There are over 800 million unique users visit YouTube every month and millions of subscribers happen everyday. As a result, some YouTube celebrities become so famous and are well known to the world. However, I began to have many questions in my mind. How did these people swiftly rise to fame? Why these people are willing to spend their whole time on creating videos? Can they really make a living from creating these videos?

Apparently, there is a standard rubric for the earning on Youtube: $3 for 1000 views; $33 for 10,000 views; $330 for 100,000 views; and $3300 for 1,000,000 views. Thus, the most popular celebrity, Shane Dawson, who had a view of 431,787,450 during 2010, can earn up to $315000 per year. This is an incredibly high amount!

Youtube is willing to pay these celebrities high payments because the more famous these celebrities are, the more subscribers there are to watch their videos, the more companies want to post their banner ads on these videos. The Youtube would then splits the revenue with all the Youtube celebrities as an action to encourage people creating more successful videos.

What is more, lots of these top grossing Youtube celebrities are still in their early twenties. Not only they can get paid for a large amount of money from the Youtube, but they can also earn even more though working with the sponsors and making promotional videos. Therefore, a great number of teenagers are inspired and motivated to create more popular videos.

Resources:

http://www.aussiepete.com/2010/08/you-tube-made-me-rich-top-10-richest.html

http://socialtimes.com/money-youtube-partners_b21335

https://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html