Making it big

By the start of 2015, his channel started gaining traction with 11 million subscribers tuning in, ranking it among the top 25 most subscribed channels in the site. While all of these were going on, the video game commentator started diversifying, collaborating with game developers in producing new material. He also started producing his own music, a project that has not reached the same success as his YouTube Channel. Regardless, he is now one of the top 10 superstars in the platform, enjoying a fat paycheck everyone else is envying.

VanossGaming’s 2018 take: $17 million

#6 Markiplier

Mark Fischbach’s Markiplier channel is one of YouTube’s most-subscribed, ranking No. 37 overall with 22 million subscribers worldwide. He began his career in Cincinnati, Ohio, with mostly game-play videos of the survival horror genre. The superstar, whose Asian family origin can be traced back to North Korea before the war, has been one of the platform’s movers, mixing his game-playing videos with a talk-show like style where he connects directly with his subscribers.