 We are approaching a big milestone together, 100 million subscribers in the freedom family. Look behind me. 100 million of you almost are watching freedom family videos. This is amazing and I want to dedicate this video to reflecting on how we got here. Do you remember the first video, George's and MCN? That's the video playing behind me. That's what started this whole journey with us with no subscribers, no videos, no channels, and just one person making a video, George's and MCN. Since then, we're almost at 100 million subscribers. Thank you Freedom Family for growing together with us, for walking on this journey together. And there's a lot more cool things to do. There's a lot more of journey to walk. And let's reflect how we got here. When we first began, we were a very small network with only one CMS. And we added many channels. What was our first network powered by freedom? Marquee Dragon. Do you remember Marquee Dragon? Are you partnered with Marquee Dragon? Tell me in the comments below. Then we added another CMS and that became our music. We started partnering music channels, fingerprinting music, using content ID so that musicians can now find copies of their music. And that became Beat. Beat became our music label. We also opened up a new CMS for gamers, MGN. Who remembers the launch of MGN on September 21, 2014? I do. MGN still has its own CMS. So if you're a gamer, you can apply to join the CMS to get access to premium ad buys for gamers only and events and sponsorships for gamers if your channel is focused on gaming. Simply open a ticket, go to freedom.support.tm. Open a ticket and say, hey, I'm a freedom partner. I'm a gamer or I'm in a network powered by freedom. I wish to join the MGN CMS so I can get access to these gamer deals. And we'll make it happen. So what happened next? We kept adding value. We added position music for you where you can get high quality music and it's exclusive to the freedom family. This music is used in Call of Duty in 300 in TV shows and many other professional productions and trailers. Check it out at positionmusic.com. Then we added Reuters, world news footage. Reuters is a world famous news organization that delivers late breaking news as it happens all over the world. And now you can get access to it through the shiny freedom dashboard. Simply sign in, click world news and there you have all the stories. Make videos about ones that interest you because these are tentpole events. What that means is people are searching for them. They are current events and that's how you get more views by making videos about things people are searching for so that they'll find your channel and they'll subscribe if they like your content. That is one way where you can grow a lot faster if you focus on world news, current events, but only post things that you think your audience will be interested in. How else do we help you grow? Well we have heartbeat. Click here in case you don't already have it. That'll take you to the Google Chrome web store where you can get heartbeat for free. Heartbeat helps you grow faster on YouTube. We've added heartbeat tags that let you tag your videos and you will appear at the top of the YouTube search results when people search for those tags. There's many other ways heartbeat helps you grow. There's a global chat where you can talk to everyone and help each other grow. There is information about your video. You can even go to Twitch and get highlighted for your live streaming channel. Heartbeat adds a streamers button to Twitch so that if you've connected your Twitch account with heartbeat then you will get listed whenever you're streaming on that page in addition to the other places that people find you on Twitch. That will help you grow faster. We have features on Hitbox like integrated estimated earnings that's delivered by heartbeat. Don't know what Hitbox is? That's another live stream MCN that we created to help you get more money. Aren't partnered on Twitch? Well, head on over to hitbox.tv and you'll get partnered because you're part of the freedom family and you'll be able to make money on Hitbox instantly. We've already paid out thousands of dollars to people who are partnered on Hitbox as part of our regular monthly payouts. Also, Hitbox is faster than Twitch. What that means is when you start streaming, the audience will see your stream in much less time than on Twitch. Making it easier to interact with your audience so that when you say something like, hey guys, should I go left or right in this game? You don't have to wait 45 seconds for their first response. You can wait maybe 15 seconds or even 10 seconds. That's the benefit of less time between your broadcast and the audience seeing your broadcast. How else have we helped everybody grow together? Well, we have the freedom forums. Almost 80,000 of you have joined www.community.tm where we have the entire freedom community helping each other grow, helping each other with tips and practice, best practices and news and updates and sharing our excitement. Head on over to community.tm to check it out if you haven't already. How else is the freedom family growing together? Well, you tell me in the comments below, what do you like about freedom? What do you feel really helps you grow? And let's see how we can help each other grow together. As I said, we're almost at 100 million subscribers, guys. That is a huge milestone, enormous, amazing. I remember when we had our first million subscribers in the network and I was so pumped and excited and ecstatic. Now we're a hundred times bigger. Wow. I hope you are as happy as I am and as excited as I am about the future of freedom. Where are we going from here? Well, I want to create a stock option program for every freedom partner. What does that mean? It means that if you're partnered with freedom for at least one year, you will have access to stock options where you will be able to own a portion of the company of freedom so that when we go public on NASDAQ, you will make a lot of money if we are successful in our launch. What does that mean going public? It means that you are offering shares to the public to buy for ownership in a company. And when you do that, the first day you do that, that's called the IPO, the initial public offering. Every major company that I know of has gone public. Google, Facebook, Twitter, to name a few, Microsoft. I used to work at Microsoft. If you didn't know, I built parts of Hotmail back in 2006 and other Windows live properties. And I held Microsoft stock. That was part of the deal of being one of Microsoft's employees is you had a stock option program to get stock at a discount when you're working at Microsoft. That's the whole idea here is that we will reward people with stock options who are loyal to freedom so that you can also benefit from the company when we go public. And you can of course choose to hold on to your shares and sell them later. In my case, I sold all my Microsoft shares when I left Microsoft because I figured if I'm not there growing the company, how can it grow so quickly? I'm joking. I sold them because I needed the money at the time. So we want to have a stock option program. And I think that's unique. And to my knowledge, there is no MCN, no network out there that will offer shares to its partners. Am I wrong? If so, tell me in the comments below. I would love to know if this is a unique offering, as I believe it is. So you know we want to go public. You also know that we want to create an MMO. The whole point of going public is to raise a ton of money without giving up control of the company, unlike many other networks, which they choose to sell to some other bigger company. And of course, then they're giving up control. The bigger company becomes the boss. We will not do that. We will however go public to raise a lot of money so we could invest in huge projects. Amazing things that we could never do without that kind of cash injection. How much cash are we talking about? At least $100 million, guys, when a company goes public with the success that we will have over the next few years, it'll be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. And we will use part of that money to start an MMO, to build a game for the entire Freedom Family. All of YouTubers and anyone who wants to contribute will have an opportunity to be part of the design. We'll get your feedback. We will create this MMO together as a family as we've been growing freedom together as a family. That won't change. We have a lot of other ideas on what to build, but let's worry about that when we get there. For now, it's been an amazing, almost 100 million subscriber run about a year and a half, but we have a lot more cool stuff and a lot more exciting milestones to achieve together. Just tell me in the comments below what you feel about all this. I read everything down there, and I would love to hear from you. Who am I? I am George, CEO and founder of this great family, the Freedom Family, and you've been watching and we will grow together as a family because this is the Freedom Family. You are part of it. We are all part of it, and we're all growing together. So grow with us and partner with Freedom. That play now button right there on the video bar is all you need to click to get started.