But some of YouTube’s biggest stars are now so popular they are bringing in six-figure salaries from their own bedroom.
New research by analytics firm TubeMogul has revealed the top ten earners on YouTube.
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Number One: Satirical comedian Shane Dawson. Made: $315,000. Views: 431,787,450
Number two: The Annoying Orange - the obnoxious fruit. Made: $288,000. Views: 349,753,047
The firm claims that at least 10 performers, writers and producers earned more than $100,000 (£65,000) over the last year in advertising revenue brought in from the millions of visits to their short video blogs – or vlogs, as they are known.
Number one in the chart is 22-year-old Californian Shane Dawson who uploads short sketches of often bad taste satire and who has made an estimated £200,000 in the past 12 months.
Another is Natalie Tran, a second generation Vietnamese-Australian student, who films sketches about social dilemmas.
More than 430 million people viewed the committed Christian’s self-filmed sketches in the past year.
Around 60,000 new films are added to YouTube each week, which comes to roughly 12 hours of video footage every minute.
Number three: Philip DeFranco, who blogs about politics. Made: $181,000. Views: 248,735,032
Number four: Comedy sketch perfomer Ryan Higa. Made: $151,000. Views: 206,979,909
Number five: Lukas Cruikshank created a character with 'anger management issues'. Made: $146,000. Views: 200,656,150
Number six: Shay Carl produces comic routines. Made:$140,000. Views: 192,309,247
Number seven: Mediocre Films have been making short comedy sketches since 2006. Made: $116,000. Views: 159,030,703
Number eight: Comedy duo became a hit in 2006 with their version of a Pokemon theme song video. Made: $113,000. Views: 154,936,876
While most of it is not worth watching, an increasing number of ‘vloggers’ are developing enough followers to make a comfortable living from their ideas.
YouTube, which is owned by Google, splits the money it makes from advertising alongside the videos uploaded to the site with the creators in a 50/50 deal.
Nine of the performers in the TubeMogul’s top ten are comedians, while one is a politics show which aims to take on the big networks in the US for breaking news.
One of the performers, The Annoying Orange, who made an estimated £187,000 last year, is already being sounded out by big TV companies to enter the mainstream.
Number nine: The Young Turks is a liberal, political talk show which averages 13 million views monthly. Made:$112,000. Views: 153,807,362
Number ten: Natalie Tran is a Vietnamese-Australian comic who became famous with her 'How to Fake a Six-Pack' video. Made:$101,000. Views: 138,871,829
But one of those listed, Greg Benson of Mediocre Films, who came in at number seven in the chart questioned its findings.
He said: ‘I get asked this a lot. It's a fair question but it's kind of rude to ask someone how much money they make.
'It's so wrong... I would be thrilled if I actually had any business being on that list or if I actually made that much money or had that many viewers that they say I have. That would be awesome.’ ( dailymail.co.uk )
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