Forbesrecently relinquish a raw lean of highest paidYouTube , the top 10 highest - paid YouTube stars earned $ 127 million . figure are based on data point from YouTube , Social Blade and Captiv8 , as well as interviews with agents , managers , publicist , producer and lawyer .
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Top 10 highest paid YouTubers
#10 Lilly Singh
Earning – $ 10.5 million
Genre – funniness
Lilly Singh or better known as “ Superwoman ” , was the highest - paid female YouTuber of 2016 . This yr it ’s reckon she made $ 10.5 million , while last year she made $ 7.5 million .
Watch this Honest Q&A television from Superwomen below
#8(tie) Ryan ToysReview
Earning – $ 11 million
Genre – toy unbox
accord to Forbes , the 6 - year - sure-enough Ryan of YouTube’sRyan ToysReviewmade $ 11 million in taxation this year from his YouTube account . The journeying started 2 year back , when when Ryan , then only a 4 - year - old fan of toy dog - review videos , asked his parents why he could n’t also refresh plaything on YouTube .
Watch this astronomically lucky child review a DIY confect dispenser below :
#8(tie) Smosh
Smosh is among the oldest channel on YouTube . start by clowning duo Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla back in 2005 , same year when YouTube was launched . However , Anthony Padilla go forth the Smosh channel in June 2017 to create his own solo YouTube account .
Anthony Padilla videos , ‘ why I left Smosh ’ got 11 million view on YouTube .
#7 Jake Paul
gain – $ 11.5 million
Jake Paul is a 20 - yr - 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 , travel along the public complaints from Paul ’s neighbor about Paul , depict massive crowd of screaming fans and setting a balefire in his empty swimming kitty .
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 democratic YouTube whiz who like Smosh started his vocation in the early daytime of YouTube with “ get ’s roleplay ” TV . But lately Felix has confront several controversy over hisanti - Semite laugh , and using then - wordin a play alive current .
Watch this picture 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 , start his journey in mid 2012 . With his audience withForbes , Mark said – “ I ’d had a bad breakup , I was fired , I had a tumor in my adrenal secreter , ” he said . “ It was a series of inauspicious events . As I was go back , 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 audience by Forbes below .
#4 Logan Paul
garner – $ 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 ship to YouTube after vine shut down . While both brothers are quite pop among teenagers , some look at this duo as the “ Villain of YouTube ” .
His video , The Fall Of Jake Paul buzz off 142 million views on YouTube
#3 Dude Perfect
Earning – $ 14 million
Genre – Sports entertainment
Unlike everyone on the tilt , Dude Perfect is a mathematical group of 5 people ( former college roommates and basketball game musician ) Their video consist of fast one sportsman crack like – Ping pong trick snapshot , and the popular Fidget Spinner Trick Shot . Dude Perfect have broken several Guinness World Records .
Watch Fidget Spinner Trick shooter 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 introduce to video games at a young years . He dropped out of university in his second class as his YouTube channel began exploding in popularity . He says he never carry to get paid to play video games . This twelvemonth he made $ 15.5 million .
Evan ’s most democratic video ‘ The Toys Escape ! ’ has 41 million position on YouTube
#1 Daniel Middleton (DanTDM)
Earning- $ 16.5 million
Dan Middleton akaDAnTDMis the cosmos ’s rich YouTuber of 2017 . Much like other YouTubers , Daniel started his YouTube journeying during his studies by shoot himself playing popular dangerous undertaking game Pokemon . Today , his television have been learn more than 10 billion multiplication , making him the rich 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
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