YouTube Play Buttons

YouTube Play Buttons, a part of the YouTube Creator Rewards, act as recognition by YouTube of its most popular channels.

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. 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.

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 YouTube Gaming channels can also enable channel membership.
• Bronze, for channels that reach or surpass 10,000 subscribers. If a channel is monetized, this level adds a Teespring monetization option, which is only visible in the United States.

Awards

When a verified YouTuber 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. The trophies are of different sizes: each button and plaque gets progressively bigger the more subscribers the channel gets.

There are currently three different tiers of rewards, 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. The new version (as of March 1, 2017) is 92% nickel, 5% carbon and 2.5% zinc, with traces of other metals. 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 it.
2. The Gold Play Button, for channels that reach or surpass 1 million subscribers. It is made of gold-plated brass. 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.
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 of crystal in the shape of a play button triangle. There are currently 374 channels that have reached this level.
4. The Custom Play Button, for channels that reach or surpass 50 million subscribers. There are currently three channels that have reached this level:
5. The Red Diamond Play Button, for channels who reach over 100 million subscribers. There are currently only four YouTube channels that have received this award, that being of YouTuber PewDiePie, the Indian music label T-Series, Cocomelon and SET India.

• 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 a fist bump, stylized to resemble the letter P, 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.
• T-Series was the second YouTube channel to achieve 50,000,000 subscribers. The company received its Custom Play Button on September 11, 2018. The award features the letter T 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 has yet to receive a Custom Play Button.

Other

The YouTube Rewind series features a special "rewind" version of the Play Button, starting with YouTube Rewind: What Does 2013 Say?.

References

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