These are not eligible for Creator Rewards, but they do offer several preliminary benefits: Prior to March 2021, YouTube featured three additional benefit levels. The Creator Awards are made by the New York firm Society Awards. The Gold Creator Award was introduced at VidCon 2012, alongside the Silver Creator Award at VidCon 2013 and the Diamond Creator Award at VidCon 2015.

The trophies are of different sizes: each button and plaque gets progressively bigger with the channel's subscriber count. When a YouTube channel reaches a specific milestone and is deemed eligible for a YouTube Creator Reward, they are awarded a relatively flat trophy in a metal casing with a YouTube play button symbol. YouTube reserves the right to refuse to hand out a Creator Award, which it has done for channels featuring horror or extremist political content. 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 /

A 100,000 subscriber award gifted to Squirrel MonkeyĪchieving a subscriber milestone on YouTube

The red diamond creator award