YG Entertainment was granted 3 awards at the award ceremony held by the world’s largest video-sharing website, YouTube. YG broke the record by receiving the highest number of awards.
At the ceremony titled YouTube Pulse, held in Hannamdong Seoul on Sept 25, YG’s artists PSY (http://www.youtube.com/user/officialpsy), BIGBANG (http://www.youtube.com/user/BIGBANG), and 2NE1 (http://www.youtube.com/user/2NE1) received the ‘YouTube Partner Gold Play” award for their official channels.
Gold Play award is given to those who have more than 1 million subsribers on their channels. PSY attracted 6.47m subscribers while BIGBANG and 2NE1 raked in 2.11m and 1.76m respectively. The total number of subscribers on the channels adds up to whopping 13.31m.
YG is known for its advanced usage of social media, apart from YouTube. According to a study released by a research company on Facebook data, PSY, G-DRAGON, 2NE1 and BIGBANG rank 5th in the number of Fans, Likes (which indicates a positive response of the viewer) and page sharing.
G-DRAGON’s twitter account is chosen as the most influential social media page of a K-Pop artist. His recently created Weibo account in China attracted 300,000 followers in just one day, which more than enough to shock the related personnel from China’s largest social networking site.
Source : YG Entertainment(OSEN)
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