Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins Talks Fortnite, Making Money On Twitch And More - YouTube

I think it's a combination of a lot of things

The fact that it's free to play is super huge and it's already across all the platforms

Your Xbox, Playstation, and PC, they just released their mobile version on iOS which is very difficult to get done

And not to mention I think that there's rumors about maybe even getting it on the Nintendo switch

So just the accessibility and how friendly the game is really

They're just hitting every single mark perfectly

Now explain the business part of this now

They're reports that you're making more than a half a million dollars a month

I believe much of that coming from twitch and the twitch prime subscribers you're getting I believe 50% of that revenue

When people are watching you

Where is most of your income coming from and how important is twitch becoming in this gaming ecosystem

Right, a lot of the income is definitely coming from the Amazon and like twitch prime subscribers

We also just said five million subscribers on YouTube as well and Instagram just hit over a million followers

and I'm almost there on Twitter and just that the combination of all of those things is really worth the, I mean

Just the collective revenues is coming from and I mean this deal that Amazon Prime and Twitch Prime have together is incredible

Twitch prime allows people to like claim loot and collect loot with specific games

And they recently did a deal with Fortnite which is the hottest game right now

And that actually is one of the main reasons of influx of subscribers currently to my stream so

So I play the incredulous non-techie person congratulations on getting people to pay so much money

that you bring in more than half a million dollars in revenue a month for people to watch you play video games

Why do they want to watch you play?

I think that I offer a combination of high gameplay like high tier game play that they really can't get with a lot of other content creators

It's very difficult to be like one of the best at a video game, in any game or at anything at all in the world

And I also think I offer, I mean I'm very goofy if you've ever watched any of my streams or my youtube videos

I do impressions and like stuff like that all the time and just crazy shenanigans

And I think that the combination of that it's like a hybrid and it's just really fun to watch

and a pretty positive environment as well

Tyler you started competing in video games on Halo in 2009 so nearly 10 years ago

At which point I'm sure it was tough to convince your parents it was really absolutely a business model for this

and that you could really make money

What was your argument?

'cuz I'm sure that every sixteen, seventeen year old out there who loves playing video games wants to hear that

That was, that is an incredible question I'm actually I'm like really happy that you asked that

I maintained my job that I was working at, Noodles and Company and I stayed in college while I was doing all these things

I continued to do well in school and focus on like the future of my life as well as working on streaming and competing in Halo

It was one of those things where like if I was doing well in school, putting in the time and effort there

and soccer as well that I would be rewarded to play as many games as I want

And honestly I encourage everyone to do that, all the kids out there, like

You can't just drop everything and focus on playing video games for a living

It's also becoming a very competitive career choice right now and you want to make sure that you're, you know

You're securing your future and putting in the extra time to try to make this happen as well

Good for you for saying that what are you doing with the money

Are you investing it, how do you manage it?

So definitely investing and saving it as much as possible

I don't plan on doing anything crazy with it

Right now me and my wife we are sponsoring an animal every month where we take care of them or pay off their vet bills

And we're reaching out to other little charitable organizations as well

The other month we raised over one hundred fourteen thousand dollars for suicide prevention and awareness

And I mean, we're just going to be continuing to do good things like that as much as possible

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