Top Highest Paid in Youtube

1. Ray William Johnson – Undisclosed

Ray William Johnson

Ray William Johnson is a 23 year old comedian and video blogger, known for his rapid rise to popularity with his internet-based show ‘=3′ (Equals Three), a twice weekly show where he reviews popular internet videos. He started the show in April of 2009, and became a top subscribed Youtube personality in just under a year. He is currently the second most subscribed Youtuber in history, he is only passed by Nigahiga. In addition, he has a vlog channel called BreakingNYC (discontinued), a comedic annotation of his day to day life.

2. Shane Dawson – $315,000 per year

Shane Dawson

Shane Dawson is a YouTube comedian and actor. Dawson is known for making comedy videos featuring many recurring characters (such as Shanaynay, Ned the Nerd, S. Deezy, and Aunt Hilda), impersonations, and spoofs of popular music videos such as Telephone Dudes Version (Ned the Nerd) and Last Sunday Night (Aunt Hilda). As of December 1, 2010 his main YouTube channel is the third most subscribed channel of all time, behind Nigahiga and RayWilliamJohnson. Dawson has since expanded on YouTube by adding his second channel (eighth most subscribed) where he posts video blogs and his relatively new series “Ask Shane On Mondays” and “Shane and friends”. He is the only YouTuber to have two channels in the top 30 most subscribed channels on Youtube.
Dawson’s career began when he and several friends would turn in videos instead of homework in high school. Eventually, teachers would trade tapes with the students, and ask for personal copies of what was filmed. Dawson’s first videos on Youtube were old assignments that he turned in during high school.
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3. The Annoying Orange – $288,000 per year

The Annoying Orange

The Annoying Orange is a comedy web series created by Dane Boedigheimer, under the YouTube pseudonym “Daneboe”. With the first episode uploaded on October 9, 2009, the series’ dedicated channel (“realnannoyingorange”) has amassed more than 380 million views on YouTube. The first few episodes were uploaded to Boedigheimer and his company Gagfilms’ YouTube channel (“Daneboe”), but when the Annoying Orange video views reached 11 million views on this channel, he decided to make a new dedicated channel for the Annoying Orange. As of January 3, 2011, the channel is ranked as the 8th most subscribed channel of all, and 40th most viewed of all time. There are currently more than a million subscribers to realannoyingorange.
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4. Philip DeFranco – $181,000 per year

Philip DeFranco

Philip DeFranco, also known as PhillyD or by one of his YouTube usernames “sxephil”, is an American video blogger on YouTube, and a YouTube celebrity. His videos are centered around current events, politics and celebrity gossip in which he gives his opinion, usually presented ironically and with frequent jump cuts to create a fast-paced feel. He has over 1.3 million subscribers, and is the 11th most subscribed YouTuber of all time, as of January 2011. His second YouTube channel is called “PhilipDeFranco” and makes daily vlogs which he calls the “vloggity”. DeFranco started his YouTube channel in 2006, his videos regularly surpass one million views.
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5. Ryan Higa – $151,000

Nigahiga

Nigahiga is a popular YouTube channel created by Japanese-American Ryan Higa and friends Sean Fujiyoshi, Tim Enos and Tarynn Nago. Since relocating to Las Vegas to study filmmaking at UNLV, Higa’s videos are usually solo efforts except during school breaks when he sometimes visits Hilo and collaborates with the Yabo Crew. They are known for their YouTube comedy videos, which have been viewed over 600 million times. As of December 21, 2010, Higa’s YouTube channel, nigahiga, has over 3 million subscribers and is the most subscribed YouTube channel of all time ahead of such prominent Youtube users as Smosh, RayWilliamJohnson, ShaneDawsonTV and Fred.
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