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Popular Nigerian Pastor Jerry Eze has been ranked as Nigeria’s highest-earning YouTube creator, amassing an impressive N7 billion in all-time earning videos from 2014-2024, according to analytics website Playboard’s ‘Super Chat Revenue’ data.
WuzupNigeria reports that Pastor Jerry Eze’s now-viral YouTube prayer channel, which began during the Covid-19 pandemic often with the help of his wife, Eno Eze, and other associates, has since become one of the most-watched preaching channels on YouTube.
The analytics website explained that it “collects the data for YouTube’s registered 18,658,214 channels worldwide to determine and announce reliable rankings. The channel popularity ranking is selected based on the number of views and likes of the video recently registered to each channel.”
As seen by our correspondent on Playboard’s Most Super Chatted category, Pastor Jerry Eze’s popular prayer platform, New Season Prophetic Prayers and Declaration and lead pastor of Streams of Joy International earns around N7 million daily on his YouTube platform.
With over 2.12 million subscribers and over one million views daily, the popular pastor who launched his YouTube channel in November 2019 for individuals seeking prayer in Nigeria and worldwide sits on Playboard’s all-time rating ahead of controversial pastor, Apostle Johnson Suleman’s CelebrationTV which raked N470m, The Refiner’s House ministries’ founder – Paul S Joshua (N289m), The Transforming Church leader who holds prophetic prayers, Rev Sam Oye, (N253m) and DunamisTV which sits fifth with N216m.
However, according to Playboard’s yearly ranking, the NSPPD convener still led the chart with N3.8bn, ahead of CelebrationTV(N197m) and Rev Sam Oye(N166m), overtaking Paul S Joshua (N125m), followed by Zion Prayer Movement Outreach(N71m).
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Apart from the all-time and yearly rating, Pastor Jerry Eze also led the monthly rating for July 2024 with an earning pegged around N261m, leading the second-placed CelebrationTV with a difference of N237m. Surprisingly, the ranking site placed the pastor’s wife, Eno Eze, on 10th with N795k.
Playboard data also revealed that Pastor Jerry Eze earns approximately N54 million weekly and N7 million daily from his YouTube channel.
He founded Streams of Joy International Church in Abia State in 2013 and now has over 16 branches across Nigeria, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Canada and the United States.
He is widely recognized for the slogan, ‘What God Cannot Do, Does Not Exist.’
The former Communications Specialist with The World Bank, emerged as Nigeria’s highest-earning YouTuber because he is the most ‘Super Chatted’ content creator on YouTube in Nigeria.
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While Eze’s YouTube channel tops the list of Playboard’s YouTube earners from Nigeria, other platforms fit into the category which includes ‘Dunamis TV’ of Dunamis International Gospel Centre, by Pastor Paul Eneche with 643,000 subscribers and 116.48 million views; ‘Celebration TV’ by Apostle Johnson Suleman of Omega Fire Ministries with 1.05 million subscribers and 173.33 million views; ‘Rev. Sam Oye’, owned by Reverend Sam Oye with 200,000 subscribers and 30.18 million views, ‘Paul S. Joshua’s’ Channel, founded by Paul S. Joshua with 29,200 subscribers and 6.55 million views.
Others include; Apostle Orokpo Michael, Apostle Edu Udechukwu, Gboah TV, Harvesters TV, Fada Ebube Muonso, ACNN TV, Berekete Family, Reubby TV Official and Catholic Reflection Family.
