Tyler “Ninja” Blevins Was Paid $1 Million to Promote Apex Legends

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According to a Rueters report, Ninja made $1 million in just one day of promoting Apex Legends on behalf of EA via Twitter and Twitch.

Sponsorships are nothing new for full time YouTube and Twitch streamers/video creators, but Ninja has brought it to a whole new level. According to a report from Reuters, Tyler “Ninja” Blevins was paid $1 million by EA to tweet and stream Apex Legends during its launch on the morning of February 4, 2019.

Ninja’s first tweet about Apex Legends was:


His initial stream included #ApexPartner to identify he was playing it as part of a sponsorship, something his next stream made even more clear with the title, “Apex Legends today | This is not an ad anymore… Game is just fun !”

He continued to stream and tweet about Apex Legends until about February 19, 2019, prior to his weekend vacation in LA. After that it was back to Fortnite, save for March 1 when he streamed Apex with fellow streamers Lupo (DrLupo) & Tim (Timthetatman) to promote the release of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse on digital platforms. His only tweet about Apex Legends since then has been from earlier today:


The “wingman change” he is referring to is the recent balance update that reduced the rate of fire, Skullpiercer headshot damage, the rate of hip fire decay, and increased the hip fire spread. He also mentions “hacker tweets” most likely referring to the amount of videos going around of players using game hacks in order to never miss their shots among other awful cheats. Many in the Reddit community for the game have been asking for more aggressive anti-cheat measures which Respawn has responded to by stating they have now banned 355,000 cheaters on PC and are not going to stop there.

According to the report Ninja was paid the $1 million just for that initial day of streaming, which is insane.



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MazePosted:

ZTG They really didn't need to pay him to play the game, it's not like his someone who doesn't play battle royale games already lmao. Bad money spending.


Ninja would've probably made waaaaay more money from continuing to stream fortnite instead of doing apex for a few days, he would bring in more viewers and subs playing fortnite than apex, so they needed to give him a big sum of money to make sure he took a break from fortnite

DeftonesPosted:

They really didn't need to pay him to play the game, it's not like his someone who doesn't play battle royale games already lmao. Bad money spending.

MazePosted:

I wonder how many people got on apex after watching him say he loved it

Two_FacedPosted:

Sean
Decy Had a feeling this was the case... Was weird seeing that group of steamers switch so suddenly and stick with it.


If you were paid 1 Mill to play a game would you say anything bad about it? thats the biggest issue.


That's not an issue at all. Lol. HE GOT PAYED TO PLAY IT. Just like the person on a TV commercial gets payed to tell you ghost good Diet Coke is.

I do not personally care for Ninja or his seemingly fake online persona. But I'm happy people are out here getting payed. People will always be salty when they see someone doing better than them, instead of actually doing anything about it. How could you even say anything bad about it? It's a free game that's been out for less than a month.

coolbunny1234Posted:

Considering he backtracked on what he was paid, it was a good attempt. I still think the game is great, but it'll be a bit before it really competes with Fortnite.

LebronIs6Posted:

I don't see anything bad about this other than if you're getting payed 1 million by the company that published the game, your opinion about the game is immediately invalid.

SeanPosted:

Decy Had a feeling this was the case... Was weird seeing that group of steamers switch so suddenly and stick with it.


If you were paid 1 Mill to play a game would you say anything bad about it? thats the biggest issue.

DecyPosted:

Had a feeling this was the case... Was weird seeing that group of steamers switch so suddenly and stick with it.

Glock-Posted:

Get ready for the videos of him crying because he got "stream sniped"


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