GMA may diamond creator award sa YT

Wow, ten million na ang YouTube subscribers ng GMA Network. Kaya naman kasali na rin sila sa elite group of content creators in Southeast Asia.

The Network formally received the Diamond Creator Award, ang recognition given by YouTube to content creators that have reached 10 million subscribers. Present sa ceremonial turnover sina GMA Network Chairman and CEO Felipe L. Gozon; President and COO Gilberto R. Duavit, Jr.; Executive Committee Vice Chairman Joel G. Jimenez; Executive Vice President and CFO Felipe S. Yalong; GMA NewMedia, Inc. (NMI) President and COO Judd Gallares; and GMA NMI Senior Vice President and General Manager Dennis Caharian. Ang Diamond Play Button was awarded by YouTube’s Southeast Asia Director of Content Partnerships and Business Development Vishal Sarin, and Content Partnerships Philippines Country Lead Pablo Mendoza.

From only 1.6 million subscribers at the start of the YT PfP (YouTube Player for Publishers (“YT PfP”) in mid-2017, last May nga ay umabot na sa 10 million na ang kanilang subscribers.

As of December 2018, the GMA Network YouTube channel’s rank improved from being in the Top 200 in 2017 to being among the Top 50 worldwide.

“We are very gratified that GMA has reached quite an achievement and it is translated into about four times growth [in watch time] year-on-year so that’s enough reason for us to be really happy. This is the work of many people and they are all here as we receive this Diamond Creator Award,” said Mr. Gozon.

Since its launch in November 2006, the GMA Entertainment channel now has 11.8 billion lifetime views. Total subscribers are currently at 11.1 million, a million more in a span of less than three months.