8-Year-Old Boy Ryan Kaji Named Highest YouTube Earner in 2019 with $26 Million

Ryan Kaji, an 8-year-old boy from Texas, the United States has been named as the highest YouTube earner in 2019.

Kaji, whose YouTube Channel, Ryan’s World has 22.9 million subscribers, earned a whopping $26 million (Ksh.2.6 billion) this year, according to Forbes. The boy reviews toys on YouTube with his family including his mother Loann Kaji, father Shion Kaji and twin sisters Emma and Kate.

Kaji’s YouTube channel is among the top 100 most subscribed in the US with his videos garnering more than 30 billion views. His video ‘Huge Eggs Surprise Toys Challenge’ is the most viewed with over 1.9 billion hits.

This is the second time Kaji has been named as the highest-earning YouTube star. Also in this year’s list of top YouTube earners is five-year-old Anastasia Radzinskaya from Russia who pocketed $18 million. Anastasia has cerebral palsy and appears in videos with her father to document her treatments.

“Born in southern Russia with cerebral palsy, her doctors feared she would never be able to speak,” Forbes reports.

Here is the list of top 10 earners on YouTube in 2019:

1. Ryan Kaji: $26 million.
2. Dude Perfect: $20 million.
3. Anastasia Radzinskaya: $18 million.
4. Rhett and Link: $17.5 million.
5. Jeffree Star: $17 million.
6.Preston (Preston Arsement): $14 million.
7. PewDiePie (Felix Kjellberg: $13 million.
7. Markiplier (Mark Fischbach): $13 million.
9. DanTDM (Daniel Middleton): $12 million.
10. Vanoss Gaming (Evan Fong): $11.5 million.