Super Stickers

Quick answer: Super Stickers are paid, often-animated images viewers can send into live chat during YouTube live streams and Premieres. They're the visual counterpart to Super Chat — same eligibility, same 70/30 revenue split, same live-only availability — but instead of a highlighted text message, the viewer sends a themed graphic that appears in the chat feed.

How Super Stickers work

Super Stickers piggyback entirely on Super Chat's underlying mechanics: eligibility requirements, the YouTube Partner Program fan-funding rules, moderation tools, and the 70% creator / 30% YouTube revenue split are identical. See Super Chat and Fan Funding for the full breakdown of those shared mechanics — this entry focuses on what's actually different about stickers.

If your channel is already eligible for Super Chat, you're automatically eligible for Super Stickers, and if you've already turned on Super Chat you're typically opted in without extra setup. Both features are available on any eligible live stream or Premiere where live chat is on, and both are unavailable on age-restricted, unlisted, private, or Made for Kids content.

What's different from Super Chat

  • Format: A Super Chat is a paid, color-coded, pinned text message. A Super Sticker is a purchased graphic — often animated — that appears in the chat stream next to the buyer's name, with no message text attached.
  • Price ceiling: Super Chat messages can go up to $500 in a single purchase. Super Sticker prices top out much lower, commonly cited around $50 per sticker, with entry prices around $1. Treat stickers as a smaller, more casual spend than a maxed-out Super Chat — not an equivalent-value option in sticker form.
  • Pin behavior: Like Super Chat, a sticker purchase of $5 or more gets pinned at the top of chat with a visible countdown, but stickers don't carry Super Chat's full ladder of color tiers tied to message length and multi-hour pin durations.
  • Sticker packs and themes: Stickers are organized into packs designed by YouTube that rotate by region, language, and seasonal or event moments, rather than being a single generic graphic. Exactly which packs are live changes over time and isn't consistently documented anywhere reliable — check the sticker picker in your own live chat for what's currently available rather than trusting a fixed list.
  • A copyright wrinkle Super Chat doesn't have: Because stickers are images, viewers or rights holders can file a copyright complaint against a specific Super Sticker graphic (via a URL-based takedown process) — not something that applies to a text-based Super Chat.

Pricing and spending limits

Individual Super Stickers range from roughly $1 up to about $50. Spending across Super Chat, Super Stickers, and Super Thanks combined is capped at $500 per day and $2,000 per week per viewer (or the local currency equivalent) — these limits are shared, not separate per feature.

Regional availability

Super Stickers are available everywhere Super Chat is — currently 90+ countries and territories. That list changes as YouTube expands access, so don't treat any third-party article (including this one) as the source of truth on which countries are covered today; check YouTube's own official eligibility page, since it's the only version that stays current.

When to use stickers instead of Super Chat

Stickers work best where a fast, low-friction visual reaction fits the moment better than a written message:

  • Fast-paced gaming or reaction streams, where viewers want to react in real time without typing.
  • International or multilingual audiences, where a sticker sidesteps the language barrier a text Super Chat can't — worth pairing with your approach to multi-language audio if you stream to a global audience.
  • High-energy moments (clutch plays, milestones, funny beats) where a big animated graphic reads better on screen than another line of pinned text.

Reach for Super Chat instead when you want an actual message read aloud — Q&A streams, shoutouts, or charity pushes — since it supports real text and can pin for far longer at higher price points.

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FAQ

Are Super Stickers the same price as Super Chat?

No. Super Chat messages can go up to $500 each; individual Super Stickers top out much lower, around $50, with entry prices near $1.

Do I need to turn on Super Stickers separately from Super Chat?

If you're already eligible for and using Super Chat, Super Stickers generally come with it — check the Supers tab under Earn in YouTube Studio to confirm both are on.

Can viewers send Super Stickers on regular uploads or Shorts?

No. Like Super Chat, Super Stickers only work on live streams and Premieres. For non-live content, viewers can send Super Thanks instead.