Here are the Top 10 highest paid YouTubers of 2017
Forbesrecently released a new list of highest paidYouTube, the top 10 highest-paid YouTube stars earned $127 million. Figures are based on data from YouTube, Social Blade and Captiv8, as well as interviews with agents, managers, publicists, producers and lawyers.
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Top 10 highest paid YouTubers
#10 Lilly Singh
Earning – $10.5 million
Genre – Comedy
Lilly Singh or better known as “Superwoman”, was the highest-paid female YouTuber of 2016. This year it’s estimated she made $10.5 million, while last year she made $7.5 million.
Watch this Honest Q&A video from Superwomen below
#8(tie) Ryan ToysReview
Earning – $11 million
Genre – Toys Unboxing
According to Forbes, the 6-year-old Ryan of YouTube’sRyan ToysReviewmade $11 million in revenue this year from his YouTube account. The journey started 2 years back, when when Ryan, then simply a 4-year-old fan of toy-review videos, asked his parents why he couldn’t also review toys on YouTube.
Watch this astronomically lucky child review a DIY candy dispenser below:
#8(tie) Smosh
Smosh is among the oldest channel on YouTube. Started by comedy duo Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla back in 2005, same year when YouTube was launched. However, Anthony Padilla left the Smosh channel in June 2017 to create his own solo YouTube account.
Anthony Padilla videos, ‘why I left Smosh’ got 11 million views on YouTube.
#7 Jake Paul
Earning – $11.5 million
Jake Paul is a 20-year-old Vine star who later become a YouTube star, after vine shut down. He also had an acting career on Disney Channel, which was later canceled by Disney, following the public complaints from Paul’s neighbors about Paul,drawing massive crowds of screaming fans and setting a bonfire in his empty swimming pool.
Watch this video from Jake Paul explains who he really is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmp6mAc-AmI
#6 Felix Kjellberg (PewDiePie)
Earning- $12 million
Genre – Gaming, Comedy
PweDiePie is a popular YouTube star who like Smosh started his career in the early day of YouTube with “Let’s Play” videos. But lately Felix has face several controversy over hisanti-Semitic jokes,and using then-wordin a gaming live stream.
Watch this video by Game Theorist on how PewDiePie Conquered YouTube
#4(tie) Mark Fischbach (Markiplier)
Earning- $12.5 million
Genre – Gaming
Unlike other gaming channel on YouTube Mark Fischbach popularly known asMarkiplier, started his journey in mid 2012. With his interview withForbes, Mark said – “I’d had a bad breakup, I was fired, I had a tumor in my adrenal gland,” he said. “It was a series of unfortunate events. As I was recovering, I was so desperate to have something that was under my control.” This year, Mark made $12.5 million from YouTube.
Check out Mark’s interview by Forbes below.
#4 Logan Paul
Earning – $12.5 million
Genre – Comedy, Vlogs
Logan Paul much like his younger brother Jake Paul (yes, the same guy in #7 position) was a Vine celebrity who later jumped shipped to YouTube after vine shut down. While both brothers are quite popular among teenagers, some consider this duo as the “Villain of YouTube”.
His video, The Fall Of Jake Paul got 142 million views on YouTube
#3 Dude Perfect
Earning – $14 million
Genre – Sports entertainment
Unlike everyone on the list, Dude Perfect is a group of 5 people (former college roommates and basketball players) Their video consist of trick sports shots like – Ping pong trick shot, and the popular Fidget Spinner Trick Shot. Dude Perfect have broken several Guinness World Records.
Watch Fidget Spinner Trick Shots from Dude Perfect below
#2 Evan Fong (VanossGaming)
Earning – $15.5 million
It’s true when they say, Gaming genre dominates YouTube ecosystem. Evan Fong, popularly known asVanossGaming, claims that he was not introduced to video games at a young age. He dropped out of university in his second year as his YouTube channel began exploding in popularity. He says he never expected to get paid to play video games. This year he made $15.5 million.
Evan’s most popular video ‘The Toys Escape!’ has 41 million view on YouTube
#1 Daniel Middleton (DanTDM)
Earning- $16.5 million
Dan Middleton akaDAnTDMis the world’s richest YouTuber of 2017. Much like other YouTubers, Daniel started his YouTube journey during his studies by filming himself playing popular adventure game Pokemon. Today, his video have been watched more than 10 billion times, making him the richest YouTube stars that most people only dream about.
Here is the best of THEDIAMONDMINECART video by him, that has received 40 million views on YouTube
Also Read:How Much Money do YouTubers make 2017? Answered by YouTubers
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