YouTube's Top Earner For 2019? An 8-Year-Old Who Made $26M (ktla.com) 43
"An eight-year-old boy who reviews toys on YouTube has been named by Forbes as the platform's highest earner in 2019," reports CNN:
Ryan Kaji, whose channel Ryan's World has 22.9 million subscribers, earned $26 million in 2019 -- up $4 million from his earnings in 2018, when he also gained the highest-earning YouTuber spot... Another child, Anastasia Radzinskaya, five, came in third place with earnings of $18 million. Radzinskaya, who was born in southern Russia and has cerebral palsy, appears in videos with her father. According to Forbes, she has 107 million subscribers across seven channels and her videos have been watched 42 billion times....
Dude Perfect -- a group of five friends in their thirties who play sports and perform stunts -- came in second place, earning $20 million.
YouTube has announced that next year it will stop personalized advertisements on children's content. This comes after Google agreed to pay $170 million to settle accusations that YouTube broke the law when it knowingly tracked and sold ads targeted to children.
Dude Perfect -- a group of five friends in their thirties who play sports and perform stunts -- came in second place, earning $20 million.
YouTube has announced that next year it will stop personalized advertisements on children's content. This comes after Google agreed to pay $170 million to settle accusations that YouTube broke the law when it knowingly tracked and sold ads targeted to children.
Child labour (Score:4, Funny)
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You're right. Creimer is quite clearly a developmentally disabled individual. I'd laugh at how bad his videos are, but it's in bad taste to make fun of disabled people.
Slashdot: the place where they make fun of the spastic kid, and consider themselves intellectual.
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Also, all the butthurt because creimer tries to make a few bucks online. He quite clearly has actual autism, what's he going to do to pay the rent exactly?
Re:Child labour (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Child labour (Score:5, Funny)
I suspect that reviewing toys is at least slightly less strenuous than wresting cobalt from the bowels of the earth.
Are we factoring in unboxing?
"New era" (Score:2)
Parent's of an 8-Year-Old* (Score:3, Informative)
The 8-year-old didn't make diddly squat, the parents did. That kid has no claim to that money as he didn't film, edit or upload it.
Re: Parent's of an 8-Year-Old* (Score:3, Informative)
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$26 Million will buy a lot of toys.
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Impressively bland and weak in flavor. (Score:2)
Sorry, but please try a Swiss hot (or chilled) chocolate, with 33% full-fat Criolli cocoa (actually chocolate resulting in that amount) and Swiss fresh whole milk, like grandma used to make, before suggesting any milk flavoring solutions. :)
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He actually sells his own line of toys now. That's why he makes so much, it's not just advertising revenue.
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Well, that's definitely not true as stated.
The truth would merely be that he licensed his name and image to the effort.
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Re:Parent's of an 8-Year-Old* (Score:5, Informative)
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Why the issue with targeting ads to children? (Score:3)
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<sarcasm>
It's different in the same way that, for instance, adding "on the Internet" to any blindingly obvious idea makes it new and patentable.
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Advertisers pay less for untargeted ad time (Score:5, Interesting)
The law allows companies to advertise to children under 13. However, it does not allow surveiling the browsing habits of children under 13 in order to infer their interests. Advertisers pay far less for ad time targeted to a video's content than for ad time targeted to an individual viewer's interests.
Yes, I'm aware that print, radio, and television ads cannot be micro-targeted the way Internet ads can. But radio and television ads also interrupt the program for minutes at a time. Print offers neither micro-targeting nor interruption, but print can advertise lower rate because publishers double-dip, taking money both from advertisers and from subscribers to a newspaper or magazine.
Re:Why the issue with targeting ads to children? (Score:4, Interesting)
Read it more closely, this is about *targeted* ads. I.e. they're tracking kids behavior then feeding up personalized ads. That's the specific thing being banned. There can still be ads based on what you're watching, they just can't feed kids up specific ads based on their entire viewing history.
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Young children aren't developed enough to understand advertising. When it is allowed it has to be carefully vetted against the known principles of child psychology.
Re: Why the issue with targeting ads to children? (Score:1)
I'm not developed enough to understand modern advertising! Why do any ads need to be targeted to me, why can't they target the content I'm consuming instead?
You mean his exploiting parents! (Score:2)
Something like this is just parents exploiting their kid. I have yet to see evidence disagreeig with that.
Play with toys, set for life. Exploit me! (Score:2)
He plays with toys for a couple years and now he's set for life.
With no need to ever work 9-5 to pay the bills, he can spend his entire adult life on whatever is most meaningful to him.
If that's exploitation, someone exploit me, please!
Re: Play with toys, set for life. Exploit me! (Score:2)
The problem is that for every exploited kid that is âoeset for lifeâ, there are hundreds if not thousands of exploited kids that never make any significant money. YouTube stars and pro sports stars are basically lottery winners but there are parents that push their kids too far in the hope that their kids win that lottery.
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There are certainly crazy parents in the world.
The company Ryan works with, PocketWatch, has standards that protect the kid significantly more than SAG standards or California law do.
Dude! U been upstaged by an 8 year old (Score:1)
And split 5 ways - that's only 4 mil per person - come on Dude, you can do better than that
Welcome to modern capitalism (Score:2)
Where random children and unfriendly cats are multimillionaires and hardworking, educated adults struggle to survive.
Autoplay (Score:1)
Stolen childhood (Score:1)