YouTube rewards channels with over 1 million subscribers with a sizable, 24-karat gold play button. It looks very nice, too.
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YouTube Wants to Share its $200 Million Marketing Budget With You
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YouTube Gives 24-Karat Gold ‘Play Button’ to Channels with 1M+ Subs
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YouTube Head of Operations: “Thousands of YouTubers Make Six Figures a Year”
Tom Pickett told the crowd at VidCon how thousands of YouTubers are making six figures or more from YouTube ad revenue a year.
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VidCon Recap and Tubefilter Vlogs!
VidCon may be over, but it lives on in video. And hey there, we've launched a new weekly Tubefilter vlog -- check it out!
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VidCon 2011: ‘Con for YouTube Begins Tomorrow!
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