 YouTube confirmed they will unlink all channels from MCNs on February 20th, 2018 that do not meet the 4K 1K rule. Let me read on the official YouTube help, the link is down there in the description below, that a channel that reaches 4,000 watch hours in the previous 12 months and 1,000 subscribers will be reviewed to join the YPP. Channels that are in an MCN and below this threshold will be released from the MCN. We actually met with our YouTube representative today and he confirmed that means YouTube will unlink these channels from all MCNs on February 20th, maybe plus or minus a few days, we don't know exactly on that, but it is confirmed. So that means freedom family that we need to find a way to help you grow so you don't get unlinked from our MCN. This has a lot of repercussions. One is what about position music, epidemic sound, audio, micro, all the other sponsorships that we offer because you, you are a freedom partner. If you get unlinked, technically you're not a freedom partner anymore and you need these resources to grow faster to get to that 4K, 1K threshold. So my next job is to extend these licenses to include all channels in freedom that will be unlinked by YouTube that still want to be with freedom. We don't know exactly what that will look like because you won't be in our CMS anymore. You will be just independent on YouTube but we can still, through the YouTube API, do most, if not all of the things that we currently can do when your channel is in our CMS. We have to do a little research on this guys, so bear with me, I'll update you as I know more. So what is, how does that make you feel? I'd love to hear down there in the comments below, like you've been very vocal in the last two videos. Click that I to see the previous video where yesterday I talked about let's beat this 4K, 1K rule together as a family. That's how we do everything at freedom here, that's why we call it the freedom family. And in that video you sent a lot of amazing comments and tips and suggestions for people to grow faster. Let's read some of them now. The first comment in yesterday's video is by decrepitSundoo3. He wrote, from reading all these comments I can see a few things stand out as well as seeing things from the other side of the fence. So first the positives, motivation. This will hopefully motivate smaller channels to push for this goal. And I also noticed some larger channels who are already past this threshold saying I will help the smaller guys reach that threshold, that's awesome to see. That comes to point to collaboration. Reaching this goal isn't easy, therefore channels will have to work together and that's the fastest way to grow on YouTube, collaboration. Then communication. Channels and networks will be communicating a lot more. That's why I'm doing these videos to communicate with you as much as possible. You should do the same on your channel to help spread the message on how we can all beat this 4K, 1K rule. And now the negatives. The why question. Several smaller YouTubers would ask, why carry on? What's the point? This is where we need to help each other stay motivated and not give up. Hashtag never give up. Remember that. Botting. Don't do this. Some channels might try to take the easy way out and start botting. YouTube is getting very good at detecting bots. And what do they do when they do detect a bot? They terminate your channel or they demonetize you. Do not do that. It will in the long run kill your channel. So definitely no botting. And termination, not the I'll be back kind, but more like I won't be back. This is part of the giving up. Do not say that. Even if you need to take a break because you're frustrated, take a break. Just don't say I will never come back. That's the worst thing you could do. Just say I need a break and then I'll be back. Much better. Rex asked, how does stats.tm help us beat the 4K, 1K rule? Kind of getting tired of freedom. I haven't gotten any help from you guys on how to grow my channel. Except for obvious things like tags, thumbnails and titles. What will freedom do to help its creators have yet to see? Stats.tm is our brand platform. Early alpha, very early, many features missing. But the core of this platform at www.stats.tm is this advanced filter. This is where brands will be able to locate channels exactly the kind that they're looking for by dragging these sliders and there will be many more along with categories like gaming or music or vlogging that will very quickly limit the list here to channels that exactly match those criteria. That's how it'll help you because it'll be easier for brands to find your channel and hire you. Pay you money outside of the YouTube revenue stream to make content for them. Appropriate both for your audience and their brand. That's at least the theory. Can we do it? What do you think? Tell me in the comments below, I'd love to know. Smart Facts UK wrote, George, please tell people what not to do. I see so many people trying to do sub for sub and cheat watch time. The way to grow is to work together. Exactly right. If you do sub for sub, all you're doing is you're faking your subscriber count and you're not getting watch time. That may help you solve the 1k half of the requirement but not the 4k watch time requirement. You don't just get people to sub to you. That's useless. They're not going to watch your content. You need to find people who enjoy your content and you enjoy theirs. One thing I'd love to do is to create a better matchmaking service on our Discord chat server, on our community forums that help people exactly this way. Help you discover each other's content that you enjoy watching so you can contribute to each other's watch time which is much harder to achieve than subscribers. How many of you would like such a collaboration service on Discord and the forums? Our Discord and forums are linked down there in the description below and the forums are easy to communicate. www.community.tm It's a community of creators. I don't have such a nice short simple link for our Discord chat server so you have to get that from the link down there in the description below. Again, how many of you would like to have a better way to find similar interesting channels that you can collaborate with, subscribe to each other and watch each other's videos? Tell me down there in the comments below. The Supreme Emperor Mittens, that's an awesome name, said, So let me get this straight. So if someone gets demonetized, does that mean YouTube will kick them out of the freedom network? If that's the case, would YouTube not be going overboard by doing that? Yes, that's exactly what YouTube said they will do. If your channel does not meet the 4K-1K requirements, you will lose your YouTube partnership program YPP status and as a side effect, you will be demonetized and unlinked from your MCN. Not just freedom, but any MCN you might be part of. The key is you need to have an active YPP membership in order to be able to monetize and be part of an MCN. Those are the new rules. That's just how it is, guys. Remember, it's YouTube's platform. They get to set the rules. However, we may feel they're fair or unfair. We do benefit from the amazing community that the YouTube platform has created. We wouldn't be here. I wouldn't be here if not for YouTube. So while it is easy to criticize and feel like they're just out to make it difficult for the little guy, we have to remember to see it from YouTube's perspective as well, which is they need to have a positive PR so brands will trust their platform and spend ad money on YouTube instead of Facebook or other traditional media like television. So they're doing this to help increase the quality of content on the platform. And from that perspective, they're assuming that a creator needs to get to 4,000 watch hours and 1,000 subscribers in order to have quality content that's worthy of advertisers putting their money to pay to advertise against those videos. So I do see it from YouTube's perspective as well. I hope you do too. And so in the meantime, our job is to help you create better quality content so you can get those 4,000 watch hours in the last 12 months and 1,000 subscribers and be part of the whole monetization of YouTube not just making videos for others to enjoy. Now on that topic, I mentioned a few videos ago that I'm building or we are building something called the C thing. So the B thing was the brand platform. That was one of the reasons I went to Vietnam. And the C thing is going to be another completely separate project that will help you earn money from your computer, your talent and other things that I can't tell you about just yet but it'll be a new revenue stream off YouTube. It won't rely on YouTube's AdSense algorithm and it won't be brand deals. It'll be something else. It won't be merchandise. It won't be the traditional ways you're used to making money in addition to the YouTube AdSense revenue. Anyway, the C thing, I promise I will tell you everything about it as soon as we're ready to unveil it until then just know that we have your back. We will be launching more tools that will help you grow and make money and not just try to reach this 4K, 1K goal which is also what we're trying to do. And speaking of other products or services that can help you grow faster I mentioned a few earlier in this video. Position Music, Audio Micro. We have sponsorships with companies like Envious Host which is a Minecraft server company. Which other sponsorships do you feel we should get for you to help you get to that 4K, 1K threshold sooner? Tell me down there. You know the drill in the comments below. So I have a lot more comments I want to read but I just realized this video is getting a little long and there will be a lot more news to share in future videos so please keep leaving those comments. I do still read every single comment and I will be featuring more in the next episode. I'm going to try to make these videos daily so I can make up for those long pauses in the past and I hope to speak to you in 24 hours or less. So who am I? I am Papa George. George Sunpai, the guy who reads your comments and I hope the guy who helps motivate you to keep going and never give up. 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