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YouTube's Top-Earner For 2018 Is a 7-Year-Old (usatoday.com)
In 2018 the most-downloaded iPhone app was YouTube, reports USA Today, while Amazon's best-selling item was their Fire TV Stick for streaming video. "Sense a trend? We love to stream video."
If you're thinking of quitting your day job this year and looking to strike it big in the world of online video, maybe this will inspire you. The No. 1 earner on YouTube this year is.....7-year-old Ryan from Ryan Toys Review. For all those unboxing videos and playing with toys -- and his own new line of toys at Walmart -- he and his family will pull in a cool $22 million, according to Forbes.
Ryan launched the channel in 2015 -- when he was four -- and now has 17.3 million followers.
One viral video of the 7-year-old even racked up 1.6 billion views, though apparently Ryan actually has fewer subscribers than several of the game streamers among YouTube's top-ten earners.
Ryan launched the channel in 2015 -- when he was four -- and now has 17.3 million followers.
One viral video of the 7-year-old even racked up 1.6 billion views, though apparently Ryan actually has fewer subscribers than several of the game streamers among YouTube's top-ten earners.
and I don't get why anyone would watch this. Period.
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The channel is run by the parents, not the kid. Thankfully we curbed than channel a couple years ago and our son doesn't watch it.
I guess it's par for the course that the marketing calls a 7-year-old the top earner and not his pimps, uh, parents. Can a 4-year-old even legally have a Youtube account and get paid?
Getting paid to play with toys on camera? How exploited can you get?
My Other Computer Is A Data General Nova III.
And already a better and more legitimate businessman than Trump too.
that's the target mental age for his channel
He won by default.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSk3EX0LP-w
HE is the top-earner? Seriously?
No, it's their abusive parents! Same pattern as HoneyBooBoo.
How oblivious to and detached from reality must one be, to not realize, that it's their parents using him to make money?
Which, looking at the privacy disaster and childhood disaster that this is, can only be described as child abuse.
And you can also pretty much guarantee, that they won't be honest, and only make deals with manufacturers, or accept "kind gifts". Unless you are very very unrealistically lucky.
In other words: Does he know, he's an ad?
Pathetic old nazi faggot lies, news at 11
all the controversial click baity stuff has gotten knocked off youtube since the Adpocalypse hit. If you so much as swear you're demonetized. A lot of my favorite left wing political channels got demonetized too. It's not surprising he's #1. The channel is completely inoffensive and advertiser safe.
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Given that a large number of high profile YouTuber's have found themselves on the receiving end of serial demonitization. No matter how hard some of them try to be as 'advertiser friendly' as they can.
I imagine he gets paid tons of money from toy companies to review toys they send him, and someone offscreen prompts him to talk about various bullet-points written up by said companies. Not sure if that's part of the $22 million figure, but ~$50k per paid review is typical for popular influencers.
Pro boxers can get investigated for a paid endorsement for a cryptocurrency without saying they've been compensated, but randos can make videos on the Youtubes doing the same thing with impunity, and the same agency can only say they're looking into maybe requiring disclosures.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
There wont be any money left by the time this kid reaches 18.
Child labor, forbidden in every civilized country.
This is our society.
I'll apologize in advance :P
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'YouTube's Top-Earner For 2018 Is a 7-Year-Old'S Parents'. Fixed it. Millennials cannot possibly be this thick. Can they? Or is it just those that post to SlashDot?
I don't actually like or care about Ryan's toy review, but my son, who is four loves it.
I'm writing in my fourth language, in that comment.
Let's see you answer me in Luxemburgish. (Trick request. Luxemburgish has no fixed official grammar, so it's like it should be: If people understand each other, it's correct. Also, no, it's not correct to say "luxembourgish" with "ou" in English.)
Mir këinten also Lëtzeburgesch schwätzen. An da gesi mer, wei gutt deng Kommae sin, du Aaf. :D
Oder wir reden Deutsch. Nicht daß du das je richtig schreiben könntest. Deutsche sind nämlich verrückt nach dummen Ausnahmeregeln.
Ou on parle Français. Tu parle Français, toi?
Habla Espñol?
His parents did, and are monetising their son.
How do they make money?
Schwätz richteg lëtzeburgesch, du Vollidiot!
Firwaat soll ech fiir dech Englesch lëien? Firwaat lëiers du net Letzeburgesch??
Englesch as eng behënnert Brendlefly vun enger Sprooch, geformt vu Joorhonnerten vun Alkoholismus a klägleche Versuche vu Snobismus. Den dommste gemeinsamen Nenner.
(Speak proper luxemburgish, you complete idiot! Why should I learn English for you? Why don't you learn luxemburgish?? English is a retarded Brendlefly of a language, formed from centuries of alcoholism and pathetic attempts of snobism. The dumbest common denominator.)
Selling to children has been massively profitable as long as there's been a media to peddle to them. Back in my day we'd park in front of the TV on a Saturday morning and that was prime time for selling us sugar and cheap plastic crap. These days you just plunk your toddler down with the iPad and this is the sort of place they end up. And of course they're going to want whatever sugar and cheap plastic crap they see on there, and parents will largely indulge them for a moment's peace. Anything can be profitable with a few million people tuning in. Much more so when those people haven't developed impulse control or a sense of quality yet.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Winston Churchill never played any instrument with skill, famously had quite a poor singing voice but refused to desist in using it at inappropriate moments despite his advice to others' regarding their talents, and was eventually ejected from his own party because of his insistent and belligerent behaviour.
You needn't be upset by the GP. He's the kind of young man who smugly holds you to standards he can't imagine himself achieving but doesn't realise that in doing so he positions himself as a mere consumer of commercially produced goods.