YouTube: PewDiePie earns over $4 million each year
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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tellPosted:
Wow getting paid millions a year to just sit around and play video games? Quite outrageous for just making youtube videos!
TomPosted:
Sinks I wish i got paid to scream and be obnoxious.
Yeah, Wish that to man! He just got lucky on it!
Fallout3ismPosted:
People dying for their country don't get paid as much as this and this guy is making 4 mil a year sittin on his bum playin video games.
DeluxeHazardPosted:
That awesome for him. HE is doing something he enjoys and is getting paid top dollar for it. I wish I could do that as a job.
PryzelPosted:
Wow that is alot of money for what he does was not expecting for it to be that much wow really am shocked haha.
ExoticWolfsPosted:
4 Million to do what he does? honestly, I think this guy is lame, very annoying and obnoxious. I don't see why that many people like him, anybody can sit there and do what he does.
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