 freedom stop looking at the couch this is gonna get weird freedom today I wanted to talk to you about no no wait I want to talk to you about a few updates that I have for you as many of you know lately I've been working more and more in the sponsorship-y type department and a lot of sponsorships as I'm coming to find out is a lot about information getting information to people so that's kind of what I'm trying to do here so because this was pre-recorded some of this information may not be the newest or the freshest so try to bear with me there may be stuff in here you don't know or maybe stuff that you didn't take action on the first time you heard I can't believe I just said yeah heard I feel like I'm back in the 80s so first and foremost thing I wanted to make you the most aware of is a YouTube channel here on YouTube called Creator Insider been watching this now for about a month but I haven't really made a video on it because it's one of those things where they give you information kind of like we give you information so they're kind of competition but kind of not um so it is a sort of a unofficial YouTube projects type thing so it's definitely a great place to get information for channels such as yourselves so be sure to subscribe to that link in the description down below it's run by a guy named Tom and he's really kind of cool so check in on he's got access to all kinds of really cool people and all kinds of really cool information and he tries to come and like at least once a week talk to like some not subscribers but like creators and stuff support's been having all kinds of questions about monetization which is fair which is fine so let's see if we can demystify that as many people are aware earlier this year somewhere between February and April there was this whole adpocalypse thing that you know turned a bunch of people into like you know zombies actually no but speaking of this shirt actually Freedom just recently updated its merchandise link in the description to spread shirt where you can check out what else we have I actually wanted this one to say I survived the zombie ad apocalypse but I got overruled on that one still an awesome shirt though I got sidetracked oh yeah so the couple of changes to monetization on the way that works so there was a bug that you know that YouTube says the bug where some users were seeing the green monetization symbol even though they didn't have 10,000 lifetime views on their channel and they claim that there wasn't any monetization going on I don't have any tangible real proof of this but that's what they say and that that should be fixed here soon so if you've got less than 10,000 views on your channel in total and you stop seeing that little green monetized symbol in the next couple of weeks just remember it really shouldn't have been monetizing since April now when it comes to monetization as many people may be aware now there's a system when you upload a video on your my videos page it'll give you like a little green symbol or a little like a gray symbol or it'll give you like a yellow symbol yellow means that it's not monetized for all or not safe for all advertisers and you can you can appeal that process green means you're a okay and gray I think means it's claimed or not monetized at all I forget at the moment I should have made a better note on that so anyways what I wanted to talk to you about is an appeal when it's yellow so if you see a little yellow monetization icon the way that that works is you have to have to appeal it the way it used to work up till now is you could upload it as unlisted and the the channel or YouTube would take a look at that if you left it on it's unlisted for a little while they would review it and then they would either set it as good to go or not now they don't they they do that for channels over 10,000 subscribers or channels under 10,000 subscribers who hit 1000 views in the first week of the videos existence or something very similar to that again my my notes I do still very highly suggest and I have for a very long time that people who upload videos to YouTube have a catalog of unlisted videos that they can release whenever it gives you a great buffer in case you need to take a couple of days off or like a week off or depending on your schedule I try to keep three videos on my personal channel as unlisted at all times for me that has come in really good handy while dealing with all this monetization stuff because I can release what YouTube isn't demonetizing while I try to fix everything else and who doesn't like a buffer it's nice to have when things go wrong YouTube also recently announced an ultra low latency mode which can get you as low as a one second delay between the streamer and the stream me stream is a stream yeah thing this is awesome for everyone who's doing live streaming however I have to be honest YouTube right now with all the demonetization stuff you're not really this is a great feature from my personal opinion it's a great feature but there are a lot of gamers right now who are really cheesed off because they're not allowed to monetize their streams because of all this you know other monetization craziness so I don't know like I'm just saying there's there's something to be fixed here and that's all the notes that I have for you for now and let me know in the comment section down below if I've missed anything if there have been any other news thingies that I should have covered and I'd like to thank a lot of people on our community team and on the forums specifically Ashley Silver dust who brought to my attention the ultra low latency bit of news and I believe if you would have been paying attention over on the forums you probably would have known that like four days ahead of time or maybe more I don't know what this video is gonna go out but you would have known it sooner anyways I hope this video has been helpful for you if it has let us know in the comment section down below till next time don't forget to like subscribe and do all those things to make us love our jobs also be awesome to yourself amazing to each other bye freedom family during the end card I wanted to introduce you to this guy this guy is Bobby and he's an unsung hero of freedom pretty much anything that needs to be done he does it anyway yeah so click on something