Top 10 Highest-Paid YouTube Stars of 2020 Ranked by Forbes

Business on YouTube is booming while other industries have been suffering a lot amid pandemic. Wait to see what’s the good chance brought to the internet in the parallel world! Forbes has given you the hint from their Top 10 Highest-Paid YouTube Stars of 2020.

Forbes’s new list of Top 10 Highest-Paid YouTubers in the World for 2020 has definitely proved internet savvy a way for enabling the new generations a resounding success. Many of the years, parents often blame their children for wasting time on surfing stuff or playing video games online. As time goes by, the evolution of the internet has generated a bunch of profit-making approaches to strike it rich through online space. In the new era, some people have managed to put their internet interest into a serious new way of making money online.

From observations to the online experiments of some of the very young YouTubers, it’s more than just a hypothesis. Watch what YouTube has turned out to be the platform facilitating new career chance as part-time or full-time videos creators but also the double winning channel for product brand promotions or sales-driven medium for the commercial sectors by means of advertising. So, what’s the latest result announced as the Highest-Paid YouTube Stars of 2020 in the World by Forbes?

One of the ambitious kid, Ryan Kaji, aged 9, earns $29.5 million as this year’s highest-paid YouTuber. It’s 3 year in a row that Kaji has beaten others as the No. 1 Highest-Paid YouTube Star in 2020. Kaji is a kid from Texas, US. Comparing to last year’s achievement,, this champion little kid Ryan Kaji was estimated to have earned extra more 3 million dollars more in this year. Also, he has got 12.2 billion total view-count from 41.7 million viewers. This top earner is famous for so-called unboxing videos, in which he takes toys out of their packages and reviews them. Now, little Ryan has a line of branded merchandise-toys, backpacks, toothpaste, more-at Target, Amazon and Walmart that have got $200 million in sales last year, and a Nickelodeon series called Ryan’s Mystery Playdate.

The runner-up, Jimmy Donaldson is the newcomer who came armed with a forklift, an exploding Toyota and the most expensive firecracker ever made. Being the 2^nd Highest-Paid YouTuber in 2020, Donaldson’s just getting started! You can’t imagine, on 4 July this past summer on YouTube, Jimmy Donaldson, the digital celebrity known as MrBeast, released a special holiday episode containing a $600,000 fireworks show. The show’s highlights included lighting 100 or so rockets bound to a mannequin, blowing up a Toyota and detonating the world’s most-extensive firework, a 400-pound, $160,000 device moveable only via forklift. The aerial display even forced MrBeast and his crew to consult the FAA, lest it interfere with overhead air traffic. The 11-minute episode has since been viewed nearly 60 million times, and it’s pretty representative of what has shot Donaldson to No. 2 on the annual list of Forbes’ Top-Earning YouTubers. Donaldson’s films were with top-notch quality and he’s also famous for videos of 23 million view-times on giving away massive amounts of money, like the moment this spring when he dispensed $200,000 to several people who’d lost their jobs during the pandemic.

And the 5-person group Dude Perfect stands at the 3^rd highest position with $23 million. As for ranking No.4 to 6, they are Rhett and Link with $20 million, Markiplier with $19.5 million and Preston Arsement with $19 million of earnings respectively. Out of the list of the highest-paid YouTubers this year, we have to highlight that the youngest kid Nastya only aged 6 with earnings of $18.5 million has got the ranking No. 7 this year. And she is the only woman out of the top 10 YouTubers. The new comer Blippi (No. 8) is a 32-year-old YouTuber with a popular children’s educational channel where he sings about awuatic animals and visits children’s museums. And the 3rd new comer with ranking No. 9 is the comedian David Dobrik. Sitting at the 10^th highest-pay position, there comes the make-up mogul Jeffree Star.

According to research firm Statista, 77% of US internet users ages 15-25 tune into YouTube. The highest-paid YouTubers secured an estimated $211 million in total earnings from June 1, 2019 to June 1, 2020, a 30% jump from the previous year. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, cities locked down. YouTube has been a major draw for people stuck at home that generating much traffic for the videos creators and also the advertisements of commercial products. Eventually, it seems that people earning from YouTube becomes the unexpected opportunities for general public in 2020. And it will probably continue to expand widely.