Beta Squad is a popular group of YouTubers from the United Kingdom. The All-boys members have impressive net worths each.
Launched by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim on February 14, 2005, but now fully owned by Google, YouTube is the second most visited website after Google Search. The company which is based in San Bruno California is a global online video-sharing and social media platform just like TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook.
Since YouTube was launched in 2005, it has produced a lot of celebrities, personalities, and figures who are successful in their niche of information with a lot being millionaires.
One of the common and engaging niches on YouTube is Entertainment, prank, and challenge and personalities like MrBeast, FaZe Rug, and UDY, just to mention a few that come to mind when it comes to the entertaining category.
Another channel we cannot leave behind is the team of UK YouTubers who form the group Beta Squad. Beta Squad was formed in 2019 and it still exists with 5 members who are now more like brothers. They have made a good name for themselves, and have millions of subscribers and followers on their individual channels and other pages.
These are some facts we’ve gathered about them regarding their YouTube channel, their net worth, and how much they make. Read on for the tea!
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Who are the members of Beta Squad?
Beta Squad is a group consisting of five English YouTubers; Niko Omilana, Chunkz, Aj Shabeel, Sharky, and KingKennyTv. Per their Fandom page, they launched the channel on February 14, 2019.
Beta Squad is a group based in London, England. They announced that they were starting the group and were moving into a mansion together on February 22, 2019, on their social media.
These are friends who met with a common goal. About their ethnicity; Chunkz, AJ, and Sharky are of Somali descent while Kenny and Niko are of Nigerian descent.
Their style of YouTubing mostly involves videos like pranks, Challenges, and vlogs which they do series such as “Who can “, “$10 vs $10,000” “Guess the…” and “Last to” videos. Their most viewed video on their channel features a member from Sidemen; KSI and is titled “Guess the Black Person ft KSI” which has gotten more than 21 million views.
They have their own Football club called “Beta squad Fc”. They had a game in September 2019 against Yung Filly‘s team “Afillyates Club de Futbol”. (Afillyates winning).
How was Beta Squad formed?
The Beta Squad team was built in February 2019. Before that, the boys were separately doing their solo vlogging on YouTube. Three of the five were first working together and the remaining two were also doing their own thing on the side on the same platform. They all knew each other in 2016.
Chunkz and Sharky started making videos together in 2015. Aj was Chunkz’s cameraman until he started appearing in their videos a few weeks later. Niko and Kenny were making videos on their own channels. Kenny and Niko were friends at this time. Niko met Chunkz in 2016 and they started collaborating together. This was the same year where they all met each other.
In early 2019 they moved into a mansion in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. Where they filmed their challenge videos. They mostly filmed their videos in the public and they get recognized often.
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Who is the richest Beta Squad member? Here’re 10 things we know.
1. The Beta Squad as a group has a current combined net worth of $10 million in 2023.
2. The main sources of income for the Beta Squad are YouTube ads, sponsorships and partnerships with brands, YouTube sponsorship programs, sponsored social media posts, digital products, and the selling of merchandise.
3. The Beta Squad YouTube channel generates daily earnings of $336 to $5.4K, and weekly revenue of $2.4K – $37.7K from YouTube ads per their Social Blade profile.
4. In a month the popular channel makes an income of $10.1K to $161.5K, and a yearly salary of $121.1K – $1.9M.
5. Currently they have 83 uploaded videos on their 5.26 million subscribed channel and their videos have amassed over 480 million total views. Their channel is ranked the 772nd most subscribed on YouTube, the 131st most subscribed in the UK, and the 549th best entertainment channel, per Social Blade.
6. Niko Omilana is an English YouTuber and the co-founder of Beta Squad who is best known for his prank style of videos. Niko Omilana is currently the richest member of Beta Squad and has a current net worth of $5 million to $6 million. In 2021, he was a London mayoral candidate. Omilana was born on 4 March 1998 in Staffordshire, England.
7. Born Amin Mohamed but widely known as Chunkz is an English YouTuber and the co-founder of Beta Squad. Chunkz has a current net worth of $2 million, making him the second richest member of the YouTube group.
8. Born Ayaanle Shabeel but popularly known online as AJ Shabeel is a Dutch-British YouTube and a member of Beta Squad. He is doing incredibly well on his personal YouTube channel where he currently has over 1.1 million subscribers. He currently has a net worth of $1.2 million making him the third richest of the five members of Beta Squad.
9. Sharky is the fourth richest member of Beta Squad with a net worth of around $900K and has over 2.5 million subscribers on his personal YouTube channel. Sharky is so far the oldest in the group. The British YouTube gamer and social media personality has six siblings and was born on December 31st, 1995.
10. KingKennyTv is a member of Beta Squad with a current net worth of $900K. He was born on March 20, 1997, in London. Keeny has over 2 million followers on his YouTube channel.
