Top 5 Indian Youtube Paid Stars of 2017

Youtube has made a special place in the daily life of an average Indian. As per Indian statistics, every month some 4.5 lakh videos get uploaded on 22000 active channels, that attracts over 2 million subscribers. With the advancement and easy access of the general public to smart phones and the Internet this will keep on growing.

1. TANMAY BHATT:

   A Mumbaikar on the top of the list, who found his talent as a comedian early in 2009. He set a great foundation as the co-founder of the All India Backchod(AIB). He is also known by "Laughing Buddha of India". The fact that comedy is impossible to ignore makes it even better for him. AIB is known for doing something new every time they come up with a new video. The most of his Youtube earning comes from the AIB, which has over 2.8 million subscribers and is still going on winning hearts of the new audience. They have a gross annual income of around $4,40,000. 

Top Paid YouTube Stars of 2017 who earned Millions 

2. SAHIL KHATTAR:

   Well Sahil actually got success early at the age of 17 by becoming the Chandigarh's top radio jockey with his program- ‘Love Guru’. Now he is famous for his youtube channel "Being Indian". Again its comedy that rules over the Indian hearts. This makes him the second best at earning from Youtube. He also has his own clothing Brand with the same name as his channel. With 1.5 million subscribers his work is very appreciated by Indians. He is never afraid to bring a related topic into light thats why he is famous among the Indian youth.He is now debuts on Small screen as host of Dance India Dance. Sahil’s estimated yearly earnings are $1,08,000 to 4,20,000.

3. BHUVAN BAM:

   His first ever youtube video was uploaded in June 2015 on his channel "BB KI VINES". The video went viral overnight. He was amazingly supported by the Indians. Now he easily gets over a million views on every new video within a few hours of release and thats because he has 5.4 million subscribers. His target audience is above 18 years. In his videos he plays the role of his parents, friends, and relatives. Every single character is performed by the man himself. He can easily pull off $4,00,000 in a year.

4. SANJAY THUMMA:

   He is the chef who almost restarted his career but in a different way. He started as a professionally trained chef and had a restaurant in th US. He sold his restaurants to introspect on what to do next. His friends were really missing his trademark dishes, People even called him to ask for the recipes. He wanted to make it easier for his friends to make the same dish so he decided to upload some of his classics on Youtube. Just like that we had the greatest Indian chef all over the Youtube. His Youtube channel "Vahchef - VahRehVah" makes around $1,108,129 a year with 1.1 million subscribers.

5. NISHA MADHULIKA:

   She is also a chef. Her husband helped her to get online by helping her with a blog. When she wrote over 100 recipes her blog started getting interesting and people started asking her for more recipes. She has shared a lot of delicious recipes with her 3 million subscribers. She is a good example for other women as well. Her general trend is uploading two recepies a week. Her number of views per day is between 575,000 and 625,000. Her yealy income is estimated as $90,000 to $1,00,000.
  
   As we can see that currently the Indian youtube is ruled by comedians and chefs but there are also a lot other genre of youtubers like tech, music, dance etc, which are also famous. And i don't think that something like youtube will ever get low in the rapidly digitalizing country like India.