{"id":113347,"date":"2016-12-09T09:03:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T07:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=113347"},"modified":"2016-12-09T09:04:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T07:04:16","slug":"the-highest-paid-youtube-stars-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/113347-the-highest-paid-youtube-stars-of-2016","title":{"rendered":"The highest-paid YouTube stars of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes has unveiled its second annual list of highest-paid YouTube <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/pictures\/gjdm45ffed\/9-rhett-and-link\/#7abc4eff6c6a\" target=\"_blank\">personalities<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, Felix &#8220;PewDiePie&#8221; Kjellberg topped the list, raking in a massive<strong> $15 million<\/strong> over the course of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Popular videogame commenter Markiplier also made the list, raking in a cool <strong>$5.5 million<\/strong> over the same time period.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out 2016&#8217;s most popular YouTubers below:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong> Felix Kjellberg (PewDiePie) &#8211; $15 million<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FMmFCVFeYvs\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Roman Atwood &#8211; $8 million<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kwN7aVqvhWQ\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Lilly Singh &#8211; $7.5 million<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jyxi0rfEDnE\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Smosh &#8211; $7 million<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GugIvbyyBvQ\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Rosanna Pasino &#8211; $6 million<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-kUpd5a_CTY\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Tyler Oakley &#8211; $6 million<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PpcpcKmQMt4\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Markiplier &#8211; $5.5 million<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MujRLvZ61jE\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>German Garmendia &#8211; $5.5 million<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QfFkDv_7kt8\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Rhett and Link &#8211; $5 million<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oQ9iJPJx-Rk\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Colleen Ballinger (Miranda Sings) &#8211; $5 million<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e6Tfq1hfkP0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Check out MyGaming&#8217;s official YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/MyGamingZA\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to Awesome tech and gaming specials\" href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/113421-awesome-tech-and-gaming-specials-5.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Awesome tech and gaming specials<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just how much are your favourite YouTube personalities making?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":92509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13345,753,14676,1713],"class_list":["post-113347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-forbes","tag-list","tag-pewdiepie","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113413,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113347\/revisions\/113413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}