 Freedom! Today I wanted to talk to you about the YouTube Partner Program. Now a lot of you think you know about the YouTube Partner Program, but things are changing. So let's talk about that. First thing you know is that YouTube and Freedom are investing in your success. So yeah, that should make you feel awesome, because we like you, whether you're with Freedom or YouTube Direct. YouTube has some awesome features coming up that I want to make sure everybody's a part of, and that's why we have this change. The YouTube Partner Program is now being opened up to people within MCNs, which is awesome, because it allows you further access to new revenue streams and new deals as they come across. During the month of December 2015, YouTube partners within MCNs will receive an invite to the YouTube Partner Program. And of course you can accept these new terms in your monetization tab of your YouTube Creator Studio. If you'd like to link to that, link in the description down below. After you sign, there's absolutely no difference with how you work operationally with Freedom, so nothing changes. Except you get more awesome-ness. Awesome, you get more awesome-ness? Maybe you got a little bit more awesome too. If you don't see the option to sign up after December 2015, you can always contact Support. Again, link in the description of every Freedom video where you can reach out to our support and go, hey, what's going on? Keep in mind that some channels for whatever reason may not be able to join this program, so you may not get an invite. If you think you're one of those channels, just make sure you wait until after December 2015 to reach out to support and ask, hey, what's going on? As a member of the YouTube Partner Program, you'll gain faster access to cool new features that YouTube rolls out. So we won't end up with, you know, that huge lag time that sometimes exists between what YouTube direct partners get and what everyone else gets sometimes. YouTube and Freedom collaborated to make this happen, so keep that in mind. And if you're seeing this video after you've signed up, you are part of the collaboration too. Yeah! Some of those features that I was talking about are things like revenue sharing and being able to monetize cover songs. More on that later. So how do you sign up? Very easy. Go to your Creator dashboard. Now, that's not your Freedom dashboard. That's your YouTube dashboard. And you should see a link somewhere on the page. It'll beep blue and it'll beep YouTubey. And it'll say, sign up here. And then that's what you do. You just follow that through. And after you're done, you're good to go. That means that you are partnered with Freedom, but you're also partnered through YouTube. Through the YouTube Creator Program. YPP, you're done with YPP? Yeah, you know me! Old song reference. I'm old. Clicking the button will take you to your new monetization settings page. So keep that in mind and do pay attention because things may have changed. You'll also be presented with something that looks like a terms of service or an EULA. You should probably read this and not just click right through. Like I did. And here's a quick FAQ for those of you who still have questions. If you haven't already typed in a comment section down below. If you have any other questions, you can ask at support. Link in the description down below. Once you sign the agreement, are you still part of Freedom? Of course you are. You're always a part of the Freedom family if you want to be. So as far as new features and what you gain access to, that's new revenue streams, cover song licensing, all kinds of stuff like that. We're still getting new information as we go. So right now it's very much in its infancy, but hopefully will grow over time. I'm currently with Freedom. Should I sign this agreement? Of course you should. Like I said earlier in the video, you get all the good stuff, none of the bad. Go ahead, read over the terms and stuff and you'll see. You get all kinds of new features and there's supposed to be stuff coming fairly regularly and new deals and new stuffages. So yeah, short answer. Only if you want to be awesome. Does anything change as far as payments? Nope. Everything still comes to you every month through PayPal, just like Freedom does everything else. So yeah, how does the cover song revenue stuff work? Details are still being worked out. However, the bare bones or the gist of it is if you cover a song or if you use a song that you do has an agreement with the creator or the rights holder in your videos, you can share the revenue rather than having it claimed and you losing all revenue. So there may still be a claim, but you will get part of the revenue for the video, which is kind of nice because sometimes you just really want to use a certain song or it just fits. So hopefully now this won't catch you off guard. If you have any other questions, comments, matters of concern, let us know in the comment section down below. Don't forget to like, subscribe and do all those things that make me love my job. Also be awesome to yourself and amazing to each other.