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’s name embossed on it.
The Red Diamond Play Button is a special award by YouTube given to channels who reach 100,000,000 (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.
To celebrate your achievements YouTube created the YouTube Creator Awards. … 100,000 Subscribers – Silver Play Button. 1,000.000 Subscribers – Gold Play Button. 10,000.000 Subscribers – Diamond Play Button.
To get the very first plaque, you need to get 100,000 subscribers. After crossing this milestone, the channel owner is presented with a silver Play button as a reward.
Some creators have claimed that they received a bronze play button after reaching 100 subscribers, but they made this button themselves. While you do not get a bronze play button at 100 subscribers, you do become eligible to create a custom URL for your channel, which is arguably more useful to your channel’s success.
PewDiePie receives Ruby Play Button Brofist from YouTube after hitting 50 million subscribers! It’s the first Ruby Play Button EVER!
The Custom Play Button or Ruby Play Button is a creator award given to YouTubers for reaching 50 million subscribers. It has no definite shape or color and as the name suggests is custom made with the channel’s logo and other features put on it.
Icon Awards
It came with two types, Silver and Gold, most likely made of wood. The gold cost $425, and the silver cost $225.
The Diamond Play Button is one of the five subscriber plaques created and distributed by YouTube to its content creators with over 10 Million subscribers as part of their Creator Awards. Like the other subscriber plaques, the Diamond Play Button is designed to resemble the YouTube Play Button logo.
Why do Indian Youtubers earn less?
The rates for CPM (cost per thousand impressions) on YouTube vary from country to country, he says. The region, the reach, the frequency of posting videos, the type of advertisers interested in the content, the video’s watch time and viewer demographic are the reasons he cites for this disparity between CPM.
As a reward, YouTube has awarded with diamond play button. Tamil Nadu-based Village Cooking Channel on YouTube created history by becoming the first channel from South India to reach 10 million subscriptions, winning a diamond play button from the social media giant.
Pass a specific subscriber milestone:
- Silver: When you reach 100,000 subscribers.
- Gold: When you reach 1,000,000 subscribers.
- Diamond: When you reach 10,000,000 subscribers.
- Red Diamond: When you reach 100,000,000 subscribers.
Receiving a YouTube Play Button award
So here is the bad news: There is no such thing as a 1,000 subscribers Play Button award! (By the way, there is no award if your channel hits 10,000 subscribers either.) In YouTube terms, 10K subscribers still make for a pretty small channel.