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Ryan ToysReview – How a seven-year-old boy became one of YouTube’s biggest stars raking in £8.4 million EVERY YEAR
The little boy has become so wealthy by testing new toys and sweets for his fans of all ages
A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD boy has become a multi-millionaire after his YouTube channel was the most watched its category on the platform for months.
Ryan and his parents started RyanToysReview three years ago and have since seen it rake in a whopping $11 million (£8.4 million) in revenue each year and amass 10 million subscribers.
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The channel, in which Ryan simply tests new toys and eats sweets, was the most watched on YouTube in the kids entertainment and animation category but was finally knocked off its perch in June.
ABCKidTV - Nursery Rhymes, owned by a professional video game developer, hit an astonishing 959 million views last month, but Ryan's channel reached 710 million.
But Ryan, whose mum quit her job as a chemistry teacher to held develop RyanToysReview, is now a multi-millionaire at seven seven.
His first viral clip was posted in July 2015 and featured the youngster opening and reviewing a "giant egg surprise box".
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Seven-year-old who earns 8.4m a year on YouTube, makes a cardboard vending machine for his Ryan ToysReview channel
It contained more than 100 toys from Pixar's Cars series.
Incredibly, the clip has more than 887 million views.
RyanToysReview's success has grown since and it now generates Ryan and his family an eye-watering revenue of around $1million (£765,000) every month.
Clips nowadays tend to feature toy reviews.
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The young YouTube sensation, whose family do not want their surname published, prefers to enthusiastically narrate the sequences off camera, rather than continue to appear on screen.
A Californian company Tubular Labs measures and analyses data from billions of YouTube videos each day and publishes monthly figures.
Doggy Doggy Play Doh Cartoons was the third most-watched channel in the kids category in June with more than 687 million views.
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