A million dollars per post. How much athletes earn on Instagram

In addition to multi-million dollar contracts, sports stars earn money from advertising on their social networks. Athletes with millions of followers actively sell their audience to advertisers for a tidy sum. Portal Hopper published a rating of athletes with the most expensive advertising in Instagram. We have collected the top 10 – there are a lot of footballers and a cricket player.

Cristiano Ronaldo

Type of sport: soccer
Followers: 176 million
How much a post costs: $975k.

Cristiano Ronaldo takes the top spot by a wide margin. The star of Juventus and the Portuguese national team promotes his own brands a lot, as well as Nike, Clear, Herbalife and other famous brands.

Neymar

Type of sport: soccer
Subscribers: 123 million
How much is the post worth: $ 722 thousand.

Neymar has displaced Messi in this rating. The Brazilian advertises Nike, Red Bull, perfume from Diesel and Beats headphones.

Leo Messi

Type of sport: soccer
Subscribers: 126 million
How much does the post cost: $ 648 thousand.

Leo Messi in his Instagram most of all publishes photos of his family, and of the brands there are firmly settled adidas, Otro, Lays and “MessiCircus” from Cirque du Soleil.

David Beckham

Sport: soccer
Subscribers: 57.5 million
How much does a post cost: $ 357 thousand.

David made it to the top 5, despite the fact that he has already finished his sports career. The Englishman advertises not only world-famous brands, such as Adidas, Otro or Tudor Watch, but also places where he goes: barbershops, restaurants and other locations in England and the United States.

LeBron James

Type of sport: basketball
Subscribers: 50.7 million
How much a post costs: $272k.

The NBA star doesn’t have many direct ads, but it’s hard to find a photo in the account that doesn’t feature Nike.

Ronaldinho

Type of sport: soccer
Subscribers: 47 million
How much the post is worth: $256k.

Ronaldinho does not shy away from any advertising, in his account advertising Nike and his own soccer academy is adjacent to the promotion of wine, beer, bookmakers and even investments in bitcoins.

Gareth Bale

Type of sport: soccer
Subscribers: 40.6 million
How much a post is worth: $218k.

Gareth Bale, who now has not everything smooth in “Real Madrid”, actively advertises only adidas. And also the Welsh loves golf.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Type of sport: soccer
Subscribers: 37.4 million
How much does a post cost: $ 200 thousand.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s narcissism is legendary. Here and on his page he prefers to promote his own brand of self-care products. Among the major advertisers in the Swede’s account most often glimpses Samsung.

Virat Kohli

Sport: cricket
Subscribers: 38 million
How much is the post worth: $ 196 thousand.

To some, the emergence of cricket player Virat Kohli may seem surprising. But outside of Russia, cricket is very popular, especially in Kohli’s home country of India. With nearly 38 million followers, Kohli advertises to an Indian audience for Puma and many local brands, from clothing to energy drinks.

Luis Suarez

Sport: soccer
Subscribers: 34.4 million
How much a post is worth: $184k.

Probably Luis Suarez was supposed to advertise toothpaste, but in the account of the Barcelona striker everything is more prosaic: Puma, Otro and smartphone accessories.