As a kid didn’t your parents tell you to focus on studies instead of toys if you wanted to achieve success in life? Well, be prepared to be blown away because playing with toys can help you earn millions of dollars. Yes, that’s right!
Forbes has come out with its list of the top 10 highest-paid YouTube stars for 2020. And #1 on that list is a nine-year-old kid who reviews toys and games. Ryan Kaji, who has nine Kaji-family YouTube channels, managed to earn a whopping $29.5 Million this year!
Here's how 9-year-old Ryan Kaji, YouTube’s $30 million man, just keeps getting richer: https://t.co/98B2g2ojq2 by @MadelinePBerg pic.twitter.com/ZlLyNO9k7V
— Forbes (@Forbes) December 18, 2020
Ryan began making YouTube videos back in March 2015 and has claimed the top spot on the list for the third year in a row. Among his 9 channels, the biggest is Ryan’s World with 41.7m subscribers and 12.2bn views. With such mind-blowing numbers, Ryan beat popular YouTubers like Jimmy Donaldson or Mr Beast, Dude perfect and Rhett and Link.
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So does the little boy’s YouTube videos bring in all the money? According to Forbes,
His channel promotes some 5,000 Ryan-themed products that generate more than $200 million at retail annually. Red Titan bedspreads, masks, toothbrushes and toys, as well items with Kaji’s human likeness, are sold at Amazon, Walmart, Target and other retailers.
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Apart from these, he has also signed an undisclosed deal for his own TV series on Nickelodeon. Even though the adorable child is a millionaire YouTuber he still has to fight his parents for screen time.
Congratulations to Ryan! He surely is a talented boy.