Six Year Old Made $11 Million Last Year

Maybe there is a high percentage of orphans who try and fail??

Brent

Personally, I think it was the parents that monetized their son. More power to them.

al

They were talking about him the other day on Glenn Beck.

Had no idea he generated that much revenue. That's amazing.

Maybe simple concept but sure NOT easy to make $11 mil a year. No matter what you do !! But I applaud the kid and his parents. However, this particular idea has been around for a number of years now. And the amount of people trying to do it and fail miserably.... is pretty high. My girls wanted me to do this with them. But I said I would take a pass


I think with YT you really need to come up with stuff that hasn't been done yet. Ideas that resonate with peeps on a big time level. Right now, that big guy in the big house in D.C for the next 3 years...people are "starving" for anything related to him.

Hint : Think outside the box

Almost all of these are really in the entertainment niche so there should be no surprise. Entertainers have made that and more offline so why not online? Its NOT just about finding a niche and a hungry audience. Its about being entertaining which by the nature of entertainment won't be very many people - much less than can have their own business.

Thats why so many think they can duplicate these Youtube sensations and fail miserably. Its a poor model for internet marketing in general or for that matter business in general which is why you don't see legit small business pointing to the entertainment world for models.

So no one in business should feel stumped. I certainly don't feel stumped because Taylor Swift and Jessie J can entertain and make a lot of money doing it.

There's been speculation that there is a lot of bot funny-business going on with that channel. I have no idea if it's true or not, but an examination of some of the channel's numbers definitely gives one pause for thought.

For example, the channel currently has 16.9 BILLION views. The oldest video was uploaded March 16th, 2015, making the channel's content approximately 33 months old.

That is an average of over 512 million views per month, over 6 billion a year. A quick google search tells us that as of 2016 there are ~47 million children aged 0 to 11 in the United States. The actual number of potential viewers is narrower of course but we'll use that number anyways. (https://www.childstats.gov/americasc...ables/pop1.asp)

That would mean every single child in the US between the ages of zero and eleven would have to deliver over 127 views to the channel's videos every single year.

Possible? Sure. Likely? I have no idea. The kids' content industry is HUGE no doubt, but these numbers are particularly staggering and it wouldn't surprise me in the least if some, if not a lot, of those views aren't actually being contributed by little eyes.

Pewdiepie came out and claimed bot traffic and pointed to the enormous number of gibberish comments on the videos. The response was that little fingers can't type real comments. But since then comments have been disabled on all videos. Make of that what you will.

I saw this the other day as well. It's kind of crazy. One of my kids wants to be a youtube star (and so do her friends).

I think the big takeaway too is the 6 year old obviously didn't start this to make money, they likely started for fun and they were still able to do amazing. It shows - fill a need and the money will come.

I like what was stated earlier: "Find The Hungry Audience". It's clear to me that if you put that in the front of your marketing efforts, you will always get off to the right start, and your potential for profit will be much higher.

Steve,

WOW!!

This is certainly inspirational! Do you have a link to this YouTube channel?

Chris

Another great example of something that has most folks scratching their heads, but when you passion and do things with the viewer/reader/customer in mind, and detach some from outcomes, things can really take off for you. Love it. Carry on, fellow Ryan.

Such an inspiring story. But I think where most people fail is finding the right niche and an idea to get attention of the audience.

Things are almost never as they seem.

You may know Nick D'Aloisio who founded and sold a popular news summary app Summly to Yahoo at the age of 16 for a reported $30 million.

People wondered why all the PhD's and MS Computer Science grads have difficult time doing Machine learning, natural language processing and AI and this 15 year old did it.

What people don't know is that an Israeli company full of PhDs made the real algorithm, not the kid.

Do you know?

(a) Its sells to have a kid on the front of a company.
(b) It sells to have a mom who made a website for baby sitters.
(c) It sells to have a mom make a website for rating contractors who work in your house.

If you check the background of that kid's parents, you will probably find they have decades of experience in marketing.

I have attempted several times to get my own children interested in the online business world but all they were interested in was video games. I say kudos to the parents who noticed the childs interest and from that monitozed it for the childs future. Good for him.

Very interesting. I looked at list of videos and back 2.5 years ago he had over 800 million views for one video. And consistently 70 and 80 million views for many videos.

But it seems the Channel is losing it's traction. The views are just a fraction of what is was
back then.

I know my wife has strictly forbidden me for putting my kids' face and names on tape if I decide to do a YT video.

As much as it seems fun, there is a lot of work that has to go into these videos. And they have an extreme amount of them they have produced

I just do not think I would do that to my kids...even for the money.

I just want them to be kids without parameters like this. Something wreaks of a little bit of exploitation, imo

Thought This is nothing new? Last time a kid come out bands.......than parents promote on youtube , a lot orders come in lo

What that kid is doing great. Offering content people love. Nothing to do with the get-rich-quick dream peddling that's done on here so to compare the two is apples and oranges.

I'm guessing the parents are already rich to begin with? The parent did an amazing job.

you can try, there is a lot of ways to make money online but you need to see it as a job and not an easy way to make money then you will succeed.

If you really love what you're doing you definitely became successful anyway our top billionaire start their business online. ✌

That's my lil cousin.

Yes possible but some one help to earn that money.

Thats amazing! I hope they dont let him get access to the cash too soon. We know what happens to rich kids

This kid is amazing working to support his family at a very young age.

Did you know cats and dogs can make you very rich in short time too?

source

Nowadays people use cryptokitties to multiply their bank accounts.

Lucky Ryan who got sharp business minded parents Happy Go Lucky

There's always one in a million. And then there are 999,999 in a way up or down to copy paste that one. The key is always being original. And that's not easy for the rest. Nature selection will keep playing in the game.

interesting topic thanks

ya but he had a good USP, if that story checks out. don't believe just anything that's out there 50% of the stories out there are not reliable.