Jiggin’ With Jordan is a popular adventure YouTube channel created by a guy from Florida, United States whose real name is Brandon Jordan. He has an estimated net worth of $600,000. His videos are known for the display of his epic fishing skills, treasure diving adventures, fishing tutorials and lots of other amazing stuff. He started out the channel as a class project for college and when the class was over the continued to purse YouTube. He got into fishing and diving ever since he was a little kid. His dad taught his how to fish before he could even walk. His favorite exploration so far has been his journey in the Amazon jungle where he dived into the Amazon River.
How Much Money Does Jiggin’ With Jordan Earn On YouTube?
The channel has over 2.5 million subscribers as of 2020 and has accumulated over 300 million views so far. It is able to get an average of 240,000 views per day from different sources. This should generate an estimated revenue of around $1,200 per day ($440,000 a year) from the ads that appear on the videos.
YouTubers get paid $2 – $7 per 1000 monetized views after YouTube takes its cut. Monetized views range from 40% – 80% of the total views. All these are influenced by several factors like device played on, the location of the viewer, ad inventory, how many ads there are on a video, how many people skip the ads, type of advertisement, ad engagement , type of content etc. The cost of an ad view is based on an auction between advertisers based on views. Advertisers have to bid a minimum of $0.01 per view.
There is also a program known as Google Preferred where deep-pocketed companies can target ads on the top 5% most popular content. The ad rates here are higher than normal. Apart from ads, YouTubers also generate extra from YouTube Red viewers who pay a monthly fee to view premium content on YouTube plus watch videos without ads. Here they get paid based on watch time on their videos. The longer the viewers watch their videos, the more money they earn.