The most popular video bloggers in the world TOP 5
It's no secret that the Internet is an excellent tool for realizing your creative talent. For example, if you have certain video editing skills, you can become a popular video blogger.
If now the popularity of this type of activity has decreased slightly, then a few years ago the direction of video blogging on the Internet was the most promising.
During that period, a huge number of thematic channels appeared on YouTube, which today are among the top most popular in the world. In this article we will look at the answer to the question who is the most popular video blogger in the world.
It is immediately worth noting that in addition to single bloggers, the list of the most popular channels on YouTube includes various entertainment channels, the participants of which are professional animators, editors and screenwriters.
A striking example of such a channel is the Russian series “Masha andbear", the number of subscribers on which now amounts to more than twenty million people.
If we consider the popularity of video bloggers by area, we can identify several main content categories that are of the greatest interest to Internet users:
- Let's plays. This genre of videos is now the most popular and is a recording of the passage of a game with comments from the blogger himself. The currently most popular video blogger “PewDiePie” began his creative career in this direction, which gave rise to a wave of popularity of the let’s play genre
- Reviews. A separate genre of videos in which video bloggers review a game, product or service. Separately, it is worth noting the genre of movie reviews, which has recently become especially popular
- Interview. One of the “youngest” genres for video bloggers is interviews. IfPreviously, journalists engaged in such “dialogues” with famous people, but now the interview genre has become accessible to anyone.
Interesting fact. The popularity of the search query “how to make money as a blogger” is enormous, which indicates the desire of many young users to realize their ambitions through filming videos.
In any case, the main effect in gaining popularity for most bloggers is their artistry, charisma and ability to interest the audience.
Despite the fact that video blogging appeared in Russia much later than in Western countries, now the share of Russian bloggers in popularity ratings is huge.
Before getting acquainted with the list of the most popular Russian YouTube channels, let’s look at the list of top 5 bloggers by number of subscribers.
Top 5 video bloggers
If we look at the list of YouTube channels in generalnumber of subscribers, then in the top ten of this rating you will find several pages of professional artists and film studios.
This is quite logical, because Often such channels release music videos and cartoons that collect a huge number of views. In the list below of “the most popular video blogger in the world,” we will consider only private channels.
At the moment, the top 5 video bloggers look like this:
- 5. The fifth place in the rating is occupied by the Jenna Marbles channel. Jenna Marbles is considered the most popular video blogger among women. Currently, the number of subscribers on her channel has exceeded 19.4 million people.
Marbles' video blog combines discussions on certain issues, product reviews, reactions to videos and regular vlogs. Jenna gained her main popularity by publishing videos such as “How To Trick People Into ThinkingYou're Good Looking" and "How To Avoid Talking To People You Don't Want To Talk To", the number of views on which now amounts to several tens of millions. - 4. American comedian Ryan Higa with the nickname “Nigahiga” ranks fourth among the top most popular video bloggers. Currently, the comedian's channel has about 21 million subscribers.
The main influx of audience was due to the publication of humorous videos. The most popular works on the Nigahiga channel are now the videos “Nice Guys” and “How to be Ninja”, which have collected 78 and 52 million views respectively. - 3. The top three are opened by the comedy duo of Daniel Padilla and Ian Hickox. The two comedians' Smosh channel currently has 24.2 million fans. The popularity of the channel is due to its “age”. The duo's first videos began to be published on YouTube back in 2005.
By July 20120 the channel hadmore than 5 million fans, which made him the most popular in the world at that time. The total number of views of the duo's videos is about 8 billion, which indicates the enormous popularity of the channel as a whole. - 2. The second place in the top is taken by the Chilean blogger Erman Garmendia with his channel “HolaSoyGerman”, which currently has 38 million fans. In the global channel rating, Erman ranks only ninth, but this does not prevent him from gathering a huge audience.
Garmendia's popularity peaked in the 2010s, when the channel published music videos for the Chilean's own songs. Overall, Erman may not be considered one of the most recognizable figures on the Internet, but his popularity among Latin American audiences has brought him enormous success. - 1. The permanent leader of all kinds of top views and the most popular video blogger Felix Kjellberg with his channel PewDiePie has currently managed to collectaudience of 92 million fans. He became known for publishing let's plays and game reviews.
The creation of the PewDiePie channel dates back to 2010, which suggests that in a relatively short time by YouTube standards, Felix managed to break into the top of the world video blogging.
At the moment, his channel can be called one of the fastest growing on YouTube, which guarantees that he will maintain the status of “the most popular video blogger in the world” in the near future.
Top YouTubers in Russia
As already noted, the trend for creating channels on YouTube has passed, but this does not prevent Russian Internet users from encountering an increasing number of new pages on the video hosting space.
If previously there were only a few large projects in the Russian segment, now the number of such YouTube channels numbers several hundred.
Consider the top YouTubers in Russiaby number of followers:
- 7. Despite the fact that the channel “This is Good” belongs to the Latvian blogger Stas Davydov, episodes of the show of the same name are released in Russian, so his project is definitely worth adding to the top.
The number of subscribers currently stands at 5.9 million. The “This is Good” videos can be described as sketch shows, reviews of viral Internet videos. - 6. The top Russian YouTubers is opened by Ekaterina Trofimova with the channel “Kate Clapp”, which currently has 6.5 million followers. The topics of the videos are mixed, so they include several areas at once: conversational videos, vlogs, sketches, product reviews and music parodies. After gaining popularity, she participated in television projects more than once, thereby achieving even greater recognition.
- 5. The fifth place in the top is taken by Oleg Brain with the YouTube channel of the same name “TheBrainDit”. Subjectsvideos have not changed for several years: Oleg posts gaming let's play and reviews every day. Many netizens call him the king of the let's play genre, which is reflected in his follower statistics - 8 million people.
- 4. Yuri Morozilka with the project “Frost” managed to gain popularity by filming humorous reviews and let’s plays of computer games. Now “Frost” has just over 8 million, which makes it one of the most famous gaming channels on the Russian-language segment of YouTube. It is noteworthy that the first video from Yuri was released only 6 years ago. Now videos are published every two to three days and collect 300-500 thousand views, which indicates a slight decline in the popularity of the let's play genre as such.
- 3. The name Maxim Golopolosov doesn’t mean much to ordinary network users, but with the project “+100500” it is known to almost every modern user. The beginning of Maxim’s activity as a blogger can be considered2010, when the first episode of the show “+100500” was released, the main idea of which was a funny review of viral videos.
Now the number of followers on Golopolosov’s channel has reached 9.9 million people, which rightfully allows us to call this project one of the most successful in the Russian segment of YouTube. Unlike previous projects, episodes of the show “+100500” continue to gain several million views within the first day of publication. - 2. The channel of the Ukrainian blogger Yuri Yaniv “Cream of the Show” also cannot but be included in this top, since all the videos on it are filmed in Russian voice acting. The rapid growth of “Slivok” is largely due to high-quality filming and an unusual format that combines educational and entertaining components.
The active growth of Yuri’s channel audience (currently about 13 million followers) allows us to say that in the very near future “The Cream of the Show” will rise to the top. - 1. The status of “the most popular video blogger on YouTube in the Russian segment” is retained by Ivan Rudskoy with the channel “EeOneGuy”. Ivan began his activities in 2013. Initially, Rudskoy published various let’s plays and walkthroughs of games.
Later I started posting videos on different topics, from standard vlogs to parody clips. Many call Ivan the Russian version of “PewDiePie,” which is in many ways logical, since Rudskoy himself admitted that at the time of creating his personal project he was inspired by Felix’s videos.
Now the channel is in an inactive state, which, however, does not prevent it from maintaining the “palm of leadership” with 14.2 million subscribers.
How do bloggers earn money?
Despite the statements of most bloggers that all content is generated by them solely as creativity, the main goal of all the listed projects is to make a profit.
There's nothing to itsurprising, since video hosting is great for monetizing creativity, especially something as successful as that of the top participants.
Most network users are interested in the question of how bloggers make money with such a huge audience. Let's look at the two most obvious ways to monetize creativity that Russian YouTubers use:
- Earn money from clicks on built-in advertising. At the moment of receiving a certain amount of audience and views, the content author can begin cooperation with the Google advertising system.
While watching the videos, you may have noticed that before the start of some of them, advertisements for goods and services are played.
Clicking on such advertising links brings money to the content authors. The profitability of such income depends on the advertising offer itself and the interest of the audience - The second, but no less profitable way to earn money is placementadvertisements inside the video. It is logical that the popularity of some bloggers can be very useful for advertising a product or service, which is what advertisers take advantage of.
Despite the negative attitude of some users towards such advertising, integration in the form can bring much more money to the author than standard monetization through Google advertising.