 Amazon launched their YouTube competitor today, Amazon Video. The Amazon Video Direct lets you upload videos to the Amazon platform and earn 55% revenue share just like on YouTube for ad supported viewing. It's a direct competitor to YouTube and they launched before Facebook. Amazon beat Facebook to monetization. This happened today. It's brand new. It's a hot topic. And of course, I uploaded a few of my videos to test their platform. Here's how it looks. This is the Amazon Video Direct dashboard look behind me where you can see I've uploaded two of my George Show videos and they are right now publishing, see publishing on Amazon, Amazon.uk, Amazon.com and Amazon.de in Germany. The process for uploading videos is not easy on Amazon. What you have to do is click this link, add title. They don't call them videos, they call them titles. You pick a name, you choose a category and look at their categories. There's no gaming. So I just chose educational. Then you type in your description that they call synopsis. Then you choose genre and now they have a ton of options in genre, which include video games. So let's pick role playing games for this test. Then you put a suggested rating, all ages, a language, and an optional release date. Then you need to upload graphic assets. These are required. You need to upload a 16 by 9 image that's 1920 by 1080. You also need to upload a 3 by 4 ratio image that is 1200 by 600 or something in that ratio. Once you've done that, your title is saved successfully, but you're not done. You then need to input your cast and crew. So you need to type in a studio name. You need to type in at least one crew member and a cast member. Then you need to actually upload your video file as well as captions. Captions are required. You must provide the subtitles to your video. Otherwise, Amazon will not let you publish your video. How's that for making it difficult? The good news is you can get captions from YouTube that are auto-generated. Just go to any of your videos, click on subtitles and CC, which stands for closed captions. Then click the English automatic captions and then choose download SRT. That will create a file that you can then upload to Amazon to satisfy their requirement for captions. You also need to choose a frame rate for captions, which doesn't support 60 FPS. Come on Amazon, get on the ball. 60 FPS is something YouTube supports, so you should too, and hopefully they will in the near future. After you've done that, your video will upload and you're not done yet. You still need to set your availability and how you will monetize your video. So I always choose included with Prime, which is basically YouTube red. It's Amazon's subscription model and free. This is the YouTube model where you have ads playing next to your video and you earn a revenue share from them. Then click save and finally the video is ready for publishing. You have to click this publish button and then it will appear in your your videos dashboard where you can wait for it to publish. Now this has been publishing for two hours. I don't know why it's taking so long to publish on the Amazon platform. Again, they just launched today. So I imagine the time it'll take to publish will be a lot less in the future, but for now I'm still patiently waiting for my two episodes of The George Show. One is where we announced one million US dollars to one Freedom Partner. Click that I up there in case you want to see that video where we actually did pay a million bucks to one of you. And the YouTube next up video where I talked about the new boot camp that YouTube is offering. Well, it's not new. It's been around for a while, but it's been brought back. It wasn't available for a long time and it's now for you. If you have more than 10,000 subscribers, you can sign up for a contest enter the boot camp by YouTube at one of their spaces facilities. Click that I to learn all about YouTube next up. But I would love to hear your opinion on Amazon Video Direct. What do you think of this new platform? Try it out and then tell us in the comments below your experiences. Some things I didn't show you is you have to link your bank account. They don't support payment by PayPal. So you have to have a bank account. Also, they require you to set a interview like a tax interview where you have to answer questions like where are you living according to tax purposes? And do you have a tax identification number? Your answers will determine whether Amazon needs to withhold money. When I first did that, I was told Amazon will keep 30% of all of my earnings as withholding tax. Then I went back and figured out that I needed to set my did you get a 30% withholding tax statement when you signed up for the tax interview at Amazon? Tell us in the comments below so we can all learn from each other and grow together as a family. Because that is the spirit of freedom. We all help each other grow together as a family. And who am I? I am Papa George. George, son pie. I am George, CEO and founder of this beautiful family called freedom. Is that loud enough for you? Dysectra who commented, yeah, you should shout out freedom more. So there you go. Oh, and we forgot about your comments. Let's feature some of your deserving comments in this episode of the George show. Johnny prod wrote, this video reminds me of the YouTube snake game. But this time with some destruction. He's talking about the video where we showed you the freedom game x wing tie fighter where you can blow things up as a tie fighter. As many other things in the freedom dashboard, click that I up there to learn how to play the game. It's free. It's in your dashboard, but you need the secret code to be able to play it. The secret code is be free. But watch that video to learn all about it. Johnny said he's been a partner with this amazing freedom family for two months now. Awesome. And he wants to share what his channel is about. So his channel is focused on music spectrums. He creates audio visualizers. Let's have a look. Roll it. This is Johnny's channel. And if we look down at all of his playlists, he has different kinds of anime music tutorials, best site selection, EDM and a lot more all on his homepage. Great use of playlists. Do you use playlists on your channel homepage? If not, fill them up. Every playlist that you can add at it and organize your content so new users can see what your channel is about. Let's have a look at your video thumbnails, Johnny prod. I see you're using the freedom branding kit. That's that little F in the bottom left corner of your videos. Well done. And your thumbnails show off the visualization effect of each of your videos. That's really cool. Let's check out this one. It caught my attention the most. Very shiny, very unique. I haven't seen anything quite like this before. Click that eye up there to look at Johnny prod's channel in case you want to see more of his visualization videos. Next comment is by Falguna G Gopal who said, Hey George, I want to know if this is true or some kind of spam. I want to check if it is legal. I got a tweet which said 10,000 plus views and 200 subs. So I checked out the links that you sent and I instantly saw this is a bad idea. You cannot buy views or subscribers. That is against the YouTube terms of service. If you do and YouTube catches you, your channel may get shut down. It is called automation. They are giving you subscribers through bots or things that don't mean humans legitimately watching your videos or subscribing to your channel. They could be paid people whose job is to just click the subscribe button to thousands of channels a day or just to keep clicking on tons of videos to get the view count up. That's not allowed. YouTube will penalize you if they catch you doing that. And they have algorithms that are very smart to figure out when people are doing this type of abuse. So to answer your question, definitely a scam. Never pay money for subscribers or views because either you will get nothing or they will use bots to create the subscribers and views and your channel may get shut down because bots or human robots are against the YouTube terms of use. Has this happened to you? Do you see this in your Twitter where people are advertising pay me money and you'll grow faster? Tell us in the comments below what to watch out for so we don't fall into the trap of thinking I can grow faster if I just pay a little bit of money. Hope this helps. I know today I was supposed to talk about this VidCon because I am going. I will be there and I hope those of you who will come will meet me. I would love to meet you. I am George and you've been watching 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. So grow with us and partner with freedom. That play now button right there on the video bar is all you need to click to get started.