YouTube: PewDiePie earns over $4 million each year

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If you're contemplating a career change, you may want to look into playing video games and shouting into a camera, as doing just that has made Felix Kjellberg a millionaire.

Better known by his phonetically troublesome online handle "PewDiePie," Kjellberg has turned online video game streaming into a massively lucrative venture. According to the Wall Street Journal, the PewDiePie brand now attracts more than $4 million each year in ad revenue, thanks to the 27 million subscribers who follow Kjellberg's YouTube channel, where the 24-year-old frequently uploads videos of himself playing (and swearing at) various games.

Kjellberg attributes his success not to dumb luck or having capitalized on the streaming games trend at the exact right moment, but to a more personal touch that comes through in his videos. "Unlike many professionally produced shows, I think I've established a much closer contact with my viewers, breaking the wall between the viewer and what's behind the screen," he told the Wall Street Journal. "What I and other YouTubers do is a very different thing, it's almost like hanging around and watching your pal play games."

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Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2014/06/17/youtube-wunderkind-pewdiepie-earns-over-4-million-each-year/

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IIIAnimeIIIPosted:

$4 Million a year and he still bad internet and asks his subscribers donate to "charity" why I'm putting charity in " is because last he did a charity he went on a holiday and then move house.

TurtleOrgansPosted:

Why is this news? Why should we care about how much money this guys makes, does it effect you? nope

ej709Posted:

glad im not contributing to his money making...i dont subscribe to none of those dudes that have millions of subs im not interested in helping you with your success, i got my own stuff going on

TTGZOMBIFIEDPosted:

SsuperSniper Yes, he does make millions a year but hes not very greedy with his money. He spends a lot of it on games and PC parts to make him videos more entertaining and able to watch. He does a lot of charity stuff and gives a lot of money away to help people that don't have a lot of clothes or food these days, he is nice when he does charities but when he does Youtube just for the money it gets kind of annoying. You can tell hes doing it just for the money in some videos by him overreacting to everything. Yes, it can be very hilarious at some points but it gets really retarded when hes not even trying to make people happy, hes just doing it for the money.



yes he does it for the money in order to give back in charities. You contradicted yourself -_-

Dr-PonyfilePosted:

$4 Million a year, that's a damn good achievement if you ask me. I can only dream to be earning that much money for now anyways.

MonokumaPosted:

As much as I hate him, I have to congratulate him as that's a lot of money.

BPMPosted:

He deserves the money that he has earned because of all the effort that he has done.! I enjoy his channel. Plus he has helped raise $1M+ for charity.

itsSammPosted:

That's ridiculous how much he earns, Just to play games all day.

LatiasPosted:

360MoTioN He definitely makes more than 4million, I think he makes closer to the 10million mark.


No way 4 million is pretty accurate. You honestly don't make that much off views, and then UT takes their massive cut. Merchandise is where he makes most of his moneym

SsuperSniperPosted:

Yes, he does make millions a year but hes not very greedy with his money. He spends a lot of it on games and PC parts to make him videos more entertaining and able to watch. He does a lot of charity stuff and gives a lot of money away to help people that don't have a lot of clothes or food these days, he is nice when he does charities but when he does Youtube just for the money it gets kind of annoying. You can tell hes doing it just for the money in some videos by him overreacting to everything. Yes, it can be very hilarious at some points but it gets really retarded when hes not even trying to make people happy, hes just doing it for the money.


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