 On this episode of The George Show, we're going to read your comments right here. And we're going to unbox YouTube. Look behind me. That is the gift we received from YouTube. Let's see what's inside. Let's start with that. So, this was given to us by YouTube as a gift for the new 2016 year. And here's what's inside. What's the guess? Tell me in the comments below before you see it. It is a bottle of wine. A very nicely etched bottle, which I will open soon. And then we'll get to reading your comments. So here it is. Can you see that? Yes. So I think I will open this with other people so we can celebrate. This isn't just for me in another episode. And on this episode, we're going to focus on you, your comments. So here we go. So this was from yesterday's episode, which is Where Was George in the Land of Spam? And if you missed that episode, click that I up there to see it. You'll get to see it. Now let's read the comments. So Smirky said, glad you're back and I got a spam score of 2%. Now, many of you who have spam scores of higher said, hey, how come I'm getting a spam score for videos longer than 20 minutes? How is that bad? Well, remember, this is an indicator. This isn't a guarantee. So typically spammers would upload full length movies or full length TV shows, which are typically longer than 20 minutes. So that is an indicator of spam just because you have videos longer than 20 minutes. And if you're not uploading copyright material, let's say you're just doing long let's plays, then that's totally fine. And you can ignore that spam indicator. So again, the spam indicator doesn't know if you're uploading 20 minutes of copyright content, it's just knows that typically longer videos can be copyright. So it's definitely an indicator, not a guarantee. So Sanchan asked, can you help me with channel verification? And I actually replied to him and said, sure, we can help. And in fact, we did. His channel is now successfully verified. And in a few days, the verification mark will appear on his channel. Congrats, Sanchan. So there's a few more spam scores. Kratos was talking about whether I was kidnapped on a deserted island. He was questioning whether maybe I was not kidding about being about kidding. Thank you for that comment, Kratos. Someone had an idea for Freedom Food, a community channel where we can show each other different foods and recipes. Great idea. Show us an example. We would love to work with anyone who's focused on culinary delights who thinks they can run Freedom Branded Food Network. Dysectra was 1%. Dysectra is one of our most loyal followers. He's comments on every single video. Well done, Dysectra. So let's look for something else. CyberAce said awesome tool. He's talking about www.spam.tm. And he's glad to see us back. And Ian is a good friend of mine. CyberAce. I've known him for many years. Hey, Ian. So we have a question about burst uploads. What does that mean for the spam indicators? Let's look at the replies. So it just means that you're uploading a lot of videos in a short amount of time. Again, it's an indicator of spam because usually they use robots to upload like 50 videos in a day. Now, if you're doing that legitimately, maybe you've done a 50 part Let's Play episode in one day, then you can ignore that rule. Again, it's just an indicator to help you know what YouTube is looking at in terms of indicators for possible spam activity. So this person was asking, how do I get the verification tick on my channel? Well, let's have a look at your channel, shall we? So your channel has almost 7,000 subscribers. Well done. And you are a channel focused on gaming. And you have a Google Plus page, I think, because you need a Google Plus page to get verified. You actually get verified on Google Plus if you didn't know that. And the YouTube channel just inherits that. So I actually don't see a Google Plus page for you here. Do you have one? And if not, please create one. And then you could request verification by opening a ticket on our support portal, which is at freedom.support.tm. Hope that helps. Let's go back to the next comment. Can someone explain to me how having the same amount of views classifies you a spam? So again, this is an indicator. When a spammer uses a bot to generate views, they may have programmed the bot to always create like 3,000 views. So if we see a lot of videos all with 3,000 views, that is an indicator of potential bot activity. Now, if you just happen to have 3,000 views in all your videos organically, well, that's OK. Then you can ignore that indicator. You're also asking Melebro. Apparently Patreon is counted as a download link. So again, download links are typically used to like say, click here to download this movie or click here to get the crack for this game. So that is considered spammy or bad actor behavior. But if you're providing download links to legitimate things like, hey, I just gave you a free template for your video production, click here to download it. That's of course legitimate and if you do a lot of those, you can ignore this spam indicator because you're not spamming, you're providing helpful links. 8% is not bad. Anything between 10 and 20% is a warning sign. Anything above 20% is a bad warning sign and you should really try to reduce it by looking at how to improve based on the spam indicators. Kizo said, glad to see you're back. Thank you, Kizo. Right, so here's another comment about the longer than 20 minutes. It's just an indicator because spammers tend to have copyright content that's longer than 20 minutes. But if you don't, just ignore it. Someone's at 15%, again the 20 minute marker. Someone is asking me why they can't see the Learn More button on your dashboard. So they mean the YouTube dashboard and that's when you join Freedom, you will have a Learn More button to complete the partnership process. So I replied to this person and I said, it's fixed. Just look at your dashboard and click Learn More and I hope you do that, Tiger Champ. It says the website is not available. What do I do? Which website do you mean and what was the error message? www.spam.tm or a different website? VIPMANYT, please answer that. Someone has a 0% spam score. Way to go, saucy Saturday. Let's go look at your channel, shall we? So you have 38,000 subscribers. That's a big channel and you are teaching people how to make a relaxation drink as your default video. That sounds like an interesting video. I'll go watch it after we finish making this video. Okay, let's go, let's continue on. Is there a way you could improve the communication process between partners and freedom workers? The ticket system is really awkward. You don't really get much understanding at the end talking to a freedom employee. Well, can you give me a specific example, JD Barnes? The ticket system is designed to make it easy for us to track all of the questions so no one's question gets lost. And if it is awkward, what do you suggest instead? Right now we are using freshdesk.com as our ticketing system. And we've white-labeled it, of course, as freedom.support.tm. But how can we make it less awkward? Tell me in the comments below this video. Where was George? This was at the start. Not a big deal. Ah, so I should have said where was George. Sorry about that. Thanks for catching. Actually, I already applied to you, didn't I, geeky division? Thank you for correcting me. You guys really need to step up your game in terms of video quality. These kinds of videos do not look professional at all. So I'm not okay. It wouldn't be as bad if freedom acted like a network. So we don't act like a network. Well, tell us how we don't act like a network and we will try to improve Andrew Rusher. Yeah, EdWeird asked the same question. I just did. So one boom pj. We always look to improve the quality of our videos. We are investing in new equipment. We're going to be bringing in a 4K camera and better lighting as well as acoustics. So you should see quality improve over time. Oh my, that green screen is fuzzy. Yes, we know the green screen needs some work. I've just restarted the George show a couple of days ago, so we are working on it. Please let us know if you notice improvement over time, GG Maniac. Go through the full process of setting up your account to get paid for your content. Well, that I think will need a separate video, Pepsi Clutch. But in general, you just need to go to www.freedom.tm and then just start the partnership process when you are accepted. You will receive an email and then you will need to input your PayPal email address into the profile page of your freedom dashboard. And you will need to accept the invitation on your YouTube dashboard at youtube.com slash dashboard when it comes in. But we'll email you when that happens. Hope this helps. 0% spam bitches, damn straight. All right, ashaws. Well done, 0% is very impressive. Let's take a look at your channel. You have 39 videos and you are a gaming channel, clearly. You have, let's look at your videos. You have very nice thumbnails, very engaging, very colorful. Well done. Let's continue. Excellent tool, George. Thanks. You're welcome. It's Kapow. So we have a question from WeLoveComics. WeLoveComics would like to know, he's been a partner with Freedom for about three months and I see that Freedom is mostly video game channels. I have a comic book channel. I was wondering if what you guys can do to help promote my channel so I can get more subscribers and views. The reason I ask is because the more views that a channel gets, the more revenue your company enjoys. Well, it's because we're on a revenue share deal so we're equally incentivized to help each other grow. Yes. So we certainly can. We have a VIP program. WeLoveComics. And we are also always negotiating brand deals where we can feature certain channels based on the brand deal. So since you are a comic book channel, let's have a look at your channel. We certainly can help you grow faster through brand deals. Excuse me, guys. I'm a little sick still. I just got this cold yesterday and I'm trying to kick it. So as I was saying, your channel is on comic books, which is great. And now that you've let us know, we will contact you if any brand deals come up that are looking for this kind of content. Freedom might have a chance now. Well, thank you for that vote of confidence, MCOD 1999. How is my spam score so high? Well, tell us how high it is and what elements are high so we can help you mesh. Okay, let's keep going. What's happening with the freedom stocks? Can you give us an update? Much appreciated. So as many of you have seen in the past, I created a couple of videos talking about the Freedom Stock Option Program where we want to give you the entire freedom family with certain restrictions, of course, not someone who joins yesterday but people who've been with us for a long time, the option to get free for free stock options. And the principle is you are helping freedom grow to our goal of IPO on NASDAQ. So shouldn't you participate in the upside if we have a successful IPO? Well, of course, I think you should. And so the way we will do that is by offering stock options to deserving channels. Now, I haven't released any updates yet because we don't have any updates to share. As soon as we do, I will be sure to let everybody know but also know that everything you do counts. Right. Everything you do counts. So if you're posting on the forums, if you're replying in the comments, if you are growing your channel, working with other freedom partners, helping them grow, all of this counts and that will all factor into the future stock option program that we would like to roll out to every deserving freedom partner. I hope this helps give you an update on Exotic TV. So I think this video is getting a little long. I don't know how many of you are still watching so I think I will need to wrap it up soon. But if you like these kinds of videos, tell me in the comments below so I can make more if you want more of them. And I'll read the rest of these comments to the end of this section. So you mean that you were getting, you were away doing this spam thing that has barely been in operation for a short while now? Well, Gaming with Jolens, actually YouTube told us about this upcoming new set of rules many, many months before they actually came into effect. So of course, as soon as we were notified, I had to drop everything and focus on this problem so that we could be in good standing as a network. So of course we are in good standing as a network and everything is fine, but I started working on this at the time when I stopped making videos on The George Show. I hope that helps answer your question. So let's look for the next question. You probably should update the outro bit where George says the grow together bit. Well, it has been the same outro for a very long time. I agree, Jelly Scrub, and I think we can update it. We just haven't spent the time to do so, but it's a good suggestion. And someone commented Jelly Scrub said that George looks different. Do I look older or how do I look different? Please let me know in the comments below. Hey, I'm a new Freedom Partner. I've been struggling late to get some subscribers and I wondered if my Freedom Family could help me out there. Thank you. Bye. Well, let's have a look at your channel. Lake Loll. So Lake Loll has 55 subscribers. His focus appears to be on gameplay. I actually thought your focus would have been on League of Legends because of the Loll in your channel title, but I see it means laughing out loud. So your focus seems to be on Minecraft, which is great, and I see you have... You don't have custom thumbnails, so you may want to try creating custom thumbnails with your brand and maybe your face. I also recommend putting your face into your videos so your audience can get to know you better and get to see you. That will help you build a loyal subscriber base, I think. I hope this helps. So I really do hope someone wakes the hell up and jumps at this opportunity to become a very famous direct competitor to this failure called YouTube. Raging Gamer. I understand you may be frustrated by all these new rules that YouTube is rolling out with, but keep in mind that YouTube is trying to operate at scale, which means they have so many partners, so many advertisers, so many different moving parts that they do need to create rules to manage everything because they can't become just like a spam fest or a home of many bad actors. Otherwise, advertisers would not want to advertise on the platform. So the question of whether they go too far, it's a good question, but we all try to help each other in whatever rules may come out in the future because YouTube is a very good ecosystem. I've been on it now for many, many years and I think it has huge growth potential even still today, so let's work together as a family and if we have issues, we can solve them together as well. Most people use hack and to have lots of like and subscribers. Well, that's part of YouTube's effort to close channels down who are using these techniques to artificially inflate their likes and subscribers. So if you are using it, stop because I think you will get caught sooner or later and I hope I don't have to tell you I told you so. Okay. Hey, George. Stunios would like to know what's going on with Freedom Points. They've been in beta for quite a while now and I really want to get up to that 110%. Well, this is something that I have to personally apologize for because, of course, my intention was to have Freedom Points out a long time ago where you can do good things to improve the freedom community and in exchange get rewarded with points that you can redeem for up to 110% revenue share for any month of your choosing. So those have not been out as you've said. They've been in beta for a very long time but they are still on our to-do list and certain things like new YouTube rules set us back because they take higher priority but they still are on our goal to launch Freedom Points. Bee Bunny Gaming said I still don't understand the spam score thing because there are plenty of even larger channels with a score above 10. In fact, I find you typically find more channels that are above 10 than you do below 10. I can understand scores being above 20 or even 30. That is the time I feel one should be concerned and try to lower it. 40 and above should be the only time channels are being shut down though. Remember this is not a YouTube score. This is a score we create based on our experience in identifying bad actors. So it's not like there isn't any official number that says if you're more than X you're going to get closed. These are all just indicators that are meant to help you improve your channel by following best practices like adding an avatar, putting in social links, things that show you are actively involved in your channel and you're not a robot or you're not automation. So consider these numbers as indicators. There's no clear 20 means X. 20 just means there's things that you can do to lower it. So we recommend you try to do those things. We must kidnap you George. No gamer is suggesting. Bring it on! Excuse me. Now I'm joking. I hope you don't try to kidnap me. What's up with freedom stocks? Okay, we've already answered that question before. And let's continue. Someone said they're 100% spam. I really doubt it. But if you are, well, yeah, I don't think the channel is. Okay, so I think that's it. Of course, there are more. But as I said, I think the video is getting a little bit long. Do you like these kinds of videos? A little change of pace? Tell me in the comments below and of course I will make more if you do. So who am I? I am George, CEO and founder of freedom. And you've been watching the George show the what do we call this kind of episode? The video comments are us. Are you? Episode. Alright, take care guys. Till next time. And if you like this video, do click the like button. It helps a lot. And if you like this channel, like this content, then subscribe to this channel. Just click that little red subscribe button beneath this video. Take care. Bye-bye.