One Los Angeles family proves that there IS money to be made off of YouTube. Mark and Rhea (also known as “ilovemaything”) are the parents behind a popular YouTube channel named Hulyan Maya. The channel has grew its popularity by posting videos of their kids playing with Thomas the Tank Engine and Monster toys. Their YouTube channel, which launched in 2007, averages over 3 million views per day and features their three kids Hulyan (5 years), Maya (3 years), and Marxlen (5 months). They have the 42nd highest-viewed YouTube channel in the U.S. (according to Tubefilter stats as of last week). Mark tells Yahoo Parenting via email: “We started uploading toy videos in late 2010 and finally hit the jackpot in 2013.” That’s when they posted an eight-minute video of Hulyan buying and unpacking a Thomas & Friends Emergency Searchlight set — their most popular with more than 15.5 million views to date. “In 2014, our YouTube income skyrocketed dramatically,” Mark says. “We’ve made more than a million [dollars] between 2010 to 2014. We started our channel in 2007, but most of the old videos we uploaded were junk.” Mark and Rhea expects to earn at least $1.5 million in 2015. They quit their jobs as employment recruiters to run their channel full-time. The money earned from YouTube, the family has been able to purchase cars and a home in cash. There’s also money set aside for the kids college education. Read more…
