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ONE OF THE biggest YouTube stars made €6.7 million in revenue in 2014 alone.
PewDiePie, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, runs a YouTube gaming channel that has 37.7 million subscribers. His videos, which are a collection of ‘let’s plays’ and other related videos, have been watched more than 9.3 billion times since he first started the channel back in 2010
His company, PewDiePie Productions, made €6.7 million in revenue last year according to the Swedish newspaper Expressen.
This is an increase from the year before where he made $4 million (€3.6 million) in revenue.
For those unfamiliar with his channel, Kjellberg features a mixture of popular games, indie games and older titles, with him providing excited commentary while playing. He also does charity work, having raised $1 million for various charities back in 2014 and helping Charity: Water in getting 10,028 people in Rwanda access to clean water.
Shortly after the €3.6 million figure was revealed last year, Kjellberg did an AMA on Reddit to confirm it and clear the air among fans.
When he was asked why his channel is so successful, Kjellberg said he couldn’t explain it as there were “so many factors to take into account,” but did mention timing and luck as two potential reasons.
YouTube earnings
Yet the figures touted above are usually the exception to the rule and only a small number of people are able to make a living from it.
YouTube doesn’t reveal how much people earn through the service, but the final total depends on a number of factors.
While the number of views a video receives is important, other factors include the level of engagement a video receives (how long someone watches a video), the type of ads that show up on your video, the platform it’s watched on (desktop or app) and the number of times an ad is clicked on.
That means the amount earned can vary wildly for different channels because different ads will be shown on each one. It also means this figure can fluctuate from month to month.
Figuring out how much a video or channel earns is difficult since these details are hard to determine - Kjellberg’s earnings were revealed because PewDiePie Productions had to publicly file accounts to Sweden’s Companies Registration Office – but that hasn’t stopped many from trying to calculate the amounts earned.
Yet if you wanted to try and become successful, you would need to be regularly uploading videos (daily in most cases), ensure they’re of high quality and that they’re popular enough so that people will return regularly.
In short, don’t give up the day job just yet. Better yet, do it for love and not for the money.
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Will be a fine example to her child Jesus the cycle continues
Agree. The only hope to improve her offsprings chances would be to have them adopted at birth. Unfortunately us taxpayers will be supporting this delight and her offspring for eternity. Ironic also how the judge felt community service inappropriate due to her pregnancy.
Classy bird……
Probably a session moth…
A bird flying free.
Should have had her wings clipped.
Rough brazzer..
What an utter skanger, her second time to avoid jail time since the start of the year.
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http://www.herald.ie/news/mumtobe-avoids-jail-for-attacking-four-gardai-in-rage-31016279.html
Very true Conor. I wonder if there’ll be any investigation into possible misleading of the court? highly unlikely..
What does a woman have to do to be sent to prison in Ireland? She has assaulted several Gardai, kicking one in the head – yet still walks free.
May be grounds for an appeal by the DPP if the judge wasn’t “fully informed”of all the facts inc.previous convictions….
This man has allowed a dangerous person free to harm others, he also mislead the court ( I say mislead but his pants are on fire ) can he be held responsible for the next assault this lady commits?
Sentenced to 6 years? Was home before the judge. What’s the deterrent?
Ah she’s a keeper alright, will definitely make an excellent mother.
How wonderful mother she’ll make
“Conor McKenna BL, defending, said this was a shocking and frightening assault but said his client has no other convictions involving violence.
He said she has taken part in anger awareness and alcohol offending courses since the assaults.”
I personally don’t believe what Mr McKenna told the court.
That dirtbag should have been made do hours and hours of community service and jail sentence! Pregnancy complications, my a…
“And then unto Zoe a get-out-of-jail card was born”
God I feel sorry for her kid!
another wonderful generation In the making
No reason not to get prison. Her pregnancy complications would receive the necessary treatment.
if you’re passing the Coombe in a few weeks and theres a wan standing outside having a smoke in her PJs and stillettos, for jaysus sake don’t make eye contact !!
Why this crazy stuff always happens in Tallaght , can we not cut out that whole area and shoved it in the Atlantic, hehe!
What a manky skanger.
I feel a Suspended Sentence in the force.
Mother of the year nomination right there! Shocking what people are getting away with and what do we expect when there is no deterrent.
Single white female!
Also where does the brother work?!!
It is a female privilege to not do time, especially when your white. Where’s all the usual suspect oppressed feminists on this article?… Probably busy making up statistics to fight the patriarch.
Skanger shes the local how-ah-yeaa!!
Why is the headline even mentioning pregnancy – the attack was in 2013 – she wasn’t pregnant then and even so if if a pregnant person cannot be discriminated against under labour law then there should be no concession given to any person that breaks the law and uses a condition chosen by then possibly as a means of avoiding jail time. The Journal should not be using tabloid headlines like this
What pregnant woman wears stiletto shoes?
Pregnancy complications didn’t stop her from using her stiletto shoes as weapons…
Shocking! Had pregnancy complications so implanted her stiletto on some blokes head…main thing is she was cooperative though….
21 pregnant, already done for drunk driving assault and being abusive to Gardai. I pity that foetus.
god what a classy bird….I’d say her child would be so proud…what do people have to do to get sent to prison these days??
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