Top Gaming Influencers On YouTube
YouTube and other social media platforms allow users to upload videos and share them with the world. Every view counts and every like is worth a penny and every share is a traffic booster.
Online games have brought a lot of fun and excitement to our online community. As online games and online community increases from time to time influencers are earning more and more money too. How does it all work?
Here's a list of the Top Gaming Influencers on YouTube and how they got their start:
Mark Fischbach
Markiplier also known as an army from Hawaii, quit college to study engineering in order to become a YouTube gaming commentator. Specializing in the horror genre his videos have been watched over 7 billion times in five years. His ultimate proof of cross-over success? He inked a deal with the mega-agency William Morris Endeavor in 2016.
Felix Kjellberg
Also known as PewDiePie is the world's most popular YouTube influencer in 2016. The Swedish gamer would have topped the Gaming category but for the nine videos he posted in the beginning of 2017 that contained Nazi imagery. Maker Studios, a subsidiary of Disney which is also his multi-channel partner, cut relations with him. He was also banned from YouTube's Red platform as well as the Google Preferred program. His name is now tarnished, and he continues to earn millions from YouTube ads by itself.
Evan Fong
Born in Canada, he was known as VanossGaming. He left the University of Pennsylvania to pursue his online business full-time. He chats and makes jokes with his friends and collaborators while playing games such as Call of Duty or Grand Theft Auto on his YouTube Channel. In 2016, he began to voice a character in the adult cartoon series "Paranormal Action Squad" for YouTube Red.
Sonja Reid
She is also known as Omgitsfirefoxx. She started live-streaming in 2013 on gaming platform Twitch. MINECRAFT SERVERS She uploads highlights to YouTube and quickly gained a following, which led to partnerships with brands like Intel, Syfy, Audi, and Syfy.
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Lia Wolf, a YouTube influencer from Britain, specializes in Call of Duty gameplay videos. She also dabbles with cosplay and anime. With her over 5 million subscribers and followers, it had led to partnerships with companies like Activision, EA, Ubisoft, and Disney. She said, "I wanted girls to be competent and skilled at video gaming."
Jacksepticeye
Sean McLoughlin is his real name. He first began posting on YouTube in 2012 and began posting every day in 2013. He is best known for his hilarious and energetic comments. With his videos that have been watched over 7.2 billion times, he has associated with Revelmode, a subnetwork of Disney's Maker Studios.
DanTDM
Daniel Middleton is a professional gamer who is known online as DanTDM or The Diamond Minecraft. His expertise in the popular family-friendly game Minecraft and his following had set him up for a Guinness World Record in 2016 for amassing the most views on a dedicated Minecraft channel which was 7.9 billion at the time.
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Tom Cassell, the longtime gamer who was the first person to hit 1 million followers on live-streaming platform Twitch in the year 2014. Since then, he has attracted more than 10 million YouTube fans for his live-streaming of popular game franchises such as Halo and Call of Duty. With his fellow list members Sonja Reid, Evan Fong, he is now officially signed to 3BlackDot gaming influencer agency.
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Adam Dahlberg, a YouTube veteran at 24. He began his career as a voice actor for gaming videos back in 2006 and more than 10 years later his main channel, which was centered on the cult game for kids, Minecraft. He boasted of more than 11 million subscribers and he is now working with Amazon, Netflix, and Nintendo and sells merchandise to fans , including posters and pillows.
Mari Takahashi
AtomicMari was up until the beginning of 2017 the only female player on the affluent YouTube channel, Smosh Games. She appears on Maricraft, a sub-series that has an emphasis on Minecraft gameplay. The former professional ballerina started hosting her Smosh Pit Weekly show back in 2010.