Bart Baker is the king of music video parodies. Just go to his YouTube channel and see for yourself. He takes the biggest hits in the music industry and does really funny parodies for them. Some of his videos have hit over 100 million views eg Katy Perry – Dark Horse parody.
These parody videos have been able to earn him an estimated net worth of around $4.5 million over the years.
How Much Money Does Bart Baker Earn On YouTube?
Bart Baker’s YouTube channel has over 10 million subscribers and generated over 3.5 billion hits over its lifetime. He upload a video at least once a week and they generate over 200,000 video views within that first week. His channel gets an average of 400,000 per day and this translates into an estimated revenue of around $1,600 per day ($600,000 a year) from advertisements.
Bart has a vlog channel called Bart which has over 800,000 subscribers. It is able to generate an estimated revenue of $230 per day ($84,000 a year) from the 130,000 daily views it gets.
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.
Bart makes extra income through sponsorship deals from different companies that are willing to pay him thousands of dollars to promote their products. He has promoted products like Live Connection Fox.