Jobless Garrett is a gaming YouTuber who mainly makes videos of himself playing GTA V and makes them entertaining by adding a funny commentary on the videos. He also does some vlogs on the channel from time to time and has generated a large portion of his net worth of around $320,000 from YouTube.
How Much Does Money Jobless Garrett Makes On YouTube?
Jobless Garrett YouTube channel has over 1.5 million subscribers and has accumulated over 260 million views since September 2011. In a day the channel gets an average of 150,000 views per day across its many videos and in turn this generates an estimated revenue of $270 per day ($100,000 a year) from the ads that run on the videos.
YouTubers get paid between $2 – $5 per 1000 monetized views after YouTube takes its cut. Monetized views range from 40% – 60% 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, ad engagement etc.
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.