 2016 is here. Cue the fireworks. And there we go. These were in the Philippines. We filmed this when we hit 2016 a day ago. Do you like the fireworks? Let me hide myself for a little bit. Pretty cool stuff. This was in Eastwood City in Manila in the Philippines. So what's going to happen in 2016 for you and for freedom? Tell us your goals in the comments below and here are ours. While we're going to do more videos just like the ones we've been doing these past few days when the George Show came back. Let me turn on my Dr. George glasses as a few of you have commented in the videos. So one thing I wanted to talk about was the comments you've been giving us about tips on how to help you grow. So I'm going to turn on window capture and this window. Okay. So this is a comment made by Saucy Saturday, great channel name Saucy. He was saying that I have always featured all my video playlist card, all my videos playlist card on my videos near the end. Well that was a great idea Saucy that I think every one of you should do to get more views. In fact what I've also done and I recommend you do as well is put a link to the playlist of the videos related to each video. In this case it's my get more views video. So I have a link to the George Show 2016 playlist. If you click that it'll go here which has all my videos. So not only do you have it in the cards you have mine right here. It's the last card in the last minute of every one of my videos now. Thank you for that tip Saucy Saturday. As well I've added it to my video description. Now put in a helpful description in your playlist. So in this case I talk about how George never gave up, that's me George on his goal for freedom to become a full MCN directly with YouTube and Google. And it happened. Two years ago guys on December 1st 2013. So you should too never give up. And of course partner with freedom because we will help you be free. So do that for your videos in your playlist as well. That's a good tip. Now who remembers this video? The freedom will buy you a car. Seriously. We just hit 10 billion views in the freedom family. Okay. We hit 10 billion views in the freedom family and we will buy someone, a lucky winner, a new $20,000 car when we hit 100 billion views in the freedom family. So how are we doing on this video? By the way didn't see this video? Click that I up there. That will take you directly to the win a car video. So how do you win this car? Well you simply leave a comment beneath this video that says freedom will hit 100 billion views on and you put your guess and you give a tip. My tip, your best tip, your tip that you feel will help everyone grow faster. And this person's tip is to listen to your fans and drive engagement. So this person didn't listen to the instructions. He left a date but he didn't leave a tip. So that does not qualify as an entry. Don't do that. Leave a tip. That's the point of this video is to help everybody grow together. Let's see what Magnus Gaming said 14 hours ago. Freedom will hit 100 billion views on August 14th, 2021. Wow, that's a long way in the future. I'm hoping it will be sooner than that Magnus. And my best tip to help you grow is to always seek new ways to catch a larger audience while also looking into how to use current skills and improve them. It's a good general tip Magnus but I was hoping you could provide a specific tip like use Twitter and tweet in this way like follow people who follow you and give them helpful advice that will help you grow faster. Like that's a very specific tip that I'm hoping others will provide in these comments. But don't worry guys, there are how many? Almost 5,000 comments. That means almost 5,000 tips to help you grow. And we'll go through these tips over time because they keep coming in. You can see these as a day ago, then two days ago, three days ago and so on. So yeah, that was the tip about the car video. And the car video was launched on December 7th, 2014. So it's been just over a year ago and at that time we had 10 billion views. How many do we have now? Let's have a look. So all you do is you click that link in the video description scroll down to where it says network statistics and we have 28.17 billion views. Basically 28 billion views right now. That means we're 28% of the way. So let's do a little math. If it took us a year to go from 10 to 28 billion, let's make it easier. Let's say we're at 30 billion. From 10 to 30 billion, that means we gained 20 billion views in one year. How many more years before we hit 100 billion? Well, about three years because we should be growing a little bit faster each year, but you can do the math yourself and you can try to guess when we will hit that 100 billion mark because there is no right answer. We don't know. We just assume or are guessing based on our growth and trajectory. So that's exciting. What else can I share with you about 2016? So we're definitely going to be reading a lot more of your comments. The video that I made that talked about this one, YouTube sent a gift, George Reed's comments, we had over almost 6,000 views, a ton of likes, although it's not showing how many of these are likes, but most of them are likes, and almost 500 comments. So if you remember, one of the comments was the guy team GBR commenting on how you need to have a space between the punctuation and the link. Well, I made a video about that because it was such a great comment and I didn't know that. So we will do more of the reading everybody's comment videos because you told me you want them. So great. We'll keep doing more of them. What else will we be doing more of in 2016? Well, we will be focusing more on the YouTube analytics that will give you a lot more cool features. As you know, one of my goals is to build the freedom wallet. The freedom wallet will let you take money out as soon as YouTube analytics says you've earned it. So for example, if you have a video that just made you $500 because it went viral and you got a ton of views and that was only five days ago. Well, normally you would need to wait one to two months for that $500. But with the concept of the freedom wallet is if you're a good actor that has been with freedom for a good length of time so we have a history of payment, then you can take out that $500 or most of it based on your history with freedom right away. Now we're actually giving you that money before YouTube pays us for it and before you could have gotten it if you were partnered directly with YouTube. So it's actually just future revenue share. But the reason I want to do this is I can imagine many cases where you need the money now because of an emergency. Oh, my microphone broke. I mean, it hasn't, but let's say it did. So how am I going to make videos? Well, I need money or I'm going on a trip or I'm getting married. I mean, there's many reasons why someone needs money now. And so I think it's a good feature to let people get the money that they've actually earned even though YouTube hasn't paid us for it yet early. But of course, what are the downsides? Downsides are, let's say your channel gets closed tomorrow and we've paid you that $500. Well, we're not going to see any money for you and we've lost $500. So that's why we want to make sure you have a good track record, a good history with us and YouTube before we give you these advances because, of course we don't want to be giving money and then channels getting closed. Also, you will need to at least stay with the network until we get paid for YouTube. So there will be a short lock-in period just because you're getting money from us before we're even getting money from YouTube. So it's just trying to be fair for this. But all of this will be explained when we have this feature in the dashboard so you'll know exactly how it works and what the criteria are. Do you like this concept of freedom wallet? If so, tell me in the comments below. Now, a few of you have also told me that you really like longer videos that you prefer me to keep talking. So those of you who have gotten bored of this episode, you can go on to another video but those of you who enjoy The George Show, why not? Let's make a long video after all. This is the New Year's Celebration video. Let's see that again. There we go. Our fireworks video that we took with our cell phones while this was going on in Eastwood City, Philippines. So we of course have big plans for MGN. How many of you know that Diablo 3 is going to have a new season? Season 5 starting January 15th. Well, it's true. And I will show you. So let's stop the video and I think I have a window here. There we go. So this window represents the Battle.net launcher and Diablo 3 has season 5. Season 5 will start on January 15th at 5pm. Are you going to be playing Diablo 3? Well, play with us. I'll certainly be playing. You remember my 10-hour livestream when season 3 started? Well, I'll do it again with season 5 if you want me to. And of course we're going to do this under the MGN brand because MGN is the multi-gaming network. It's our gaming brand. MGN is where we put all of our gaming content and if you didn't know that, let us show you. So MGN is just YouTube.com slash MGN. Very simple. Uh-oh. I misspelled YouTube.com. Sorry. Alright. So this is our YouTube official channel for MGN. And currently we are showcasing Metal Gear. Welcome to MGN Showcase. This is your host, Real Sykes. And this is the Metal Gear solid modding for Grand Theft Auto. So here you'll find a lot of awesome content for World of Warcraft, Fallout 4, latest games, shows and series, first look game reviews. Tell us what you think of the MGN channel. Go check it out. Click that I right there. That'll take you, wait, can we do channel cards? I don't even know. Let's try before I talk about things that don't exist. So I remember that you couldn't do channel cards at one point. So let's take one of my videos here. So here we are on the 20th floor, day one of operations. Let's take a look. Actually this is a good video too. This is where I'm sitting right now. George, stop talking. And this is the video where I first showed how it looks in our new office here in the Philippines. Pretty cool stuff. So let's go back to cards. Okay, how do I, there we go, cards. So let's see if we can add a channel card. So I can add a channel card. So if I type MGN here and I type a custom message, MGN is the multi gaming network. Uh oh, it's too long. MGN, the multi gaming network. How about that? Oh, there's also a teaser text. Okay, check out our gaming brand MGN. Oh, doesn't like that. Create the card. Let's see how it looks. Check out our gaming brand MGN. MGN, the multi gaming network. So that's how it works. I would probably want to reverse those two comments when I'm talking about the card. Let's see how do I edit this. I would swap that to there and move that to there. Okay, and let's try it again. So now it'll say MGN, the multi gaming network. You click that. Check out our gaming brand. Excuse me. And I still have a little bit of a cold. Sorry about that, guys. I should be healthy, hopefully, by the next video. Okay. So, ooh, I better undo that. Don't want a card in the middle of nowhere. That doesn't make any sense in that video. One moment. How do I remove a card? Trash. Okay, done. Great. Actually, this is more like a live stream. Maybe I should have done a live stream. What do you guys think? Should I be live streaming the George show? Or have a few episodes that are live to talk to you while I'm making the video? If you want that, know the drill. Tell me in the comments below. So we'll be focusing more on the dashboard, building new features for you. We're going to be focusing on MGN, helping you get a better experience for all you gamers out there. And you know MGN has its own CMS. And if you want to apply to move to the MGN CMS, where you'll have access to more exclusive gaming sponsorships, gaming events, gaming announcements, then just open a ticket on our support forum, which is freedom.support.tm. You just go there, log in or sign up. It's all free. And then you can open a ticket to say, hey, I'm a gaming channel. Can you please transfer me to the MGN CMS? Now nothing will change in terms of your rev share, in terms of your monetization. It's exactly the same. The only difference is you'll have access to gaming specific sponsorships, brand deals, events that we do, live streams that we host, and so on and so on, on the MGN channel. YouTube.com slash MGN. And this support forum is also great anytime you have a question, you should go here, or go to our community site www.community.tm. And that is our very active forums where lots of people come every day and look how many members we have. Over 100,000. 400,000 people have signed up to have an account here on the freedom forums, and you should too. We have lots of news, FAQs, support, and the most important one for all new users is introduce yourself. Let's have a look at who has recently introduced themselves on the forums. So four minutes ago, we had who? Dead on the inside. What is that? Let's have a look at that post. Hi, my name is X3NigNogDanDanny, whatever. It's a bit of a long name, I think I'll stop there. I make videos with my friends who are assholes. Well, he doesn't seem like a very friendly guy, but let's check out just how what his channel is. Well, Merry Christmas to YouTube. Let's try another person, shall we? I had no idea that would happen, and let's look at the next guy. 23 minutes ago. GFX Channel. Hey everyone, I'm a motion designer. So let's meet our motion designer on the community forums. And while that's waiting to load, we have a few more. New YouTuber. Introduction. Hmm, did my internet just go down? No, I'm not streaming this, so I'm recording locally, so my recording won't be affected, but I think my internet has stopped working. Well, you get the idea. Introduce yourself on our forums, www.community.tm which is the home of the freedom community. So what else are we going to do in 2016? Well, we're going to launch a AIDS network. What that means is, if your content is appropriate for ages 5 to 9, we're going to have a new revenue stream for you. You'll be able to get your content on a new mobile platform that is launching in February 2016, and that mobile platform will be focused entirely on content videos appropriate for ages 5 to 9. That is going to be coming soon, and I'm going to make videos announcing it as we approach February. But we've already done a test run, and we've already got some channels on the platform. We're doing a beta right now. Now, I won't say anymore, but that's a new revenue stream. So if you think you have content appropriate for children ages 5 to 9, now it doesn't have to be content by kids. It can be content that's just appropriate for ages 5 to 9. And I don't mean learn how to spell or the ABC song. I mean any kind of content that you feel kids ages 5 to 9 would appreciate. Even Minecraft videos that are fun to watch, no cursing, and things that would make it inappropriate, you get the idea. So kids content is coming to the Freedom Family, and everyone with it will have a new revenue stream because this is an off YouTube platform. Which means we're going to be delivering your content on a mobile app that isn't part of YouTube. It's part of a new platform. Alright. What else is coming in 2016 that will help you grow faster? The Freedom Academy is coming! The Freedom Academy. What is that? Well, the Freedom Academy will be like the YouTube Creators Academy and you'll be able to get Freedom Certified. Let me just show you the YouTube Creators Academy in case you don't know about it. So here it is. So we're going to create something like this where you can learn about best practices, learn from other Freedom Partners who are successful. What's the secret of their success? You'll be able to take tests and get graded to be certified as you know your stuff. So here's your certificate very similar to how YouTube lets people be YouTube certified but this is coming very soon and the Freedom Academy will be announced as soon as it's ready. What else is coming in 2016? Well you tell me. What do you want to see in this brand new year? We just started it. This is day two of 2016. What do you want to see in 2016? Tell us in the comments below. Do you want more fireside chats with George like I used to do with you? Do you want to see more of the life in the Philippines? See how people are living and working here with us? And of course we're trying to find more people to come to the Philippines. We hope to reach a hundred over time. A few of you have made comments asking what we're doing on that hundred count. I think we're currently at eight so we're only eight percent of the way there and of course it's just a number we might get more than a hundred. We might end up with less than a hundred but we certainly have room for a hundred people to come here to the Philippines to live and work. As you know we have a very large office space on the 20th floor. 17,000 square feet guys and it's all hours and 1,600 square meters for those of you who prefer metrics, metric measurements. And I hope to fill it up. Fill it out with a lot of good people working together helping the freedom family grow together and helping you all of the freedom partners. 130,000 of you now are partnered with freedom and we have 130 million subscribers. If you remember this slide here we go 130,000 channels, 136 million subscribers in the freedom family. That's amazing guys. Do you know we're growing at 200,000 subscribers a day? That's how fast people are growing in the network and new channels are coming in. Net growth of about 200,000 subscribers every single day. Seven days a week. I think this is long enough. Don't you guys? Let me play the New Year's video one more time and I hope you enjoyed this extended episode of The George Show. If you like these extended versions tell me and of course I'll make more. And we'll see you in the new year, shiny new 2016. Who am I? I am George, CEO and founder of Freedom and you've been watching The George Show extended edition. Take care guys. Happy New Year.