 Are you in a managed CMS, an affiliate CMS, or directly partnered with YouTube? And how do you tell? Well, here's how. If you go to your youtube.com slash features page, the link is down there in the description below, and you see this, without a remove access button, then you're in a managed CMS. If you see the remove access button, as you see in this channel, you are in an affiliate CMS. And if you see nothing, just like this, you are partnered directly with YouTube. Now, what are the benefits and differences of being in a managed versus affiliate CMS? In managed, we've seen zero YPP suspensions. I assume because YouTube trusts the MCN to vouch for the channel and clear all the rights. In an affiliate CMS, we have seen many YPP suspensions or channels directly partnered with YouTube, and a YPP suspension is usually due to duplication or reused content. This remove access button is very important because it lets you unlink from any MCN's affiliate CMS with 30 days notice. When you click this button, it starts a 30-day countdown, which the MCN cannot abort. In the past, MCNs were able to cancel your unlink requests, but not anymore. And after 30 days, unless you cancel the request, your channel will be unlinked from that MCN 100% of the time. In a managed CMS, that button doesn't exist, so you cannot unlink. It's up to the MCN to unlink you, so you have to be careful when you enter a managed CMS that you trust that the MCN will let you go when it's time for your channel to unlink. Either you choose to unlink or the term of your contract ends. That's important because we've heard some stories of MCNs holding channels hostage in managed CMSs. We freedom would never do that. Why? Because first we're telling you about it. It would be very hypocritical for us to also follow that practice. And the other reason is I'm a YouTuber just like you guys, and I would never want to be held hostage in an MCN. I make that promise to you as the head of freedom, the CEO and founder. So I hope you can trust me that we would never hold your channel hostage. Let me explain the difference in YouTube's words. The link to this YouTube help article is down there in the description below. And in there they write that affiliate and owned and operated channels. So owned and operated means managed in YouTube lingo. So MCNs have two different types of channels. Affiliate channels are managed at scale by their MCN in an affiliate content owner. That's an affiliate CMS. Owned and operated channels are owned and operated by the MCN, but that's misleading. MCNs don't own every channel in their managed CMS. What it means in practice is that the MCN has, quote, obtained the rights to the channel's YouTube content and assumes full liability for the content on YouTube. The key is a strike against a channel in a managed CMS is a strike against the MCN, the YouTube network that owns that managed CMS. Why? Because YouTube trusts the MCN to clear all the rights for the content used on the channels in the managed CMS. That's the key. And there's a third item where YouTube expects that the owned and operated channels are managed on a daily basis, which to me means that the MCN is actively involved in the channel's operations, getting licenses for their content, maybe even helping them upload videos or optimize their channel just operationally involved. I hope this helps clarify the question of am I managed, which is here? Am I an affiliate, which is here? Or am I not partnered with any MCN and directly partnered with YouTube, which is here, note, if you're directly partnered with YouTube, there's a chance your monetization is disabled. This is one of the biggest challenges on YouTube is to pass the requirements now for YouTube to enable monetization. And that's one of the benefits of being with an MCN is your monetization is instantly enabled once you join a network because you are now being monetized by the AdSense account associated with the MCN, not your own personal AdSense account, which may not have been approved yet for monetization. And the same with managed, the monetization is always enabled once you enter an MCN's either managed or affiliate CMS. Tell me down there in the comments below if you have any other additional questions about managed versus affiliate versus directly partnered with YouTube because we are here to help each other grow together as a family, the freedom family. Today I'm wearing my freedom shirt, it's freshly washed. What's our mission guys? Roll it. Freedom is a career path in video, but not just video, anything in the digital world we want to help build your career in it. One of those steps is to understand the key differences between concepts like managed versus affiliate. Who am I? I am a little sick. You can probably tell from my nasal sounds. I am George, CEO and founder of Freedom and I'm living in Dubai. If you want to learn about that, why am I in Dubai? Click that I to see all the videos I've made while I've been here. And this may be a good move for some of you as a tax reduction strategy because in Dubai there's 0% income tax on all personal and business income. That's just the law. The government chooses to make its money from fixed fees instead of a percentage of your income, which is quite unique in the world, I think. But I'm probably repeating myself many times and you've heard that, so let's not repeat myself any further. I owe you guys 12 more videos, I believe. Here's the playlist of videos I've been making so far since I promised you 15 videos. I made the new YouTube music checkbox in your videos where I first said I promised you 15 videos. Click that I to see this playlist and keep up to date on the videos that I've been making. I hope you enjoy them. The YouTube music checkbox for those of you who don't know is a new feature that's present in your videos but you have to manually enable it in order to get discovered on the YouTube music app by doing so if your content is musically focused. The second video is we upgraded! We bought a new UA Apollo Quad and we unboxed it for you. This device lets us mix and master music at a more professional level so the music we produce with Music Factory is that much better for you. Click that I to see the Music Factory channel using this new UA Apollo Quad and all the music that's recent uploaded to that channel has been mix and mastered with that device. And of course, the video I made a couple days ago is the Get Paid 60 Days Before Everybody Else on YouTube. Click that I in case you didn't see it. It's an exciting new feature that we call Instant Payments that you can request to get enabled on your Shiny Freedom account by emailing support at freedom.tm. Right now that's the only way to get it because we want it to feel a little exclusive and special, especially at the beginning. But basically what it lets you do is you get get paid based on your YouTube analytics estimated earnings which is up to 60 days before everyone else gets paid from the YouTube finalized earnings that get sent a month after the end of the month that you made your money. But I explain all that in that video if you're curious to learn more. Oh, I forgot to say how the Freedom Family calls me. I'm known as Papa George, George Sunpai and many other names you the beautiful Freedom Family has given me. And all the music, by the way, these episodes is composed by Music Factory. Our talented team of full-time composers has made all the music you're listening to in the background while I'm talking on The George Show and has been for years now. This is the only music I use is from Music Factory and I encourage you to do the same. Why? Because it's 100% safe to use. Why? Because Freedom owns it outright. We pay these composers, they create music, we own it outright, and my promise to you, all of you, not just in Freedom, is we'll never sell the music, we'll never change the license, we'll always keep it 100% safe for you to use in your videos and live streams, even 10 years down the road. And the reason we did that is because we've seen in the past some examples where music that was licensed okay at one point changed their license when the music was sold or a record label signed an artist that composed that music and then suddenly you get monetization claims and strikes on your videos using that music. We want to avoid that, give 100% certainty and the only way for us to do that is for us to own the music outright. That way we know there's no chance of the license changing. Alright Freedom Family, 12 more videos to go and I'm George and we'll see you in the next episode. You've been watching! Meet our graphics team, meet our community team, all of that on Discord and the forums. What are you waiting for? Get started. And we will grow together as a family because this is the Freedom Family. You are part of it, we are all part of it and we're all growing together. To get more George, click that big F that will subscribe you to Freedom Central home of the George show. And PewDiePie gave one of you Freedom Family a big shout out! Click that video to see the shout out and to see our new 3D sets for you and click that video to see what YouTube recommends you watch next.