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The world of entertainment has changed dramatically in the last few years.

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The screen stars of today aren't just from film or from television. They're gaining fame on the Web.

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Jim Boulden shows us how people are making a living from posting their video.

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Fast cars on cramped streets.

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It may be hard for these rare supercars to get a head of steam on London's streets, but they still grab the attention.

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As a teenager, Paul Wallace decided to post videos of these cars.

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At the age of 15, I literally... I just uploaded it to YouTube and showed my friends,

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and so it's really sort of gone on from there.

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And people are obviously searching to find that sort of stuff.

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There are now some 700 videos and more than 58,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel, Supercars of London.

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I think from day one, there was an instant sort of attraction to seeing these cars on the road,

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because normally, they'd seen them in magazines and on TV shows, like Top Gear.

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So, it was sort of... I was bringing them to life sort of thing.

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And within sort of a few months, there was sort of a thousand views on one video.

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Through Google AdSense, Paul now gets a cut of every ad that runs ahead of his videos.

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He says he's now making $2,500 a month.

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I think it was when I really put a business plan to Google, when I applied for the Google AdSense partnership.

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Me and my friend at the time, we wrote a business plan and sort of told them how much money and time we were gonna be investing.

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Paul still goes into central London most weekends seeking out a rare auto,

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leaving behind his own Audi R8 sports car, recently bought with his YouTube earnings.

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A lot of people would think now that I've got a supercar, that's it.

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I still go to London by train and film these supercars with all of my friends that I've met over the past five years.

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I'd like to think that I'm sort of a mini business entrepreneur.

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These cars normally ply the streets of the Gulf states.

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As the summer comes in and I'm there more, you do meet a lot of Arabs.

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And they're all very friendly and very polite, and some of them even study at university now and become good friends.

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They love it, so I'm taking them up and down here...

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They're quite excited by being in a Ferrari.

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They love it, video it, put it on Instagram, start following, and everyone kind of just meets up at the weekend. I think it's quite good.

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Paul also handles the social media for a high-end auto repair company in Watford outside London, mixing his passion with business sense.

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I found something very early on and I was lucky, lucky enough to find something that I enjoyed doing very early on, and it just so happens that it earns money.

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I always had an ambition; I wanted to own a Lamborghini by 25.

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So, an Audi R8 at 23 is like a step there.

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So, he's got two years and a lot more uploading to reach his goal of perhaps filming his own Lamborghini on the streets of London.