 Freedom! Welcome back! My name is Adam Maripos-Vox and in this video I have a free resource for you that may be very helpful if you know of a website called Patreon. Down in the description below I will have a download link to a free set of customizable end cards for your videos to help promote your Patreon campaign. These have PNG files, image files of the actual end cards, but it also comes with a sketch and Adobe Photoshop file of the end cards so that you can customize them to your own will. So in theory you could just take out the Patreon button and use it if you don't use Patreon. It also has all the individual assets for the buttons in the background and things like that so you can just make your own. Which is pretty cool! And it's all free! There's a few different variants for whether or not you want to promote your own video or just thumbnails, etc. And they're all very nice looking and very easy to use. Just open up your favorite video editor and use motion controls to map your either video or your video thumbnails to the various video boxes in a small clip at the end of your video. Then over on YouTube just add the annotations for those videos and YouTube actually lets you add just direct link to Patreon in your video annotations. So for that button you can literally just paste your Patreon page, over top the link for that button and it'll work out great. Then add the one for your subscribe button and for your various videos and you're good to go. Also don't forget you can use YouTube cards which are a separate set of on video notifications and links that you can use that actually work on mobile as well. Whereas annotations don't show up on mobile. If you don't know what Patreon is, it's essentially crowdfunding for creators. It allows your most dedicated subscribers or fans or just people who want to help you out, contribute to your channel and your work by a monthly contribution. And that adds up quite nicely and then you can offer special rewards to those who contribute to your channel. And so for mine for example, I offer my patrons a private Q&A session and early access to my videos depending on what donation tier they're on. So pretty much any video across all of my channels that I create or upload, as soon as it's actually ready, which at times can even be up to a month in advance of posting, they go ahead and have access to it and can watch it at any point in time, go ahead and leave a comment on it, like it, etc. Patreon's important because as if you're trying to go YouTube full time, it's very important to have off YouTube revenue. This means you have dedicated revenue that you can always rely on or you can rely on at least most of the time. That doesn't fluctuate quite as much as AdSense does because AdSense revenue that you get through your YouTube network freedom, presumably, fluctuates a whole heck of a lot, especially from season to season and it totally depends on how much views you get. Whereas if you get solid off YouTube revenue, you get that revenue no matter how many views you get, which is very very beneficial and it can help build a sustainable digital media career while utilizing YouTube as your main forefront of content creation. And off YouTube revenue means that you have no ceiling of how much money you can earn, regardless of how many subscribers you have, and those can be brand deals, sites like Patreon, selling video clips, offering consulting, etc. So it's important to think of your channel as a business and start finding alternative ways to bring revenue to your channel outside of just views and ads and things like that because it takes its ad blocker and suddenly you're not earning views up a whoever's watching your video. If Patreon isn't your thing, freedom's actually working on. Okay, they won't let me say that, but let's just say freedom's working on something big for off YouTube revenue and you're going to want to keep your eyes glued on the Freedom Central channel for that announcement very very soon. If you want to sample Patreon campaign, a link to mine as well as a couple other examples, as well as that download link for the zip file of those end cards will be in the description below. You can check them out and you can also find me and my YouTube channel down there as well. Hopefully these end cards will be useful for you. Check that download link in the description below, smash that like button, make sure you're subscribed to Freedom Central if you're somehow not already in seeing this and I will catch you in the next video. Whenever that may be. I'm bad about that.