YouTube Play Buttons

ouTube of its most popular channels.[1]

YouTube Play Buttons, a part of the YouTube Creator Rewards, act as recognition by Y

These are distinct from the YouTube Awards, which were intended to recognize the best quality videos. YouTube Creator Rewards
are based on a channel's subscriber count, but are awarded at the sole discretion of YouTube. Each channel is reviewed before an
award is issued, to ensure that the channel follows the YouTube community guidelines.[1] YouTube reserves the right to refuse to
hand out a Creator Reward, which it did not previously award to select channels with horror or political content, as well as various
critics.[2][3]

Contents
Benefits and awards
Benefit levels
Awards
Other
References

Benefits and awards

Benefit levels
These levels do not include awards, but offer alternative benefits instead:

Graphite, for channels that have fewer than 1,000 subscribers.

Opal, for channels that reach or surpass 1,000 subscribers. It is also one of three requirements to apply to the
YouTube Partner Program for monetization, the other two being a minimum of 4,000 total viewer watch hours in the
past 12 months and a review of the channel's content to determine eligibility
. Channels with monetization can also
enable Super Chat, while gaming channels can also enable channel membership. [4]

Bronze, for channels that reach or surpass 10,000 subscribers. If a channel is monetized, this level adds a
Teespring monetization option.[5]

Awards
When a verified YouTuber reaches a specific milestone and is deemed eligible for a YouTube Creator Reward,[1] they are awarded a
relatively flat trophy in a metal casing with a YouTube play button symbol. The trophies are of different sizes: each button and plaque
[6]
gets progressively bigger the more subscribers the channel gets.

There are currently three different tiers of rewards,[1] plus a fourth that has been awarded only three times:

1. The Silver Play Button, for channels that reach or surpass 100,000 subscribers. The old version was made of
nickel-plated cupronickel alloy.[7] The new version (as of March 1, 2017) is 92% nickel, 5% carbon and 2.5% zinc,
with traces of other metals.[8] In March 2018 the look of the Silver Play Button was updated from a metal button
housed within a window box with the channel's name printed on the front glass pane to a cleaner-looking flat
designed metal plaque award featuring the channel's name embossed on [9] it.
2. The Gold Play Button, for channels that reach or surpass 1 million subscribers. It is made ofgold-plated
brass.[7] In March 2018 the look of the Gold Play Button was updated from a metal button housed within a window
box with the channel's name printed on the front glass pane to a cleaner-looking flat designed metal plaque award
featuring the channel name's embossed on it.[9][10][11]
 3. The Diamond Play Button, for channels that reach or surpass 10 million subscribers. It is made of silver-plated
metal inset with a large piece ofcrystal in the shape of a play button triangle.[12][13] There are currently 385 channels
that have reached this level.[14]
4. The Ruby Play Button, for channels that reach or surpass 50 million subscribers. There are currently three
channels that have reached this level:[14]

PewDiePie was the first YouTuber to achieve 50,000,000 subscribers, on December 18, 2016. He
received a Custom Play Button. It was made in the shape of his channel's logo: the front of a hand
giving a "bro fist", or afist bump, stylized to resemble the letterP, and was red in color. It also came
with several mini-awards to be gifted to subscribers that had been subscribed the longest and were still
active. It is not referenced in the Creators Award page.[15][16]
T-Series was the second YouTube channel to achieve 50,000,000 subscribers. The company received
its Custom Play Button on September 11, 2018. [17][18] The award features the letterT engraved inside
it via vitrography. Unlike PewDiePie's reward, T-Series' is colorless, indicating that each channel that
reaches 50 million subscribers will receive a customized award, not necessarily red in color .
5-Minute Crafts reached 50 million subscribers in February 2019. It is yet to receive a Ruby Play
Button.

Other
[19]
The YouTube Rewind series uses a "rewind" version of the Play Button as its logo since 2013.

References
1. "YouTube Creator Rewards" (https://www.youtube.com/yt/creators/rewards.html). YouTube. Retrieved April 12, 2016.
2. Weiss, Geoff (February 6, 2018). "YouTube On 'Play Button' Awards: "Not All Creators Who Apply Will Receive
Awards" - Tubefilter" (https://www.tubefilter.com/2018/02/06/youtube-play-button-awards-not-all-creators-recei
ve/).
Tubefilter.com. Retrieved June 9, 2018.
3. Alexander, Julia (February 2, 2018)."YouTube says 'not all creators who apply' for Creator A
wards will receive them"
(https://www.polygon.com/2018/2/2/16965826/youtube-creator-awards-silver-button-controversy) . Polygon.com.
Retrieved June 9, 2018.
4. "Channel memberships eligibility, policies, & guidelines - YouTube Help" (https://support.google.com/youtube/answe
r/7636690). YouTube Help. Retrieved May 6, 2019.
5. Alexander, Julia (June 21, 2018)."YouTube partners with Teespring to help creators sell official merchandise" (http
s://www.polygon.com/2018/6/21/17484512/teespring-youtube-creators-merch). Polygon. Retrieved August 21, 2018.
6. "YouTube Creator Hub" (https://www.youtube.com/yt/creators). YouTube. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
7. "What is the Gold Play Button REALLY Made Of?" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHA2HbNtcG4). YouTube.
Retrieved June 6, 2017.
8. "What is the NEW Silver Play Button REALL
Y made of?!" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kRy6r2e-bM).
YouTube. Retrieved April 29, 2018.
9. "YouTube's silver and gold play buttons are getting a new look"(https://socialblade.com/blog/youtube-silver-gold-play
-buttons-refresh/). SocialBlade.com. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
10. Acuna, Kirsten (July 19, 2012)."YouTube Is Rewarding Its Most Popular Users With Gold"(http://www.businessinsid
er.com/largest-youtube-channels-receive-gold-play-buttons-2012-7). Business Insider. Retrieved April 12, 2016.
11. Cohen, Joshua (June 29, 2012)."YouTube Gives 24-Karat Gold 'Play Button' to Channels with 1M+ Subs"(http://ww
w.tubefilter.com/2012/06/29/youtube-gold-play-button-million-subscribers/)
. Tubefilter. Retrieved April 12, 2016.
12. Brouwer, Bree (July 24, 2015)."YouTube Gives New Diamond Play Button T o Channels With 10 Million Subscribers"
(http://www.tubefilter.com/2015/07/24/youtube-diamond-play-button-10-million-subscribers
/). Tubefilter. Retrieved
April 12, 2016.
13. Dillon, Poppy (August 3, 2015)."YouTube Announced Diamond Play Button"(http://teneightymagazine.com/2015/08/
03/youtube-announces-diamond-play-button/). TenEighty. Retrieved April 12, 2016.
14. "Top 500 Subscribed YouTube Channels (Sorted by Subscriber Count)"(https://socialblade.com/youtube/top/500/mo
stsubscribed). Social Blade. Retrieved April 21, 2019.
15. "PewdiePie's video on receiving the award"(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vj5M0qKh8g). YouTube. Retrieved
May 1, 2017.
16. "YouTube Sends PewDiePie Custom Ruby Play Button oT Commemorate 50 Million Subscribers"(http://www.tubefilt
er.com/2016/12/19/pewdiepie-ruby-play-button-youtube-50-million-subscribers/). TubeFilter.com. Retrieved May 1,
2017.
17. @KEEMSTAR (September 11, 2018)."YouTube awarded @TSeries with a 50 Million Play Button"(https://twitter.co
m/KEEMSTAR/status/1039454423011999744) (Tweet). Retrieved September 30, 2018 – via Twitter.
18. "Photographic image" (https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/youtube/images/d/d6/T-
Series_50_million_play_button.jpg). Vignette.wikia.nocookie.net. Retrieved March 26, 2019.
19. YouTube (December 11, 2013).YouTube Rewind: What Does 2013 Say?(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoRR
ybrFR0c) on YouTube

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