Video-sharing website YouTube has been a platform for everyone to share their videos online. The Swedish YouTuber Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg or popularly known as his on-screen name PewDiePie is the most followed person on YouTube since 2013. What's more? He also topped the list of the Highest-Paid YouTubers 2016.
In a list released by Forbes, PewDiePie made an estimated $15 million for 12 months ending in June 2016. This is the 27-year-old's second year of topping the list first in 2015 with $12 million. PewDiePie's recordings are basically videos of himself playing while giving commentaries, which are then viewed by his 50 million subscribers. In the midst of Forbes' period of measurement, PewDiePie additionally launched a YouTube Red series "Scare PewDiePie", and also released his first book titled "This Book Loves You."
According to Daily Mail, PewDiePie is the first person to reach 10 billion views in a YouTube video. Additionally, PewDiePie is also Time Magazine's most influential person of the year.
Kjellberg's total earning is about twofold that of the second highest-paid YouTuber, Roman Atwood. Atwood earned $8 million for his prank recordings, joined with a book bargain, tour, merchandise and the film "Natural Born Pranksters."
The highest-paid female YouTuber on the rundown is Lilly Singh a Canadian comedian with more than 10 million subscribers who earned $7.5 million a year ago. Some of her income inferable from the formation of her own items incorporating a lipstick with Smashbox cosmetics. Meanwhile, Tyler Oakley recently signed with Ellen De Generes production company and wrote a best-selling book that puts him in fifth place with $5 million. Two other female YouTubers made it to the rundown including enthusiast Rosanna Pansino who comes in at fifth place with $6 million, and Colleen Ballinger who performs under the name Miranda Sings. Ballinger was set tenth on the rundown subsequent to gaining $5 million a year ago because of her stand-up tour, memoir, and new Netflix series.
According to Forbes, the rankings are based on "data from Nielsen, IMDB, and other sources, as well as, on interviews with agents, managers, lawyers, industry insiders and the stars themselves." All-in-all the Top 10 YouTubers earned $70.5 million this year, which is 23 percent more than last year. Who would've thought YouTubing can be so lucrative?
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