Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo was the world's first man who was able to gain a billion subscribers on social networks. A message about this appeared in the accounts of the athlete. The total number turned out to be added to Ronaldo's audience on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, as well as Chinese services Kuaishou and Weibo.
“From the streets of Madeira to the largest sites of the world-I always played for my family and for you,” the 39-year-old player of the Portuguese team thanked his audience. And he promised not to stop there: "The best is still ahead."
Almost two -thirds of the subscribers, about 639 million, at the football player are on Instagram. On Facebook, he has about 170 million friends, in X - about 113 million followers. Ronaldo brought an account on YouTube a month ago, but in the first week 50 million users signed up .
On the Web, a photo of a young Messi with a baby in her arms is now a 16-year-old star Euro 2024, who broke a long-term record Pele Society for 3 minutes of Reading
The British BBC noted that a billion subscribers does not mean a living audience of a billion people, since users can monitor a blogger on different platforms, and some of the users are bots. However, a billion is an unconditional achievement, said the BBC expert on social networks from Pp Foresight Paolo Paolo. This is a “stunning number” that “emphasizes the fundamental shift taking place in the media,” the expert said. The brands will surely pay close attention to this number of subscribers, added a pancreas.
A sedentary lifestyle can lead to a “dead priest's syndrome”, what is it and how to avoid it? Society 5 minutes of reading
In second place in the size of the audience in social networks is now the American singer and actress Selena Gomez with 690 million subscribers, BBC calculations say. In third place is the Argentinean footballer Lionel Messi, followed by 630 million users. The fourth and fifth places were taken by American actor Justin Bieber (607 million subscribers) and American singer Taylor Swift (574 million subscribers). Unlike their main rivals, Ronaldo has no accounts in Tiktok and Threads.
Ronaldo is the best scorer in the history of the UEFA Champions League, he scored more goals at the European Championship and spent more matches for the national team than any other football player. According to Forbes magazine, the annual earnings of Ronaldo are now reaching $ 260 million - this is the highest indicator among all the athletes of the planet. About 60 million - it falls on advertising contracts, including with Binance crypto accounts, Nike, Herbalife brands and other partners.
In order not to miss the main materials of the "cold", subscribe to our social networks!