YouTube Creator Awards

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YouTube Creator Awards
1 million subscribe play button
Awarded for	Subscriber milestone on YouTube
Country	Worldwide
Presented by	YouTube
First awarded	June 28, 2012; 12 years ago (2012-06-28)
Website	www.youtube.com/creators/awards/

The YouTube Creator Awards (YouTube Play Buttons or YouTube Plaques) are awards that YouTube gives to creators for reaching subscriber goals. Examples of these are the Silver Play button for reaching 100,000 subscribers, the Gold Play button for 1 million subscribers, and it goes on. However, YouTube may choose not to give the button out.^[1][2]

1. ↑ Weiss, Geoff (February 6, 2018). "YouTube On 'Play Button' Awards: "Not All Creators Who Apply Will Receive Awards"". Tubefilter.com. Archived from the original on June 13, 2018. Retrieved June 9, 2018.
2. ↑ Alexander, Julia (February 2, 2018). "YouTube says 'not all creators who apply' for Creator Awards will receive them". Polygon.com. Archived from the original on June 12, 2018. Retrieved June 9, 2018.