PewDiePie (real name Felix Kjellberg) now has over 100 million subscribers to his YouTube channel.
Though this is a newsworthy achievement, this does not necessarily translate to earnings. Last year he was ranked number 8 on the “YouTube earners in the top ten list for 2018” with $15.5 million. The number 1 YouTube earner, last year, was Ryan of Ryan ToysReview YouTube channel who earned $22 million with only 17.3 million subscribers.
Though he is the first individual to achieve this feat, he is the second YouTube channel over all to accomplish this. The first was Indian record label T-Series. PewDiePie dedicated months to recruiting new subscribers in an attempt to beat T-Series to 90 million, which helped set him on the way to his latest milestone.
Now for those who do not know PewDiePie, he is a Swedish YouTuber and video commentator. Kjellberg was a student at Chalmers University of Technology but dropped out in 2011 to focus on building his PewDiePie channel and brand on YouTube.
He launched his YouTube account on April 29, 2010. By August 2013, he was already the most subscribed-to personality on YouTube, and in 2015 he became the first person to have his videos seen 10 billion times on the site making $8.1 million profit that year.
In 2017, he had to face the music for the anti-Semitic jokes he made in several of his videos. In the fallout, PewDiePie lost his deal with Disney’s Maker Studios, but the bigger blow came from YouTube directly. The company cancelled his original series Scare PewDiePie and also removed his channel from Google Preferred.
So what next? He has since returned to playing Minecraft having taken a lighter tone in recent months. Earlier this week he posted a video from his wedding to longtime girlfriend and fellow YouTuber Marzia Bisognin.
