2. KSI (Olajide JJ Olatunji)

Olajide JJ Olatunji also known as KSI is a YouTuber who plays games ranging from GTA 5 to sports games such as Fifa. He does this for his  12.3 million subscribers.

KSI was born in Watford, United Kingdom on the 19th of June 1993. He is a rapper, comedian, actor and a YouTube gamer and has been on YouTube since 2008.

KSI's family often appear in his videos including his mum and dad and his only sibling Deji who also has a YouTube account with an odd 6.1 million subscribers on it.

In 2013 KSI formed a group called the Sidemen with his 6 other friends also YouTube gamers. This act made him and also his friends become some of the most famous YouTube gamers in the world.

Today KSI's net worth is somewhat in the $3 million region.

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YOUTUBE GAMING FACTS.

1. YouTube has over 1 billion YouTube users of which around 1/6 of these use this to watch
YouTube gamers play games.

2.In 2014 , "Minecraft" was the second most searched topic on YouTube all over the world. There is around 4 billion views on YouTube videos every day.

3. Pewdiepie (Sweden) is the top earner on YouTube.

4.The average amount of gaming videos watched on YouTube per month is 144 billion minutes.

5.The top video game on YouTube in 2015 was Call of Duty Black ops 3.

6. The percentage of teenagers in the UK between the ages of 11-16  that watch gaming weekly is an astonishing 78%


7.Ten of the most popular YouTuber channels on YouTube generate more than 2.2 Billion views every month.


8. 15% of YouTube videos relate to gaming.

1.  PEWDIEPIE:


PewDiePie (Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg) is the most well known You Tuber in You Tube History. The 26 year old from Sweden normally plays computer games for his 42 million subscribers.
He created  his You Tube channel in 2010 and has gotten a lot popular from 2012 as he hit 1 million subscribers. In August 2013, he became the most subscribed You Tuber in the world. As of today he has exactly 42, 670, 027 million subscribers with over 10 billion video views.
In 2013, PewDiePie earned approximately $4 million. In 2014, he earned $7.5 million and in 2015 he earned approximately $12 million.





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 WELL KNOWN YOUTUBE GAMERS

Around 20 years ago, no one would have guessed that you could make millions from playing video games for a living. It is also almost still impossible today to even think that you can play video games for a living and still make decent money.

YouTube was founded on the 13th of November 2005 in San Mateo, California, United States. It is an American based company that is open to every single person in this entire world. At the moment, there is over 1 billion videos just on YouTube alone. All of these videos come from different people all around the world.

Many of these videos come from very popular You Tubers. Here are the most well known you tubers and the geography behind them.



          


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                                           INTRODUCTION

Hi my name is Jacob Kelly and I am going to talk about professional gaming in geography. I am going to talk about the amount of YouTube gamers out there and how they make their living. I am also going to talk about how many gamers are across the world and where they play there games and which are the most popular games among you tubers.


We will also be looking at who are the most popular gamers in the world and how they became so popular among random people.


I decided to do this blog because I am very interested in how all these different gamers from different parts of the world make their money.


I hope you enjoy reading my blog!