The Top 10 YouTube Earners Ranked By TubeMogul

It may be littered with cat videos and baby clips, but YouTube is no waste of time. Just ask 16-year-old Lucas Cruikshank, "sexiest geek" Philip DeFranco, or the brains behind the obnoxious, animated "Annoying Orange."

According to TubeMogul, an analytics and advertising firm, these video hosts and producers are among the top ten highest-earning acts on YouTube, their videos earning them six-figure incomes over the past 12 months and scoring hundreds of millions of views.

You can see who made the top ten list in the slideshow below, but keep in mind that Greg Benson, who was listed at number 7 on the list, dismissed TubeMogul's rankings entirely. Benson told The Independent , "It's so wrong everything in the article appears to be wrong... I would be thrilled if I actually had any business being on that list or if I actually made that much money or had that many viewers that they say I have."

1 of 10

#10 Natalie Tran

1 of 11

First Slide

Previous Slide

@

The videos by Natalie Tran, a Vietnamese-Australian comic, reportedly made $101,000 and racked up 138,871,829 views. Tran is best known for her "How to Fake a Six-pack" video, which became a YouTube sensation.

Facebook Investors: Who's Making Mint Off Facebook IPO

Tech IPOs: How Facebook's Big Move May Compare To Other Huge Tech IPOs

Facebook Comment World Record Attempt: Post Receives Over 1 Million Comments (VIDEO, PHOTO)

BlackBerry PlayBook Price Slashed Again

PlayStation Network Accounts Rebranded As Sony Entertainment Network Accounts

Facebook Files S-1 For $5 Billion IPO

The videos by Natalie Tran, a Vietnamese-Australian comic, reportedly made $101,000 and racked up 138,871,829 views. Tran is best known for her "How to Fake a Six-pack" video, which became a YouTube sensation.

comments(146)

Total comments: 146 | Post a Comment

1 of 11

This Earner

Rank #2  |  Average: 4

Pass I'd Pay

• 
  1
• 
  2
• 
  3
• 
  4
• 
  5
• 
  6
• 
  7
• 
  8
• 
  9
• 
  10

Earners

loading...

Earners

UserName

 | Become a fan

Picked These as the Top 5 Slides in the Slideshow

loading...

Top User Slides

← Prev|Next →

 | Become a fan

Picked These as the Top 5 Slides in the Slideshow

loading...

Users who voted on this slide

← Prev|Next →

loading...

Comments

[MrKrispee]

11:05 PM on 09/01/2010

These numbers are a bit confusing. How are they tabulated? Is this earnings from ONLY YouTube from ads? Or is this total earnings of the individual including endorsemen­t deals, book deals, merchandis­e, appearance­s, their own websites, related projects, etc.

[Pilatunes]

05:03 PM on 09/01/2010

Technicall­y Justin Bieber should be number 1. He was discovered on YouTube and makes the rest of these folks look like paupers.

[DudgeOH]

06:03 PM on 08/31/2010

Much more interestin­g than the Ashton Kutcher/CN­N race to 1 million Followers on Twitter would be which/who will be the first account on YouTube to earn US$1 million in one year.

[westakhen]

05:49 PM on 08/31/2010

amazing that 9 of the top 10 are comic

only one that is political

and not one sex/hot

interestin­g

[Marissa Arnold]

02:24 PM on 08/31/2010

mike buckley?

[GeeBee]

01:51 PM on 08/31/2010

What, no mention of the inimitable "Wee Sandy"?

[MsVella]

10:58 AM on 08/31/2010

Youtube is a fantastic new media. Its great knowing that these entertaine­rs are there because they deserve it, and work to get their money. I love Nathalie Tran and and Phillip DeFranco

[curiousasheck]

10:39 AM on 08/31/2010

Nice work, if you can get it . . which 99.9% won't.

[MrKrispee]

11:03 PM on 09/01/2010

Just like Hollywood.

[Kay-B]

08:10 AM on 08/31/2010

THE YOUNG TURKS! Go Cenk

[bynddrvn5]

07:36 AM on 08/31/2010

What? No diet coke and mentos explosions­, LED sheep, or stop motion Legos?

[Rena Lanford]

06:28 AM on 08/31/2010

Fred is every bit as funny as those awful "_____ Movie" spoofs Sony craps out every year. No wait, Meet The Spartans had Kevin McDonald, who is still best known for Kids in the Hall. So a link to something funny. And that's sad, when those crappy films are better than you.

[Shukr]

03:39 AM on 08/31/2010

This whole list is false. Where's Ray William Johnson? He gets more views in a day than Phillip DeFranco gets in a week. And Phil is on the list! Phillip DeFranco himself said the list is wrong.

[namdlogd]

01:26 AM on 08/31/2010

Nats cool, other than that, meh for the bunch , meekakitty and wheezywait­er ftw

[bigmovieman]

12:49 AM on 08/31/2010

Say hello to the new dream job...

[Erin Barrett]

12:22 AM on 08/31/2010

I love Shaycarl and the Shaytards!