Deddy Corbuzier: 2007 Against Grand Master As Player, 2021 'Matching' Chess

JAKARTA - Dewa Kipas gave up 0-3 in a chess match against the Grand Master, Irene Sukandar. The figure of Deddy Corbuzier should be highlighted. About how foresight in using this crowd for his YouTube. And about chess, the match between Dewa Kipas and Irene reminds us of Deddy's match against the Grand Master, Utut Adianto. In 2007, Deddy became a player. In 2021, Deddy 'membandari' a chess match.

Dewa Kipas aka Dadang Subur gave up in the third round. In a match broadcast on Deddy Corbuzier's YouTube channel, Monday, March 22, Dadang appeared to have made a number of blunders which Irene used to beat him.

Dadang was considered too defensive to the point of failing to keep up with Irene's strategic play. Pun Dadang acknowledged Irene's excellence and quality. After the match, Irene or Dadang pocketed cash. IDR 200 million for Irene, and IDR 100 million for Dadang.

The gift was presented by Deddy. On Saturday, March 20, Deddy announced plans for a match between Dewa Kipas and Irene. Then, Monday, March 21, the match was officially announced on his Instagram account, Monday, March 21.

In the announcement, Deddy stated that he had prepared Rp150 million as a gift for the two players. The way Deddy manages this match is not careless. Deddy is working with a number of parties to sponsor this competition.

Among those parties is Indra Kesuma, a businessman who is also a YouTuber. Yes, the total prizes pocketed by Dewa Kipas and Irene also consisted of the donations made by Indra. Indra added Rp150 million from the nominal prepared by Deddy so that the total prize increased to Rp.300 million.

We're talking money. It's no secret under the pillow how much YouTube is the source of today's most exciting chillies. And Deddy is special in this area. If Koh Ernest Prakasa said, "Shrewd!"

The winner of today's chess competition is: @corbuzier! Congratulations! Like a chess horse, your maneuvers are indeed L. Lihay! 😂

- Ernest Prakasa (@ernestprakasa) March 22, 2021

It's not just Ernest. Other netizens also highlighted Deddy's carefulness. Many are predicting, wondering, if Irene gets Rp. 200 million and Dewa Kipas pocketed Rp. 100 million, how much will Deddy's YouTube profit from that match?

Referring to data from the Social Blade website, Deddy Corbuzier's channel experienced a positive trend from March 10 to March 22 yesterday, when Irene and Dewa Kipas' match was broadcast. On the day of the match, Deddy's YouTube channel recorded an additional 100,000 subscribers.

On that day, Deddy's YouTube channel also recorded an increase in the number of views reaching 9,499,261, with a total profit predicted to touch US $ 2,400 to US $ 38 thousand or the equivalent of Rp. 34,567,800 to Rp547,323,500.

The numbers above are only algorithmic estimates, of course. The calculation of the profit profit from YouTube videos is actually determined by many interrelated variables. And in the context of the live broadcast of Irene and Dewa Kipas chess matches, Deddy installed many other cuan slots, namely sponsorship. The income from there can be much greater.

A well-known YouTuber, James Beattie, once said that YouTube advertising and the monetization system through the YouTube algorithm are not the main income of a channel. He said, the hole only contributed three percent. The biggest ones are endorsements, affiliate marketing and brand deals. See the running text and banners behind the match between Irene and Dewa Kipas on YouTube Deddy?

So, it is difficult to calculate the definite profit of a video match between Irene and Dewa Kipas on Deddy's YouTube channel. What is clear, Deddy's account is indeed large. An incredible amount of money went round there.

In general, there are two indicators that can be used to see how much a YouTube channel is earning: CPM (Cost Per Mile) and CPC (Cost Per Click). The two indicators only work with two conditions.

The first requirement is the growth in the number of subscribers to at least one thousand within one year. Second, all viewers must watch the channel's video content at least four thousand hours in the same period.

CPM is the money a YouTube channel gets for every thousand ad views across videos. The CPM value in Indonesia is IDR 7,000 per thousand ad impressions. Meanwhile, CPC is the nominal that a channel gets from each ad click that appears in video content. The CPC nominal itself ranges from IDR 5,000 to IDR 12,000.

Still according to Social Blade, Deddy Corbuzier's channel has 13.9 million subscribers, with total views reaching 2,272,245,188. This figure is obtained from 810 videos uploaded since the channel was created on December 8, 2009. With this achievement, Deddy Corbuzier's YouTube channel is classified as a Grade A channel.

Social Blade noted that Deddy Corbuzier's YouTube channel's estimated monthly income is in the range of US $ 23,200 to US $ 371,200 or the equivalent of Rp. 334,155,400 to Rp. 5,346,486,400. Meanwhile, Deddy channel's annual revenue ranges from US $ 278,400 to US $ 4.5 million or the equivalent of Rp. 4,009,864,800 to Rp. 64,814,625,000. All figures are converted at the exchange rate of Rp.14,403.25 per 1 US dollar prevailing today.

Not gambling. However, Deddy managed to become a dealer alias organizer of a successful chess match for Irene and Dewa Kipas. Several years ago, Deddy was in the position of Fan God. At that time, in 2007, Deddy sat in front of Grand Master Utut Adianto.

Deddy challenged Utut in a chess match that was held at the Castia Function Hall, World Trade Center Mangga Dua, North Jakarta. At that time Utut suddenly withdrew. Utut felt his concentration was disturbed because Deddy continued to glare at him throughout the match.

Utut protested because in chess, Deddy 's behavior was unethical. At that time Utut immediately asked the referee, Sebastian Simanjuntak from the Indonesian Chess Association (Percasi) to stop the match.

Reported by Liputan6, the situation even heated up when Deddy and Utut had a dispute. But everything was under control in the end. The match between Deddy and Utut was held again two years ago.

After the match, Utut praised Deddy for being able to predict the final position of the chess pieces in front of him. "In terms of chess, it is clear (Deddy) is not my challenge. But how can I not be influenced by him. That's all!" said Utut, written by Kompas.

"Maybe someone said engineering, that's someone who doesn't understand chess. It's difficult, guessing his position is exactly the same. I also don't understand, he can go that far," Utut.

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