Yahoo! Contributor Network Badges
Your profile badges mark your status and special achievements within the Yahoo! contributor community.
Spotlight Awards
This badge honors winners of Contributor Spotlight and Content Spotlight awards. Each month, we select one extraordinarily successful contributor and five exceptional pieces of content to receive awards. Click here to see the most recent winners.Yahoo! Contributor Award
The Yahoo! Contributor Awards (YCAs) honor the achievements of some of the most talented Yahoo! contributors. Every month through April 2012, a monthly YCA award was given for a particular topic, such as Sports, Entertainment, or Lifestyle. The monthly YCAs have since been replaced by Contributor Spotlight Awards. At the beginning of each new year, the annual YCAs look back at the previous year and call out some of the most noteworthy achievements.Rising Star
Every month through April 2012, we gave out five "Rising Star" awards to recognize some of the Yahoo! Contributor Network's most talented new contributors. These have now been replaced by Content Spotlight awards.Hot 100 & Hot 500
The "Hot 100" and "Hot 500" are the Yahoo! contributors with the largest audience, and most engaged readers, viewers and listeners. These badges are updated once per month, and grace the profiles of the top 500 active contributors based on the previous month's page views.Top 100 & Top 1000
Our Top 100 & Top 1000 badges are awarded annually to the contributors who received the highest number of page views during the year. Contributors must have published content at some point during the year in order to be eligible.Page View Millionaire
This badge is awarded to all contributors who have earned one million or more page views on their Yahoo! content. New badges are granted on a monthly basis.Yahoo! Shine Parenting and Beauty Gurus
These badges recognize Yahoo! Shine’s Parenting and Beauty Gurus, a select group of Shine contributors who are authorities in parenting or beauty. Each month, Gurus share their trials, triumphs, and secrets on everything from traveling with a toddler to their make-up must-haves.Yahoo! Staff
These profiles belong to Yahoo! staff members - including the Yahoo! Contributor Network designers, engineers, content managers and community managers.Yahoo! Contributor Academy
These badges recognize contributors who have completed Yahoo! Contributor Academy levels. The badge displayed on a contributor's profile indicates the highest level completed. To enroll in Yahoo! Contributor Academy and become level one, two, or three certified, click here. These badges measure your success and honor your achievements on Yahoo! Voices - the official digital library of the Yahoo! Contributor Network.