Adam Dahlberg is the guy running Sky Does Everything YouTube channel and this is where he generated majority of his net worth of around $8 million. He is famous for playthroughs of Minecraft Custom Maps or Parkour Maps together with his friends. He does have a number of other channels which also include a vlog (SkyDoesThings) but SkyDoesEverything is his biggest channel.
How Much Money Does Sky Does Everything Earn On YouTube?
Sky Does Minecraft has over 11 million subscribers as of 2020 and has accumulated over 3.9 billion video views over its lifetime. In a day, the channel gets an average of 160,000 views across its various videos and this should generate estimated revenues of around $650 a day ($240,000 a year) from the ads that run on the videos.
Sky makes more money through his vlog which has over 1.1 million subscribers as of early 2016. It generates views of around 100,000 per day which will generate earnings of around $150 per day.
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.