W ith a name like MrBeast, perhaps it was only inevitable that he'd grow to be as big as he's become. The 23 year old earned $54 million in 2021—the most of any YouTuber ever—as his videos accumulated 10 billion views, doubling from the previous year.
1. MrBeast $58 Million. The richest YouTuber that makes the most out of YouTube is no other than MrBeast. Jimmy Donaldson, the MrBeast, is a YouTube star that has made record-breaking world earnings in the recent year from his YouTube channel with over 100 Million subscribers.
As of December 2022, MrBeast is the most-subscribed YouTuber, with 116 million subscribers. PewDiePie is the second most popular with 111 million subscribers.
A deal that rich would value the studio at $1.5 billion, making Donaldson the world's first billionaire YouTuber, his 90% stake worth $1.4 billion.
Not only is Radzinskaya the highest-paid female YouTuber on the list—she's the only female YouTuber on the list.
How do YouTubers get paid? Data from Forbes shows that the top YouTube earners make 50% of their annual income from ads. You can set up an AdSense account and enable monetization once you create a YouTube channel. You only get paid once you reach $100 in your AdSense account.
Two channels recently managed to break the 100M subscriber barrier: Felix Kjellberg's PewDiePie channel and T-Series from India.
The first youtuber was Jawed Karim who was also a founder of YouTube. Jawed Karim posted the first-ever video to YouTube. The 18-second video, entitled "Me at the zoo," features Karim, a YouTube cofounder, at the San Diego Zoo standing in front of a bunch of elephants.
1. Charli D'Amelio: $17.5 Million. Charli D'Amelio is 18 years old and earned a staggering $17.5 million, ranking her first among TikTok's highest earners.
Fred Figglehorn, known simply as Fred, was the first YouTube creator to reach one million subscribers. In 2009, Lucas Cruikshank's FRED channel was the very first to hit 1 million subscribers.
YouTubers are paid out monthly and either receive a check by mail or direct deposit. To start earning money from YouTube, creators must have at least 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours in the past year. Once they reach that threshold, they can apply for YouTube's Partner Program.
Silver play button awards are achieved with 100k channel subscribers. Gold play buttons are awarded at 1 million subscribers. The Diamond play button is awarded at 10 million subscribers. The Custom Creator award or custom play button is awarded to channels that gain a following of 50 million subscribers.
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In a statement, MrBeast (aka Jimmy Donaldson), said, “100 million means so much. I've been making videos since I was 11 years old. This number in a way represents everything I've ever done in my life and I'm so grateful to everyone who's ever watched a video.
It has been 10 years since Psy's “Gangnam Style” became the first YouTube video to reach one billion views.
New Delhi: Popular Indian YouTuber, Amit Bhadana, also known as the Desi YouTuber, has gained 20 million subscribers on his channel, making him the first individual Indian YouTuber to have achieved this milestone.
Overlay ads (small ads at the bottom of a video) - you only get paid if a viewer clicks on the ad to expand it. Skippable video ads (ads at the start of a video that a viewer can skip after five seconds) - you get paid if a viewer watches the whole ad (or at least 30 seconds if it's longer).
As for the TikTok Creator Fund, you can earn between 2 and 4 cents for every 1,000 views. This means you might expect $20 to $40 after reaching a million views. Learn more about the TikTok Creator Fund here.
Between $120 and $800 per 100,000 views
Some people won't be as engaged — more of them will only watch short clips of your videos or stop watching altogether once they see an ad. So it's reasonable to assume that your CPM for video views would go down to somewhere between $1.2 and $8, or $120 to $800 per 100,000 views.