Richest YouTubers In The World 2016: A few years ago, blogging was a viable source of income. Some of the more popular blogs even sold for millions. But now video blogging has taken over and as such YouTube is the habitat of all the video bloggers. YouTubers earn mainly from video advertisements, brand sponsorships, product placements and collaborations.
Here are Top 10 Richest YouTubers In The World 2016 :
10. Rosanna Pansino
Rosanna Pansino is an American baker, actress, and YouTube personality. She is best known for her cooking show Nerdy Nummies, one of the most popular baking shows on YouTube. She also starred as Violet in the animated YouTube series Broken Quest. Despite being a self taught cook she has gained lot of fame and even launched her own cookbook called “The Nerdy Nummies Cookbook: Sweet Treats for the Geeks in All of Us”. She first got inspiration about cooking from her grandmother and she started her video by sharing her grandma’s recipes, tips and tricks. She has over 6.1 million subscribers on YouTube and has earned US $2.5 million last year.
9. Roman Atwood
Roman Bernard Atwood is an American YouTube personality. His hidden camera public prank videos, which he uploads to his YouTube account, have gained over 1.33 billion views and more than 9.3 million subscribers (as of July 2016). He frequently collaborates with fellow YouTube personalities Vitaly Zdorovetskiy, Dennis Roady, and Yousef Erakat. He directed and starred in a prank movie called “Naturally born Pranksters” which was released on April fool’s Day. He had collaborated with many other famous pranksters like Denis Roady and VitalyzdTV. His videos also feature his family members. His video in collaboration with Nissan earned him the Streamy Awards. He earned US $2.5 million last year.
8. Lilly Singh
Lilly Singh known by her YouTube username IISuperwomanII, is a Canadian YouTube personality, vlogger, and comedian. Since beginning her channel in October 2010, her videos have received over 1 billion views, and her channel has accumulated over 9 million subscribers. In 2016, she was ranked 8th on the Forbes list of World’s Highest Paid YouTube Stars, earning a reported 3 million in 2015. Singh was part of YouTube Rewind 2014 and led YouTube Rewind 2015. Her claim to fame were here wacky ethnicity based parody videos which while being fun never crossed the boundary of being offensive. She even went on a global tour ( A trip to Unicorn Island) and later released a documentary on it. She has been recipient of many awards like MTV 2014 Fandom Award “Social Superstar of the Year” and 2015 Streamy Award “Best First Person”. She has earned US $2.5 million last year.
7. Michelle Phan
Michelle Phan is an American make-up demonstrator and entrepreneur who became notable as a YouTube personality. Phan’s YouTube channel has over 8.5 million subscribers, 1.2 billion lifetime views, and 385 uploaded videos. She is the frontrunner in fashion and beauty content on YouTube and even her channel reveals beautiful aesthetics. Apart from her video blogging, she also manages her makeup line (“em”) and her beauty subscription service called Ipsy. She earned US $3 million last year.
6. KSI
Olajide “JJ” Olatunji, better known as KSI, a shortened version of his YouTube username KSIOlajidebt, is an English comedian, YouTube personality, rapper, and occasional actor. At number 6 in Richest YouTubers is Olajide Olatunji aka KSI. KSI is a rage on YouTube and that is mainly because of the great variety in his videos. While most YouTubers target a specific crowd, KSI makes videos for all. From Gaming, Gaming Commentary to music videos and prank videos. His successful YouTube career has propelled him into the world of music with him churning many singles that were on the UK music charts. He has earned US $4.5 million last year.
5. Rhett and Link
Rhett and Link are an Internet comedy duo consisting of Rhett James McLaughlin and Charles Lincoln “Link” Neal III from North Carolina. This funny duo is among the most popular artists on YouTube with more than 4.1 million subscribers. They are the whole package, making funny local commercials, parody music videos, comedy sketches and also a talk show called Good Mythical Morning. They call themselves “Internetainers” and are responsible for many viral videos over the years. They have earned US $4.5 million last year.
4. Lindsey Sterling
Lindsey Stirling is an American violinist, dancer, performance artist, singer and composer. She presents choreographed violin performances, both live and in music videos found on her eponymous YouTube channel, which she created in 2007. She might as well the richest YouTuber musician out there. She first got into public attention due to her violin skills and dancing. As her popularity grew on YouTube, the world started taking notice of her with Forbes even naming her in “Top 30 Musicians under 30”. She was also quarterfinalist at America’s Got Talent and her debut album Shatter Me was also on the Billboards charts. She has earned US $6 million last year.
3. The Fine Brothers
Benny Fine and Rafi Fine, known together as the Fine Brothers, are online producers, writers, and directors, who are best known for their React video series, their several timed-spoiler series, narrative web series, as well as creating a “transmedia” sitcom on YouTube, MyMusic. The Fine Brothers have been creating content online since 2004. They are behind their company, Fine Brothers Entertainment, a full service production company of digital series, television shows, and feature films. The Fine Brothers channel has over 3 billion views and has peaked at over 14 million subscribers. However, due to a controversy over an attempt to license and trademark the term “React”, as well as the names of their series, the Fine Brothers’ channels have lost hundreds of thousands of subscribers. But in May 2016, the Fine Brothers’ channel made it back to over 14 million subscribers and earnings of US $8.5 million.
2. SMOSH
Smosh is an American web-based sketch comedy duo consisting of Ian Andrew Hecox and Anthony Padilla. Padilla began posting flash animations on Newgrounds in 2003, under the name Smosh. He was later joined by his friend Ian Hecox. First YouTubers to have their own wax statue at Madame Tussaud’s. Famous for their parody videos and comedy sketches, they have over 22 million subscribers till date. They even had movie made on them. They earned US $8.5 million in 2015.
1. PEWDIEPIE
Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, better known by his online alias PewDiePie, is a Swedish web-based comedian and video producer, best known for his Let’s Play commentaries and vlogs on YouTube. When it comes to the stats, PEWDIEPIE is the undisputed kings of all YouTubers. He is famous mostly for his let’s play videos and is a prominent gamer. He is also the face of YouTube, appearing on billboards and he even was a guest at Late Night show with Stephen Colbert. With 44 million subscribers, PEWDIEPIE has earned US $12 million last year.
YouTube was started as a basic video sharing platform has evolved into a lucrative platform for business. Now even YouTube has made normal people with passion for a certain field millionaires but just talking about it. Also business are looking With the release of YouTube Red, the potential of YouTube is further being tapped. These YouTubers in this list are not only among the most popular in the world but are also the richest in the world with more than multi-million US dollars annual earnings.
Top 10 Richest YouTubers In The World 2016
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