Yahoo! Contributor Network Badges

Your profile badges mark your status and special achievements within the Yahoo! contributor community.

Yahoo! Contributor Award

The Yahoo! Contributor Awards (YCAs) honor the achievements of some of the most talented Yahoo! contributors. Every month, there is an award for a particular topic, such as Sports, Entertainment, or Lifestyle. 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. Click here to see last month's winners.

Rising Star

Every month, we give out five "Rising Star" awards to recognize some of the Yahoo! Contributor Network's most talented new contributors. Click here to see last month's winners.

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! Staff

These profiles belong to Yahoo! staff members - including the Yahoo! Contributor Network designers, engineers, content managers and community managers.
These badges measure your success and honor your achievements on Yahoo! Voices - the official digital library of the Yahoo! Contributor Network.

Clout

Your Clout badge indicates the level of exposure you've achieved with the content published to the Voices library. You begin at Clout 1, and climb the clout ladder gradually based on the amount of content you publish and the number of page views your content receives. Starting at Clout 7, your Performance Payment rate incrementally increases until you reach the highest level, Clout 10. See all the details here.

Best of Associated Content / People's Media Awards

From 2006 to 2009, the monthly "Best of AC Awards" and annual "People’s Media Awards" (PMAs) recognized some of Associated Content’s best content and contributors. With the launch of the Yahoo! Contributor Network in 2010, these awards programs were replaced by the Yahoo! Contributor Awards.