The Forbes resource has prepared a ranking of the highest-paid bloggers on the YouTube platform. The richest bloggers in the United States have income, the amount of which exceeds $ 20 million per year. However, some of them are still children. The richest blogger (just a 9-year-old child) has almost a $ 30 million yearly income.
Ryan’s World (41.7 million subscribers, 12.2 billion views, $ 29.5 million in revenue)
For the third year in a row, 9-year-old boy Ryan Kaji remains the leader in the ranking of the highest-paid bloggers on the YouTube platform. Now he removes not only toy reviews but also scientific experiments. New videos featuring the young star are released every day. In this, Ryan is helped by their mom, dad, and twin sisters Emma and Kate. Ryan’s World channel Ryan’s parents began to conduct when their son was three years old. To devote themselves entirely to video blogging, they quit their jobs a few years ago.
In addition to his blog, Ryan Kaji has a show on Nickelodeon, a contract with streaming service Hulu, a mobile app, a video game, and branded toys and clothing. It all started with watching the same children’s blogs with reviews of toys. In 2015, Ryan asked his mother: “Why are all children filming on YouTube, but I am not?” The parents did not think a lot. They gave him a set with a Lego train and recorded the first test video. According to Loanne and Shion Kaji, they try not to distract their son from school activities. While the boy is studying, they edit the video. And the parents also promise to stop filming videos as soon as their son no longer likes toys.
Mr. Beast channel (47.8 million subscribers, 3 billion views, $ 24 million in revenue)
Jimmy Donaldson burst into second place in the rating with the Mr. Beast YouTube channel. He earned $ 24 million in a year. Many of his videos have a similar plot. He provides charitable assistance or donates money to streamers on Twitch. However, Jimmy also has entertainment content. For example, he tries to break glass with hundreds of megaphones or counts to 100,000.
Dude Perfect (57.5 million subscribers, 2.77 billion views, $ 23 million in revenue)
The Dude Perfect channel has dropped to the third line of the rating. Five 30-year-old athletes from Texas amaze Internet users with incredible stunts and set new Guinness records. To do this, they have ping-pong balls, basketball hoops, soccer balls, golf clubs, their own 3.5-hectare sports field, fancy cars, a plush panda, influential sponsors, and celebrity locations. Since 2009, several dozen celebrities have visited Dude Perfect, including tennis player Serena Williams, actor Paul Rudd, singer Luke Brian, and famous hockey and basketball players.
The debut video was filmed by Garrett Hilbert, Cody Jones, Tyler Tony, and the twins Kobe and Corey Cotton on an amateur camera for fun. Entertainment soon grew into a successful and profitable business. The most amazing thing is that none of the members of this team have ever been involved in sports professionally. Dude Perfect now has its online store, a mobile game, a Nickelodeon TV show contract, and contracts with major brands. The athletes’ stunts seem so incredible that some users consider them to be fake. Bloggers themselves deny this and say that they always do a lot of takes.
The Good Mythical Morning (41.8 million subscribers, 1.9 billion views, $ 20 million in revenue)
The channel was founded by two guys living in America, Rhett McLaughlin, and Link Neal. The duo of Los Angeles comedians is best known for their daily morning show Good Mythical Morning. From Monday to Friday, presenters sample unusual food, sing, compete with celebrities, and conduct fun experiments. For example, they turn a car into a pizza, collect sandwiches underwater, unpack gifts without hands, catapult a sausage into a hot dog bun, or wash a gingerbread house in the dishwasher. The show started in 2012, and today there are more than 40 people on its team.
Rhett and Link met in first grade, and in the tenth grade, they vowed to remain friends and colleagues in adulthood. They began to implement joint creative projects at school. They wrote scripts, tried to shoot films and short parody videos, and played in a punk rock band. After high school, the friends entered North Carolina State University and shared a dorm room. Filming remained a favorite hobby of Rhett and Link. And once they found themselves out of work, they decided to monetize it. Now, in addition to Good Mythical Morning, they have three more channels and an online store.
Markiplier (27.8 million subscribers, 3.1 billion views, $ 19.5 million in revenue)
Mark Edward Fischbach created the channel in 2012 and has filmed video game videos. In 2014, Mark’s channel was included in the online magazine New Media Rockstars. According to this magazine, he was in 61st place in the top 100 YouTube channels, and in 2015 he was ranked 6th in the list of the 20 most influential celebrities among teenagers in the United States.
