Section 09
Find Ideas That Print Views
How to find video ideas people already want: search demand, outlier videos, reference channels, competitor catalogs, and a stocked idea backlog.
Start this section 8 lessons · 28 min
- 1. Why Research Beats Guessing Why demand should pick your topics instead of gut feeling, and how YouTube itself shows you what people already watch. 3 min
- 2. Keyword & Search-Demand Mining How to collect the real questions people search in your niche, rank them by demand, and use YouTube autocomplete for free. 4 min
- 3. Finding Outliers & Breakout Topics How to spot outlier videos by comparing views to a channel's average or size, and why big channels can mislead you. 4 min
- 4. Building an Idea Backlog Why to stock 10 or more researched ideas before launch, build toward 30 to 50, and plan them on a calendar. 4 min
- 5. Finding Candidate Channels How to gather a long list of channels to study using a logged-out window, keyword searches, AI, and similar-channel tools. 3 min
- 6. Competitor & Reference-Channel Research How to filter candidates down to reference channels that are faceless, large enough, and growing right now. 4 min
- 7. Mining Ideas From Competitor Catalogs How to sort a reference channel by popular and recent, focus on the last year, and adapt winning ideas into your own videos. 4 min
- 8. Reverse-Engineering Winners & Finding Your Gap How to copy a proven video's structure, not the channel, mix parts from several channels, and find the gap in your niche. 4 min
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