Forbes has just released its list of top paid Instagrammers. There are a lot of people making big bucks on the app by promoting products and doing influencer things.
In the top spot is Cristiano Ronaldo, Juventus soccer player, and one of the best-paid athletes in the world, pocketing more than 50 million dollars a year as a footballer. But according to one study he actually earns more than that from Instagram! How? Well, turns out if you have millions of followers brands will splash some serious cash to get you to post and endorse their products on your socials. And with 187 million followers the report reckons Ronaldo is making about 1.4 million bucks per Instagram post. Which adds up to about 70 million annually. Who knew there was so much money to be made promoting soccer boots, hair care products, and cologne?
In Australia, it has to be clear when influencers are trying to use their massive reach to sell you something so you'll normally see tags like #ad or the word "paid partnership" somewhere. And people have been critical of celebs not being honest about it in the past.
So who else is cashing in on the "Gram"? As well as soccer players, you'll find three of the Kardashian/Jenner clan and Selena Gomez. Unfortunately for all us regular humans the top 10 were all kind of really famous before they became Insta-rich. So I think I'll hedge my bets and keep my day job.
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BTS ON TIK TOK
K Pop sensations, BTS, have taken TikTok by storm. After announcing their debut on Twitter, their TikTok account's become the fastest ever to reach 1 million followers. Taking just three hours and thirty one minutes. It's now grown to more than 5 million followers.
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AFLW
The 2020 AFLW season is set to go ahead after players agreed on a new deal. They'd been in discussions with the league for a while because while the comp's expanded to 14 teams. There'll be just eight weeks of games played, so not every team will play every other team. But they've now agreed on an extra week of finals, and there'll be more regular season games in the coming years. Pay's going up too, with the best players taking home around $30,000.
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E-SPORT SCHOOL
Students at Chisholm Catholic College are hitting the gym as part of their e-sports training. It turns out hitting up the gym is good for your gaming. Of course, they also spend time on their computers and learn strategies to be good gamers. Yep, this school is treating it's e-sport as seriously as any other sport because players could make a career out it. The e-sports industry is worth more than one billion dollars. With huge competitions like The Fornite World Cup. Earlier this year the winner, Bugha, won 4.3 million dollars. The students at Chisholm Catholic College aren't quite at that level yet. They're currently competing in a small competition called the Chisholm Invitational with some other Queensland schools.
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PLATYPUS PARTY
A little monotreme family celebrated their birthdays, ranging from 8 to 26, at Victoria's Healesville Sanctuary. Keepers weren't sure how the gifts would go down - a mermaid boogie board and a bubble jet stream! But the jet stream was a hit!
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SINKHOLE IN PITTSBURGH
A bus fell into a massive sinkhole in the city of Pittsburgh in the US. Luckily it wasn't a full bus, the driver only had one passenger on board at the time, and both managed to escape without too much trouble.
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PLASTIC CLEAN UP
Boyan Slat's latest invention is a floating solar-powered device built to scoop plastic out of rivers! The Dutch inventor has been trying to clean up our oceans. To help demonstrate how the garbage boat works little plastic rubber duckies "swam" into the machine before sinking into a big old rubbish bin. RIP rubber duckies.
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