What is it worth?
For most of the creators, it is the result of lots of sleepless nights, lots of brainstorming sessions, and lots of personal and professional sacrifices. Therefore when it comes to these things we can not even try to measure their diamond play button worth.
However, things are different with the availability of fake play buttons. Several cases of selling duplicate play buttons came into the air where sites like eBay sells these replicas for 30 – 50 dollars. People can even get almost exact play button for nearly 1500 dollars on various sites. When it comes to buying an original YouTube button, no official case has been registered till now where a YouTuber tried to sell his /her real play button. However through the value of these fake play buttons, if one wants to know the price of real play buttons, it can be estimated to be sold at a huge price depending on it’s condition, the number of channels that owns the diamond play button worth, and its popularity during the time of its auction.
Importance of this Award
Appreciating the work of the deserved candidate is always very important. It helps to reignite the passion among YouTubers to grow their channel. It motivates them to learn more and improve the quality and content of their videos to achieve higher milestones and awards keeps them motivated to entertain the audience in a better way and helps in fulfilling the social and psychological needs of the creator which ultimately helps the audience to witness first- class content and also helps YouTube to emerge better social media site.
Some facts about diamond play button
In 2015, this award was Introduced. 23rd July, 2022 will mark the completion of 7 years of this award. 3 is the maximum number of diamond play buttons owned by an individual or same family members through various channel as verified on 24th June 2020.
Thus it is concluded that measuring the price of the real things which is earned through proper hard work and consistency is very hard. One can buy duplicate play buttons or even the original one if some creator tries to sell his/her award in the future but one can not get the happiness that one gets while holding that play button after overcoming all the struggles. There is nothing extraordinary about this award but the feeling of achievement of successful completion of a huge journey of ups and downs and satisfaction that one feels after getting this award is what makes this award unique, valuable and precious.
Is it made up of real diamond?
It is not a real diamond. It is made up of silver-plated metal, containing a sparkling crystal. The crystal is molded in the shape of a play button which signifies the popular logo of YouTube.
How to apply for the YouTube diamond play button after hitting the milestone?
After reaching the desired number of subscribers, the creator ( You Tuber) needs to apply in the YouTube forum. YouTube first checks the authenticity and ethical norms of the channel. After checking all these criteria, YouTube sends a link with a code to the creator. The creator needs to paste that link in the provided code and done, the award will be soon posted to the creator’s address without charging any postal fees. It takes around 2- 3 weeks for the YouTube to send the award to the candidate but the waiting time highly depends on the location of the Creator.
How many types of play buttons are there?
There are 5 different types of play buttons.
Silver play button – awarded when a creator completes 100k or 1 lack subscribers. Gold play Button – awarded to celebrate 1M or 10 lack subscribers. Diamond Play Button – awarded to a channel having 10M or 1 crore subscribers. Customized Play Button – As the name suggests It is a special play button which is customized by the YouTube following the logo of the channel to be awarded. Creators gets it after hitting 50M or 5 Crore Subscribers. Last but not the least, the Red Diamond button – awarded to people having 100M or 10 Crore subscribers. The number is huge and so does the value of the award. T- series becomes the first YouTube channel to hit 100M subscribers followed by PewDiePie, Cocomelon, SET India, etc.
