Jacob Sartorius Net Worth Reveal | Millie Bobby Brown, Music/Youtube/Instagram Earnings, Income Sources, Extended Plays, Anti-Bullying, Baby Ariel, Age 17

It seems Jacob Sartorius has faded already. He's only 17 and has already disappeared from the music world, despite still releasing music, after showing a lot of promise a couple of years ago. But life has been tough for him because maintaining that fame as a teenager isn't easy at all.

Born Rolf Jacob Sartorius on October 2, 2002 (age 17) in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Sartorius was taken in by adoptive parents, since his birth parents couldn't raise him, and moved to Reston, Virginia immediately and raised there. Since gaining fame at 11 years of age, he had to constantly change schools because of bullying, a topic in which he was famous for raising awareness in the first place. It just goes to show, the world is a cruel, cruel place. He was thus homeschooled later on.

His anti-bullying clip shot him to fame in no time.
Photo Source: Jacob Sartorius

We don't know when he'll make a comeback to music again, after failing miserably in the last three Extended Plays, with the constant need to be in therapy. He does, however, find solace in front of the cameras, a kind of therapy for him itself. So there might just be something more from this guy after all.

Music and Online Career Helped Jacob Sartorius Amass a Net Worth of $1.5 Million

As of April 2020, Jacob Sartorius controls a net worth of $1.5 million. The money comes from the fame he garnered as a mild Vine celebrity, before moving on to Musical.ly and music in its entirety. To be more specific, his income sources include sponsorships from his social media pages and music sales.

Sartorius moved on from social media to the music world to show he's different.
Photo Credit: Nick Favila

It might've been the case of restless anticipation of fans for his first music, thus getting his first EP to various charts, and not find the right button to keep his fans interested in his music anymore. But he still has fans across all social media platforms though. So he still earns quite a lot from sponsorships, as well as merchandise sales. Especially now that he can really do well in TikTok too. Anyone remember Baby Ariel [net worth: $2 million] here?

Beginnings: The Social Media Fame and Earnings

As a eight-year-old he was acting in local musical theater for amusing himself; he knew he loved performing. Aged 11, he uploaded his first video on Vine on August 17, 2014, and he wouldn't have imagined it was going to be such a viral one to unknowingly kickstart his career. The video had a message about anti-bullying.

Source: Jacob Sartorius, Vine

Sartorius began picking up pace in his social media fame and even joined Musical.ly later that year. But he wouldn't post regularly until February 2015. Since then, he made a considerable following on Vine as well as Musical.ly. By August 2016, he had 8 million followers on Musical.ly, 7 million on Instagram, Vine & Twitter, as well as over 1.2 million YouTube subscribers. He was already making music by then, and people were calling him the next Justin Bieber.

With fame, he reveals in a tweet in July 2016 that he was changing schools because of bullying, "verbally attacked, pushed, and teased for things as small as my ears." But social media was his consolation, all that he needed, while he still had friends he knew from before anything.

Instagram Earnings

Since the music thing didn't do too well, his Instagram following has been lagging behind with a slow increase in followers. But it seems he only refreshed his Instagram since his first post only goes as far back as in March 2020.

He's starting anew with a completely different type of Instagram account.
Photo Source: Jacob Sartorius, Instagram

Still, he possesses 9.3 million followers on his account, Jacob Sartorius, and having posted only 14 times since then, he still gets from $18,600 to $31,000 from each of his posts from sponsorships. And remember, he was making such amount for a long time now, presumably from all his deleted photos of possibly another account.

YouTube Earnings

With his music earnings, Sartorius is pretty big on YouTube as well. Most of his videos on his user account (not a channel!) are related to his music, but the rare ones contain a few of those with him speaking to his fans. Like the one he revealed he was adopted and other updates. In 2017, he also started a secondary YouTube channel, Life of Jacob, for the vlogging part.

Watch: Jacob Sartorius Reveals He Was Adopted

Jacob's posted 46 times and has over 3 million fans subscribing to him. He earns about $180 each day with the number of views he gets on his music videos. His earlier videos topped 50 million views.

TikTok Earnings

Sartorius still continues his fame on the lip-syncing app platform, Musical.ly, by taking it over to TikTok. He now has 23 million followers and stands 18^th in the follower-count standings. He's posted over 1,500 times (yeah) and earns somewhere between $13,700 and $23,000 from each of his posts through sponsorships.

His lip-syncing talents have backed his net worth pretty well. In an interview with Seventeen Magazine, he spoke about how his energy is the reason he's got that kind of fame in such a short time.

For his social media presence, he was nominated a bunch of times: Twice for Choice Muser in the Teen Choice Awards [2016, 2017], once in Shorty Awards for Choice Muser of the Year [2017], once in iHeart Radio Music Awards for the Social Star Award [2017] and two others in 2017.