YouTube star net worth: the richest creators, ranked and explained
Most net worth lists give you one number and no working. These profiles show the working: estimated channel earnings based on views and niche advertising rates, how long the creator has been publishing, then the parts that usually matter more, such as product companies, licensing, book sales, touring, reported funding rounds and acquisition prices. Every figure is an independent estimate, not a confirmed account balance.
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MrBeast is the most valuable creator on the planet, and almost none of that value sits in ad revenue. Feastables, Beast Games and a media business investors have priced in the billions do the heavy lifting.
Jake Paul turned an audience built on YouTube into pay-per-view boxing purses, a promotion company and a sports betting app. Boxing, not uploads, is where the money now comes from.
Jeffree Star Cosmetics was one of the first creator-owned beauty brands to do serious nine figure revenue, and the personal fortune is mostly the value of that company plus Wyoming property and ranch land.
Prime Hydration is the reason this number is what it is. A WWE contract, the Impaulsive podcast and boxing add to it, but the drinks brand changed the scale entirely.
KSI holds a founder stake in Prime, a share of the Sidemen business, charting music and a boxing career. Few creators have four income engines of that size running at once.
Ryan's World turned a toy review channel into a licensing business: a toy line in Walmart and Target, a Nickelodeon series and branded products in dozens of categories.
Fourteen years of near daily gaming uploads, a clothing label, a chart topping podcast and a feature film he financed himself. Markiplier is the clearest example of long term compounding on YouTube.
Ms. Rachel built the most watched early learning channel in the world in six years, then added a Netflix series, a Penguin Random House book deal and a licensed toy range.
Linus Media Group is a real company with a large payroll, a warehouse, a screwdriver that sold out repeatedly and technology advertising rates near the top of the table.
The creator who defined the first decade of YouTube now uploads occasionally from Japan, lives off a very large catalogue, early investments and a long run of peak earning years.
Dhar Mann Studios runs like a small television network: a soundstage, a writing room and a release schedule that pushes short morality dramas out daily across several channels.
The former NASA engineer built CrunchLabs, a subscription toy company that now earns more than the channel it grew out of, and the videos double as its advertising.
The original beauty creator co-founded Ipsy, which grew into a subscription business valued in the hundreds of millions, and launched the Em Cosmetics line she later bought back.
Blippi is a character rather than a person now. Moonbug bought the brand, other performers wear the orange glasses, and the live tours and toy lines run worldwide.
Thirteen years of daily gaming uploads, a co-owned clothing label, a coffee company and a documentary. Steady output rather than any single windfall built this one.
Preston runs a network of channels, a Minecraft server business and a merchandise operation, which together earn far more than any single channel of his size normally would.
Like Nastya is one of the most watched channels in the world, translated into a dozen languages, with a licensed product range and a family production company behind it.
Unspeakable moved from Minecraft into big budget real world challenge videos, and sells a merchandise range through mainstream retail rather than only online.
Britain's biggest gaming creator has a bestselling graphic novel, a world arena tour behind him and a catalogue of thousands of Minecraft videos still earning today.
The fastest riser on this list. Live streams that pull hundreds of thousands of concurrent viewers, world tours filmed on the move, football partnerships and a music side that actually charts.
Half of Rhett and Link, co-owner of Mythical Entertainment, a studio with a daily talk show, a podcast network, a snack brand and an acquired competitor.
Add up what a creator earns each month from YouTube, sponsorships, a Skool community, courses and consultancy. We take off production costs and tax, keep the share that is actually saved or reinvested, then compound it across the years spent building the audience.
We start with the channel. Lifetime and recent view counts are run through niche advertising rates to get an earnings estimate, the same model behind our YouTube earnings calculator and every channel earnings report on the site. Years active matter as much as subscriber count, because a creator publishing since 2012 has banked many more earning years than one who broke out last year.
Then we add everything outside YouTube: sponsorship income based on detected brand deals, product and consumer goods revenue, book advances and royalties, touring, licensing and television deals, reported funding rounds and acquisition prices. Where a business is co-owned we only count a plausible share, and where earnings are held for a child performer we say so.
Finally we subtract the obvious: production costs, staff, tax in the creator's country and the money that is tied up in stock or equity rather than available to spend. That is why each profile carries a range rather than a single confident figure. These are planning estimates from public information, not financial advice, and no creator has confirmed them.