World’s highest-paid YouTube stars 2015
Find out who's earned a few million from uploading their videos.
Forbes have released the names of the Highest paid YouTube stars of 2015. How many have you heard of?
6*: Rosanna Pansino $2.5 million
American YouTube star Rosanna Pansino regularly posts videos of her cooking antics.
She has a regular feature called Nerdy Nummies which she uploads every Tuesday and throughout the week she upload challenges that her and her friends take part in.
6*: Lilly Singh $2.5 million
Canadian comedian and actress come YouTube star has racked up millions of views to her videos over the five years she's had a YouTube account.
In one of her most recent videos she had the opportunity to meet with her idol Selena Gomez and play a game with her.
6*: Roman Atwood $2.5 million
Known as a prankster Roman Atwood made headlines recently when he pretended to blow up his son in front of his girlfriend.
Watch the video below, he also had a behind the scenes video on his YouTube channel.
5: Michelle Phan $3 million
The busy make-up artist and entrepreneur has four businesses on the go as well as her YouTube channel.
Michelle's channel is full of an assortment of videos, mostly about make-up, particularly on how to get fantasy looks.
4*: Rhett & Link $4.5 million
Described as 'Internetainers' on their YouTube profile they fill their YouTube channel with music videos, sketches, and ridiculous local commercials.
4*: KSI $4.5 million
Having joined YouTube in 2009, KSI has racked up over 10 million subscribers and 2 billion views to his videos!
KSI is a British video games commentator and has just released a book!
WARNING: THIS VIDEO CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE
3: Lindsey Stirling $6 million
Musician Lindsey has already been named in Forbes' 30 Under 30 In Music: The Class Of 2015 and reached the quarter finals of America's Got Talent.
She plays various styles of music and has been on a couple of world tours.
2*: Smosh $8.5 million
Attracting over 4 billion views to their sketch-show videos Ian and Anthony (Smosh) have earned a tidy sum of $8.5 million.
The pair are now embarking on a film, the trailer of which can be viewed below.
2*: Fine Brothers $8.5 million
Having created content online for over a decade the Fine Brothers, Benny and Rafi have a number of comedy videos on YouTube. The majority of the videos are reaction videos such as 'Adults react to a hooverboard' (below).
1: PewDiePie $12 million
PewDiePie, real name Flex Ulf Kjellberg is a Swedish comedian who is now based on the south coast of England.
Most of his videos follow him playing computer games and commentating as he goes along. His delivery has been described as goofy, energetic and at times obnoxious.