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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PolygonPosted:

I'm reading these comments that are saying.
"All he does is sit still all day and play games, doesn't deserve this much".

It's a lot more effort than you think. Takes time...

1989Posted:

Fib
Teezla *he makes in-between $2.5 million - $19 million


Source/proof: http://socialblade.com/youtube/user/pewdiepie


That's a wide gap. There's a big difference between 2.5 million and 19 million.


Social bade gives like the most he could earn

$4MIL is probs what he got last year

PetrucciPosted:

Slade_Wilson Really? Well, everyone's always said nerds would make a lot of money. Someone that sits on their **** all day shouldn't be getting paid this much! It should go towards something like sports or helping our soldiers!


You do realize he takes a lot of his money and gives it to charities right? He knows he doesn't deserve the money. Also, why the **** should the money go to sports??

FibPosted:

Teezla *he makes in-between $2.5 million - $19 million


Source/proof: http://socialblade.com/youtube/user/pewdiepie


That's a wide gap. There's a big difference between 2.5 million and 19 million.

WheyPosted:

Yes it must be difficult for him to upload more and more content each day but 4 million a year for pretty much gaming or being silly.. I would not mind doing that for a living,

destroyer89Posted:

DurangoTV
Slade_Wilson Really? Well, everyone's always said nerds would make a lot of money. Someone that sits on their **** all day shouldn't be getting paid this much! It should go towards something like sports or helping our soldiers!


sounds like your butthurt


**** sports put it to reasearch and soliders

DurangoTVPosted:

Slade_Wilson Really? Well, everyone's always said nerds would make a lot of money. Someone that sits on their **** all day shouldn't be getting paid this much! It should go towards something like sports or helping our soldiers!


sounds like your butthurt

935Posted:

That's great! He truly loves what he does and he does it well! He deserves it :)

VHzPosted:

holy hell. i knew he earned a lot but i didn't think it was this much.. wow

Saints768Posted:

Slade_Wilson Really? Well, everyone's always said nerds would make a lot of money. Someone that sits on their **** all day shouldn't be getting paid this much! It should go towards something like sports or helping our soldiers!


Sports ?! They have more than enough. Soliders would be more better.


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