Anna Akana Net Worth And Income Sources

Anna Akana Net Worth And Income Sources at a glance

Anna Akana net worth is $1 million on estimating roughly.

Anna Kay Akana is an American Youtuber with an estimated net worth of close to 1 million. Her YouTube channel has been posted with various videos, including comedy, music, poetry, short films, & much more.

Anna Akana’s net worth is $1 million on estimated roughly. Credit: Instagram @annaakana

How much money does Anna Akana earn in a Year?

Based on our analysis below, we estimated that Anna Akana Net Worth is around $774k per year from different sources yearly.

The truth is no sources have a credible view on this question: how much does Anna Akana Net Worth? 

She has a wide range of income sources. She has been a part of comedy shows, podcasts, movies, web series, documentaries, music videos, and much more. She’s also a writer, producer, and filmmaker and has acted, produced, and written numerous of them.

Anna Akana Net Worth: Anna Akana makes around $774k per year from different sources yearly. Credit: Instagram @annaakana

How does Anna Akana make money?

Anna Akana’s sources of income are listed below:

  • YouTube
  • Filmmaker, writer, actor, producer, and special appearances
  • Commercials

Income Source 1: YouTube Channel

Anna Akana makes an estimated $74,000 from YouTube per year.

Anna Akana has 2.81 million subscribers and 368 million views in total, which makes her quite a successful YouTube so far. 

Anna Akana  YouTube ChannelsSubscriberViewsLife Time Earning Est.Est. Earning 2020
Anna Akana2.81 M368 M$1.4 M$74.3k

It’s hard to assess Anna’s popularity without considering her all-time top viewed videos on YouTube. So, let’s dig deeper about the August birthed young star down below:

VideoPublished DateViewsEst. Earning
3 Things I Wish I Knew Before Having Sex22 March 201811,334,960$45,340
Take Your Birth Control19 October 20176,803,204$27,213
Truth or Dare with Rape13 March 20176,474,944$25,900
Why Guys Like Asian Girls // Anna Akana27 July 20146,412,695$25,651
If Women Ruled The World8 March 20164,471,051$17,884
Total35,496,854$141,988

Note: According to Forbes, popular and most viewed YouTubers could earn up to $5 per thousand views. However, some analytical platforms estimate between $3 to $5. On deep analysis, we have used $4 for every thousand views in the above estimation.

Anna Akana makes an estimated $74,000 from YouTube per year. Credit: Instagram @annaakana

Income Source 2: Filmmaker, writer, actor,  producer, and special appearances

Anna Akana makes $50-100k from various media work every year.

Anna Akana Net Worth has produced, acted, and hosted several short films, series from semi-autobiographical, self-help comedic to informative stories on and off her YouTube.

She also signed her first book deal (“So Much I Want to Tell You: Letters To My Little Sister”) with Random House/Ballantine in June 2017. Along with YouTube, Akana’s current net worth is the sum for her acts in the following: 

  • 10 Seconds Traumas (Director, Writer & Executive Producer)
  • Command Center (Director & Writer)
  • Hipsters (Director)
  • Miss 2059 (Director, Creator, Executive Producer)
  • Youth & Consequences (Creator and Executive Producer)

Apart from doing web series, production, and filmmaking, Akana has also set her foot in Hollywood. She was featured in, Here Is She (also a writer), Ant-man (also cameo), and also offered a voice role in NextGen, a Netflix animated Film. 

Anna won the “Streamy Award” for acting in Youth & Consequences and the Digital pioneer award at San Diego Asian Film Festival.

Anna Akana Net Worth: Anna Akana dropped her first studio album, “Casualty” in 2019 and extended plays No Long Hours in 2021. Credit: Pink News

Income Source 3: Commercials

Anna can be earning ~$10-50k per year from commercials.

She has appeared in TV commercials for Best Buy, Pepsi, and Truth (Anti-smoking PSA). 

The interesting part comes if Anna has an agreement that pays her every time the commercial airs, according to Wrapbook. The more the commercial airs, the more Anna gets paid. Even if she is sleeping, she still makes money. This is what Warren Buffet refers to as sleep money or passive income in general. 

Anna earns ~$10-50k per year from commercial appearance and sponsorship. Credit: Anna Akana Twitter

Anna Akana Early Life & Career

She was born on 18 August 1989 in the United States; Akana’s father was in the US Marine Corps. In 2007, on Valentine, her younger sister committed suicide at the age of 13 years. Anna Akana had a mental and emotional breakdown shortly afterward, and it took several months to cope with the trauma.

She made a YouTube video titled “Please Don’t Kill Yourself” and released a book “Surviving Suicide” in the same year. She further adds, watching Margret Cho on Comedy Central helped her out of the trauma and inspired her to pursue a career in comedy.


The most popular video of Anna Akana is 3 Things I Wish I Knew Before Having Sex:


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Anna Akana Net Worth Wiki / Biography / Age / Weight

Legal NameAnna Kay Napualani Akana
Anna Akana Net Worth$1 million
Source of Anna Akana Net WorthYouTubeFilmmaker, Writer, Actor & ProducerAppearance in Music Videos, TV Shows and DocumentariesBrand Endorsement
Date of Born 19 August 1989
Place of BirthUnited States
GenderFemale
Height160 cm, 5’3 feet
Weight55 kg
ReligionBuddhism
Marital StatusUnmarried
BoyfriendSingle (present)
Ray William Johnson (2011-2014)Brad Gage (2014-2017)Gorge Watsky (2017-2018)
Children N/A
Children NameN/A
NationalityAmerican 
Social mediaTwitter: https://twitter.com/annaakana

Frequently Asked Questions about Anna Akana Net Worth

Does Anna Akana has a boyfriend or is she straight or bisexual?

As per media and reports, she had been dating hip-hop artist, poet, and author George Watsky from 2017 to 2018. 

She once revealed her bi-sexuality on NigaHiga podcats.

What Anna Akana does to confront her fear of mortality induced due to her younger sister’s death?

According to her interview with the Jed Foundation, she practices mindfulness and meditation. She added that she sees death as her family member and accepts it is inevitable. Hence, live to the fullest.

Name the directors that Anna Akana admired and why?

The Guardians of the Galaxy’s director James Gunn. And she wants to reach such epitome in direction and not specifically a Science fiction but a comedic science fiction.

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