| Net Worth | $25 million |
| Salary | $3 million |
Marques Brownlee Net Worth
As of 2023, Brownlee’s net worth was $25 million according to CAknowledge. His adaptability in each of the fields he has worked in has helped him build up his wealth. His work as a professional ultimate Frisbee player and YouTuber is his main source of income.
Marques Brownlee Salary
Marques Brownlee, an American YouTuber and professional ultimate Frisbee player, earns $3 million year and $334,000 monthly.
| Annual Salary | $3 million |
| Monthly Salary | $334,000 |
Who is Marques Brownlee?
MKBHD, or Marques Brownlee, is a social media figure best known for his technology-focused YouTube channel. His initials (MKBHD) were used to name the channel, and HD stands for high definition.
Marques Brownlee Age
Brownlee is 29 years old as of 2023, he was born on December 3, 1993, in Maplewood, New Jersey, United States.
Marques Brownlee Parents
Marques was born and raised in Maplewood, New Jersey by his caring mother, Jeanine Brownlee, and his father, Marlon Brownlee. He also has one sibling named Simone Brownlee (sister).
Marques Brownlee Wife
Marques is in a relationship with his girlfriend Nikki Hair. The two have posted images with one other on their individual social sites.
Nikki is a normal person and not a popular personality. Yet, the duo is adored and admired by their viewers and followers. Likewise, Brownlee is a quiet and tranquil person. Moreover, Brownlee enjoys listening to music and thinks Wolfgang Gartner is one of the best artists.
Marques Brownlee Education Background
Marques earned his high school diploma from Columbia. He also obtained his bachelor’s degree from Stevens Institute of Technology, majoring in business and information technology, with minors in marketing and information systems.
Marques also earned his undergraduate degree in May 2015 and started working as a full-time YouTuber. Similar to how he created his YouTube videos, he did so in his apartment up until his departure in 2016. And Marques now employs RED video gear in a studio in Kearny, New Jersey.
Marques Brownlee Career Background
On March 21, 2008, Brownlee became a YouTuber. He began making technological films regarding new things or reviews of products he previously had in January 2009, while still in high school. Screencasting was how he made his first videos.
His initial few hundred films were mostly freeware and hardware lessons. According to Social Blade, his channel has over 10 million followers as of December 2019, making MKBHD one of the most subscribed technology-focused YouTube channels. On March 29, 2018, Brownlee posted his 1000th video.
Brownlee’s reviews have also been featured on other review sites. In January 2012, Engadget promoted the site by featuring his tour of Insync, a then-new cloud storage service. One of Brownlee’s most popular videos, based on the LG G Flex, was released in November 2013, in which he did several scratch tests to demonstrate the device’s self-healing capacity.
On the first day, the video received one million views. The video has around 8 million views as of December 2019. Brownlee spoke with Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside in December 2013. Brownlee conducted the first over-the-air interview with Evan Blass in May 2014.
Brownlee’s video assessment and scratch test of a purported 4.7-inch sapphire display component for the iPhone 6, which he posted on July 7, 2014, went viral almost immediately, with articles appearing on The Verge, Forbes, HuffPost, CNET, and Time Magazine. The footage was broadcast on NBC News and published in newspapers all around the world.
The video has over 9.1 million views on YouTube and over 62,000 ratings as of November 2020. Brownlee also has a similar video about a dummy model of the iPhone 6 that was released a few months ago and has already received over 6.58 million views on YouTube (as of December 2019).
Brownlee had an interview with NBA basketball player Kobe Bryant in December 2015, titled Talking Tech with Kobe Bryant!, in which he discusses Kobe’s tech interests and the most recent Kobe-designed Nike sneakers, the Kobe 11.
Brownlee questioned the candidates, via video, whether tech companies and the government can reach a middle path on encryption while respecting rights to privacy and national security during one of the 2016 Democratic presidential primary debates cosponsored by YouTube.
During the debut of Apple’s latest MacBook Pro 2016, he interviewed Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering. After WWDC 2020 in June, the latter was invited back to Brownlee’s channel.
He spoke with Neil deGrasse Tyson in March 2018. Brownlee was named Shorty Awards Creator of the Decade in April 2018. Brownlee was a guest on Hot Ones in June 2018. In August 2018, he interviewed Tesla CEO Elon Musk and shot a Tesla Factory Tour with Elon Musk with the help of TLD (Jonathan Morrison)! Brownlee was featured in YouTube Rewind in December 2018, and he later released a video detailing his dissatisfaction with the series.
In February of this year, he conducted an interview with Bill Gates. Prior to Microsoft’s Surface unveiling in October 2019, he interviewed Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella as well as actor Will Smith.
On December 18, 2019, Marques Brownlee surpassed a milestone of ten million subscribers.
In February 2020, he will interview Bill Gates once more. He spoke with Mark Zuckerberg on holograms and the future of virtual reality in September 2020. He spoke with Barack Obama in December 2020 about the employment of technology and social media in government. He was named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list in the social media category in December 2020.
Marques interviewed Google CEO Sundar Pichai in May 2021 about future technology and artificial intelligence.
His channel and videos were included to the Nebula streaming service in May 2021, where videos are free of ads and sponsorship.
Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast
Brownlee and Andrew Manganelli, who is a producer for the MKBHD YouTube channel, co-host a technology podcast. Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast is the name of the podcast, which is also known as Waveform and WVFRM. Consumer electronics and related subjects are the emphasis of the program. On July 31, 2019, the first episode aired. On August 13, 2019, Brownlee introduced the podcast on his YouTube channel in a video titled “Introducing Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast!” iJustine, Mark Zuckerberg, Craig Federighi, and Carl Pei are among the high-profile guests who have been on the show.