Swagg reveals seven-figure YouTube earnings during Warzone\u2019s peak YouTube: FaZe SwaggOne of Call of Duty\u2019s biggest content creators, Swagg, has opened up about his earnings during the height of Warzone\u2019s popularity. Revealing exact dollar amounts for his early years on social media, he reached seven figures when the BR hit the scene. It\u2019s no secret content creators earn a pretty penny. From Ninja spilling the beans of his Twitch revenue to relatively smaller streamers still taking home thousands a month, it can be a lucrative career if viewers turn up. But what about when it comes to content creators in the CoD sphere? Well, we recently learned ex-pro player Parasite is doing quite well for himself, pocketing over $20,000 a month thanks to ad revenue on Twitch. But how does that stack up to one of the most popular influencers during Warzone\u2019s most popular era? In a refreshing breath of transparency, Swagg sat down with JSmooth and Matcrackz on their Join The Lobby podcast to discuss his earnings. Breaking his career down year by year, Swagg highlighted the \u201cgradual\u201d process to becoming one of the biggest names in the space. Reminding viewers of his journey on the internet, Swagg explained how he first began sharing videos on YouTube back in the Black Ops 2 era from 2012-2013. Similarly, during Ghosts, it was all just \u201ccasual posts, not really monetized.\u201d It wasn\u2019t until 2014\u2019s Advanced Warfare where he \u201cstarted posting daily, just to try and grow.\u201d The first set of income didn\u2019t arrive until one year later when Black Ops 3 was in the spotlight. \u201cI was posting two videos a day,\u201d he explained, still in college at the time. \u201cI made $12,000 that year when I was 19.\u201d In one particularly hot month, he walked away with $3,000 alone, a month that helped push him towards full-time content creation the next year, leaving college behind. With 2016\u2019s Infinite Warfare, Swagg stopped going to school and properly began growing his YouTube empire. \u201cI made $65,000,\u201d he revealed. Though he was quick to remind everyone \u201chalf of that\u2019s gone\u201d due to taxes. From there, it was off to the races. During WWII in 2017, he made $123,000. A hefty chunk of that came from a six-month Facebook streaming deal that netted him $72,000 alone. Next up was Black Ops 4, Swagg\u2019s best year yet, cashing in $237,000 all up. Making it all the more sweet, he claimed to have made $84,000 of his total earnings during the game\u2019s launch month alone. \u201cThat was insane\u2026 I got so chunky,\u201d he joked. \u201cI was going to the steakhouse all the time.\u201d When Modern Warfare (the reboot) launched in 2019, however, and did so with Warzone in tow, that\u2019s when Swagg truly hit his stride in the space. \u201cThat\u2019s when it all changed,\u201d he said. \u201cOn YouTube alone, I made $1 million.\u201d Swagg discusses his YouTube earnings at the 17:22 mark below That same year, Swagg also began his streaming journey on Twitch, so it\u2019s safe to say he may have made another few million there from sponsorship deals, subscriptions, and the like. As the face of Warzone during its peak, he was pulling in tens of thousands of viewers day in, day out. In revealing his earnings, Swagg hoped to illuminate the fact it\u2019s not an overnight success story for most content creators. In his case, it was a \u201cfive-year\u201d journey before the hard yards started paying off in lucrative ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Swagg reveals seven-figure YouTube earnings during Warzone\u2019s peak YouTube: FaZe SwaggOne of Call of Duty\u2019s biggest content creators, Swagg, has opened up about his earnings during the height of Warzone\u2019s popularity. Revealing exact dollar amounts for his early years on social media, he reached seven figures when the BR hit the scene. It\u2019s no secret […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}