Top Irish YouTuber details rise to stardom

In just 10 years, YouTube has gone from a start-up idea by three former PayPal employees to a video-sharing behemoth where more than 300 hours of video are uploaded every minute of every day.

It’s a phenomenal success story and one that has spawned mini-industries in homes all over the world as popular “YouTubers” forge successful careers making videos watched by millions around the world.

Based in Athlone in Westmeath, Seán McLoughlin, 25, is Ireland’s most successful YouTuber. He runs the gaming channel JackSepticEye which, this week, topped one billion total views. More than 3.2m people from all over the world subscribe to his channel, with his videos routinely getting millions of hits.