5 Types Of YouTube Play Button Awards And How to Get It
5 Types of YouTube Play Button Awards and How to Get it - YouTube is the largest video sharing platform in the world. In April 2019, there are an estimated 2 billion active YouTube users every month. In addition to being able to bring someone to fame, through YouTube you can also get the other most sought-after advantage, of course, money.
Even so, there are many things you must pursue to become a famous YouTubers. Some of them are the number of views, likes, and number of subscribers.
Besides famous and money, YouTubers content creator can also get special awards directly from YouTube itself. Yes, YouTube does not hesitate to give prizes and awards to its active and accomplished content creators, called YouTube Creator Awards (YouTube Play Button).
The YouTube Play Button, now called the YouTube Creator Awards, is a physical award given to content creators who have reached a certain number of subscribers. Before you can get the YouTube Play Button appreciation, there are few stages of the level of achievement that needs to be passed by a contents creator called the Benefit Level.
YouTube Benefit Levels
The benefit level is a level for content creators who do not have the right to receive physical awards but have reached a certain number of subscribers.
There are 3 levels available based on the number of subscribers owned by the content creator:
- Graphite: Graphite is a level given by YouTube for channels that have less than 1,000 subscribers. There are no more benefits offered by YouTube for this level.
- Opal: Opal is a content creator that has 1,000 to 9,999 subscribers. Opal level YouTubers can submit monetization to YouTube on condition that they get 4,000 views a year and pass the votes.
- Bronze: Bronze is the level reached by content creators when it reaches 10,000 subscribers. If the channel is monetized, content creators have the option to add the Teespring Monetization option.
5 Types of YouTube Play Button Awards and How to Get it
1. Silver Play Button (Silver Creator Award)
If the verified content creator reaches 100,000 subscribers, they can submit to get the Silver Play Button. To be able to get the Silver Play Button level, the content creator channel must go through a YouTube review process first, to ensure that the channel does not violate the rules set by YouTube.
Despite the name "Silver", the Silver Play Button plaque is made of 92% nickel, 5% carbon, 2.5% zinc, and some other metal materials. The size is rather small and has the Play Button logo and channel name on the front of the placard.
2. Gold Play Button (Gold Creator Award)
The Gold Creator Award is an award plaque for selected channels that has reached 1,000,000 subscribers. This plaque is made of brass metal which is coated with a material that resembles. Initially, this award was shaped like a button which was packed in a glass frame.
Now, the design of this award is even simpler, in the form of a placard with the Play Button logo and channel name on the front.
3. Diamond Play Button (Diamond Creator Award)
The Diamond Creator Award is an award given to content creators who have reached 10 million subscribers. There are not many owners of awards, it is estimated that there are only about 432 channels per June 2019.
Unlike before, this award has a unique 3-dimensional shape. The inside of the Play Button logo is made of silver-plated metal. Meanwhile, the outer part is made of luxury crystal.
When shipped, the Diamond Play Button is packed using a black suitcase, similar to real diamonds. Not only the packaging, but the shape of this object is also very similar to real diamonds.
4. Custom Creator Award
The higher the rewards they have, the usually the fewer channels a content creator has. The Custom Creator Award is an award given by YouTube for a channel that has reached 50 million subscribers. Uniquely, until now only 6 channels around the world can reach 50 million subscribers on YouTube because there aren't many YouTube Creator content channels that can fulfill this requirement.
A distinctive advantage that distinguishes the Custom Creator Award with other YouTube awards is that the recipient can order the award in the shape and color they want. PewDiePie is the first channel to receive this award. PewDiePie's Custom Creator Award is in the form of a red BroFist logo. He named the award Ruby Play Button.
5. Red Diamond Creator Award
