Cristiano Ronaldo is the most followed person on Instagram and has posted regularly in the face of pandemic for the last few months.
From his fitness routine to family pictures to him getting a haircut, the Portuguese superstar has posted a lot of content for his 222 million followers.
With such a huge following Ronaldo is able to earn quite a lot through sponsored posts on his page.
According Attain which researched all the athletes and released the list of athlete who earned the most during the lock down.
Ronaldo topped the list with Messi and Neymar behind him respectively at second and third position.
Between 12th March and 14th May, Ronaldo earned £470,584 per sponsored post.
In total he made four sponsored posts which in total earned him £1,882,336.
Messi was second with £1.3m and Neymar third with £1.2m.
The list of Top 10 athletes is down below:
| Player Name | Followers | Earnings per post | Sponsored posts | Earnings | |
| 1 | Cristiano Ronaldo | 219m | £470,584 | 4 | £1,882,336 |
| 2 | Lionel Messi | 151m | £324,843 | 4 | £1,299,373 |
| 3 | Neymar | 138m | £298,053 | 4 | £1,192,211 |
| 4 | Shaquille O’Neal | 17m | £36,477 | 16 | £583,628 |
| 5 | David Beckham | 62.9m | £135,120 | 3 | £405,359 |
| 6 | Virat Kohli | 59m | £126,431 | 3 | £379,294 |
| 7 | Zlatan Ibrahimovic | 42.9m | £92,206 | 2 | £184,413 |
| 8 | Dwyane Wade | 16.6m | £35,787 | 4 | £143,146 |
| 9 | Dani Alves | 31.1m | £66,847 | 2 | £133,694 |
| 10 | Anthony Joshua | 11.3m | £24,300 | 5 | £121,500 |
