Cristiano Ronaldo receives prestigious Gold Creator award.

Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo was honoured with the YouTube Creator Award shortly after launching his channel.

 Ronaldo achieved the prestigious Gold Creator award after exceeding 1 million subscribers.

“A present for my family. Thank you to all the SIUUU subscribers,” he posted on his official X page.

In the clip, he is seen entering the room while showcasing the award amidst cheers from his children.

The 39-year-old opened his account Wednesday and after a few hours of posting his first video, 1.69 million subscribers had joined it.

“The wait is over. My @YouTube channel is finally here! SIUUUbscribe and join me on this new journey,” he posted.

YouTube has four creator awards which are only awarded after passing a specific subscriber milestone.

The awards are Silver (100,000 subscribers), Gold (1 million), Diamond (10 million), and Red Diamond (100 million).

To qualify for an award, your channel must be free of community guidelines violations in the last year, comply with the terms of service, and not have deceptive, spammy, or scam content. 

Your channel must have never been suspended from a YouTube partner program or linked to a terminated account, and the main content must be original.

Creator awards are for personal use and cannot be sold or distributed to anyone outside the channel team members. 

Violating this policy may result in disciplinary action, including forfeiture of the award, ineligibility for future awards, and possible termination of the YouTube or Google account.

Achieving 1 million subscribers is a significant milestone, often allowing creators to earn a full-time living from the platform.

Creators earn money through various ways but the money from adverts that play in their videos constitutes a larger share of their income.

According to Business Insider, Nate O’Brien who has over 1 million subscribers earned $440,000 (Sh58 million) from the platform in a year.

He earned from $14,600 (Sh1.9 million) to $54,600 (Sh7.2 million) a month.

To start earning money on YouTube, creators need to apply for the Partner Program and meet specific criteria: having 500 subscribers, three public uploads in the past 90 days, and either 3,000 watch hours in the past year or 3 million YouTube Shorts views in the last 90 days.

Once accepted, they can generate revenue through channel memberships, Super Chat, Super Stickers, Super Thanks, and YouTube Shopping for product promotions.

For AdSense earnings, creators must have 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours in the past year.

Two crucial metrics for YouTube earnings are the CPM (cost per 1,000 ad views) and RPM (revenue per 1,000 video views after YouTube’s share).

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