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952 – Take advantage of this cool feature: Tom talks Feature Eligibility

Today, we're going to talk about feature eligibility. This has to do with our YouTube series starting with episode 944. And this is going to open up a whole bunch of cool things for you just by verifying yourself a little bit more with YouTube.

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[00:23] Tom's introduction to Feature Eligibility

[01:46] Use this to have longer videos and custom thumbnails

[03:29] Don't forget to pick your Country of Origin

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SUMMARY BY CHATGPT

In episode 952 of Screw the Commute, host Tom Antion discusses YouTube's feature eligibility settings and how they can unlock powerful tools for content creators. These features include enabling longer videos, custom thumbnails, and live streaming, which can significantly enhance a channel's performance and audience engagement.
Key Steps for Feature Eligibility:
1. Accessing Settings:
o Go to YouTube Studio → Channel → Settings → Feature Eligibility.
2. Verification Levels:
o Standard: Enabled by default when you create a YouTube account.
o Intermediate: Requires verifying your phone number, unlocking:
 Videos longer than 15 minutes.
 Custom thumbnails (important for attracting viewers).
 Live streaming capabilities.
Bonus Tip:
Set your "Country of Origin" in the basic channel settings to avoid tax-related issues and ensure compliance.
Upcoming Episodes:
• Episode 953 will cover watermarks, a tool to increase subscribers and protect your content.
Additional Resources:
• Mentor Program: GreatInternetMarketingTraining.com
• Digital Marketing School: IMTCVA.org
• Free Automation E-book: screwthecommute.com/automatefree
Tom emphasizes the value of verifying your channel to access these tools and concludes with a preview of the next episode.

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Episode 952 – Feature Eligibility
[00:00:09] Welcome to Screw the Commute. The entrepreneurial podcast dedicated to getting you out of the car and into the money, with your host, lifelong entrepreneur and multimillionaire, Tom Antion.

[00:00:24] Hey everybody! It's Tom here with episode 952 of Screw the Commute podcast. Today, we're going to talk about feature eligibility. This has to do with our YouTube series starting with episode 944. And this is going to open up a whole bunch of cool things for you just by verifying yourself a little bit more with YouTube. All right. Let's see. I hope you didn't miss episode 951 of this series. That was oh, this is a really cool one. How to use TV and movie clips in your productions and where to find them and so forth. So that was episode 951. Anytime you want to get to a back episode, you go to screwthecommute.com, then the episode number. That was 951. TV and movie clips and pick up a copy of our automation e-book at screwthecommute.com/automatefree. Check out my mentor program at GreatInternetMarketingTraining.com. The longest running, most successful, most unique mentor program in the field of internet and digital marketing ever. I triple dare anybody to triple dog dare anybody to to put their program up against mine. And also I have a school. I have the only licensed dedicated school in the country for internet and digital marketing at IMTCVA.org. It's one of the best legacy gifts you could ever give to a young person. Gives them a usable skill in as little as six months. They're highly in demand skill too.

[00:01:47] All right, let's get into feature eligibility. So what what does this do. Well it allows you to have longer videos and a very important thing called custom thumbnails and also allows you to live stream. And all you have to do is well, here's how you do this. And I'm going to give you a little bonus tip, short bonus tip as we get to the end of this too. So you go into your YouTube studio, go to channel, go to settings and then click on Feature Eligibility. And you're going to have three choices under that standard, intermediate and advanced standard. You probably will be enabled already just for signing up, but on intermediate is the really important one. You want to click the verify button there, and you verify your phone number and it opens up where you can have videos longer than 15 minutes. But the really important one, like I said, is custom thumbnails. This is what the custom thumbnail is kind of like a subject line in an email. If they don't open the email because of the subject line, nothing else matters after that. So the custom thumbnail you have to compete with everybody else's important, interesting looking hook type custom thumbnails, but you can't do it until you verify yourself right here in this this tip to be eligible for that.

[00:03:23] All right. That's that feature eligibility. Go verify yourself. That opens up these things for you. All right. Here's a little bonus tip for you. It's a very quick and it seems it seems kind of stupid really. But it is important for you to go to settings, go to your channel, go to basic and then Country of Origin and pick your country. And you say, well, you know that's kind of a no brainer. Tom yeah, but see there's there's tax ramifications if you play games with this or do the wrong thing and it could cause you a lot of hassle. So that's an extra little bonus tip for you. All right. So that's, uh, feature eligibility really can open up a lot of good things for you longer videos, custom thumbnails and live streaming, which is, you know, really popular nowadays. What's coming up is episode 953. The next episode is going to be on watermarks. This is, uh, helps you get more subscribers and also helps protect your video just a little bit. But anyway, uh, check out my mentor program. GreatinternetmarketingTraining.com and my school IMTCVA.org. All right, we'll catch you all in the next episode. See you later.