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Forbes Top Creators 2026: MrBeast Leads at $300M — Every Streamer on the List

Forbes published its annual Top Creators 2026 ranking on June 23, listing the 50 most powerful internet creators by gross earnings. For the first time the list collectively broke $1 billion — totalling $1.02B, a 20% jump year-over-year. MrBeast leads by a wide margin at $300M. Streamers and gaming creators who made the cut: iShowSpeed, Druski, Typical Gamer, and Jacksepticeye.

June 25, 20264 min read

$1.02B

Total earnings, top 50

+20%

YoY growth

$300M

MrBeast earnings

4+

Streamers on list

Every Streamer & Gaming Creator on Forbes Top Creators 2026

Of the 50 creators ranked, four have strong streaming or gaming roots. Here's what Forbes said about each one.

#1

MrBeast

YouTube

$300M

earnings

873M

followers

3.00%

engagement

Jimmy Donaldson's global production empire — 640M+ YouTube subscribers, Beast Industries (Feastables, Lunchly, Viewstats, Step), Beast Games Season 2 on Amazon Prime with Season 3 in production, and a reported $5B company valuation.

#7

Druski

YouTube / TV

$20M

earnings

38.5M

followers

13.77%

engagement

Sketch comic Drew Desbordes is everywhere — YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, national TV commercials for T-Mobile and Dunkin', and hosting the June 2026 BET Awards. Recent collaborations: Kevin Hart, Timothée Chalamet, Jeff Bridges, and Zoe Saldana.

#8

IShowSpeed

YouTube

$30M

earnings

184M

followers

0.39%

engagement

From NBA 2K clips in 2016 to 184M followers. Speed pivoted to soccer content with Cristiano Ronaldo collabs, then launched Speed Does America and Speed Does Africa IRL tours. This summer he partnered with FIFA for the World Cup 2026 Tour. Brand deals: Dick's Sporting Goods, Beats By Dre, Doritos.

#26

Typical Gamer

YouTube / Twitch

$13M

earnings

31.6M

followers

0.02%

engagement

Andre Rebelo has 16M YouTube subscribers and 1M Twitch fans watching Fortnite, GTA, and Minecraft content. His game development company Jogo builds maps and play modes for Fortnite, generating millions beyond ad revenue.

#35

Jacksepticeye

YouTube

$18M

earnings

48.9M

followers

0.24%

engagement

Irish YouTuber Sean McLoughlin built a multimillion-dollar brand around gaming and 'try not to laugh' content. He turned his signature 'top of the mornin' to ya, laddies' catchphrase into a coffee brand — Top of the Mornin' Coffee — and plans to revive charity streams in 2026.

Markiplier at #4 — Gaming's Hollywood Crossover

Though not primarily a live streamer today, Mark Fischbach (Markiplier) landed at #4 with $38M. His self-funded feature film Iron Lung screened at 3,000 theaters in North America with a 50/50 revenue split and earned $50M at the box office — the biggest gaming-roots crossover into traditional cinema on the list.

The Creator Economy Just Broke $1 Billion

The $1.02B total is an 80% surge from the $570M debut list in 2022. Forbes measures gross earnings between March 2025 and March 2026 — covering ad revenue, brand deals, merch, and entrepreneur income, but not equity in companies. The entrepreneur score (1–4) rates whether a creator merely takes brand deals (1) or builds their own products and companies (4).

All four streaming creators scored a 4 for entrepreneurship — Typical Gamer's game dev company Jogo, Jacksepticeye's Top of the Mornin' Coffee, MrBeast's Beast Industries, and Speed's global brand partnerships — showing that the biggest streamers no longer depend solely on platform revenue.

Forbes Top Creators 2026: Full Top 10

#CreatorEarningsFollowers
#1MrBeast$300M873M
#2Dhar Mann$65M171M
#3Steven Bartlett$52M38.7M
#4Markiplier$38M76.8M
#5Rhett & Link$37M45.6M
#6Charli D'Amelio$18M209.8M
#7Druski$20M38.5M
#8IShowSpeed$30M184M
#9Mark Rober$30M90.7M
#10Codie Sanchez$31M10M