How to Actually Figure Out Who Makes More Between Two Gaming YouTubers
I've spent years looking at YouTube analytics and trying to reverse-engineer creator income from publicly available data. It's not as clean as most people think. The question of who is richer Methodz or VanossGaming comes up regularly on forums, and the answer isn't just about subscriber count, though that matters a lot. Here's how I approach these comparisons and why the numbers are always a bit of a guess.
Who Is Richer Methodz Or VanossGaming
VanossGaming (Erik Cederström) has roughly 26 million subscribers and has accumulated well over 10 billion lifetime views on his channel. Methodz (Methodz47) has around 6 million subscribers with roughly 1.5 billion lifetime views. Based on those numbers alone, VanossGaming is almost certainly wealthier, but let me explain why that comparison is more complex than it appears. To compare two YouTubers' wealth, you start with estimated ad revenue. The standard approach uses a CPM model. CPM, which stands for cost per mille, or cost per thousand views, varies wildly depending on the content type, audience demographics, season, and advertiser demand. For gaming content specifically, CPM tends to run lower than educational or finance content because the advertiser pool is smaller. A reasonable CPM range for a major English-language gaming channel sits between 1.50 and 4.00 dollars per thousand views. Let me give you a concrete example using VanossGaming. If his channel averages around 20 to 30 million views per month on new uploads and gets monetized views across his back catalog, we're looking at monthly ad revenue somewhere between 30,000 and 120,000 dollars from ads alone. That's a wide range because the numbers fluctuate heavily based on when his videos come out and how much they trend.
Methodz operates at a different scale. With fewer monthly views and a somewhat smaller audience, his ad revenue is likely in the 5,000 to 25,000 dollar monthly range. Again, these are estimates. The gap between the two is substantial, but it's important to remember that ad revenue is only one piece.
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What People Forget About Creator Income
Sponsorships are where the real money is for most mid-to-top-tier YouTubers. A creator with VanossGaming's audience can command 50,000 to 150,000 dollars per sponsored segment depending on the brand, integration style, and campaign length. Companies like Amazon Prime, mobile game publishers, and snack brands frequently sponsor gaming channels. Methodz has done sponsorships too, but the rates reflect his smaller reach. Merchandise is another revenue stream. VanossGaming has a merchandise operation that generates significant income, though exact figures are never public. Methodz has also sold merch. Neither creator has diversified as aggressively as someone like Markiplier or Jacksepticeye, who have production companies and larger brand ecosystems behind them. Here's a practical problem I ran into when trying to compare these creators directly: YouTube doesn't publish revenue data. The only reliable numbers come from third-party sites like SocialBlade and Noxinfluencer, and those tools use different algorithms that produce wildly different results. One tool might estimate VanossGaming at 80,000 dollars monthly while another puts him at 200,000. The variance is annoying. I learned to treat any single estimate as a rough floor or ceiling, not an actual figure.
The workaround I use is to cross-reference three sources, take the median, and then adjust based on what I know about their upload frequency and recent content trends. If a creator has gone quiet for months, their current revenue is clearly lower than their historical average suggests.
The Real Answer
VanossGaming is richer than Methodz. The subscriber gap, the view gap, and the sponsorship rate difference all point in the same direction. VanossGaming's channel has been consistently larger for a decade. He also benefits from being part of the larger comedy gaming creator ecosystem, which opens doors to collabs and group projects that drive additional visibility and income. Methodz isn't doing poorly by any standard measure. A channel of his size generates a solid middle-class to upper-middle-class income. But the gap between 26 million and 6 million subscribers is not close. In the YouTube ecosystem, audience size compounds over time through algorithmic favoritism, higher sponsorship rates, and better business leverage. VanossGaming sits in a different tier entirely.
Limitations of This Approach
Even with all this analysis, I can't give you a precise net worth number for either creator. They have expenses, taxes, team salaries, business entities, and investments that are completely private. Some of the money they make goes toward production costs, staff, and legal fees. What gets reported as revenue is not the same as what ends up in their bank accounts. If you're trying to estimate these figures for a project or article, the best you can do is state ranges and cite your sources. Anyone who gives you a single exact number is guessing. The gap between VanossGaming and Methodz is large enough that the uncertainty margins don't change the conclusion, but for closer comparisons, things get messy fast.
