Posted on 12/13/2017 11:10:28 AM PST by nickcarraway
A six-year-old boy is making £8.2m a year reviewing toys on YouTube.
Ryan, who features on Ryan ToysReview, raked in $11 million from June 2016 to June 2017, according to Forbes.
t ranked him joint eighth on the list of highest paid YouTubers last year.
But he has some way to go if he wants to reach Daniel Middleton (aka TheDiamondMinecart), who earned $16m (£12m) in ad revenue for his Minecraft videos.
Ryan’s family are pretty happy with what he brings in after starting his YouTube channel in 2015 when he was just three years old.
His mum Loann, a former science teacher, quit her job and started working on his account when she realised how much money could be made.
Ryan now has ten million followers.
His mother told TubeFilter: ‘Ryan was watching a lot of toy review channels — some of his favourites are EvanTubeHD and Hulyan Maya — because they used to make a lot of videos about Thomas the Tank Engine, and Ryan was super into
Thomas. ‘One day, he asked me, ‘How come I’m not on YouTube when all the other kids are?’ So we just decided — yeah, we can do that. Then, we took him to the store to get his very first toy — I think it was a Lego train set — and it all started from there.’
Damn, im in the wrong line of work for sure.
How many copycats will this spur?
Kid is a genius. Started his YT channel the same week he learned to count to five.
Work?
“Follow your bliss”....
Over 10 million subscribers ??
Does he make all that money from YouTube ads?0
I can never seem to come up with something that will really run on YT.
Over a decade of TV/video production experience not accomplishing a lot.
I make a few bucks in Stock footage sometimes.
I told my 6 year old daughter and she dropped her mouth open and kept it like that for a minute. Not that she knows how much $11 million is. But she’s seen his videos and now she wants into the biz. Lol.
How can i disguise myself as a 6 year old?
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChGJGhZ9SOOHvBB0Y4DOO_w/videos
Just say that you “identify as a 6 year old”.
I think it was Ryan’s mother who ‘identified as a six year old” but knew how to play the game.
Need a production partner?
Thanks nickcarraway. That's a lot of cash. If I played with toys, I might watch it, I enjoy Unbox Therapy.
I’m obviously not the target demographic as I don’t get it at all, but good for them and their success.
My kids watch those Minecraft videos endlessly on YT. I REALLY don’t get that, but they love it.
I read several years ago about a women who was making millions reviewing toys. She would only show her hand and her fingernails were painted with cartoon characters.
Someone figured out is was a former x-rated star. She now makes a better living using other ‘toys’ then her past position.... : )
https://splinternews.com/the-highest-youtube-earner-of-2014-made-nearly-5-milli-1793844823
Unbox therapy? Is that where someone gets a box of wine and drinks it all?
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