Careers on Social Media

Today, many people, and even companies, can find huge success making careers on Youtube

The top 40 individual Youtubers all earn over $1 million a year

They create content and earn money from add revenues

Pewdiepie is the individual with the most subscribers on Youtube (27 million)

He makes an estimated $7 million a year

He often uses his reach for charity, raising over $400k for a clean water campaign in the past

Dom Mazzetti is another person who has made a career of his online personality

His “Bro Science” channel is a comedic satire of fitness channels and has 700k subscribers

Rooster Teeth is a limited liability company that thrives off of Youtube

The have 7.5 million subscribers and over 3 billion views

They have many spin off channels

They employee over 50 editors, producers, and writers

Machinima is another example of a company that thrives on Youtube content

They have over 11 million subscribers

Their content covers all video game types

They employee many individual youtubers and help grow their individual channels, notable Youtube stars such as Hutch and

Seananners

Over 1 billion unique users visit Youtube each month, making exposure both rapid and vast for those who make appealing content

With over 100 hours of content uploaded every minute, Youtube has a huge number of users uploading content, creating online personalities

and earning revenue from advertising

Youtube is just one of the new career choices for creative individuals made possible by social media

Sources

• https://my.charitywater.org/pewdiepie

• http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/celebrity/the-25-highest-earning-youtube-stars/

• https://www.youtube.com/user/BroScienceLife

• https://www.youtube.com/user/RoosterTeeth

• https://www.youtube.com/user/machinima

• http://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html