
YouTube introduced the first YouTube Creator Award, a Gold Play Button, in VidCon 2012. Society Awards, an American company responsible for making high-profile awards like the Emmys or the Golden Globe Awards, was also tasked with manufacturing the YouTube Creator Awards. People might imagine that this means having a different play button to play videos for that channel, but no, this is a plaque, a physical model resembling a play button.

When they achieve a specific milestone in terms of subscribers, YouTube awards the channels a YouTube Play Button. How To Improve Your YouTube Channel Content.How to Achieve the Red Diamond Play Button.


One reason for attraction to YouTube is its policy of giving rewards to content creators. Nevertheless, a large part of the upcoming generation of US, also known as the Gen-Z, have placed an unsurmountable faith in careers on YouTube.Īs the hopes of popularity and showcasing talents meet the profit for a channel, it becomes harder to leave YouTube and go back to a 9-to-5 job. The term ‘content creation’ on social platforms as an authentic source of income or an official occupation is hard to swallow for many parents whose kids find YouTube more important than school or college.

People from all over the world, may it be the people residing in villages of Africa, showing their architectural skills, or the people from the other end of the world vlogging about their culture, are getting rewarded and paid for their hard work. With the constant audience on this platform, this has become a business platform for many people. As the YouTube awards hit their 10th anniversary this year, it is essential to discuss their worth in monetary terms and how it elevates the image of a channel.Īfter Google, YouTube is the most visited site in the US according to a survey, a person spends about 19 minutes of the day on YouTube.
