The 2018 YouTube events—including the "YouTube Contributor Summit" and the "YouTube Creator Summit"—were held in late 2018. While the Creator Summit took place in Brooklyn, NY, the official YouTube Contributor Summit took place in October 2018 at the YouTube Headquarters (YouTube HQ) in San Bruno, California, just south of San Francisco.

These invitation-only gatherings connected YouTube’s most active community members, volunteers, forum moderators, and video contributors with YouTube engineers and product managers. Attendees learned about upcoming platform features and shared feedback on channel management