stunts and giveaways. If you’re wondering about MrBeast’s net worth and how he rose to fame, I’ll go in brief in this post.
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Who is MrBeast?
MrBeast, real name Jimmy Donaldson, is a creator, social media celebrity, an internet personality, and a YouTube star. He is 23 years old (born on May 7, 1998). He is the highest-paid American content creator renowned for his expensive stunts and philanthropy.
MrBeast was born in Kansas State but grew up with his brother in Greenville, North Carolina. He revealed social media influencer Maddy Spidell was his girlfriend back in 2019.
What is MrBeast’s Net worth?
MrBeast’s net worth is still a secret; however, most online analysts claim his net worth to be $25 million. His net worth includes his earnings from YouTube AdSense, merchandise sales, brand deals, and sponsorships.
According to Forbes, he climbed to the first of the top-earning YouTubers with estimated earnings of $54 million in 2021. He is estimated to be earning $3 million every month.
Most of these estimates consider a Cost Per 1000 views (CPM). While YouTube does not pay per CPM, it calculates RPM based on monetizable playbacks. Even though YouTube takes 45% of his total earnings, the amount of money he makes is insane.
How much money does MrBeast make a day?
According to Social Blade, a social media statistics tracker, MrBeast’s YouTube channel receives an astronomical amount of 357 million views every month. The monetizable payback will be somewhere around 250 million, assuming 30% of viewers will have ad blockers that prevent ads from showing up in the video.
Using cost per 1000 views (CPM) of $4, the channel’s gross revenue is around $550,000 per month. YouTube only pays 55 percent of the net income. MrBeast’s YouTube Channel makes an estimated $18,000 per day. It is equivalent to $6.6 million of annual revenue. This estimate does not include his video production expense. It also does not have his earnings through brand deals and other business.
How much money does MrBeast make per video?
Based on $54 million in revenue from his 719 videos, MrBeast makes approximately $75 thousand per video. However, each video generates mixed revenue. His latest videos would have more views and generate more income through ads than the older videos. It is also equally valid that his older videos get juice through his newer content and popularity.
MrBeast YouTube Channel
MrBeast started his YouTube channel back in 2012 at age 13. As of Feb 2022, he has uploaded 719 videos, accumulated a whopping 15 billion views, and is still counting. His channel “MrBeast” has 90 million subscribers at the time of this writing and grows by 2 million on average every month. According to Social Blade, almost 358 million fans viewed his videos in the last 30 days. Besides MrBeast, his other channels are Beast Philanthropy, MrBeast gaming, Beast reacts, MrBeast shorts, and MrBeast2; all have over 5 million subscribers.
MrBeast’s YouTube Channel analysis
The Beginning
The first-ever video uploaded on the YouTube Channel was titled “the worst Minecraft saw trap ever???” He started as a gamer streaming video based on early posted videos content. He mainly posted videos playing Minecraft, Pokémon, and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.
Transition
He slowly transitioned into a “dude” that rants about his views on different things. He uploaded a video about “how much he hates google plus,” “why he detests people asking for likes on YouTube,” and “why google does not care what we think.”
The rant videos are viral because they get much attention on social media. Everybody has an opinion about everything. On YouTube, user engagement pushes videos up in ranking. The comments section gets flooded on these videos.
He jumped from one random topic to another on his post as a beginner. He tried videos related to YouTube earnings from “PewDiePie,” “Skydoesminecraft,” and “Element Animation. “He attempted to piggyback views from these top YouTubers. Also, viewers and beginner YouTubers love the top YouTuber earning statistic videos. It is always interesting to know how top players make money on YouTube.
Fame
He didn’t rise to fame until 2017, when he posted a video of himself counting to 100,000. The 40-hour stunt quickly got noticed, and he performed a similar stunt counting to 200,000 the following month. From here on, his YouTube stunt video journey officially began. Combined with humor and a hefty price tag, his stunts grew bigger and celebrated, ultimately making him a millionaire.
MrBeast Business Venture
MrBeast’s business venture goes far and beyond just a YouTube creator. He has invested in a multiplayer gaming app, his chain of MrBeast burger or a Beast burger, a food company named Feastable, and multiple investments and partnership startups like Backbone and Juice funds.
MrBeast philanthropy
When it comes to philanthropy, MrBeast does not shy away. From literally giving away millions of dollars to opening his other charity organization, MrBeast goes all-in with #TeamTrees, free food, and #TeamSeas.
Team Trees is a collaboration between MrBeast and Mark Rober, a former NASA engineer, a fund-raising channel event to raise $20 million for Arbor Day Foundation and plant trees. The pledge is to plant a tree for every dollar the foundation receives. The Team Tree challenge has received corporate executives like Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and many others’ support, and millions of dollar donations received. The donation has helped plant 23.5 million trees worldwide.
Beast Philanthropy is MrBeast’s charity organization that distributes millions of pounds of food to the hungry. The YouTube Channel Beast Philanthropy donates 100% of its ad revenue for the cause.
Team Seas is MrBeast collaborative effort with Rober to fund-raise for Ocean Conservancy and The Ocean Cleanup. The action is to remove solid waste and plastic from oceans, beaches, and rivers.