Daniel Robert Middleton, better known as DanTDM is a very popular Youtuber and professional gamer. He already won numerous awards because he is very famous in the gaming arena. If you want to find out more about DanTDM’s net worth in 2024 just continue reading this article.
Early Life
This young celebrity was born on 8 November 1991, in Aldershot, England, as the oldest child in his family. All his life he moved a lot because his father worked in the British Army. For the 10 years, he attended 10 different schools, that is the kind of life he was livin’. This is also the reason why he hasn’t got any long-lasting friends from his childhood. He also has gone through the parents’ divorce when he was just a little boy.
After the painful divorce, he has moved with his younger brother and mother to a new home for a permanent time. He was starting all over again in the new school where he met his wife Jemma. At first, they were friends, and in a short time, when they both were 18, they start dating.
They got married on 17 March 2013, and three years earlier he entered the YouTube world. After graduation at the University of Northampton in 2010, he made a YouTube channel about the Pokemon game. On the channel, he was known as PokemanDanLv45.
At the moment he is living in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England.
Career
In 2012 he made YouTube channel The Diamond Minecart after he gains popularity with the Pokemon channel. On this channel, his audience was children from 5 to 10 years old. After a short time the channel shifts the name to TheDiamondMinecart/DanTDM, and on 12 December 2016, the channel got the name DanTDM. On his channel, he also makes short films with original characters.
The focus in his videos is the game Minecraft, but from 2016 he was posting videos about other games such as Roblox, and Tomodachi Life. He attends every Insomnia gaming festival, and in 2016 he published his first novel ’’Trayaurus and the Enchanted Crystal’’. The novel follows the characters from his YouTube videos, such as Dr. Trayaurus, Denton, Fin, his dog Grim, even himself is in the novel. He was the part of Netflix’s web series ’’Skylanders Academy’’.
Three years ago he has created a web series called ’’DAnTDM Creates a Big Scene’’. In the series also appeared a few other social media entertainers. The web series was first shown on YouTube, on 7 April 2017.
Awards and Achievements
His YouTube channel is one of the most popular in the United Kingdom, and he has 18.5 million subscribers and over 12.4 billion views. In July 2015 he was listed as one of the most popular YouTubers worldwide when it comes to viewership. He even got on the Forbes list of the Highest-Paid YouTubers in 2017, with $16.5 million per year.
Some of the awards he received are Guinness World Record (Most goals scored in Rocket League game in a team of 2 and 3), Guinness World Record (Most views for ’’Minecraft’’ channel), and Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards (UK’s Favorite Tipster) in 2105 and 2016.
DanTDM Net Worth 2024
His net worth is around $20 million at the moment, and his income came from his YouTube videos and his channel. He is a very dedicated worker, and he gives most of his time to making videos for his channel. The money did not come overnight, he puts an effort in every video.
He is a huge inspiration for the young boys and girls out there who want to become gamers, and have their own YouTube channel. The fans call him ’’a person with the super-focused mind’’. He is one of the most successful and popular persons in the gaming world at the moment of speaking, and his videos are well-known on the Internet.