Anne Kansiime has reached a new major YouTube Milestone. Uganda’s funniest female comedian has received a limited edition, commemorative Gold Play Button from YouTube after her channel surpassed the one million subscriber mark this month actually she is at 1,020,000 as of the writing of this article. In April 2015 she stood at 100,000 subscribers and now five years down the road she had added an extra zero to this.
This comes shortly after we did our top 25 YouTube channels in Uganda, this loquacious Anne Kasiime now ranks at number three behind Eddy Kenzo and Masaka Kids Afrikana in terms of estimated monetary income from Google and subscribers.
YouTube recognizes those channels that have honestly earned the achievement. To prevent any channel from gaming the system with falsely inflated subscribers count, they use a variety of signals to determine which channels qualify for rewards, including but not limited to subscribers, views, and watch time.
YouTube rewards those qualifying channels with Diamond Creator Award when they reach 10 Million Subscribers, a Gold Creator Award if they reach 1 Million Subscribers just the on Anne Kansiime has received and a Silver Creator award when they reach 100,000 subscribers.
Creator Awards are given at YouTube’s sole discretion and we only recognize creators that have played by the rules. Channels are subject to review before awards are issued. That means rewarding creators that keep their accounts in good standing without copyright strikes, community guideline violations, or artificially increased subscriber counts, among other criteria.
If a channel’s eligibility is approved, they’ll get a notification on their Creator Studio within one week of passing a Creator Awards milestone. The notification will include a unique redemption code that you’ll need to enter on our redemption portal. Once there, all they need to do is fill out their channel name and shipping information.
Finally, once they have submitted all of their information, YouTube begins handcrafting the Creator Award. Depending on where the channel owner lives, it takes us 2-3 weeks to build and ship their award. We would like to congratulate Anne Kansiime on her new accolade.
