| Full Name | Nicholas Kolcheff |
| Age | 30 |
| Date of Birth | November 21, 1990 |
| Nationality | American |
| Net Worth | $15,000,000 |
| Twitch Followers | 6,605,940 |
Who is Nickmercs?
Nicholas “Nickmercs” Kolcheff is a Youtuber and Twitch streamer from the USA. The games he’s most known for playing are Call of Duty and Fortnite, although these days he seems to be making a move into Apex Legends.
When Nickmercs first got into video games in 2005, having a career playing them wasn’t quite plausible just yet. He decided to start community college, but midway through it decided that he wanted to join the navy. He started training to become a Navy SEAL but wasn’t quite able to complete training as he would panic during the underwater training.
After his brief stint in the Navy, Nickmercs went back to college, where a friend of his told him about how gaming streams had started becoming a thing. He started streaming and grew exponentially, and eventually started playing professionally in the esports scenes for various games like Gears of War 2 and Fortnite.
Update: 06/10/21 [Twitch Leak]
In a Twitch leak on 06/10/2021 documents revealed that NickMercs had supposedly made $5,096,642 from Twitch pay outs alone from August 2019 to October 2021. This total does not include revenue from other platforms such as Youtube, Sponsorships or merch. Some streamers have confirmed the numbers to be about right however it is speculative right now.
What Is Nickmercs Net Worth?
Nickmercs has an estimated Net worth of over $15,000,000. He is currently making an estimated $257,409 per month from his stream and youtube content.
How Much Does Nickmercs Make Per Month?
Nickmercs is estimated to make $257,409 per month from multiple income streams. This includes Twitch subs, Ad Revenue, and brand deals.
How Does Nickmercs Make Money?
Twitch
Subs – Twitch Subs are split between the streamer and Twitch. New streamers are in a Tier 1 bracket and will get a 50/50 split making their subs worth $2.50. Once a streamer is pulling in enough views 1000+ per month they can re-negotiate their split to either a 60/40 split (Tier 2) or 70/30 (Tier 3) if they are really popular.
Bits -For every bit a streamer receives they get $0.01.
Ads – When streamers run ads on Twitch they make around $10-20 CPM depending on their contracts. This means they earn $10-20 per 1000 viewers on the stream when the ad runs.
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Youtube
Ads -Youtube channels get paid per 1000 views (CPM). Usually in the gaming niche creators will make $2-7 CPM meaning they will get paid $2-7 for every 1000 views on their channel. However, not all views are monetized due to ad blockers, etc. Most channels get paid for around 80% of their views.
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How Much Does Nickmercs Make Per Month On Twitch?
Nickmercs makes approximately $215,009 per month directly from Twitch. This is broken down by the following:
Subs – Nickmercs has 50,721 active subscribers as of November 2022 according to Twitchtracker. This means he is earning approximately $3.50 x 50,721 = $177,523.50 from Twitch subs monthly as he is likely to have a 70/30 split with Twitch.
Ads – Nickmercs streamed for approximately 346 hours last month with an average viewership of 18,220 viewers. If he runs an ad twice an hour at a $5 CPM he would make 346 x 5 x 18.2 = $31,486 per month from ads.
Donations & Bits – Donations and bits are harder to calculate as we don’t have any hard numbers to go off. Nickmercs does not show his top 10 donations, and his current top 10 bit donations are just a little over $500.
From his level of viewership, he is likely to make an extra $3,000 – 6,000 or more from donations each month.
Nickmercs Other Income Sources
How Much Does Nickmercs Make On Youtube?
Nickmercs primarily makes money on Youtube through Adsense revenue. According to Socialblade last month he pulled in 16,165,877 Million views. If we break this down we can get an estimate of his Youtube revenue.
16.2m views/1000 = 16,200
16,200 x $2 CPM = $32,400 Per Month from Youtube Adsense.
Nickmercs is making approximately $32,400 from Youtube each month.
How Much Does Nickmercs Make From Merch?
It appears that although Nickmercs has many brand deals and merch through these deals, he does not have his own official merch line.
Nickmercs is making approximately $0 from merch sales each month.
How Much Does Nickmercs Make From Brand Deals?
Nickmercs has many brand deals. Checking his Twitch page, it appears he has deals with companies like Cash App, Seat Geek, Scuf, GFuel, Under Armour, and more. It is unclear whether these deals are his own or if they were arranged through FaZe clan. That said, we estimate Nickmercs makes anywhere from $5,000 – $10,000 from his brand deals monthly.
Nickmercs is making approximately $10,000 from brand deals each month.
Wrapping Up
Although Nickmercs has been streaming for almost a full decade on Twitch, he has only started truly rising to fame in recent years. Now one of the biggest stars on Twitch, Nickmercs shows no signs of slowing down. We are excited to see where he goes from here!
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