Forbes has calculated the income of YouTube video bloggers and published a list of the richest. What brings all the people in the ranking closer together? Early life: Most of the popular leading vlogs are under 30. As such, they are only slightly older than their YouTube subscribers over old-fashioned TV.
This is how it looks rating of the highest paid YouTube video bloggers for 2014-2015.
10. Rosanna Pansino, $ 2.5 million
The list of the richest YouTube video bloggers is opened by the former chef, actress, and now the host of Nerdy Nummies - one of the most popular culinary shows. Rosanna delights viewers with amazing dishes such as My Little Pony cupcakes or an ice cream sandwich that looks like a game console.
9. Roman Atwood, $ 2.5 million
Highly paid specialist in crazy pranks. The Washington Post called Atwood “YouTube's worst joker” after the blogger selected his wife Britney Smith as the object of the prank. He faked an explosion of an ATV, allegedly driven by their three-year-old son.
8. Lilly Singh, $ 2.5 million
Indian culture is one of the main sources of inspiration for Singh, and the video blogger has gained popularity, making satirical videos about the daily life and activities of people. Some of her popular videos are titled "How Girls Gather on a Date", "Types of Kids at School", "My Parents React to .. (insert episode title)."
7. Michelle Phan, $ 3 million
Her video blog focuses on using makeup to transform a woman into a celebrity doppelganger like Angelina Jolie. The Barbie Transformation Tutorial has been viewed over 60 million times. ABC reports that Fan has launched her own cosmetics line in collaboration with L'Oreal.
6.KSI, $ 4.5 million
The 22-year-old Briton, whose real name is Olajid Olatunyi, comments on video games. He does it very funny and emotionally, for which he is loved by the audience. His plans for the future are to make a rap career and, possibly, act in films.
5 James McLaughlin & Charles Lincoln (Rhett and Link), $ 4.5 million
This duo of comedians makes online advertisements sponsored by well-known companies (Hummer, Coca Cola, McDonald’s, etc.). In addition to viral videos, Rhett and Link has a second channel called "Good Mythical Morning". In it, a couple dilutes the morning show with crazy antics.
4. Lindsay Stirling, $ 6 million
The violinist and dancer once received rejections from record companies. However, on YouTube, Stirling has achieved incredible success: the number of subscribers to her video blog exceeded 7 million people. The girl has released several albums and launched a mobile game called Pop Dash, where players run and collect coins and violins.
3. Brothers Rafi and Benny Fine (Fine Brothers), $ 8.5 million
Two brothers, included in the top 3 richest video bloggers on YouTube, once decided that people enjoy watching YouTube so much that it would be nice to show the reaction of viewers to a particular video. They started filming funny videos about how kids and friends react to different videos, like movie trailers.Also in the Fine Brothers collection there are staged humorous videos.
2.Ian Hickox and Anthony Padilla (Smosh), 8.5 million
Sacramento-based vloggers run a comedy video blog on YouTube with over 21 million subscribers. The team gets most of the profits from advertising. In addition to short parodies and sketches, Smosh has a game channel and a cartoon channel. And recently, Hickox and Padilla starred in a fantastic comedy called Smosh: The Movie.
1. Felix Chelberg (Pew Die Pie), $ 12 million
Highest paid YouTube video blogger 2014-2015 This Swedish gamer's letplays have attracted an army of 30 million subscribers. His videos are full of profanity, jokes and sudden screams. At first, the entire gameplay was accompanied only by Chelberg's offscreen comments, but in 2011 he showed his inimitable facial expressions to fans.