

Each channel is reviewed before an award is issued, to ensure that the channel follows the YouTube community guidelines.

They are based on a channel's subscriber count but are offered at the sole discretion of YouTube. YouTube Creator Awards, commonly known as YouTube Play Buttons or YouTube Plaques, are a series of awards from YouTube that aim to recognize its most popular channels.

creators /how-things-work /get-involved /awards / I'm grateful that we got the very first iteration of the award, which was actually quite hefty back then!” he shares.A 100,000 subscriber award gifted to Squirrel MonkeyĪchieving a subscriber milestone on YouTube Not only was hitting 1M subscribers a huge accomplishment, but for YouTube to acknowledge it definitely gave us a sense of validation and motivation. “It was so cool when we got our first award. Philip Wang, co-founder of Wong Fu Productions, started a channel producing music videos and short films that has since become a successful independent digital production company. What truly demonstrates the power of creators’ success is how we continue to see many first recipients of the Gold Creator Award still thriving today on YouTube. The past 10 years of awarded creators shows how they have been able to not only grow an audience, but change their lives through launching ancillary products and businesses – thus perpetuating the expansion of the creator economy. In fact, in our latest YouTube Impact Report, we found that creators in the US have contributed over $25 billion to the US GDP and created an estimated 425,000 full-time equivalent jobs. Each tier reflects the impact each creator has had and the contributions they’ve made to culture, society, the economy and people’s daily lives. Today, we award creators with Silver (100K subscribers), Gold (1M subscribers), Diamond (10M subscribers) and Red Diamond (100M subscribers). When we first gave away the original Creator Award - a simple play button inside of a frame - we couldn’t have imagined the status symbol they would become for both creators and their fans.
