Pastor Jerry Eze's YouTube Earnings Hit N7 Billion, Emerges Richest Content Creator in Nigeria

Pastor Jerry Eze's YouTube Earnings Hit N7 Billion, Emerges Richest Content Creator in Nigeria

  • Pastor Jerry Eze is rated the highest-earning YouTube creator in Nigeria with millions of subscribers
  • His lifetime earnings on YouTube have hit over N2 billion, with an average daily earning of N5 million
  • Eze creates thousands of daily, weekly, and monthly videos on his YouTube channel, earning him the name the digital preacher

Founder of Streams of Joy International and convener of the New Season Prophetic Prayers and Declaration, an online digital prayer meeting, has earned more than N7 billion on YouTube's video-sharing platform.

Eze is rated the highest-earning YouTube creator in Nigeria because of his prayer meetings, which he streams live mainly from the platform.

Pastor Jerry Eze earns millions from YouTube
Founder of Streams of Joy International, Pastor Jerry Eze Credit: Jerry Ikechukwu Eze/Facebook
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Highest single-day earning hits N21 million

His average daily earnings on YouTube are over N7 million, and has earned NGN 7 billion in total from the platform.

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Eze's highest earning was on Sunday, July 16, 2023, when he witnessed a surge in traffic, with over N21 million in revenues in a single day.

Data from his YouTube channel shows that he has amassed a whopping 2.1 million subscribers.

He is a household name among digital-savvy and prayer-seeking Nigerians and others in and outside the country. He earns millions of naira daily from views, chats, and comments on videos on his YouTube channel.

Eze streams close to 2,400 videos weekly

Eze has garnered over 30 million views on his channel in seven days, averaging 418,000 views daily and 274 million views and counting.

He has made about 1,677 live streams on his channel, which gets his subscribers hooked, and he sometimes conducts overnight services.

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Eze, a graduate of International Relations from Abia State University, is well-known among Christians in Nigeria who follow his prayer channel keenly.

However, they probably do not know he is a multi-millionaire courtesy of their views on his channel. Pastor Eze creates an average of 1,500 videos weekly, serving as the honeypot for his subscribers.

One video earns him over N2 million views

One of his videos has been viewed over 200,000 times, had 6,000 reactions, and grossed nearly N2 million in revenue.

The father of two is from Bende in Abia State. He holds a bachelor's degree in International Relations from Abia State University and a postgraduate certificate in Business Administration from Enugu State University of Technology (ESUT).

He was a communications specialist on a World Bank project on HIV/AIDS and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Eze is smiling at the bank with millions in his kitty for people saying amen to his prayers.

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Pastor Eze earns almost N1bn monthly from YouTube

Legit.ng earlier reported that a Nigerian preacher, Pastor Jerry Uchechukwu Eze, found fame and fortune from leading prayers on YouTube.

His prayer videos, which are watched and followed by over a million viewers on the platform, have earned him a reputation as one of the highest-earning YouTube creators in Nigeria.

Data from his YouTube channel shows that Eze has amassed a whopping 1,300,000 subscribers.

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Pascal Oparada (Business editor) For over a decade, Pascal Oparada has reported on tech, energy, stocks, investment, and the economy. He has worked in many media organizations such as Daily Independent, TheNiche newspaper, and the Nigerian Xpress. He is a 2018 PwC Media Excellence Award winner. Email:pascal.oparada@corp.legit.ng