The biggest stars on YouTube make huge incomes ... yet they can't keep the vast majority of it

The interesting thing about YouTube revenue, however, is how little of it the stars themselves get to keep. YouTube keeps a 45% cut of any ad revenue gathered by one of your videos. And that's before taxes and your own operating and editing costs. StatSheep, a site that generates statistical estimates about YouTube channels, estimates that PewDiePie actually earns an ongoing $3.5 million every four months, or $10.5 million per year, based on his recent traffic. - Jim Edwards, Business Insider [via/web:http://streaming-tv.us]