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Celebrate your epic milestones

Hitting Silver, Gold, Diamond, or Red Diamond subscriber levels is huge. And it’s all thanks to your talent, creativity, and dedication. YouTube Creator Awards are our way of throwing a high-five 🙌 and recognizing the incredible mark you’ve made on your community. This is your moment to shine.

100,000 Subscribers
1 Million Subscribers
10 Million Subscribers
100 Million Subscribers

How it works

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    Eligibility review

    Creator Awards are given at YouTube’s sole discretion. To be recognized, your channel must be in good standing—free from copyright strikes, Community Guidelines violations, and artificially inflated subscriber counts. All content must be original. All channels are reviewed before awards are issued to ensure the creators we’re celebrating are eligible.

  • 2

    Claim your award

    If your channel passes the eligibility review, you’ll receive a notification in Creator Studio within 10 days of hitting a milestone. This notification includes a unique redemption code to use in our redemption portal. From there, just enter your channel name and shipping information to claim your award.

  • 3

    Shipping

    Once your information is submitted, we'll begin handcrafting your Creator Award. Depending on where you live, it takes 2-4 weeks to build and ship your award. You'll want to use this time to figure out how to share this milestone with your fans—and where to hang it.

Frequently asked questions

How do I know if I’m eligible for an award?

To be eligible for a Creator Award, you need to meet the following guidelines:

  • 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

  • Your channel is active (has uploads within the last 6 months).
  • You don’t have an active Community Guidelines violation, and haven’t received any in the last 365 days.
  • You’re in compliance with YouTube’s Terms of Service.
  • You haven’t been rejected or suspended from the YouTube Partner Program.
  • Your channel isn’t terminated or linked to an account that has been terminated.
  • You don’t have content that is deceptive, spammy, or a scam.
  • Your main content is original. Channels that focus on compilations, mixes, curation, or heavy use of someone else's copyrighted content or characters may be ineligible.

You don’t have to be a member of the YouTube Partner Program (YPP) to be eligible for an award. Creator Awards are given at YouTube's discretion. Each channel is carefully reviewed to make sure the criteria is met.

Creator Awards are for personal use only, and may not be sold or distributed to anyone outside of your channel team members. If you violate this policy, you may be subject to disciplinary action.

  • Disciplinary actions can include:
  • Forfeiture of the award
  • Ineligibility for future awards
  • Possible termination of your YouTube or Google account

What are the different Creator Awards? (Silver, Gold, Diamond)

YouTube Creator Awards are our way of recognizing the extraordinary effort that creators put into their growing channels and building thriving communities, responsibly. To be eligible for a Creator Award, creators need to meet the eligibility criteria and must follow our policies. Learn more

Creator Awards reflect the following subscriber milestones:

  • Silver: 100,000 subscribers
  • Gold: 1,000,000 subscribers
  • Diamond: 10,000,000 subscribers
  • Red diamond: 100,000,000 subscribers

What are the subscriber milestones for each award?

YouTube Creator Awards:

  • Silver: 100,000 subscribers
  • Gold: 1,000,000 subscribers
  • Diamond: 10,000,000 subscribers
  • Red Diamond: 100,000,000 subscribers

Creators must also meet additional requirements to be eligible for an award.

Are awards available in my country?

The YouTube Creator Awards program is unavailable for channels in the following countries/regions:

  • Belarus (BY)
  • Cuba (CU)
  • Iran (IR)
  • Myanmar (MM)
  • North Korea (KP)
  • Russia (RU)
  • Somalia (SO)
  • Sudan (SD)
  • Syria (SY)
  • Tajikistan (TJ)
  • Vanuatu (VU)
  • Venezuela (VE)
  • Yemen (YE)

How do I redeem my award?

Once you’ve met our award criteria, we will send you a redemption code. Follow these steps to redeem your award:

  1. Find and copy the redemption code we sent you.
    If you’ve misplaced that redemption code, visit our interactive eligibility check to get your redemption code.
  2. Go to the Creator Awards redemption website and enter your code.
  3. Enter your shipping info and specify how you want your channel name to appear on the award.
  4. Select Order Now to finish redeeming your award.

How does shipping and delivery work?

After you submit your shipping info and redeem your award, we’ll deliver it to you within approx. 2-3 weeks. Orders placed after June 1, 2023, can be tracked here. To make sure your award gets to you on time, note the following:

  • Don’t forget to use your full legal name when submitting shipping info. This helps in case you have to pick it up from a customs or delivery office.
  • You’ll get an automated email from the shipping company containing a tracking number once your award has shipped. Sign up for tracking notifications to ensure your award reaches you successfully.
  • You’re responsible to get back to any contact made by a delivery company that requests more documentation or info from you. This may help your award pass through customs or be delivered to you.
  • You’re responsible to pay any customs duties and/or taxes that are required in certain countries/regions. Legally, YouTube can’t cover these costs. These countries include, but are not limited to: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.
  • If you don’t get back to a delivery company, your Creator Award may be returned or lost. In these cases, you may have to purchase a replacement if you want to get your Creator Award.
  • Once received, you have seven days to report any damage to Society Awards by submitting this form. You will need to send photos of the award and the box, so please keep all packaging materials. This will also allow you to return the award to the vendor for a replacement. Please note that a complimentary replacement will only be granted once the original award is returned and evaluated.

For any shipping-related issues or concerns, get in touch with our production
team here.

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