You Tube stars make a lot of cash.

[Imp]

At $5/1000 views (out of my ass), a million views would be $5k. If someone is popular enough to dump out 5 videos a week, that's $25k/week x 52 weeks = $1.3M per year.

The only YouTuber I bother watching averages at least 100k-ish views per new video daily, 5 days a week, year round. At $5/1000, that's 0.1*$1.3M=$135k/year. Add in the good days with higher earnings and additional views of old videos, and that's still 1% territory.

It seems like the popular ones have sponsorships, do other things, and use their channels as launch points into other things. Regardless, the ones with bored teenager subscribers have a license to print money since their diehard base will give them sizable viewership (i.e. income) on a daily basis.

 

[Mai72]

How PewDiePie Conquered YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgMqhEMhVV8

Pretty cool video on how he took over You Tube.

 

[halik]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_on_Strike

This. Was trying to look up which episode that was.

 

[shortylickens]

I think overly attached girlfriend already has her PhD paid for in advance.

 

[Imp]

I think overly attached girlfriend already has her PhD paid for in advance.

Smart move on her part. I was surprised when I found out who that GIF maker was and that she had a major following on Twitter and Tube.

 

[shortylickens]

Smart move on her part. I was surprised when I found out who that GIF maker was and that she had a major following on Twitter and Tube.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/21/showbiz/youtube-famous-american-journey-irpt/



its not all fun and games for her:

 

[mmntech]

There's no way he's banking that kind of money. Remember Google gets the biggest piece of the pie.

MatPat did a pretty good job covering why PewDiePie is so popular.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgMqhEMhVV8&feature=share

EDIT: Ah, was beaten to it.

 

[sandorski]

Have you seen the Super Bowl Madden game they did? Both teams were horrible, but Geoff walked out of the room at one point because of all the interceptions.

I do like them as well, but only when in certain combinations. I love Sips and Sijn but not when they are separate. Ducan and Sijn are ok though, but I can't stand Duncan on his own. Lewis is a bit of a dick, but Simon is hilarious with how clueless he is so they are great together as well. The group competitions are really the best overall with Yogscast.

I can't stand Sjin on his own. It's like he thinks his audience is 5 years old or something. Just annoys me so much. He's hilarious with Sips though, they have a sexual tension thing going on that just leads to hilarious conversations.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

it's hard to build an audience. i like dom the brosciencelife guy.

 

[Printer Bandit]

i liked mr. chi city, because he never showed his face.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCMLGdsNi6c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-ggplVA1Jk

 

[Genx87]

Never heard of this guy. If he pulls in even 1% of the projected earnings good for him.

 

[rockyct]

I can't stand Sjin on his own. It's like he thinks his audience is 5 years old or something. Just annoys me so much. He's hilarious with Sips though, they have a sexual tension thing going on that just leads to hilarious conversations.

Yeah, Sjin goes into a weird, teacher like mode when he's on his own. It's sad Sips and Sjin don't do much together anymore because Sips got bored with minecraft. I can understand that, but I wish they would do co-op games together. Those Chivalry matches a lot time again were pretty funny together.