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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CyimkingPosted:
AuricIIIAnimeIII $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.
You're a f*cking moron. Do you really think he would keep the money to himself? Are you some kind of extra special person or are you just looking for attention?
Yea why wouldn't it? The best to way to make some easy $$ is to tell people that you are donating to a charity. People do it.
HindenburgPosted:
IIIAnimeIII $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.
You're a f*cking moron. Do you really think he would keep the money to himself? Are you some kind of extra special person or are you just looking for attention?
FibPosted:
What a way to earn a living. I wouldn't be able to do this because I wouldn't be able to come up with new content in the matter of a day or two.
-Zippo-Posted:
Whaaaaaat!!!!!! $4,000,000 a year for sitting on a chair and having fun, not bad if you ask me.
DivePosted:
Latias360MoTioN 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
If you search on socialblade then you'll see how much he makes as he's a big youtuber he'll earn more to the top figure. I've asked youtubers before how much they make and then searched on socialblade it seems pretty accurate.
KurumuPosted:
Is this all estimates? I am almost certain that youtubers aren't allowed to disclose their contracts. So I don't see how this could be an exact number. I wouldn't doubt if he made that much due to the ludicrous amount of views/subs he has.
*Hats off to him
*Hats off to him
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