Founder of Podcast and Chill, MacGyver Mukwevho, who is popularly known as MacG has the biggest podcast in Mzansi.
Considering that he had won Best Podcaster of the Year at this years VN Global Media and Entertainment Awards.
The controversial, yet popular podcaster co-hosts the show alongside Kaya FM broadcaster, Sol Phenduka and the mysterious Ghost Lady.
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The former broadcaster now podcaster gets hundreds of thousands of views, if not millions on his channel weekly. That has a lot of people questioning how much money he is making from YouTube. Since it is known that many people are making money off the media platform.
Social Blade is an American website tracking social media statistics and analytics, and according to the website MacG makes about 1.3 to 21k dollars per month. Which amounts to roughly R322k per month on YouTube from Ad Sense, excluding sponsorships and partnerships.
Social Blade may not always accurate but his yearly earnings are approximately 16k to 257k per month. About R3.8 million per year from YouTube.
Podcast and Chill is currently on its way to 700k subscribers. Possibly a million before the end of the year. With that amount of subscribers and still growing, MacG will soon be renowned as a YouTube millionaire if he is not already earning meters.
On the other hand, he has a sponsor and a ‘chiller’ market. Which he can make a significant amount of money from including deejaying on weekends.
Mac G’s earnings was something that was discussed in detail on Nkululeko on Cultr who also owns iDiski TV.
“iDiski TV makes from World Sports Betting and from YouTube money we easily make R400k to R500k per month because the deal alone with sports betting is R300k.
“When I’m breaking it down with the level of digital only we make maybe get around 40k on YouTube content alone. If we get over a million views a month.”
He says Mac G could easily make that money in a week. “So let’s say for argument sake he makes 60k per week so that’s 250k in a month right? Only on YouTube viewers. So, in a year that’s around maybe 3.5 million.”
Also, another important thing is that MacG employs over 30k young people so most his YouTube earnings are used to create employment. Good deeds right? Shout out to MacG!