THE YOUTUBE SUPERSTARS WHO EARN A FORTUNE FROM THEIR VIDEOS
Tanya Burr
Subscribers: 3.6m Estimated earnings: £20,000 per month
FORMER make-up artist Tanya, 28, from Norwich is best known as a beauty vlogger whose make-up tutorials have a cult following.
She lives in a £2m London home with husband Jim Chapman, also a blogger, and their sausage dog. The couple announced their wedding on their social media accounts.
She often collaborates in videos with close friend Zoella and also posts about baking, her holidays and daily diet. She has a number one best-selling book and a cosmetics line in Superdrug.
Lilly Singh
Subscribers: 10.2
Estimated earnings: £7m WHAT first started as a method to help deal with depression has made this Canadian Superwoman, 28, a multi-millionaire, thanks mainly to impersonations of her parents.
Her face is now plastered in billboards across Manhattan in New York and Singh has even appeared on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show.
Lily’s videos – with some including What Clubbing Is Like, Why Bras Are Horrible, and Types Of People You’ll See On Halloween – now attract guest stars such as Michelle Obama.
She is a Unicef Goodwill Ambassador, to advocate for children’s rights.
PewDiePie
Subscribers: 49.7m
Estimated earnings: £14m SWEDISH video gamer and comedian Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, 27, is the top grossing YouTuber in the world who five years ago dropped out of an industrial engineering programme to focus on his blogs.
He faced a worldwide controversy for his non-gaming videos in which he uses the word n ***** and was accused of including anti-Semitic jokes and Nazi imagery.
He apologised saying he was “in no way supporting any kind of hateful attitudes”. He claimed reports were taken out of context but several advertisers on his channel have since cut ties. He lives in Brighton with his girlfriend.
Jimmy Chapman
Subscribers: 2.5 Estimated earnings £1m since 2009
YOUTUBE star turned telly presenter Jim, 29, from Norwich, has two vlogs – one under his name and the other called Everyday Jim.
Both follow his life including cooking, shopping and keeping fit.
He turned to blogging when his older sisters started a beauty channel called Pixiwoo in 2008.
He admitted to initially being very shy and not having many friends but has since become hot property with everyone from Burberry, GQ magazine, BBC Three and Jamie Oliver wanting a piece of him.
Subscribers: 8m
Estimated earnings: £5m US funnyman Tyler, 27, recently signed a deal with Ellen DeGeneres to create his own digital talk show.
His vlogs range from guessing celebrity abs with Tom Daley, trying strange toys with Kellie Pickler, to interview
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Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama.
Tyler uploaded his first video in 2007 as a freshman at Michigan State University and uses his platform to be an advocate for LGBT youth.
Roman Atwood
Subscribers: 13m
Estimated earnings: £7.2m THE internet’s No1 prankster is 34-year-old Roman from Ohio in the USA.
His videos include filling his house with plastic balls, turning it into a massive ball pit. It has 86million views!
In 2014 he was arrested for inducing panic and disorder during the filming of a prank where he attempted to rob a cashpoint.
The case was contested with thousands of fans turning up to support him and it was eventually dropped.
KSI
Subscribers: 16.3m
Estimated earnings: £11m OLAJIDE “JJ” Olatunji, 24, better known as KSI, is a British YouTube star, rapper, comedian and actor from Watford.
Best known for his Fifa gaming videos and gaming commentary, he’s since appeared in movies Joe And Caspar Hit The Road and Laid In America and released several albums on Island Records.
He often raps about his favourite footballers and one song features Mario Balotelli.
The Arsenal fan often appears on BT Sport where he once played Fifa against Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
Stampylonghead
Subscribers: 8.6m Estimated earnings: £7m HAMPSHIRE-born Joseph Garrett, 26, posts vlogs of himself playing the cult video game Minecraft under the character Stampycat.
In 2014 one of his videos was one of the most watched YouTube postings in the world.
He’s since released two books aimed at kids aged four to 10.
Caspar Lee
Subscribers: 7.2m
Estimated earnings: £1m BRITISH-born vlogger Caspar, 24, is best pals with fellow YouTuber and flatmate Joe Sugg.
His videos include Pranks On My Roommate, Pranks On My Girlfriend and Cara Delevingne Shows Me Her Underpants.
Caspar, who was brought up in South Africa, appeared in Charli XCX’s recent video for single Boys, as well as BBC documentary Joe And Caspar Hit The Road and Laid In America with KSI.
Zoella
Subscribers: 16.4m Estimated earnings: £50,000 a month / £4m net worth
ZOE Sugg, 27, from Wiltshire, has become the UK’s most successful vlogger – filming her favourite beauty products and fashion buys from her bedroom.
She faced criticism in 2014 when it was revealed her book, Girl Online, was written by a ghostwriter. It was named the fastest selling book of the year.
She’s since launched her own beauty range in Superdrug and two other books, which faced criticism in the press for dumbing down to young readers.
Zoe lives in a £1m mansion in Brighton with boyfriend, fellow blogger Alfie Deyes and their pug dog Nala.
They regularly feature in each other’s videos such as Boyfriend Does My Make-Up and do quizzes on how well they know each other. Her brother Joe Sugg has also become a YouTube star.
Alfie Deyes
Subscribers: 11.3m Estimated earnings: £1m a year / £3.5m net worth ALFIE’S PointlessBlog follows the Brighton boy, 23, enjoying the latest technology, gaming and hanging out with his friends and family. Sister Poppy Deyes is also a vlogger, as is girlfriend Zoella. He’s released three Pointless Books since 2014 and was a member of the Guinness World Records in 2014 for holding the title for the number of bangles put on in 30 seconds alongside fellow vlogging pal Marcus Butler and how many pancakes he could fill with bananas in a minute.
Joe Sugg
Subscribers: 7.9
Estimated earnings: £1.2m THIS internet prankster and cheeky chappy, 24, swapped thatching roofs in the West Country to become a full-time YouTuber after seeing the success of his sister, Zoella.
His videos see him generally doing silly videos including prank phone calls and impressions with his mates on his channel ThatcherJoe.
Last year it was reported that he’d had a romance with Little Mix star Perrie Edwards.
He created a YouTuber Innuendo Bingo and appeared on BBC Radio 1.