Papa Jake is a YouTuber whose main purpose is making box forts and posting them to his YouTube channel which has over four million subscribers. He also has other channels including gaming, unboxing, and many other channels. He makes videos with his good friend Logan who is in pretty much all of his videos.
Early life: Papa Jake (or Jake McCormick) was born around April 4th 1995 (real birth date unknown) in Toronto, Canada.
This Canadian YouTube content creator founded the production company turned content provider Team Epiphany. His YouTube channel, Papa Jake, is filled with video game content, challenges, pranks and his most popular types of videos, box forts. He has earned over 4.6 million subscribers. His other channels, Papa Jake Games and Papa Jake Toys, also have decent numbers of subscribers.
On a personal note, the Canadian social media personality is a fun-loving guy. He has got a few good friends he enjoys hanging out with. Jake McCormick launched his first YouTube channel on Jun 2, 2009. His channel was formerly titled Team Epiphany and his gaming content was initially taken from the Halo game franchise. He later renamed it as “Papa Jake.” Eventually he began uploading funny challenge videos, Box Fort videos, Nerf Mod videos, DIY style videos, toy review videos and other such amazing videos.
His second channel ‘Papa Jake Games’ was launched on February 8, 2017 while the third one ‘Papa Jake Toys’ was started on April 22, 2017. The former channel holds over 387k subscribers and features gaming videos and live game streams. Some of the most popular building and survival games including Arma 3, GTA 5, and Fallout 4 can be found on this channel.
The Papa Jake Toys channel features numerous toy videos related to all-time-favorite toys such as Nerf, playdough Lego, Hot Wheels, and spinners. The channel has over 2.5 million subscribers as of mid 2017 growing by 3000 new subs a day and has accumulated over 480 million views so far. It able to get an average of 700,000 views per day which should generate an estimated revenue of around $1,300 per day ($480,000 a year) from advertisements.
YouTubers get paid between $2 – $5 per 1000 monetized views after YouTube takes its cut. Monetized views range from 40% – 60% of the total views. All these are influenced by several factors like device played on, the location of the viewer, ad inventory, how many ads there are on a video, how many people skip the ads, ad engagement etc.
Jake supplements his income through the selling of merchandise such as shirts. He also gets affiliate sales income from G2A.