 KYC, know your channel. Do you want this to happen to you? Wake up one morning to see this message on your channel? Of course not. So I will show you in this episode examples of what not to do and what to do to keep your channel safe. Let's go. KYC won the bait and switch. What's wrong with this channel behind me? At first glance, nothing. It's all about agar.io. But look at the latest videos. No longer agar.io. Let's play a clip. The channel owner decided to do framing. He's putting TV shows in a little box, right here, trying to fool content ID by adding other animations around it, hoping that he can get away with pirating TV content. Why did he do that? I think because he was only getting a few thousand views per episode with this agar.io, he tried to shortcut his way to success by getting 23,000 views on the first video he uploaded with pirated television content. Why would you do this guys? If you do, YouTube will catch you and terminate your channel. And of course, we will unlink you as soon as we discover this. KYC too. What's wrong with this channel? At first glance, it looks very legit. These are normal gameplay videos, some of which are getting millions of views. Look at the 7.3 million video. Here's the video. It's only 41 seconds. There is no audio. It's mute. And it's showing very normal gameplay. How did that video get 7.3 million views? And look, the comments are disabled and there's some likes and dislikes, but very few given its view count. What we discovered was this video is embedded in a popular website where you have to click something to get something you want. And it plays the video in the background as an embedded video that the person on this website doesn't even want to see. So all these views are fake views. Don't do this guys. I know it might seem exciting because you're making lots of money by cheating the system. But the system will catch up with you and terminate your channel and at the very least, we will unlink you. KYC 3 Permissions. What's wrong with this channel? It's obviously a music promo channel with 172,000 subscribers. And are they doing this with permission? In fact, this is one of the channels that got terminated and we helped bring it back. They are doing music with permissions and that's how they got their channel back. Sometimes YouTube does not understand the context of a channel and they will take action like terminating it. But there is a dispute process which we will help you with if we believe your channel was terminated by mistake. And this is an example of one that did come back. KYC 4 Repeated Content Without Permission. What's wrong with this channel? This channel wasn't terminated but it was suspended from the YouTube Partner Program. And all they do is looped songs for one to ten hours. Now there are other channels that do long play relaxing music. But in this case, the music wasn't used with permission as far as we can tell. And YouTube did think that it was an offense worth a YPP suspension, not termination. It still counts as an abuse event and it's something we don't want you to get. Because if you're YPP suspended, you're automatically unlinked from whatever network you're part of and you're demonetized. And if you're not in a network, you're just demonetized. How many of you have had a YPP suspension happen to you? It's a new class of an abuse event before the only abuse event that mattered really was termination. But now demonetization and YPP suspension are tantamount determination. Meaning they're just as severe and they are just as punishing. Tell me your thoughts down there in the comments below. As you know, YouTube now has something called an MCN 50 count which was leaked. And I mentioned that in yesterday's video. Click that I in case you missed it or my last video. And that basically puts a lot of pressure on every MCN to know every channel. Because now every time there is an abuse event, YPP suspension, demonetization, termination, it counts against one of these 50 that you have in a rolling 90 day window. Now that 50 count won't remain 50. It'll go down probably. So we have to do a much better job. We want to get to a zero count freedom. Our goal is to have zero abuse events because we know each of our channels so well. Obviously we're not there yet, but that is our goal. KYC 5 tags in descriptions. What's wrong with this channel? I already told you there are tags in the description. Let me show you an example. You see this? Ignore extra tags. So what YouTube looks at is this spamming. Yes it is. He's trying to get higher search results by putting extra keyword rich tags in his description thinking he'll get more search results. Instead, what's going to happen is once YouTube detects this, they will take action and either deprioritize his videos the other direction so they won't show up in search results or terminate his channel or suspend it or just demonetize it because this is an abuse guys. The video description is not meant to be a place for extra tags and writing please ignore extra tags doesn't help. So please don't do this in your video. Now you might think maybe that's just one of his videos, but in fact it's all of his videos. And here is another example of please ignore the extra tags in the video description. The video description is meant to be a description of your video for humans to read. Use it for that purpose. If you try to use it for something else like this, YouTube will take action eventually. Now you may get lucky and nothing will happen to you. There's always the chance that you will get missed by YouTube's detection systems. They're not perfect, but don't play that game guys. It's not worth the risk. Do things correctly and you will grow faster and have a safe channel. Would you like me to carry on this KYC series? Tell me down there in the comments below if you want to see more examples of channels that are doing good things, channels that are doing bad things and channels that were recovered from doing what YouTube thought were bad things. Were bad things, but after YouTube learned the context that they are now doing good things. Click that I to see the video where I really talk about YouTube context and I give other examples of channels that were terminated and brought back with our help. So in case that happens to your channel, you know what to do. So you will prepare yourself for these events and you know how to solve them. That's our goal here at Freedom is to help you grow and to create new career paths in this digital world. In fact, we're playing with the new mission statement. If you remember, what do you think about this one? 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