Source: This is the United States
It's time for the year-end big stocktaking again.
No, recently Forbes announced the list of the highest-paid YouTube anchors in 2020:
The C position is still the familiar little boy???
The 9-year-old boy, Ryan Kaji, topped the list with a staggering $29.5 million in annual revenue, and his videos garnered 12.2 billion views in a year.
Not only that, but it was the third consecutive year he had won the title...
Let's get to know this "other people's child":
This little boy named Ryan Kaji (Ryan Kaji), you can probably guess by looking at the name, he is an Asian boy, his father is from Japan, and his mother is a descendant of Vietnamese immigrants.
Ryan currently lives with his dad, mom and twin sisters (Kate and Emma) in a large house in Texas, which is also the filming location for most of Ryan's videos
(Ryan and his sisters are with their grandmother)
Like all children around the world, Ryan Kaji grew up enjoying slides, tricycles and toys; like most parents, Ryan's mom loved to capture and share moments of her children's play.
Mom said that Ryan's favorite at that time was "Thomas the Locomotive".
One day in 2015, 4-year-old Ryan suddenly asked her mom, "Why are all the other kids playing YouTube and I'm not?" ”
So mom helped Ryan create her own channel on YouTube.
At first, the channel was called Ryan Toys Review (Ryan's toy review), and the content was the same as the name, mainly some toys out of the box video: at the beginning, Ryan just opened a box at a time, assembled the toys and started playing...
Emm, sure enough, didn't have anyone to watch.
Still, Ryan and his mom didn't give up easily. Four months later, the most popular video of "Ryan Toys Review" appeared:
That time, Ryan opened a giant egg filled with Cars Series toys, and he played with them one by one...
The video has been played more than 1 billion times.
Gradually, Ryan's channel became the most popular channel on YouTube and the second most viewed channel in the world.
This video is mainly for children to watch, adults may find it difficult to understand why it can be so hot,
But for children is different, in the United States, there are almost no children who do not know him, fans are also countless, this small "professional toy evaluator" is also the "idol" in the hearts of many children around the world:
Ryan Kaji, the protagonist on my son's favorite show, is only 9 years old this year, making $29.5 million, making him the highest-paid YouTube blogger, oh my God!
It seems that Ryan has firmly grasped the huge potential group of children.
And now, Ryan's channel currently has 27.6 million followers, and it also has 1 video that has exceeded 2 billion views, and a staggering 40 videos that have exceeded 100 million views!
That's right, that's right!
Such a huge amount of traffic has also attracted the attention of many related industry giants and financial owners, and there is a lot of advertising revenue every month.
As early as 2017, Ryan Kaji's annual revenue was as high as $11 million, ranking 8th in the annual list.
In 2018 and 2019, it won the championship with $22 million and $26 million, respectively.
(2019 data)
Ryan Kaji in 2020, once again set his own record, too strong!
Ryan's mother, a high school chemistry teacher, quit her job to better manage Ryan's video account.
She said she would keep shooting these videos until Ryan herself didn't want to shoot anymore, and she would try to avoid affecting Ryan's learning.
Ryan's father also often appears in video clips to play with his son.
Now that his two younger sisters have joined in, Ryan doesn't have to worry about "no one to follow" anymore
Think of yourself, when you were 9 years old, you only knew hide-and-seek and "demolition"... What were you doing when you were 9 years old?