Pewdiepie 2013 earnings

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Sofee

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One good thing with pewdiepie being from Sweden and having his company, pewdie productions, registered there is that all numbers are public. According to several articles in Swedish newspapers (google "This is why Pewdiepie is number one in the world") his company had a total revenue before taxes in 2013 of 27 million Swedish kronor (4.1 million dollars). This includes all revenue from YouTube/sponsors/tshirts/etc.

That's up from 1.2 million dollars for the last 6 months of 2012 (doubling the rev. year to year). Still ways to go to the highest paid tv-stars (earning 10-30 million according to forbes), but 4 million is still pretty decent for a 24 year old recording himself playing video games. Plus, if Felix did more sponsor deals/commercials/etc he could probably top 10 million in a year or two. And he really doesn't have any expenses other than wifi an computer gear. I'd say 99% is profit, but the full annual report should be available within a month or so (probably get a breakdown of revenue to compare with socialblade and others).

What do you guys think? Inspiring? Crazy? Daunting? Myself I just think it is cool as hell and very inspiring as YouTube grows.
 
Not surprisingly a whole lot less than what lots of sites claimed he was making a few weeks ago.

I'm going to guess that only 50-70% of that is from in-stream advertising too.

Good for him! I say.
 
Shane.C said:
Not surprisingly a whole lot less than what lots of sites claimed he was making a few weeks ago.

I'm going to guess that only 50-70% of that is from in-stream advertising too.

Good for him! I say.
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Which websites? Socialblade was pretty accurate for example, though they do give themselves a rather large margin of error. And celebrity networth was a bit low, as their numbers were for all his views since he started, and not only for 2013.
 
Sofee said:
Which websites? Socialblade was pretty accurate for example, though they do give themselves a rather large margin of error.
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Not sure, but there was some large websites a couple of weeks ago saying Pewds earned the largest value on Socialblade from YouTube each year.
 
Shane.C said:
Not sure, but there was some large websites a couple of weeks ago saying Pewds earned the largest value on Socialblade from YouTube each year.
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That was simply because they didn't have the faintest idea how YouTube works, and that Google take almost 50% of your channel earnings haha.
 
mcfluffers said:
I wonder how much pewds actually gets out of all that ha ha.
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Well, since that's from his company balance, the only bit he'll lose out of is tax from that, and he's been smart about it, because by registering as a company, he only pays 20-26% corporation tax, instead of the 45% he should pay now living in the UK :)
 
I knew the guys at the top earn a lot of money... but wow!! that actually blew me away!! $4 Million in one year?? And from the way things are going with YouTube in general it looks like that is only going one way... up! Good for him!

Very... very jealous haha
 
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