- PewDiePie (The Richest YouTuber, Remains #1 In 2017)
Swedish-born Felix Kjellberg—a.k.a. PewDiePie—has garnered much attention for being the world's richest YouTuber. Kjellberg's gaming channel features primarily Let's Play YouTube videos and boasts over 44 million subscribers worldwide. In addition to being a prominent gamer, Kjellberg is also a spokesperson for YouTube (he appears on many of the company's billboards) and recently broke into the mainstream by appearing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. His salary is reported to be about $12 million annually.
Recently, with the launch of YouTube Red (YouTube's subscription service), PewDiePie polled his Twitter audience to see just how many of his millennial audiences use ad blockers—see his poll finds here.
UPDATE -- PewDiePie's subscriber count is now over 54 million and his annual income is estimated at $15 million. He's also recently been the subject of controversy following anti-semitic remarks and sentiments in several of his videos.
#Twitter – 7.5 million followers (2017 update: 9.8 million followers, +2.3 million followers over 2015)
#Facebook – 7.2 million page likes (2017 update: 7.4 million page likes,+0.2 million page likes over 2015)
#Instagram – 8.5 million followers (2017 update: 12.2 million followers,+3.7 million followers over 2015)
#YouTube Channel – 44 million subscribers (2017 update: 54.4 million followers,+10.4 million subscribers over 2015)
Estimated Earnings: $12 million (2017 update: $15 million , +3 million over 2015)
ROMAN ATWOOD NET WORTH: $18 MILLION
Roman Atwood is one of YouTube’s most famous pranksters who made most of his net worth online. He is best known for his hidden camera public prank videos of which some are very daring and dangerous. Roman Atwood has generated an estimated net worth of around $18 million over a number of years through highly diversified sources of income explained below. Most of his net worth has been built outside his YouTube business.
Roman’s YouTube pranking channel has existed since November 2009 and has grown massively to over 10 million subscribers as of the end of 2016. He also started another YouTube channel to just document his personal life and make more income in the process.
Currently he generates an average of 300,000 views everyday from his videos on the pranking channel. This is mainly from people who stumble upon his videos when YouTube suggests them and not necessarily from subscribers. He uploads an average of one video a month but majority of these few videos have over 8 million hits with his most viral one having over 80 million hits and a bunch of the over 20 million hits. However, he is slowly trying to shed his image as a prankster and recreate himself to be known as a vlogger.
Generally YouTube pays an average of $2-$5 per 1000 monetized views. On average he makes around $550 per day ($200,000 a year) in revenue on his pranking channel.
UPDATE -- Roman Atwood also saw massive gains across his channels between 2015 and 2017. He went from earning $2.5 million in 2015 to $8 million, making him the second highest paid YouTuber.
Twitter – 939K followers (2017 update: 1.79 million followers, +851k followers over 2015)
#Facebook – 1.2 million page likes (2017 update: 1.5 million page likes, +0.3 million page likes over 2015)
#Instagram – 2.4 million followers (2017 update: 4.9 million followers, +2.5 million followers over 2015)
#YouTube Channel – 8.9 million subscribers (2017 update: 10.4 million subscribers, +1.5 million subscribers over 2015)
Estimated Earnings: $2.5 million (2017 update: $8 million, +$5.5 million over 2015)
Lilly Singh Net Worth – $9 Million
YouTube is one of the most popular websites on the planet, and the most popular channels rake in millions of dollars every year. Some of these YouTubers use their influence for good. Lilly Singh has leveraged her YouTube fame into a career in acting, music, comedy, writing, motivational speaking, and philanthropy. Her most popular video is “How Girls Get Ready”, which has over 23 million views.
How Did Lilly Singh Make Her Money & Wealth?
The YouTube Channel of Lilly Singh has over 12 million subscribers and 2 billion total video views. She also has 6.7 million followers on Instagram. This means she receives large paychecks from ad revenue alone. Her fame has also brought her numerous lucrative sponsorships.
Ventures of Lilly Singh include partnering with SmashBox to release a signature lipstick, the world tour A Trip To Unicorn Island, and a documentary film about her world tour. She has also released a successful book. Singh has also collaborated with other Youtube Stars and has been featured in several music videos.
The YouTuber has experienced quite a popularity surge in recent years. Lilly Singh’s net worth in 2015 was $2.5 million. After 2015, she began making more than ever before. In 2016 alone, Singh pocketed $6.5 million.
How Did Lilly Singh Make Her Money and Wealth?
Lilly Singh was born on September 26th, 1988. Her parents, Malwinder and Sukhwinder Singh, are immigrants from the Indian State of Punjab. The family moved to Toronto, Canada when Lilly Singh was two years old. In her early youth, Singh had a strong connection with her Punjabi heritage. She particularly got in touch with her identity after visiting her homeland several times in college. Singh often discusses and satirizes her identity in her videos.
In 2006, Lilly Singh graduate from the Lester B. Pearson Collegiate Institute. After graduating York University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology, Lilly Singh started her YouTube channel in 2010. She adopted the username IISuperwomanII, which is inspired by how she would imagine an invisible “S” on her chest that would let her do anything.
The channel of Lilly Singh was originally created to document her struggles with depression. Singh was never excited about her studies, and trudged through school until she realized YouTube was her calling. Surprisingly, Singh’s family was extremely supportive of her career choice. They even appeared in some of her early videos. She lived with her family in Ontario until December 2015, when she moved to Los Angeles to further her career.
Early videos of Lilly Singh consisted mostly of entertainment and comedy videos, but also Q&A videos which discussed her personal life. She often employs comedy to get a deeper message across. Her culture is often a central topic in her videos. In fact, her first video showed how to a Side Turla Bhangra Pagh (a Sikh turban). One of her most popular early videos is Official Guide to Brown Girls, a cultural satire.
Within her first year as a YouTuber, Lilly Singh had already become a minor celebrity. In 2011, she shifted her main channel’s focus to comedy, and created a second channel for vlogging. Titled SuperwomanVlogs, the channel focuses on her everyday life and personal struggles. She has been uploading daily vlogs without a single break on the channel since August 2014. The channel now has 2 million subscribers and 235 million views.
In the early years of her channel, Lilly Singh created several songs with accompanying music videos. In 2013, she rapped with Jassi Sidhu in his song Hipshaker. Later in 2014, she also rapped in the song Mauj Ki Malharein for the Bollywood drama Gulaab Gang. Singh also released the song #LEH with Kanwer Singh that year.
UPDATE -- Lilly Singh saw huge gains across her social channels between 2015 and 2017, but perhaps the most significant boost was in estimated earnings, which jumped from $2.5 million in 2015 to $7.5 million in 2017, making her the third highest paid YouTuber.
#Twitter – 1.4 million followers (2017 update: 2.2 million followers, +0.8 million followers over 2015)
#Facebook – 2.8 million page likes (2017 update: 3 million page likes, +0.2 million page likes over 2015)
#Instagram – 3.6 million followers (2017 update: 6.1 million followers, +2.5 million followers over 2015)
#YouTube Channel – 8.7 million subscribers (2017 update: 11.3 million subscribers, +2.6 million subscribers over 2015)
Estimated Earnings: $2.5 million (2017 update: $7.5 million, +$5 million over 2015)
4.Smosh
This sketch comedy twosome from America has gone a long way since 2011, when their projected revenue was a mere 133,000, and their total subscribers were just over 3 million. Now Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla are multimillionaires with a true net worth of $11.8 million, and 22 million subscribers. A video of theirs that was just released 2 days ago already has almost 2 million views. They had their start on famous gamer-geek website newgrounds.com, then migrated to YouTube in 2005. This proved to be an excellent decision, as their enviable wealth proves. They rake it in from their comedy and gaming channels, as well as a real life movie and comedy albums
lindsey Stirling net worth:
Lindsey Stirling is an American violinist, composer, dancer and performance artist who has a net worth of $10 million. Lindsey Stirling was born on September 21, 1986 in Santa Ana, California. She was inspired to take up the violin at the age of five after her father introduced her to classical music. Over the next 12 years, Lindsey took private violin lessons and showed immense natural talent. At the age of 16 she formed a band with a group of high school friends. In one of the band's songs, Lindsey composed a violin rock solo that became a huge hit among their friends and school mates. Thanks to the song Lindsey would eventually be crowned Arizona's Junior Miss. At 23, in 2010, she auditioned for America's Got Talent. She eventually made it to the quarter finals. After appearing on America's Got Talent, Lindsey began producing videos specifically for YouTube. The videos were a huge hit. Today she has over 8 million subscribers on youtube and her videos have been viewed over 1.5 billion times. Her most popular video "Crystallize – Lindsey Stirling (Dubstep Violin Original Song)" has been viewed more than 150 million times since being uploaded in February 2012. Lindsey attended BYU in Provo, Utah where she studied recreational therapy. She has also done missionary work for the Mormon church.
Twitter – 486K followers (2017 update: 522k followers, +36k followers over 2015)
#Facebook – 3.5 million page likes (2017 update: 3.7 million page likes, +0.2 million page likes over 2015)
#Instagram – 953K followers (2017 update: 1.1 million followers, +147k followers over 2015)
#YouTube Channel – 7.9 million subscribers (2017 update: 9.2 million followers, +1.3 million subscribers over 2015)
Estimated Earnings: $6 million in 2015
