Vitaly Zdorovetskiy (Vitalyzd) is a famous Russian born prankster on YouTube who made most of his net worth online. He has two YouTube channels, his main one being the one filled with pranks and his other one is basically his vlog. He has even done a movie about pranks, Natural Born Prankstars, together with Roman Atwood and other prankstars. He has an estimated net worth of around $3 million mainly earned from his YouTube career.
How Much Money Does VitalyzdTV Earn On YouTube?
VitalyzdTv has over 9.6 million subscribers as of 2018 and has accumulated over 1.8 billion views across all its videos. In a day the channel is able to get an average of 430,000 hits which translates into earnings of around $1,700 per day or around $620,000 a year from the ads that appear on the videos
Vitaly’s second channel, VitalyzdTvSecond, has over 1.7 million subscribers and gets around 50,000 hits everyday. This will end up generating earnings of around $90 per day or around $30,000 a year.
YouTubers get paid between $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.
Vitaly also sells merchandise to make more money.