As hard as it might be to imagine, back in 2006 YouTube was teetering on the brink of collapse due too explosive bandwidth costs and looming lawsuits. Today it is the greatest business acquisition of all time.

MrBeast built a billion-dollar empire by giving away money on YouTube — but his biggest moneymaker isn't content, it's chocolate. Here's how a snack brand quietly outperformed one of the most-watched creators on the planet.

SiriusXM is officially on "Team Coco". The satellite broadcaster just bought Conan O'Brien's digital empire for $150 million.

MrBeast is arguably one of the most famous celebrities on the planet right now. Without argument he is the most-successful YouTube star on the planet right. His videos were viewed a quarter-billion times in March 2021. How much money does he gener...

David Dobrik - a YouTube personality most people over the age of 25 have ever heard of - just dropped $9.5 million on this stunning LA mansion.

YouTube was launched in 2005 and since then, it's become a factory for creating internet stars and millionaires – many of whom are not legally old enough to buy or consume an alcoholic beverage. Let's take a look at the 20 Richest YouTube stars.

DanTDM, aka Daniel Middleton, made $12 million last year, which is good enough for the ninth spot on the list of the top 10 highest-paid YouTube stars.

VanossGaming is one of the biggest YouTube channels out there. It ranks as the 4th most subscribed to channel of the past decade. Evan Fong, VanossGaming's founder, made $11.5 million over the past year.

One newcomer to this year's list of the highest-paid YouTube stars made it onto the list by changing his strategy, which resulted in gaining millions of new followers pretty quickly.

Rhett and Link – are old – at least compared to the rest of the list of the highest-paid YouTubers – some of whom are as young as five years old. At 42 and 41 respectively, this comedy duo are the OG YouTube stars.

A five-year-old Russian girl named Anastasia Radzinakaya made $18 million sharing videos of playdates with her dad, playing with her cat, and other typical things in a child's day. What a world we live in!

YouTube launched in 2005 and since then it's become a factory for creating internet stars and millionaires – many of whom are not legally old enough to consume an alcoholic beverage, including 8-year-old Ryan Kaji of Ryan ToysReview, the highest...

The 10 highest-paid YouTube stars of 2019 made a combined $162 million, which is down from last year's $180 million.

If you haven't heard of Jeffree Star by now, you're probably living under a rock. He is one of the most successful and famous YouTube Makeup entrepreneurs. And he just picked up a $14.6 million mansion to prove his staying power.

The 10 highest-paid YouTube stars made serious money last year. However, if you take the amount these 10 YouTubers made in 2018 and calculate how much they made per minute of video on each other their YouTube channels – well it's astounding.

Meet the 6-year-old vlogger in South Korea who goes by the name "Boram," and who has earned enough money to buy herself and her family an $8 million house.

In 2018, the ten biggest earners on YouTube pulled in a collective $180.5 million through YouTube and through other channels.

Who is Dude Perfect? Dude Perfect is an American sports entertainment group made up of twins Coby and Cory Cotton, Garrett Hilbert, Cody Jones, and Tyler Toney. The group holds several Guinness World Records.

Daniel Middleton has come a long way in the last two years. At the end of 2016, Middleton wasn't on the list of the highest-paid YouTube stars. At the end of 2017, he was the highest paid with $16.5 million. This year, he's 4, but he actually mad...

Evan Fong launched the VanossGaming YouTube channel. Like many of the other highest-paid YouTube stars, he posts comedic videos of him playing video games. A Fong is the seventh-highest-paid YouTube Star of the year, with $17 million in earnings.

Sean McLoughlin is one of the highest-paid YouTube stars of the year. You may know him better by his nickname, JackSepticEye. He is the eighth-highestearning YouTube star of 2018 with $16 million in hand.

YouTube star Jake Paul may have started small with six second Vine videos, but today he's a full fledged internet sensation. He is the 2ndhighest paid YouTube star of 2018 with$21.5 million in total earnings.

We are well aware that the biggest YouTube stars make crazy money. One of those people, 29-year-old Mark Fischbach, who goes by Markiplier, made $17.5 million over the past year, making him the 6th highest-paid YouTube star.

"Ryan ToysReview" made a reported $22 million in the last year between June 1st, 2017 and June 1st, 2018, even though he's only seven years old.

Jeffree Star is best known as a beauty vlogger with his own makeup line. However, this year's fifth-highest-paid YouTube star is so much more than that. Not only did he make $18 million over the past year, but his Jeffree Star Cosmetics has sold $...