Fortnite is paying out a lot of money to creators.
Fortnite is paying out a lot of money to creators.
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Fortnite by the numbers: $342M paid to creators in 2024, with creators tripling to 70,000

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Epic Games released its first Fortnite ecosystem year in review for 2024, and it has a lot to celebrate.

Epic said Fortnite UEFN (Unreal Editor for Fortnite) paid out $324 million to creators in 2024. The number of creators in the ecosystem nearly tripled to 70,000, and they published more than 198,000 islands (games/experiences).

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.