Marques Brownlee, known as MKBHD, is the internet's most-trusted voice on consumer technology. Starting his YouTube channel at 14 while still in high school, he built a 20+ million subscriber empire on the back of obsessive production quality and a consumer-first perspective. Beyond reviewing gadgets, he co-hosts the Waveform podcast, serves as board member and chief creative partner at Ridge, is a 2022 WFDF World Champion in ultimate frisbee, and was named to TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI in 2024.
Zack Nelson is the American YouTuber behind JerryRigEverything, the most-viewed smartphone repair and teardown channel on YouTube with over 10 million subscribers. Known for his systematic durability tests — scratch, burn, bend — he turned a $1,000 Jeep repair he did himself for $80 into a multi-million-view media empire. Beyond the broken screens and scorched phones, he co-founded Not-a-Wheelchair with his wife Cambry, building affordable off-road and ultra-custom wheelchairs made in the USA, and used his YouTube earnings to fund a full-size community library in Busia County, Kenya.
British-Pakistani former NHS doctor turned creator-entrepreneur. Ali Abdaal hosts the Deep Dive podcast, runs the Part-Time YouTuber Academy, and wrote the New York Times bestseller Feel-Good Productivity, which has been translated into 35+ languages.
Chris Williamson is the host of Modern Wisdom, one of the world's most-listened-to long-form interview podcasts, and co-founder of the nootropic drink brand Neutonic. A former nightclub promoter and Love Island contestant turned interviewer, he has built a 400M+ download catalogue of conversations with thinkers, scientists, and authors.
Cody Ko is a Canadian-American comedian, podcaster, and former software engineer who turned a viral iOS captioning app and a Vine following into one of the most influential creator-led comedy operations of the late 2010s. With Noel Miller he built Tiny Meat Gang, a comedy hip-hop act, podcast, and studio that scaled to hundreds of millions of downloads before he stepped away from TMG Studios in 2024.
Dávid Julián Dobrík is a Slovak-American YouTuber, vlogger, and entrepreneur best known for fast-cut, four-minute and twenty-second vlogs starring his Vlog Squad. He rose from Vine to become one of YouTube's most-viewed creators, co-founded the disposable-camera photo app Dispo, and in 2024 opened Doughbrik's Pizza in Los Angeles.
Hannah Witton is a British and German YouTuber, broadcaster, and author who built a 14-year career talking frankly about sex, relationships and bodies online. In 2024 she pivoted away from sex-ed and now mentors other creators, writes the Creator Talks newsletter, and makes lifestyle videos about parenthood, books, and theatre.
Jake Paul is an American boxer, content creator and founder who turned a Vine following into a one-man entertainment economy. He runs Most Valuable Promotions, co-founded the sports-betting app Betr and the VC fund Anti Fund, and headlines Netflix fight cards. His professional boxing record stands at 12-2 after a brutal sixth-round knockout loss to Anthony Joshua in December 2025.
Jarvis Allen Johnson is a Los Angeles based YouTuber and podcaster who left a senior engineering role at Patreon to make commentary videos about content farms, dating shows, and the strange edges of the internet. He co-hosts the Sad Boyz podcast with Jordan Adika, runs eight YouTube channels with a combined audience over four million, and was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 for social media in 2021.
Jessica Kobeissi is a Lebanese-American fashion and portrait photographer from Detroit, Michigan, recognized as the #1 female photographer on YouTube with over 1.87 million subscribers and 140+ million views. Known for viral series like '4 Photographers Shoot The Same Model' and 'Taking Pictures of Strangers,' she turned a graphic design career pivot into a media empire — shooting celebrities, teaching workshops across the U.S., and becoming famous for photographing PewDiePie and Marzia's wedding.
Joshua Weissman is a Los Angeles-born, Austin-based YouTube chef and cookbook author who turned a teenage weight-loss journey into one of the largest cooking channels on the internet. With over 10.6 million YouTube subscribers, 2.2 billion views, and two New York Times bestselling cookbooks, Weissman blends fine-dining technique with everyday accessibility, making professional-grade cooking feel thrillingly achievable. He launched his first food blog at 16, published his first cookbook at 18, trained in Austin's fine-dining scene at Uchiko, and eventually left restaurant kitchens to go full-time on YouTube in 2019.
Kurtis Conner is a Canadian comedian, YouTuber, and podcaster with over 5.6 million YouTube subscribers and 1.16 billion views. Known for deadpan social commentary, he parlayed a Vine following into a full-time comedy career, releasing multiple stand-up albums, hosting the Very Really Good podcast since 2017, and headlining his Goodfellow World Tour across North America, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe in 2024.
Luke Davidson is a Canadian comedy content creator from Dauphin, Manitoba who turned TikTok sketches into a multi-platform empire. Known for his relatable family-dynamics humor and the signature move of pulling a shirt over his head to play multiple characters, he amassed 15+ million TikTok followers and 17+ million YouTube subscribers before turning 23 - earning YouTube's Diamond Creator Award in 2022. His observational comedy about awkward school moments and everyday family chaos resonates with teenagers and young adults worldwide.
Matt D'Avella is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, YouTuber, and podcaster who turned a $97,000 debt crisis into a Netflix documentary career. Best known for directing Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things and The Minimalists: Less Is Now on Netflix, he now runs one of YouTube's most visually distinct self-improvement channels with over 4 million subscribers, combining cinematic production quality with sharp, skeptical takes on hustle culture, habits, and modern life.
Nathaniel Drew is an American content creator, polyglot, and filmmaker based in Paris, France, with over 1.79 million YouTube subscribers. Born in Los Angeles to Argentine-immigrant parents and raised in Portland, Oregon, he skipped college to teach himself filmmaking and launched his YouTube channel in 2015. Known for his cinematic vlogs exploring travel, language learning, identity, and existential questions, he speaks five or more languages and went viral with 'Speaking 5+ Languages with my Polyglot Grandma.' He also hosts the 'No Backup Plan' podcast, runs a Substack newsletter, creates music, and teaches filmmaking through his 'Frame by Frame' masterclass course.
Noel Miller is a Canadian-American comedian, YouTuber, podcaster, rapper, and studio founder who built a media empire from a web development day job. Best known as co-founder of the Tiny Meat Gang (TMG) comedy-rap duo with Cody Ko, Miller now runs TMG Studios solo as its sole owner — a podcast network boasting 300M+ YouTube views and 175M+ audio downloads. With 3.8 million combined YouTube subscribers, a sold-out stand-up career, and a debut comedy special on YouTube, Miller has carved out a lane where internet culture commentary meets genuine artistic ambition.
Peter McKinnon is a Toronto-based photographer, cinematographer, and YouTube creator with nearly 6 million subscribers, known for his cinematic visual style and fast-paced, coffee-fueled tutorials. A former magician and Ellusionist Production Manager turned self-taught filmmaker, he built one of YouTube's most distinctive photography channels from a spare bedroom, won the 2019 Shorty Award for Breakout YouTuber of the Year and the 2020 Streamy Award for Cinematography, and had his landscape photography minted on official Canadian currency by the Royal Canadian Mint. Beyond tutorials, he has launched his own multi-tool for photographers, multiple Lightroom preset packs, a signature coffee blend with James Coffee Co., and the 'Pete's Pirate Life' EDC brand.
Ryan Trahan is an American YouTuber, entrepreneur, and philanthropist from Sugar Land, Texas, best known for his creative challenge series — most famously traveling across the country starting with just a single penny while raising millions for charity. With over 23 million subscribers, he has turned audacious social experiments into a force for good, raising more than $11.65 million for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in 2025. Beyond YouTube, he co-owns candy brand Joyride Sweets (sold at Target and Walmart), founded Neptune Bottle, launched the Howdy clothing line, and continues to push the boundaries of branded storytelling on the internet.
Shane Dawson (born Shane Lee Yaw) is one of YouTube's original superstar creators, a Long Beach kid who turned a camera and a knack for characters into 4.8 billion combined channel views. Over nearly two decades he pivoted from sketch comedy to celebrity documentary deep-dives, co-authored two New York Times bestselling memoirs, won multiple Streamy Awards, and launched a record-setting makeup collaboration with Jeffree Star. After a high-profile controversy and YouTube demonetization in 2020, he returned in 2021, relocated to a Colorado farm with his husband Ryland Adams, and in 2023 welcomed twin sons. By 2025 he was back with another Jeffree Star docuseries, rebuilding quietly but unmistakably.
Simone Giertz is a Swedish-born inventor, YouTuber, and product designer best known as the 'Queen of Shitty Robots' - a self-styled title earned by building hilariously dysfunctional machines that helped her (and millions of viewers) overcome perfectionism. She parlayed viral robot comedy into a serious design career, founding Yetch Studio in 2022, whose products include the Every Day Calendar (sold at MoMA) and the Laundry Chair - a swivel-rail accent chair for 'half-dirty' clothes that raised nearly $1 million on Kickstarter in 2026.
William Osman is an American engineer turned YouTuber whose channel turned a homemade 80-watt laser cutter into a comedy career. He builds absurd machines, films the result, and somewhere between a ham-and-cheese Vin Diesel and a backyard X-ray rig has become one of the loudest voices in the modern maker movement. In 2023 he co-founded Open Sauce, a creator-driven STEM convention that has since grown to more than 33,000 attendees.
Brian Feroldi is a financial educator, author, and investor on a mission to demystify the stock market for everyday people. Formerly a medical device sales rep at Insulet Corporation, he pivoted to writing for The Motley Fool in 2015 and has since authored 3,000+ articles, published the book 'Why Does The Stock Market Go Up?', grown a 655,000+ Twitter following, and built Long-Term Mindset - a financial education company with a 100,000+ subscriber newsletter. His superpower: turning balance sheets into plain English and making Wall Street concepts accessible to anyone.
Simon Hoiberg is a Danish serial entrepreneur, software engineer, and content creator based in Zurich, Switzerland. He left a $300K/year freelancing career to bootstrap a portfolio of SaaS products - including FeedHive (AI social media scheduling), Aidbase (AI customer support), LinkDrip (link attribution), TinyKiwi, and SignupGate - achieving $1M+ combined ARR. He grew his Twitter/X following to 200K+ organically and teaches React Native development through Galaxies.dev, reaching 100,000+ developers. Known for radical transparency about both wins and failures, Simon openly documents his entire entrepreneurial journey.
Sean Allen is a self-taught iOS developer, Swift educator, and content creator based in Charlotte, NC, best known for his YouTube channel with 170,000+ subscribers dedicated to iOS and Swift programming. A career changer who wrote his first line of code at ~32 and landed his first iOS job in just 7 months, he turned a bitter string of big-tech interview rejections into a YouTube channel built 'out of spite' - which became one of the most trusted independent iOS education platforms on the internet. Today he runs a three-pillar independent business: content creation, consulting, and indie app development, with his flagship app Creator View giving YouTube creators a business dashboard for channel analytics and income tracking.