Cristiano Ronaldo’s channel on the YouTube platform has continued to break records just two days after its launch, as the captain of the Portuguese national team and top scorer for Al-Nassr in Saudi Arabia wants to exploit his overwhelming fame to break into the world of YouTube and profit financially.
Cristiano Ronaldo launched his own YouTube channel on Wednesday, August 21, under the name UR. Cristiano.
Ronaldo’s channel quickly attracted millions of users upon its launch on YouTube and became the most-watched on the platform, as the Madeira Rocket’s fandom helped him gain millions of subscribers in record time.
Ronaldo’s channel became the fastest channel in YouTube history to reach one million subscribers, reaching that number just 90 minutes after its launch. Later, it became the fastest to reach 10 million subscribers, then 20 million, and it has currently surpassed the barrier of 36 million subscribers.
In just 28 hours, the total number of views on Cristiano Ronaldo’s channel has exceeded 120 million, from just 19 videos published, which is a record number of views in two days, and never reached before in the history of the American platform specialized in broadcasting video clips.
Ronaldo already has around 170 million followers on Facebook, 112 on Facebook.
The star platform reported that Ronaldo had already earned around $2.3 million in the first 48 hours after launching the channel, based on the type of advertisers he had on the channel and the number of views, which exceeded 130 million views, and his channel is likely to break other records in the coming days.
