Meet the Seven Year Old Who Earned $22 Million in 2018 Reviewing Toys

Meet the seven-year-old boy who plays with toys and then reviews them on YouTube.

He has earned a staggering $22 million in 2018 alone, shares Daily Mail.

Ryan ToysReview came in first place in Forbes’ ranking of this year’s 10 highest-paid YouTubers in the world.

The young US boy, jumped from eighth place last year to number one this year.

According to his mother, Ryan was once an avid watcher of toy reviews, especially ones that focused on Thomas the Tank Engine, before he asked to start his own channel.

‘One day, he asked me, “How come I’m not on YouTube when all the other kids are?” So we just decided—yeah, we can do that,’ his mum told TubeFilter in 2016.

‘Then, we took him to the store to get his very first toy—I think it was a Lego train set—and it all started from there.’

Most of his viewers are children between the ages of three and seven, his father said last year. The majority of Ryan’s fans are located in the US, but many also live in the UK and in the Philippines.

I think I need to go and have a word to my children ASAP!

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43 Comments

- - BellaB said
  - 31 May 2024
    12:05 pm
He’s supporting his entire family (both parents quit their jobs) and I feel that’s unhealthy pressure to put on a kid.

- - mom486197 said
  - 11 Oct 2023
    8:11 am
My daughter loved watching these YouTube shows.

- - meedee said
  - 03 Jan 2023
    12:07 pm
Thats awesome. I have seen various businesses advertisting on social media for child testers of their products.

- - mom268263 said
  - 30 Sep 2021
    9:55 pm
Great money making gig, well done.

- - mom460689 said
  - 23 Oct 2020
    2:04 pm
Wow. I am amazed a kid can make that much from doing this. Incredible.

- - BellaB said
  - 31 May 2020
    7:30 pm
Amazing that he can do that – I don’t want to expose my kids that way for a lesser return, though!

- - mom129591 said
  - 03 Jul 2019
    11:11 pm
OMG! That is crazy. He must have an X factor that makes people watch.

- - happymum2018 said
  - 21 May 2019
    6:08 am
I think that’s awesome, really fun thing to do with kids if you can and he was only seven we have watched a few of the unboxing toy ymreviewers in YouTube and it seems like a fun job!

- - Jmac said
  - 13 May 2019
    10:10 am
My boys watch this sometimes. Their house is so full of toys it’s ridiculous. It’s quite good though. I wish i had had that idea, but i imagine that so many people are doing it now that the market would be saturated!

- - Kate Sander said
  - 28 Apr 2019
    7:38 pm
A multi-millionaire at seven years old is extraordinary. How awesome to play with nice toys and get famous and paid too. I can’t believe he has earnt so much but good on him and his mum.

- - mom81879 said
  - 24 Mar 2019
    7:43 pm
Oh my god, such an unimaginable amount of money! And a seven year old has it. Mind boggling

- - LuckyMum said
  - 03 Jan 2019
    9:23 pm
Hopefully the parents keep him grounded

- - skbou said
  - 03 Jan 2019
    3:31 pm
Wow, but I don’t get. Obviously a lot of people watch these but, hmmm, mind you I wouldn’t say no to the $’s.

- - MrsA said
  - 30 Dec 2018
    9:15 pm
I do not understand why anyone would want their child all over the internet like that. I don’t get why kids enjoy watching it either.
- Ellen replied
  
  03 Jan 2019 , 3:43 am
  No I don’t desire for my kids to famous in this way either.
- - mom101628 said
  - 25 Dec 2018
    10:10 pm
A lot of money for a young man – do hope the parents invest it wisely for him and don’t spend themselves.

- - mom303889 said
  - 13 Dec 2018
    6:13 pm
Hopefully the parents use the money well

- - littlehandsofmine said
  - 05 Dec 2018
    5:33 pm
That’s amazing!! He is a talent.

- - rovermum said
  - 05 Dec 2018
    4:25 pm
Good on him. But, I just don’t get this phenomenon. I’ve tried to watch these reviews to understand the hype, and I just get bored. Clearly I’m not the target market… but it is certainly a growing and valued activity.
- mom93821 replied
  
  06 Dec 2018 , 3:36 am
  No – we are not the target market either.
- - tessie said
  - 05 Dec 2018
    2:20 pm
It pays to have a great personality and parents who are willing to set things up for him. Wonder if he pays them a wage for helping? Hopefully the money is invested wisely and goes towards his schooling.

- - sars_angelchik said
  - 05 Dec 2018
    12:48 pm
That’s crazy! I hope his parents are teaching him how to manage it wisely.