YouTube play buttons are YouTube Creator Awards for the YouTube channels that have meet the relevant requirements. In this MiniTool article, we will introduce 3 YouTube play buttons plus 2 YouTube ruby play buttons to you. Some representatives are also shown here.
What Is YouTube Play Buttons?
YouTube play buttons are also known as YouTube Creator Awards. They are the YouTube gifts that mean to recognize the most popular YouTube channels.
YouTube play buttons are based on the subscriber count of a YouTube channel. But, they are offered at the YouTube’s sole discretion. To make sure that the channel follows the YouTube community guideline, each channel will be reviewed before a YouTube Creator Award is issued.
For example, YouTube has the right to refuse to hand out a YouTube Creator Award is the channel contains some horror or political content.
Benefit Levels and Awards
Now, we will talk about the YouTube play button levels. Here, we will show you two respects:
Benefit Levels
The benefit levels are not the physical and announcement awards. Instead, they are the alternative benefits.
Here are the three levels:
- Graphite: this level is for the YouTube channels that have reached or surpassed 100 subscribers.
- Opal: this level is for the YouTube channels that have 1,000 or more subscribers. This is among the three requirements that are applied to the YouTube Partner Program for monetization. The other two requirements are a minimum of 4,000 total viewer watch hours in the past 12 months and a review of the YouTube channel’s content to determine eligibility. Besides, the YouTube channels with monetization can enable the Super Chat feature and the gaming channels can also enable channel membership.
- Bronze: this level is for the YouTube channels that have reached or surpassed 10,000 subscribers. If a YouTube channel is monetized, a Teespring monetization option will be added to this level.
YouTube Creator Awards
When a YouTube channel can get the YouTube Creator Awards? Here are the requirements:
- It should be a verified YouTube channel that has reaches a specific milestone.
- It should be deemed eligible for a YouTube Creator Reward.
If a YouTube channel meets these two requirements, it can be awarded a relatively flat trophy in a metal casing with a YouTube play button symbol. Different types of trophies have different sizes: each button and plaque gets progressively bigger with the channel’s subscriber count.
At present, there are 3 different tiers. Besides, there are two ruby play buttons that have been awarded a few times. We will show them as follows:
YouTube Silver Play Button
The Silver Creator Award is for the YouTube channels that have reached or surpassed 100,000 subscribers. The Silver Play Button has a new appearance since March 2018. It is made of 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 it. YouTube channels at this level are also eligible to apply for a digital verification badge.
YouTube Gold Play Button
The Gold Creator Award is for the YouTube channels that have reached or surpassed 1,000,000 subscribers. It is made of gold-plated brass. The look is the same with the Silver Creator Award.
YouTube Diamond Play Button
The Gold Creator Award is for the YouTube channels that have reached or surpassed 10,000,000 subscribers. It is different from other two awards since it is made of silver-plated metal inset with a large piece of colorless crystal in the shape of a play button triangle. Till now (February 2020), 566 channels have reached this level.
The following two Awards are the ruby play buttons and very few channels have get them.
YouTube Custom Play Button
The YouTube Custom Creator Award is for the YouTube channels that have reached or surpassed 50,000,000 subscribers. As of March 2020, there are 12 channels that have reached this level, including PewDiePie, T-Series, 5-Minute Crafts, Cocomelon, SET India, KondZilla, WWE, Justin Bieber, Zee Music Company, Dude Perfect, Kids Diana Show and Like Nastya.
YouTube Red Diamond Play Button
The YouTube Red Diamond Creator Award is for the YouTube channels that have reached or surpassed 100,000,000 subscribers. It has a play button triangle with a large dark red crystal. Till now, 2 channels have reached this level and they are PewDiePie and T-Series.
Bottom Line
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