The biggest YouTubers today are mega-celebrities and household names. Well-known names like PewDiePie, Shane Dawson, and Smosh have racked up millions of subscribers over the years by uploading videos on YouTube and forming seemingly personal relationships with their fans. However, the competition to get noticed is fierce. In fact, the Youtube community gain a whopping 5 billion video watches every day and with that sort of audience, some people would be crazy to not get involved in creating online content. Individuals today have acquired knowledge visually now more than ever. Our rates for providing a distribution service are currently the best in the market and our ever expanding catalogue gives us increasing muscle with which to negotiate deals from which everyone, artists, clients and distribution partners included will all benefit.YouTube doesn’t gain everyone’s fortune but large amounts of successful YouTubers proved that being one can pay off. Onsite, artists, labels and creators can upload content to the RouteNote catalogue and enter into a non-exclusive agreement permitting us to distribute their music to a worldwide audience.
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Officially launched in 2007, RouteNote began as a digital music distribution platform for independent artists and labels to get their music online,ĭesigned and built to take advantage of the shift towards independent and self-publication through online and mobile music or video outlets. Markiplier remains a popular YouTube fixture (31 million subscribers), having first cemented his fame by recording himself playing things like Five Nights at Freddy’s, a video game about a haunted pizza place.
In 2021, he filmed a television adaptation of The Edge of Sleep, a post-apocalyptic thriller he initially dramatized as a podcast in 2019 the TV project still needs a home, and he hopes to sell the series to a company like Netflix or Hulu later this year. A year later, Markiplier deliberately deleted them all.) Next, Markiplier hopes to remake himself as a TV star. (Those Unus Annus videos were a collaboration with fellow YouTuber Ethan Nestor-Darling and ran on Markiplier’s YouTube channel starting in 2019. The Up, Down and Returns listed beside earnings are based on the previous list from Forbes, which covered the highest-paid YouTube stars between June 2019 and June 2020.įor Forbes’ list of the highest-earnin TikTok stars in 2021, click here.įew social media stars can move merch like Markiplier, who saw especially strong sales from the T-shirts, hoodies and other items tied to his Unus Annus series, the main reason his earnings have nearly doubled from our previous list. The estimates come from data provided by Captiv8, SocialBlade, Pollstar and industry insiders. Figures are prior to deductions such as tax, and fees for agents, managers and lawyers. This data is based on earnings between January 1 and December 31, 2021. This clearly shows the line between digital stars and “traditional” stars continuing to blur. Both also feature in Celebrity 100, with a cutoff of $35 million. Markiplier comes in at number three, with $38 million. MrBeast is followed by Jake Paul in second place, despite past scandals, at $45 million. At $54 billion, Jimmy Donaldson sits in the Top 40 of Forbes Celebrity 100, earning more in 2021 than stars across entertainment such as Billie Eilish, Kim Kardashian, Angelina Jolie and BTS. MrBeast’s channel features super-sized stunts, from being buried alive for 50 hours, offering $10,000 to anyone willing to sit in a bathtub full of snakes, to hosting his own version of Squid Game, building replicas of the Netflix show’s set. Accumulating double the amount of views from last year, with over 10 billion views, the 23 year old brought in $54 million in 2021, more than any other YouTuber ever. Jimmy Donaldson, known on YouTube as MrBeast comes in at number one, with record earnings. Most of the content creators below earned around half of their revenue from ad revenue on YouTube, while the rest comes from sources like branded merchandise, podcasts, NFTs, and other platforms like Twitch, Snap and Facebook. There are more people on YouTube than ever before, with over two billion users, representing an increase of 40% in five years. This increase comes largely from increased views and therefore ad revenue. Image Credit: Forbes Collectively pulling in around $300 million, Forbes list the YouTube stars who earned the most amount of money in 2021.įorbes latest “Highest-Paid YouTube Stars” details the YouTubers who collectively earned roughly $300 million, up 40% from a year earlier.