Good morning and welcome to another  episode of the Wake Up Date! I have some
  important announcements to share with  you this month. First of all, I have a
  couple of wizardrock shows coming up  that I wanted to share with you so if
  you live near any of these places and  you want to come see me perform, I would
  love to see you. For more information on  all of these shows, you can read the
  video description below or go to laurenfairweather.com/shows - First up,
  I'm going to be performing at the  wizarding weekend in Ithaca, New York. I
  cannot wait for this show! Every time  I've played in Ithaca, it's been really
  fun and this one's gonna be especially  cool cause it's like a festival and they
  transform their town and there are going  to be a ton of bands and performers and
  it's gonna be really cool and it's right  before Halloween so I'm excited. I'm
  going to be performing there on October  28th. I'm also going to be performing at a
  Harry Potter conference called  Conjuration in Atlanta, Georgia.
  It's from November 3rd to November 5th. I  performed at the first Conjuration they
  ever hosted and I'm excited to be back!  It was also just announced that I'm
  gonna be performing for the first time  at the New Year's Eve show in Woonsocket,
  Rhode Island. It's a house party and  I've never done the New Year's Eve one
  so I'm excited. So if you like Harry  Potter, those shows will be really fun
  and I hope to see you there! So. This is  an exciting thing! YouTube invited me
  to be part of a beta for a new feature  they're testing called Sponsorships.
  Basically, you could sign up on my  channel to pay a small fee every month
  that I would get and I could use that to  fund my channel! And that money would
  help me continue to make videos like  this. As you know, I have a baby, I own a
  house, and my various creative pursuits  are my only job so if you like my
  content and you want me to keep making  more of it, that's a really great way to
  help me keep going with all of this. I've  talked about this on my channel a little
  bit before, but basically, if all of my  various creative pursuits don't make
  enough money for me to live, I'm going to  have to get a more traditional job
  outside of the house and that would  leave me with a lot less time, possibly
  no time at all to make videos like this  for all of you. More funding for my
  channel could mean anywhere from me  being able to continue doing what I'm
  doing to maybe being able to do even  more for you. It's possible that if I
  make enough money with this YouTube  channel, I could afford to put my kid in
  daycare and that would give me so much  more time to work on videos. I've always
  tried to provide a variety of ways that  you could support me whether it's buying
  my merchandise, buying my music, coming to  see me at a show, I have my patreon
  campaign, and I'm now going to be trying  this sponsorships feature. Just like
  Patreon, the sponsorships feature on  YouTube allows me to come up with my own
  way of rewarding the people who decide  to become sponsors. So because I love
  patreon and I am going to continue with  that campaign, I decided to come up with
  some new perks that are just exclusive  to sponsorships. That way you have plenty
  of options and you could even decide to  contribute to both if you wanted to. Or
  none at all. Totally fine. I understand. So  I wanted to talk real quick about the
  current perks that I am offering to  anybody who decides to sponsor me on
  YouTube. So when I was talking to YouTube  about the place that these perks would
  be, they said that the best way that they  recommended for me to deliver the perks
  is through the community tab on my  channel page. You may have seen that
  already; it's a place where I post all  kinds of fun stuff for people who
  subscribe to my channel, but now they've  offered the ability for me to post
  things just to sponsors on the community  tab, so if you decide to become a sponsor
  and you sign up, that's where you can go  to find all of these things. So I decided
  that I wanted to make sponsorships kind  of a creative community where a smaller
  amount of us can get together and have  discussions and inspire each other and I
  thought that that would be a really fun  place to do it. I've been posting behind
  the scenes photos and sneak peeks that  are just for the people who sponsor my
  videos, that way you can kind of see what  I'm working on and also learn a little
  bit more about how I make all these  videos happen. Also, every month I'll be
  writing out a little handwritten note,  taking a picture of it, and posting it in
  the sponsor only feed, that way you're  the only ones who can read it, I'm
  writing it just for my sponsors. So much  of the way that we communicate online is
  through typed text and I think that  handwriting is kind of a lost art so
  I've been practicing it a lot and I like  writing notes and letters to people, so I
  thought that this would just be kind of  a more personal way of talking to all of
  you. I'm also going to be posting  exclusive prompts and discussion
  starters for all of you out there who  decide to be sponsors where we can just
  have a conversation and talk back and  forth and have it just be a smaller
  community where we can get to know each  other. I'm hoping this is gonna be the
  kind of place where you can share what  you're working on or get advice or stay
  inspired to keep creating. This part's a  little more up in the air because I
  think that it's gonna really be  determined by the people who sign up and
  whether or not they're interested in  participating in something like this. I
  feel like some parts of the internet  can be a really scary place and YouTube
  comments is one of those places but I  feel like I have a really supportive,
  wonderful community here and I think  that this is just another place where we
  can get together and chat. And this last  perk is something I've been wanting to
  do for a really long time, but I couldn't  just kind of open it up to everybody
  right away and that is that being a  sponsor will give you the ability to
  send me video clips that I could use in  my videos. One way that I thought I could
  use this perk so far is that I could do  a video Q&A and people who are sponsors
  can send me videos of them asking  questions. So that way you can see the
  person who's asking the question and  hear their voice and I thought that that
  would be really fun. I don't know how  many of you would be interested in doing
  that. I also thought it would be really  fun to make a video showing the people
  who make the projects that I post. I'm  gonna think of some ideas for videos
  that we can work on together and the  sponsor only tab is gonna be the first
  place where I go to ask people to send  those to me. If any of this sounds
  interesting to you and you want to try  sponsoring me for a little bit of money
  every month, the way you can sign up is  by clicking the sponsor button. It's
  usually located next to the subscribe  button so underneath the video or on my
  channel itself. One thing to note is that  this is a beta and it has been having
  issues so far, so if you have any  problems, let me know in the comments
  below or send me a private message and I  will send it to the people who I've been
  working with on the feature. It's also  pretty limited at the moment and one of
  those limitations is that you can't  actually sign up to be a sponsor on iOS
  so if you're on your iPad or your iPhone,  you won't see the sponsor button there.
  You can sign up on an Android device  and you can sign up on a desktop, so if
  you're like me and you have an iPhone,  just sign up on your desktop and then
  you can use your iPhone or your iPad to  access all the sponsor only posts once
  you've already signed up. Hopefully  they'll get that feature going soon. Let
  me know if you have any questions about  YouTube sponsorships. I know this is a
  lot of information. If you are YouTube  creator and you're interested in being
  part of this beta when they open it up  to more people, I'm gonna put a link in
  the video description below. There's a  little form you can fill out that will
  let them know kind of who is interested  in trying this out. Also this is totally
  not required; it's just something that  you can do if you really love my channel
  and you want to contribute. All my videos  and my channel and everything
  are gonna be totally free and available  to whoever wants to watch them. Anybody
  who decides to do it, it's a really big  deal for me and I appreciate it so much.
  Even though sponsorships is pretty  similar to patreon, I am still doing my
  patreon campaign. So you might know that  one of my patreon perks is a video shout
  out so this month, I would like to thank  Nicki B. Thank you, Lucy black. Thank you,
  Ashley Sousa. Thank you, Markslide Thank you Antonia G, and a big THANK YOU and
  welcome back to Saxony! One more thing  that I wanted to mention is that I
  bought this shirt from Amy Tangerine  who's one of my favorite youtube
  creators, she's totally amazing. I just  wanted to show it to you because I
  thought that it was very "me" and I was  so excited when I saw it. It says "make
  stuff and make stuff happen"! Isn't her  handwriting amazing? I love Amy, she's so
  great. Thanks so much for catching up  with me, I hope you're all doing really
  well and I'll see you soon!
     
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