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YouTube Creator Awards, commonly known as YouTube Play Buttons or YouTube Plaques, are a series of awards from the American video platform YouTube that aim to recognize its most popular channels. They are based on a channel's subscriber count but are offered at the sole discretion of YouTube.
YouTube logo, 2005–2011. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. [1] The website was activated on February 14, 2005, [2] and quickly began to grow – in the six months to July 2006, traffic to the site grew by 297 percent.
50 YouTubers Fight for $1,000,000" is a YouTube video by American YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, known on the platform as MrBeast. The video, described by Donaldson as his "biggest video ever," featured fifty YouTubers from around the world competing to stay inside a large glass cube for as long as possible while completing challenges. [1]
[75] [76] In response, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim posted the question "why the fuck do I need a google+ account to comment on a video?" on his YouTube channel to express his negative opinion of the change. [77] The official YouTube announcement [78] received 20,097 "thumbs down" votes and generated more than 32,000 comments in two days. [79]
YouTube announced that cumulative views of videos related to Minecraft, some of which had been on the platform as early as 2009, exceeded 1 trillion views on December 14, 2021, and was the most-watched video game content on the site.
As part of its Next Up Creators contest, YouTube awarded King $35,000 as well as a trip to New York City for a four-day YouTube Creator Camp. His submission to the contest was titled Contest Entry Gone Wrong. In the video, he appeared to dodge an assault by airstrikes and ground fire as he pleaded his case to be selected for the YouTube award. [10]
YouTube Select, formerly Google Preferred, is a program offered by YouTube, a subsidiary of Google, that allows advertisers to pay to place their ads on high-performing videos on its site. [1] The program divides YouTube's most popular channels among 18- to 34-year-olds, comprising the most popular 5% of content on the site, into twelve ...
In January 2014, YouTube Nation was launched on its channel, as a collaborative project between YouTube and DreamWorks Animation. [6] DWA oversaw the production while YouTube managed the sales and marketing of the series. [7] The series is a news series that rounds up information from the Spotlight channel. [8]