Mo is a young YouTube vlogger who lives in Dubai and sometimes in London. He has an estimated net worth of $8 million mainly earned from his channel. One thing that attracts millions of viewers to his channel is the expensive super cars he features in his videos. One place that has the highest concentration of these cars is Dubai since a large percentage of the people can afford the cars. Apart from that, Mo vlogs his day to day adventures with his friends or family as they do various activities in Dubai. Some of the most famous places he has filmed is inside the Burj Khalifa (The tallest building in the world), The Dubai Mall, Floating Seahorse Villas, Ski Dubai, Wild Wadi and a bunch of other areas.
Mo’s first videos were done when he was in London since that is where he grew up. His channel blew up once he moved to Dubai in August 2015.
How Much Money Does Mo Earn On YouTube?
Mo Vlogs YouTube channel has over 9 million subscribers growing by 4,000 new subs daily and has generated over 2.5 billion hits since starting out in December 2014. On average the channel gets around 1.2 million hits per day across its videos and in turn generates revenue of around $4,800 per day ($1.8 million a year) from advertising.
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.
Mo makes extra income through doing sponsored videos and has promoted products like War Robots, Huawei plus others.