 Hi Freedom Family! New YouTube rule! Everyone needs 4,000 watch hours in the last 12 months to make any money on YouTube starting February 20th in 30 days. What you see behind me is the new channel monetization page that lists how many watch hours every channel has as it approaches 4,000. Now if you're already partnered with a network like Freedom, you won't see this page. This is only for channels that don't have a network, but on February 20th every channel even in every MCN will be demonetized if they don't meet those requirements. So it's a big deal and everyone needs to understand this. What does 4,000 hours mean? Well let's do some simple math. My wife Zinnia just called me on Skype interrupting my creative flow and I had to readjust my camera so you just saw a scene shift there. As I was saying, doing the math 4,000 divided by 365 is about 11 hours per day. That's how much watch time you need every day on your channel just to qualify for the 4,000 watch hours in the last 12 months. Now that's actually a lot of watching and if you don't want to wait a year because you have to accumulate a total of 4,000 hours it needs to be a lot more than just 11 hours a day of watch time to qualify for monetization. Now let's say you don't have it and on February 20th you get demonetized. What happens then? Well we help you get there. That's what freedom is all about. We help each other grow together as a family. That doesn't change. Unfortunately it means you're not going to make any money for the videos you do release on YouTube but that just means you really have to want this if you want to do this for the money. In other words, for it to become a full-time job or pay some of the bills. We're going to be here to help you do that. I promise freedom is not going anywhere. I hope all of you who are going to be demonetized aren't going anywhere because it just means we have to work harder and help each other more to get to that 4,000 mark so you can get monetized and make money and continue growing from there. Tell me down there in the comments below what you think about all this. Now don't just be negative. Yes it's easy to be negative. YouTube sucks. Keep changing the rules. It's getting harder to make money. Why do we even bother? Think of it from YouTube's perspective. They got hit with two huge bad PR pieces last year. First was the started with PewDiePie and other creators that made the press say YouTube has all this bad content that isn't advertiser friendly. That was in April. Then in November it was all the kids content, the Elsa Gate channels that created another wave of bad PR with articles like YouTube is not for kids by TechCrunch. So that was my light source. By the way this is me making a video in Vietnam. I'm returning to the Philippines this weekend so I'll be back in my normal studio with a green fabric behind me so bear with me. As I was saying YouTube is not for kids where articles like that in November so from their perspective YouTube needs to restore advertiser confidence and this is their solution to create a much higher bar for monetization so that ads are running against videos on channels that have proven themselves to be consistent and generate lots of engagement watch hours and they YouTube believes that will help restore advertiser confidence in their platform. So try to see it from their side as well and of course from the creator side it's about motivating you to keep growing and helping you to get to that limit that new threshold. So I'd love to hear all those thoughts. Of course we're going to need to as a company create new ways for you to make money because whatever I say about the passion and energy come on it's nice to earn a few dollars each month to buy another game or to just feel like you are making progress and we want to give that to you if not from the YouTube platform from other ways and yes we have some ideas no it's not the usual hey we'll help you sell merchandise hey freedom t-shirt go to our freedom shop um no not that but other unique ways to make money using your computer using your talent and legitimate ways yes we're not gonna you don't do anything illegal here or even shady what do you think we're going to announce before February 20th do you have any ideas tell me down there in the comments below and the few of you who I've told what we're going to do don't answer this is for people who don't know so that I can see what people think we may do before February 20th to help you make money to replace the earnings that a lot of you will be losing after that day also George what's up with the no videos for like a month here in Vietnam that's no excuse okay here's the deal I'm sorry I have no excuse I have been busy but I just haven't been making videos I have been going to the gym every other day but I've not been making videos every other day so I apologize for that I really want to uh no I I'm lazy will that work uh no um I actually don't even know why I haven't made that any videos guys I I I just realized how long it's been um I hope you'll forgive me and I'll I know you'll forgive me only if I make videos regularly so let's let's let's go with that answer I'll I'll make videos more regularly of course I have to make more videos more regularly because we need to find new ways to promote channels to help you grow faster we're going to announce some new monetization strategies for you that will be a lot of videos teaching you all these new ways that you can make money and I'm actually going to be traveling a lot because this thing we're going to announce uh it's a C thing this time if you remember last time it was a B thing oh yeah I should tell you that too the reason I came to Vietnam one of the reasons was to build that B thing the brand platform well go to www.stats.tm so stats.tm is the beginnings of a future brand platform which will include ways for brands to find channels that they're looking for to service certain campaigns those are some of the search functions just on stats.tm click channels then advanced filter and you'll see what I'm talking about this is still a very early early alpha of the site so don't expect too much but at least you can see what we've been working on here in Vietnam so that's the B thing ah there goes my light source again that's my screen slavery because you didn't know on my laptop which is adding a little extra light because without it this room is kind of dark this is the hotel room I've been staying at in Vietnam so the C thing is uh something else that I will let you guess down there in the comments below all right George you're babbling sorry I will be back in the Philippines this weekend I will be making videos more professionally again and I miss you guys I love you all big hugs to the freedom family I I don't even remember my my outro I am George the CEO and founder of freedom um we all help each other grow together as a family um for freedom for freedom for freedom okay remember that part and the freedom family until next time I'm uh be yeah be safe uh I'm George and uh you've been watching click that i to partner with freedom and join the freedom family so we can all grow together you get many perks like position music you also get epidemic sound a lot of other access to royalty free videos sponsorships and many things to help you grow just click the links down there in the description below to get involved in our community our forums our discord chat servers 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