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While his reputation continues to be divisive, there's no getting away from the fact that Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson has taken the YouTube scene by storm.
With his main MrBeast channel boasting 367 million subscribers and the honor of being the most-subbed channel on the popular video platform, you might think he's rolling in money.
Although Donaldson has never revealed his net worth, and exact figures are impossible to find online, it's speculated that he could be worth up to $1 billion.
It's something Donaldson has distanced himself from, saying he has just $1 million in the bank.
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Then again, with his popular YouTube channel still pulling in millions of views on every video, he's also supplementing his content creation with business ventures like Lunchly, Feastables, and MrBeast Burger are all likely to help his bank balance.
Even though Donaldson claims he made a massive loss of over $10 million by fronting Amazon's Beast Games, they say no publicity is bad publicity.
If you fancy yourselves as the next MrBeast and think you can also make it big on YouTube, the man himself has revealed the mind-blowing amount he makes on two of his side channels.
In a resurfaced video, Donaldson challenges personal finance enthusiast Graham Stephan to make a basketball shot. If successful, Donaldson says he'll reveal how much he makes on YouTube. That's not quite true, and although we don't get a full total, he lets us peek inside his French and Spanish dubbed channels.
From MrBeast en Français, Donaldson makes an impressive $63,000 a month, while MrBeast en español tops it with a jaw-dropping $96,000 a month.
As well as channels dubbed for the countries above, he caters to Russian and Portuguese audiences. If that wasn't enough, his main channel also has a number of spin-offs, including, Beast Reacts (formerly BeastHacks), MrBeast Gaming, MrBeast 2 (formerly MrBeast Shorts), and Beast Philanthropy.
Even though MrBeast 2 is a way off the main channel's 376 million subscribers, its 49.4 million is nothing to be laughed at. Considering the various foreign channels just re-upload his content with a different language dub, it gives some idea about what he could be making every month.
Of course, different YouTube channels have different CPMs, and because most content creators are notoriously secretive about the inner workings of their channels, we'll likely never know Donaldson's actual monthly earnings.
Responding to the short, one stunned viewer wrote: "2 mil/year on 2 side channels. That’s absurd."
Another reiterated: "He could stop producing videos and still earn millions of dollars every year for years just from people rewatching the old videos."
When someone said, "Just imagine how much the main channel is making…. Wow," Stephan chimed in saying, "A lot! But to my understanding, more than all of it then gets spent back on more videos."
When it comes to MrBeast en español, Donaldson pointed out it was 39 days without posting a video and he was still making $96,000 a month. The mind boggles, but when you've got a following like MrBeast, it must sometimes be a case of sitting back and watching the money flow in.
