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YouTube has given a wonderful earning opportunity for artists and performers to present themselves to the world. Now you don’t have to go to a TV channel network for hosting a show.
You can start your own channel on YouTube and present yourself to the world. In fact, YouTube has diminished the importance of Mainstream TV networks.
Therefore in recent years we have seen emergence of popular YouTube celebrities. Some of them have become like a star with millions of fan following.
In this article we tried to name some of those stars by judging on the basis of their yearly income through YouTube Partner Program.
Here are at least 12 most famous YouTube stars with an earning of over $3 million a year.
1. Pewdiepie
The owner of the channel is Swedish born guy named Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg. He started the channel in the year 2010 which focuses on commentary and reactions to games he plays.
He has won four awards for most popular social show. Currently he lives in England.
- Annual Earnings: $7 to $8 Million
- No of Subscribers: 37,243,917
- Total Views: Over 9 Billion
- Genre or Theme: Let’s Play
- YouTube Channel:www.youtube.com/user/PewDiePie
2. Yogscast
Previously known as Blue Xephos is alias for Lewis Brindley and he is the founder of The Yogscast a network of YouTube broadcasters along with Simon Lane of Honeydew. It has over 25 different members with different Alias.
Both of them are based in Bristol, England.
- Annual Earnings: $6 Million to $7 Million
- No of Subscribers: 7.2 Million
- Total Views: 3 Billion
- Genre or Theme: Video Games
- YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/BlueXephos/videos
3. Smosh
Smosh is a comedy duo of Ian Andrew Hecox and Anthony Padilla. Both of them are Americans and based at California.
Although they were active since 2002 but they launched their YouTube channel in the year 2005. They do comedy about video games and animated videos.
- Annual Earnings: $5 Million to $6 Million
- No of Subscribers: Over 20 Million
- Total Views: 4.4 Billion
- Genre or Theme: Comedy
- YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/smosh
4. DisneyCollectorBR
DisneyCollectorBR channel is mainly about the products of Disney like dolls. They show you how to unbox various products and also how to use them.
It is faceless and we do not know the owner of this channel but it is very popular YouTube channel in the world.
- Annual Earnings: $5 Million to $5.5 Million
- No of Subscribers: 4.7 Million
- Total Views: 600 Million
- Genre or Theme: Disney Products
- YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/DisneyCollectorBR
5. BluCollection
BluCollection is a channel started in the year 2010 dedicated to toddlers, babies, infants and preschool children. The channel has over 3000 videos since its inception.
Here also we don’t know the exact owner of the channel but it is very popular on YouTube.
- Annual Earnings: $4.8 Million to $5 Million
- No of Subscribers: Over 2 Million
- Total Views: 3,710,396,768
- Genre or Theme: Toy Videos
- YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/Blucollection
6. Jenna Marbles
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Jenna Marbles is actually her pseudo name for Jenna N Mourey. She started her channel in the year 2010 and it is seventh most subscribed channel on YouTube.
She also hosts weekly pop countdown on SirusXM Hits. Currently she lives in state of New York, United States.
- Annual Earnings: $4 Million to $4.5 Million
- No of Subscribers: 15 Million
- Total Views: 1,777,780,539
- Genre or Theme: Comedy and Vlogging
- YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/JennaMarbles
7. Toby Games
Toby Games is owned by Toby Turner who is also an actor, comedian and a musician. Currently he makes videos on YouTube about games like Minecraft, Happy Wheels, Slender and more.
He started his channel on July 2010 and currently lives in LA, USA.
- Annual Earnings: $4 Million to $4.2 Million
- No of Subscribers: 7 Million
- Total Views: 1,871,537,081
- Genre or Theme: Video Games
- YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/TobyGames
8. Ray William Johnson
Ray William Johnson started his channel in the year 2008 and he is well known for his video series called Equals Three. He gave commentary and it became viral.
Equal three ran total 215 episodes. The guy has many upcoming projects like a sitcom for American network FX.
- Annual Earnings: Around $4 Million
- No of Subscribers: 10,801,318
- Total Views: 2,927,688,363
- Genre or Theme: Comedy and Video Blogger
- YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/RayWilliamJohnson
9. UberHaxorNova
UberHaxorNova is a YouTube channel featuring animated videos on games and current culture. The channel is owned by James and the network is claimed by Makergen.
The channel was launched on April 4, 2008.
- Annual Earnings: $3.5 Million to $4 Million
- No of Subscribers: 2,866,161
- Total Views: 1,525,698,699
- Genre or Theme: Animated Series on Games
- YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/UberHaxorNova
10. Real Annoying Orange
The real Annoying orange is a channel by Dane Boedigheimer’s stated in the year 2010.
Earlier he did videos for JibJab but because of its success it became an online YouTube franchise.
- Annual Earnings: $3.4 Million
- No of Subscribers: 4,445,555
- Total Views: 2,745,372,572
- Genre or Theme: Animated Videos
- YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/realannoyingorange
11. College Humor
College Humor is a channel launched in the year 2006 and it is an extension of College Humor website. The website host comedy videos and then they upload on YouTube.
CH is created by Josh Abramson and Ricky Van Veen.
- Annual Earnings: $3 Million to $3.5 Million
- No of Subscribers: 9,675,770
- Total Views: 3,669,848,207
- Genre or Theme: Viral Videos and Shows on College Life
- YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/collegehumor
12. CaptainSparklez
The last one in our list is CaptainSparklez. This YouTube channel is owned by Jordan Maron. Again the channel is about video games like minecraft etc.
It was started in the year 2011.
- Annual Earnings: $3 Million approx.
- No of Subscribers: 8,652,943
- Total Views: 1,751,786,932
- Genre or Theme: Gaming commentary and Vlogging
- YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/CaptainSparklez
So these were 12 top YouTube earners with an annual income of over $3 million. There are many others like NigaHiga, Sky Does Minecraft, the fine bros etc.
You can make out from the list that many are into gaming videos.
There are some popular YouTube channels coming from India also but we don’t know their exact income.