YouTube has produced a whole new generation of celebrities and influencers. Many people have started using the platform as a primary source of income. How much money can you make on YouTube? Well, judging by some of the most popular YouTubers, quite a lot. These celebrities earn millions thanks to YouTube.
Some of the celebrities with the most subscribers post videos in the fields of video game commentating, makeup, vlogs, travel, and more. Let’s take a look at the 10 most popular YouTube accounts.
PewDiePie – 109 Million subscribers
Imagine making more than $100,000 per day? That is how much PewDiePie makes on YouTube. He earns around $58 million per year, making it almost $160,000 per day.
Born Felix Kjellberg, the Swedish YouTuber now resides in the United Kingdom. In his videos, he gives commentary while playing video games. PewDiePie expanded his coverage into a commentary of internet memes and viral videos as well.
There are YouTube channels that have more subscribers than him. For example, the Bollywood music company T-Series. But they are not individual YouTubers.
His devoted fan base even took action to earn him the No.1 spot with a “Subscribe to PewDiePie” campaign.
He has a net worth of more than $40 million.
Kids Diana – Show 74 million subscribers
This channel follows the antics of Diana and her brother, Roma. The Russian-speaking kids unbox toys and have fantastic adventures.
The two live in Miami, the United States. The show has an estimated net worth of $100 million. In the videos, Diana plays with her family and friends.
Like Nastya – 69 million subscribers
The Like Nastya channel posts vlogs of Stacy, a Russian-American girl. She plays with toys and goes on adventures with her family. Stacy also appears on other popular channels with more millions of subscribers, including Stacy Toys, Funny Stacy, and Like Nastya Show.
According to Forbes, the young Russian YouTuber Anastasia Nastya Radzinskaya earns more than $18 million per year. She amassed 39 billion views in 2020.
When you combine all of her channels, she has more than 100 million subscribers. As of 2021, Anastasia Radzinskaya has a net worth of more than $20 million.
Vlad and Niki – 62.7 million subscribers
This is another children’s channel. It follows the lives of two brothers living in the United States, Vlad and Niki. Vlad is 8 years old as of February 2021, while Nikita is 5 years old.
Sometimes, their mother Victoria Vashketova and their little brother Christian Vashetova join in the videos as well. They pretend to play, travel or engage in other activities in Dubai. Their parents Sergey and Victoria run the channel.
The parents run a total of 15 YouTube channels in 11 different languages. They’ve amassed more than 42 billion views so far. When you combine all channels, they have more than 73 million subscribers.
The content focuses on themes of togetherness and sharing. In most of their videos, Vlad and Nikita play with toys and tell stories. Sometimes, they implement nursery rhymes in their videos.
One of their most popular videos is Magic Little Driver ride on Toy Cars and Transform cars for kids. As of February 2021, they have a net worth of between $16 and $20 million.
Dude Perfect – 55 million subscribers
We said this is a list of individual YouTube celebrities. Dude Perfect can still fit the bill, as it is a channel of five buddies talking about men’s stuff. You know, sports and comedy.
The two main cast members are Cory and Coby Colton, with their three college friends, Tyler Toney, Garrett Hilbert, and Cody Jones.
They post trick shots, Rolodex of famous athletes, and more. Sometimes, famous athletes appear alongside them in their videos. The channel recently expanded into comedy. They have a giant Panda mascot that appears in their videos.
Collectively, their net worth is more than $30 million. So far, they’ve amassed more than 5 billion views on their videos.
Fun idea, right. Five former high school basketball players and college roommates now run one of the most popular YouTube channels.
Mr. Beast – 53 million subscribers
Born in the US, Jimmy Donaldson posts two types of videos, viral challenges, and attention-grabbing donations and charity stunts. For example, some of his viral videos include Counting to 100,000 in one video and Last to Remove Hand Gets Lamborghini Challenge.
Beast often donates thousands of dollars to small Twitch gamers and waitresses. The American YouTube star has a net worth of $16 million.
Last year, he earned more than $24 million from his YouTube channel, merchandise sales, and sponsorship deals. He invests a huge amount of his money into video production. He spends more than $300,000 on producing a single video.
Badabun – 44 million subscribers
This channel has grown in popularity thanks to their series “Exponiendo Infieles”. In that series, they host interviews with couples to see if either person cheats on the other.
The team consists of Spanish-speaking influencers. They do lots of comedy on-the-street interviews and Big Brother-type reality series.
The Mexican internet production company started as a YouTube channel in 2014. Years later, they grew into one of the most popular YouTube groups thanks to a lot of Internet celebrities. Fun fact: celebrities criticized the content, making more fans want to follow them.
JuegaGerman aka HolaSoyGerman – 42 million subscribers
Living in Chile, German Garmendia is the biggest YouTube star from Latin America. His channel focuses on video games, and recently expanded into comedy content.
He has two channels, but he hasn’t posted for a while on his second channel, HolaSoyGerman. He has a net worth of close to $9 million.
Whinderson Nunes – 41.8 million subscribers
Located in Brazil, this YouTube influencer earns between $700,000 and $1 million per year. He makes vlogs and comedic videos. And he started making them at the age of 15. Whinderson uploads parodies, songs, movie reviews, and even videos about his daily life.
Felipe Neto – 41.3 million subscribers
The Portuguese-Brazilian manager, actor, and writer has a popular channel in Brazil. He started his career by talking about celebrities, movies, and daily activities. He often criticizes daily activities in a comic way.
His brother, Lucas Neto also has a YouTube channel. Felipe founded Paramaker, a business of network owning several YouTube channels. They manage more than 5 thousand channels. His goal is to professionalize the online video market in Brazil. In 2015, he sold the company to focus solely on his YouTube channel. As of February 2021, he has a net worth of more than $31 million.
