xQc Net Worth: How Much Money He Makes On Twitch & YouTube
xQc Net Worth – $120 Million
Felix Lengyel, popularly known as xQc or xQcOW, is a Canadian professional Overwatch player and Twitch streamer who played the Main Tank Position for the Dallas Fuel in the Overwatch League. He has an estimated net worth of $120 million. He participated in the Overwatch World Cup as the Main Tank for Team Canada in 2017 & 2018. He streams for multiple hours on a daily basis, his main game being Overwatch and his other games being Fortnite, IRL, Call Of Duty, Real Royale and others.
How Much Money Does xQcOW Earn On Twitch?
The streamer has gained over 12 million followers since starting out in 2014 and has accumulated over 650 million views. He is able to average 75,000 viewers per stream with his highest viewership being 312,000 people. Streamers make money through subscriptions, ad revenue, donations and bits. xQc has an estimated 60,000 subscribers from which he gets a minimum of $2.5 per subscriber every month and this should add up to around $150,000 a month ($1.8 million a year).
Officially, Twitch Partners and Affiliates receive 50% of the total subscription fee, so for the $4.99 tier, the streamer would get around $2.50. Twitch has been known to increase this amount for popular streamers to encourage them to remain on the Twitch platform, with some being upgraded to anywhere from 60% to 100% of the monthly fee.
Streamers make money through the Cheering feature when a fan cheers with bits in the chat. A Cheer is an animated chat emote that uses bits. Typing “Cheer1” will generate a grey bouncing triangle, and cost you 1.4 cents. “Cheer100” brings up a dancing purple diamond, and costs you $1.4. You can Cheer any amount you please (including irregular figures, and the corresponding emotes get larger and larger, up to a “Cheer10000,” a $140 tip represented by a fractured red star. streamers will get 1 cent for every Bit pledged while Twitch will keep the 0.4 cents.
Fans can also donate directly to their favorite streamers through Paypal and also cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, litecoin or ethereum. There are a variety of third-party services that Twitch streamers can connect to their account to activate additional features such as donations and alerts. Some of the more popular services are Gaming For Good, StreamTip, Muxy, Stream Elements, and StreamLabs. All of these services create a unique donation page for your channel hosted on their own server which you can direct your viewers to make a donation.
How Much Money Does XqcOW Earn On YouTube?
The channel has over 2.5 million subscribers as of 2024 and has accumulated over 1.8 billion views so far. It is able to get an average of 1.4 million views per day from different sources. This should generate an estimated revenue of $11,000 per day ($4 million a year) from the ads that appear on the videos.
YouTube content creators based in the US, UK, Canada and Australia generally get paid $2 – $12 per 1000 monetized views after YouTube takes its cut. Monetized views usually range from 40% – 80% of the total views. All these are influenced by several factors like the device played on, time of the year, 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, YouTube content creators also generate extra income from other methods such as YouTube Premium, Superchats & Superstickers, Super Thanks, Channel Membership and Shopping.
YouTube Premium viewers pay a monthly fee to view premium content on YouTube and watch videos without ads. Here, content creators get paid based on watch time on their videos. The longer the viewers watch their videos, the more money they earn.
Super Chat and Super Sticker are used by fans to connect with creators during live streams and premiers. When one buys a Super Chat, their comment is highlighted within the live chat while the Super Stickers get an animated image that surfaces in live chat. Super Thanks lets creators earn revenue from viewers who want to show extra gratitude for their videos. Fans can buy a one-time animation and get to post a distinct, colorful, and customizable comment in the video’s comment section.
Shopping allows eligible creators to connect their stores to YouTube to feature their own products.
YouTube Shorts generate revenue in a different way as compared to traditional videos. The revenue from ads appearing between Shorts will be pooled together then a portion of the total revenue will be allocated to a Creator Pool. Each country has its own Creator Pool. Eligible creators will be paid based on their share of total views. Shorts that use music make less money due to licensing costs.
General Expenses
Content creators incur a wide variety of expenses to create their content. These can include things like production costs, employee salaries, travel expenses, rent, buying new equipment, utilities, amenities, entertainment, subscription fees and other living expenses. One of the biggest expenses for most creators is taxes. Your tax brackets generally depend on your income. In a country like the United States, the highest tax rate is 37%. A combination of all these expenses determines one’s ability to save and invest, consequently how much one’s net worth grows.
Other Sources Of Income
i) Sponsorship
XQC makes extra income through sponsorship deals from brands such as G Fuel. He also does sponsored streams whereby various game developers pay him to play their games within their streams. He has these with games such as Eternal Return: Black Survival, Black Desert Online etc.
ii) Other YouTube Channel
xQc runs two other channels, xQc Clips and xQc Reacts. The clips channel is mainly focused on short format videos which are less than two minutes while the reaction channel is generally him reacting to various viral clips online.
xQc Reacts has over 200,000 subscribers and has accumulated over 100 million views. It gets an average of 150,000 views per day which should generate an estimated ad revenue of $1,200 per day.
iii) Deal With Kick
In 2023, Felix signed a non-exclusive deal worth $100 million with Kick. The base value of the contract is $70 million but with financial incentives that push it close to $100 million. This is an attempt by Kick to lure in viewers into the platform.