YouTube's top 10 biggest earners

[Devin]

Eh people are morons, and jealous at that.


Take any movie star/actress that gets paid 20-30mil for saying three lines "bravo bravo you did great!!!" or even better "show some skin for a minute and say one line in the shower -- 30mil!!"

But of course that's real talent and jobs and spending 16-18 hours a day making and editing content and interacting on social media's / promoting. That's just a crap hobby that shouldn't earn a damn penny.

The Kardashians get money just for tweeting! I spend probably about maybe 8 - 10 hours a day making videos. That includes recording time, rendering times, and uploading and then! Stuff can go wrong in the middle of all 3 of those then it takes longer lol.

 

[Crown]

The thing about making a living doing YouTube is that people think that someone who makes a 15 minute video once per week and gets thousands of views is only working for 15 minutes per week. They have no idea how hard it is to build up an audience to a size that actually makes the $$ worthwhile. Channels don't become big overnight and some will never go big, but of course the general public don't get to see that side of YouTube. I don't even mention that I make Youtube videos to people anymore. I just tell them I work in "internet marketing" and change the subject.

Oh and that newspaper is the Daily Mail, fondly nicknamed the Daily Fail in the uk. ^^ It's full of clickbait articles and bitter readers (but it is surprisingly addictive reading all the toxic comments lol. I must admit it is one of my guilty pleasures. ^^)

 

[Sin B]

The thing about making a living doing YouTube is that people think that someone who makes a 15 minute video once per week and gets thousands of views is only working for 15 minutes per week. They have no idea how hard it is to build up an audience to a size that actually makes the $$ worthwhile. Channels don't become big overnight and some will never go big, but of course the general public don't get to see that side of YouTube. I don't even mention that I make Youtube videos to people anymore. I just tell them I work in "internet marketing" and change the subject.

Oh and that newspaper is the Daily Mail, fondly nicknamed the Daily Fail in the uk. ^^ It's full of clickbait articles and bitter readers (but it is surprisingly addictive reading all the toxic comments lol. I must admit it is one of my guilty pleasures. ^^)

Are they one of the people that called pewdiepie a Nazi supporter because he joked about how YT is killing his channel due to him being white? Lol

I doubt the people that run mainstream media don't know how YT works, they're the ones being killed off by how successful YT is. They're just desperately clawing at anything to try and put shade on YT while also making money on their "real" stories.

 

[Crown]

I doubt the people that run mainstream media don't know how YT works, they're the ones being killed off by how successful YT is. They're just desperately clawing at anything to try and put shade on YT while also making money on their "real" stories.

Oh yeah their "journalists" definitely understand YouTube. Most of their clickbait articles are inspired from stuff happening on social media and they just write a story about it. I doubt they even leave the office or do any interviews or investigations. They just look at what famous people are doing in their daily lives by checking out their Twitter etc and then write some bs article.

It's the readership that probably don't quite get it or they get it, but they definitely don't approve. There are some pretty frustrated people on there. ^^

 

[Sin B]

Oh yeah their "journalists" definitely understand YouTube. Most of their clickbait articles are inspired from stuff happening on social media and they just write a story about it. I doubt they even leave the office or do any interviews or investigations. They just look at what famous people are doing in their daily lives by checking out their Twitter etc and then write some bs article.

It's the readership that probably don't quite get it or they get it, but they definitely don't approve. There are some pretty frustrated people on there. ^^

Reminds me of comicbook.com and their Facebook articles.

Kevin Smith wants to go to Disneyland breaking news click here read this OMG CAN YOU f*****g BELIEVE IT???
Kevin Smith ate a sandwich THIS IS MADNESSS WHAT IS GOING ON!!!??!?!?!

and so on...

and when they do report what they're supposed to they spoil something for half the continent

:|

 

[Hopeless Insomniac]

I think its a little foolish to assume just because YOU don't know someone or enjoy their content doesn't mean other people don't. For example I don't watch soccer and if a famous soccer player walked by me I would have no idea who they were. But I understand other people enjoying soccer just because I dont.
I think its awesome that youtube has become such a great platform for both entertainment, connection, and education.

 

[Crown]

Kevin Smith wants to go to Disneyland breaking news click here read this OMG CAN YOU f*****g BELIEVE IT???
Kevin Smith ate a sandwich THIS IS MADNESSS WHAT IS GOING ON!!!??!?!?!

and so on...

and when they do report what they're supposed to they spoil something for half the continent

The Daily Mail is obsessed with the Beckham family and they have 2-3 articles per day on them. But when Brooklyn Beckham split up with his gf over the summer, they didn't even know about it lol, they're terrible.

 

[EelKat]

I'm always surprised by how very OFF these articles are on the income of the top YouTubers. If you go by his viewcount PewDiePie makes $1.5 million BEFORE Disney takes their 30% cut ($450k) for the network he's in. Bringing his income total to $1,050,000 BEFORE taxes. That's assuming EVERY ONE of his views brings in revenue, which we all know only 1 in every 7 views gets revenue. It's aso not factoring in that MANY of his videos are unmonetized. His ACTUAL income is around $700k a year, not even close to $15million. The $15mil figure comes by counting his TOTAL views since 2010 (including views he received before YouTube started paying creators). He MIGHT make $1 million this year, for the second time, after doing do last year, keeping in mind he gained nearly 25mil of his viewers in the past 6 months and was not a big youtuber just 2 years ago.

If you look at Markiplier and count his views, his income is $300k before Disney's 30% cut ($90k making his income $210k before taxes and not counting that MANY of his videos are set to go to charity) He might, possibly, maybe make his first million soon.

If you look at JackSepticEye's views his income is $130k before Disney's 30% cut ($39k, making his income $100k before taxes, unmonetized vids and charity vids). He's still got a few years before he earns his first million.

Those articles are way over estimating the incomes of the to YouTubers. They got their overblown figures by counting TOTAL views over ALL years and multiplying it by $3 per 1,000 views, then did not factor in Disney's 30% cut or unmonetized videos or charity videos or taxes... instead of counting ONLY the current year's views and multiplying by $1 per 1,000 views minus 30% network fees.

I wish these article writers would not over hype the numbers so much because it gives too many people false hope and makes haters hate on youtubers far more then they would if the dollar figures were accurate.

It appears people read these articles and think those figures are how much they make each year, but again, that's a total across all years including years from BEFORE YouTube paid creators, and it's not counting network fees and it's counting $3 per 1,000 views instead of $1 per 1,000 views. These articles get paid by the ads on the page, so they have to hype things up in order to gain views, that's why they exaggerate how much money youtubers are making.

 

[Crown]

I'm always surprised by how very OFF these articles are on the income of the top YouTubers. If you go by his viewcount PewDiePie makes $1.5 million BEFORE Disney takes their 30% cut ($450k) for the network he's in. Bringing his income total to $1,050,000 BEFORE taxes. That's assuming EVERY ONE of his views brings in revenue, which we all know only 1 in every 7 views gets revenue. It's aso not factoring in that MANY of his videos are unmonetized. His ACTUAL income is around $700k a year, not even close to $15million. The $15mil figure comes by counting his TOTAL views since 2010 (including views he received before YouTube started paying creators). He MIGHT make $1 million this year, for the second time, after doing do last year, keeping in mind he gained nearly 25mil of his viewers in the past 6 months and was not a big youtuber just 2 years ago.

If you look at Markiplier and count his views, his income is $300k before Disney's 30% cut ($90k making his income $210k before taxes and not counting that MANY of his videos are set to go to charity) He might, possibly, maybe make his first million soon.

If you look at JackSepticEye's views his income is $130k before Disney's 30% cut ($39k, making his income $100k before taxes, unmonetized vids and charity vids). He's still got a few years before he earns his first million.

Those articles are way over estimating the incomes of the to YouTubers. They got their overblown figures by counting TOTAL views over ALL years and multiplying it by $3 per 1,000 views, then did not factor in Disney's 30% cut or unmonetized videos or charity videos or taxes... instead of counting ONLY the current year's views and multiplying by $1 per 1,000 views minus 30% network fees.

I wish these article writers would not over hype the numbers so much because it gives too many people false hope and makes haters hate on youtubers far more then they would if the dollar figures were accurate.

It appears people read these articles and think those figures are how much they make each year, but again, that's a total across all years including years from BEFORE YouTube paid creators, and it's not counting network fees and it's counting $3 per 1,000 views instead of $1 per 1,000 views. These articles get paid by the ads on the page, so they have to hype things up in order to gain views, that's why they exaggerate how much money youtubers are making.

Yeah I agree with your calculations. There are a lot of flaws in the numbers in the article. They also seem to have taken the top 10 most subscribed channels and somehow assumed that they must also be the top 10 earners. Whereas it's all about the daily views - that's what brings in the $$. I know of channels (one of them is even a member of YTtalk) which gets 5x more daily views than pewdiepie and they aren't even on the list.

 

[ilikepstrophies]

I'm surprised Tyler Oakley is on there.