Highest-earning gaming contributor to YouTube

As of February 2015, YouTube stats expert Social Blade estimated that the highest-earning YouTuber focusing on videogames is "PewDiePie" – aka Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg (SWE) – with annual earnings of $1.2 million to $18.9 million, which is a mean average of $10.05 million. Focusing on indie games such as McPixel (2012) and Goat Simulator (2014), the gamer, as of 17 March 2015, "PewDiePie" had more than 8.1 billion views and 35,346,591 subscribers – the most subscribers of any YouTuber. Social Blade estimates earnings for each YouTube channel based on the money generated for every thousand ad views. According to Social Blade, the reason that the range is so big is because "the CPMs [cost per thousand views] vary so much. They can be anywhere from $0.25 to $4.00 on average," Arnold told HuffPost via email. "It’s a huge range because we just don’t know CPM’s for individual channels, or many of the factors that would affect it, like what country their audience is based in, how many views are from mobile, how many of their viewers have Adblock, etc. Stuff like that all affects earnings." The earnings totals also don't take into account the cut that Google takes.