MrBeast celebrated his twenty seventh birthday on Wednesday, and a part of his plan concerned sending a promoted submit on X wishing himself a cheerful birthday.
Glad Birthday MrBeast!
— MrBeast (@MrBeast) Might 7, 2025
Whereas the X website doesn’t have set advert costs listed, it does have directions for the right way to use X Adverts by way of its public sale and bid system. However based on the digital advertising website WebFX, promoted adverts on X value between $0.26 and $0.50 for the primary submit. (The corporate surveyed greater than 200 entrepreneurs to see what they paid for adverts and new followers on X.)
WebFX additionally studies that gaining a brand new viewers by way of promoted adverts can value as much as $4 per new follower.
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As of press time, the submit has round 100,000 likes, 9,500 feedback, and seven,500 reposts, which implies that if MrBeast’s workforce paid the normal manner (i.e., with none particular deal or partnership), the submit might have value Donaldson greater than $25,000.
In the meantime, although lots of the replies wished Donaldson a cheerful birthday, there have been, in fact, feedback questioning why the submit could be promoted within the first place.
However while you’re within the enterprise of clicks and views, it is sensible that purchasing adverts on social, as a substitute of a brand new watch, could be a best choice — it is like investing again into R&D.
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Donaldson additionally shared a few of his YouTube stats by 12 months. For the final 12 months, at age 26, Donaldson acquired 36,436,299,644 views, he says.
Right here is what number of views we obtained on YouTube yearly of my life from age 12 to now 27!
Age/Views
12 – 15,000
13 – 7,000
14 – 41,148
15 – 125,634
16 – 202,000
17 – 5,482,596
18 – 122,441,813
19 – 464,282,517
20 – 2,099,879,911
21 – 3,324,451,660
22 – 8,184,185,544
23 -…— MrBeast (@MrBeast) Might 7, 2025
Enterprise Insider studies that Donaldson’s firm, Beast Industries, generated $473 million in income in 2024. He stated he’ll seemingly make twice that this 12 months.
In February, it was reported that MrBeast was elevating cash to discovered a holding firm valued at $5 billion. And earlier this week, Donaldson introduced that he’s writing a ebook with James Patterson, set to be printed in 2026 by HarperCollins.
With all these new offers, he’ll seemingly hit his income objectives — and have the ability to afford as many promoted posts as he needs for his twenty eighth birthday.
