YouTube Creator Awards List: All the Play Buttons and How You Get Them
YouTube is a platform that has evolved significantly since its humble beginnings in 2005. As a result of the drastic increase in popularity of the site, the biggest creators have amassed serious followings over the years.
As more and more creators started achieving what was once considered impossible milestones, YouTube developed a commendable system to directly reward those who amassed different levels of subscribers on the site. While there are many awards that most will be familiar with, there are some at the higher-end that may surprise even the most dedicated fans.
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The Silver Play Button is the first YouTube Creator Award that can be earned, although that is not to say that it is any easy feat. YouTubers will have to reach a highly respectable 100,000 subscribers on a channel to be eligible for a Silver Play Button, which will come engraved with their channel name and include a signed letter from YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki.
Although smaller than the other play buttons, the Silver Play Button's prestige is still more than present, as evidenced in it being made of 92% nickel. The Silver Play Button was first created in 2013, and over 300,000 have been given out to this day, further establishing the massive scale of the YouTube platform.
The second tier of YouTube Creator Awards comes with the Gold Play Button. Being quite a big step above the aforementioned Silver, the Gold Play Button requires a creator to amass over 1,000,000 subscribers.
To further convey this massive achievement, the Gold Play Button is significantly larger than its Silver counterpart, and is made of gold-plated brass. The Gold Play Button was the first Creator Award to be implemented, being introduced originally in
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