Top 10 YouTubers of India (2024)

Top 10 YouTubers of India

Famous not just in India, but overseas too

Here is the list of some of the top, most famous YouTubers of India, with the highest number of subscribers, who chose YouTube as a full-time career and their monthly earnings will shock you.

Ever since it was launched in 2005, YouTube has dominated the video sharing social media platform. After the parent company Google, it is the second most-visited site on the internet in the world. Over the years, YouTube has become immensely popular in India, with cheap data rates prevalent for the past several years. According to the globalmediainsight report, India is home to largest number of users of YouTube in the world with over 467 million active users and tens of millions of videos are uploaded from India every year.

With over 5 billion videos uploaded so far, over 1 billion hours of videos are watched every day on YouTube. T-Series, an Indian music and film studio, is the largest channel on YouTube with 213 million subscribers.

Over the years, YouTube has become an interesting source of revenues for YouTubers or those who upload videos on the platform due to advertising on their channels or videos. Naturally, in India, too, a number of YouTubers have made a successful career out of video sharing.

Here are the Top 10 YouTubers of India who are popular, not just in India, but around the world too.

1. CarryMinati.

2. Total Gaming.

3. Round 2 Hell.

4. Bhuvan Bam (BB Ki Vines).

5. Sandeep Maheshwari.

6. Amit Bhadana.

7. Gaurav Chaudhary (Technical Guruji).

8. Khan Sir (Khan GS Research Centre).

9. Harsh Beniwal.

10. Bilal Shaikh (Emiway Bantai)

01 – Ajey Nagar (CarryMinati)

Carryminati is a very popular and number one YouTuber of India. His real name is Ajey Nagar. Born on 12th June 1999, he is known for his roasting videos, comedic skits, games streaming and reactions to various online topics, His first Youtube channel was “STeaLThFeArzZ”, but that didn’t work. Then he changed named to “Carrydeol” but after some time, he renamed it “CarryMinati”. There are many channels who are influenced by CarryMinati and started their own roasting channels.

• Subscribers: 40.9 million
• Total Views: 3,562,624,883 views
• Estimated Monthly Earning– USD 13,500-215,500
• YouTube Channel Name –CarryMinati
• Channel Type – Roasting, comedy, gaming, satire sketches
• Age – 24 Years
• Started – 2009

02 – Total Gaming

23-year-old Ajay, known as “Ajju Bhai” to gaming lovers was born in Ahmedabad in Gujarat. Ajay is the biggest gaming YouTuber of India. He started his first gaming channel in 2018 and it proved to be such a big hit that now he has five successful YouTube channels, with Total Gaming at the top. He has never revealed his face because he wants to maintain a peaceful private life away from the glitz of YouTube fame.

• Subscribers: 37.2Million
• Total Views: 5,909,679,995 views
• Est Monthly Earning– USD 14,000–223,500
• YouTube Channel Name –Total Gaming
• Channel Type – PC and Mobile Gaming
• Age – 29 years
• Started – 2018

03 – Round 2 Hell

Round2hell is an Indian entertainment-based YouTube channel founded by three best friends Nazim Ahmed, Zayn Saifi, and Wasim Ahmad in the year 2015. Despite their frequent use of abusive language, their comedy shows have become hugely popular in India, especially among millennials. They got into trouble over one particular video uploaded in 2020 which led to controversy and hurt sentiments of some. A video clip had gone viral over the internet in which content creators from a Youtube channel Round2Hell can be seen making fun of Hindu Goddess Radha. The video had garnered widespread attention prompting police to take action against the owners of the channel.

• Subscribers: 32.1 Million
• Total Views: 3,296,351,684 views
• Est Monthly Earning – USD 13,000–212,200
• YouTube Channel Name –Round2hell
• Channel Type – Comedy
• Age – 23-25 years
• Started – 2015

04 – Bhuvan Bam (BB Ki Vines)

Bhuvan Bam is one of the most popular YouTubers of India who is popular for his humorous and double entendre comedy videos. He was born on January 21, 1994 in Delhi, He is not just a YouTuber but also an amazing singer and before his channel, he started his career in New Delhi at bars as a singer.

• Subscribers: 26.4 Million
• Total Views: 4,874,580,077 views
• Est Monthly Earning – USD 7,700–123,900
• YouTube Channel Name –BB Ki Vines
• Channel Type – Comedy
• Age – 29 years
• Started – 2015

05 – Sandeep Maheshwari.

Sandeep Maheshwari is an entrepreneur, photographer, and well-known motivational speaker in India, He is a renowned name among youngsters. Sandeep Maheshwari is the CEO of ImagesBazaar, one of the world’s largest collections of Indian images, with over 1 million photographs and videos. He is also listed in the Guinness World Records for most viewed self-education video on YouTube, with around 37 million views, but he has not yet monetised his channel.

• Subscribers: 28.3 Million
• Total Views:2,426,891,520 views
• Est Monthly Earning – Not Monetised
• YouTube Channel Name –Sandeep Maheshwari
• Channel Type – Motivational Videos
• Age – 43 years
• Started – 2012

06 – Amit Bhadana

Amit Bhadana is a 27-year-old comedian and actor based in Bulandshahar in Uttar Pradesh. He became the first Indian YouTube video creator to surpass 20 million subscribers in May 2020. But as he was born and raised in a very conservative family, initially his family did not support his video sharing. However, over the years have seen the successful career that he has made from his videos, and they have come around to support him.

• Subscribers: 24.5Million
• Total Views: 2,441,337,340 views
• Est Monthly Earning – USD 4,100-66,100
• YouTube Channel Name –Amit Bhadana
• Channel Type – Comedy
• Age – 29 years
• Started – 2012

07 – Gaurav Chaudhary (Technical Guruji)

Gaurav Chaudhary, also known as Technical Guruji, is a 31-year-old popular Indian YouTuber & Social Media Influencer with technology as his forte. Chaudhary is a nanoscience researcher and businessman who runs a security systems business in Dubai. He launched his Technical Guruji Channel in October 2015, primarily posting advice and product reviews.

It has become immensely popular across the country.

• Subscribers: 5.12Million
• Total Views: 352,356,430 views
• Est Monthly Earning – USD 255-4,100
• YouTube Channel Name –Technical Guruji
• Channel Type – Product Reviews
• Age – 32 years
• Started – 2015

08 – Khan Sir (Khan GS Research Centre)

Faizal Khan is a 28-year-old YouTuber and teacher from Patna, the capital of Bihar. He is popularly called Khan Sir. He started his YouTube channel in 2019 which became very popular in a short while. In his videos, he explains complex problems faced by students of general sciences. While many coaching classes charge up to INR 30,000-50,000 per quarter, Khan charges less than INR 500 to make coaching classes accessible to everyone.

• Subscribers: 22.2 Million
• Total Views: 2,226,995,190 views
• Est Monthly Earning – USD 450-7,200
• YouTube Channel Name –Khan GS Research Centre
• Channel Type – Education
• Age – 30 years
• Started – 2019

09 – Harsh Beniwal

Born on February 13, 1996, Harsh Beniwal is a famous Indian YouTuber, social media influencer, content creator, entrepreneur, internet celebrity, and actor from New Delhi. He is well-known for his comedy vines (Vine was an American short-form video hosting service where users could share six-second-long looping video clips. It was founded in June 2012. Vine attracted different types of uses, including short-form comedy and music performances, video editing, and stop motion animation) on YouTube and he has also acted in a few films, notably with Tiger Shroff in Student of the Year 2 (2019).

• Subscribers: 15.7 Million
• Total Views: 1,866,557,553 views
• Est Monthly Earning – USD 682-10,900
• YouTube Channel Name –Harsh Beniwal
• Channel Type – Comedy
• Age – 27 years
• Started – 2015

10 – Bilal Shaikh (Emiway Bantai)

Bilal Shaikh, also known as Emiway Bantai, is an Indian rapper, born on November 13, 1995. Initially, he began rapping for fun, but it soon turned into a passion and he made his passion turn into a career. He started working for a café named Hard Rock Café. Making Hindi his strength, he started making raps in Hindi. Aur Bantai was his first rap that was an immense success in 2014 and then there was no stopping him.

• Subscribers: 20.9 Million
• Total Views: 3,730,314,478 views
• Est Monthly Earning – USD 10,000-159,900
• YouTube Channel Name –Emiway Bantai
• Channel Type – Singing & Rapping
• Age – 29 years
• Started – 2013