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title: 'How To Grow A Faceless Youtube Channel In 2026 | (ADVANCED COURSE)'
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# How To Grow A Faceless Youtube Channel In 2026 | (ADVANCED COURSE)

> Source: [How To Grow A Faceless Youtube Channel In 2026 | (ADVANCED COURSE)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ErCV5czVK1g)

## Summary

The video is an advanced course on growing faceless YouTube channels in 2026. The creator, Romero, explains major algorithm changes involving Google's Gemini AI, focusing on semantic IDs, net information gain, and the Gist filter. He provides strategies for script writing, channel launch, and niche selection.

### Key Points

- **Gemini integration and semantic IDs** [0:40] — YouTube's algorithm has been updated with Gemini AI, which now uses semantic IDs to evaluate videos based on editing speed, colors, volume, energy, and intention behind words. This replaces the old CTR/AVD-focused system.
- **Net Information Gain (NIG) and Gist filter** [5:21] — Google's new 'Gist' filter assigns an originality score to each video. If a script is 90% similar to existing content, the algorithm deletes it from recommendations. To succeed, you need to add new information (net information gain) not already in Google's knowledge base.
- **Off-platform presence and entity building** [13:05] — To be seen as a legitimate entity (brand) rather than just an uploader, you need a presence across multiple platforms (Instagram, Facebook, X/Twitter, Pinterest) with consistent branding and linked profiles. This increases trust and authority scores.
- **Good vs. bad abandonment** [24:51] — With Gemini's reasoning, AVD is no longer the sole success metric. The algorithm distinguishes good abandonment (viewer leaves satisfied after getting answer) from bad abandonment (viewer leaves unsatisfied). Satisfied viewers even with lower AVD can still boost channel authority.
- **Trendy vs. evergreen niches** [27:40] — Trendy niches (e.g., celebrity news) require daily uploading and fast turnaround but can yield high peaks in views and money. Evergreen niches (e.g., history documentaries) offer slow, steady growth and low pressure, suitable for older creators or those with less time.
- **Perplexity, burstiness, and complexity in scripts** [39:07] — To avoid AI detection and reused content flags, scripts must be surprising (perplexity), have varied sentence rhythms (burstiness), and use interesting vocabulary (complexity). Avoid generic AI phrases like 'dive into' or 'it remains to be seen.'
- **Gist filter and redundancy radius** [47:40] — The Gist filter creates a 'redundancy radius': if your video falls inside an existing video's semantic coordinate (semantic ID), it is not just ranked lower – it is effectively deleted from the recommendation pool. New niches with no existing high-authority videos can pop off quickly.
- **Pillar, anchor, cluster, collision, and bridge nodes** [54:57] — A 5‑step channel launch strategy: 1. Pillar (first video, broad topic to define channel). 2. Anchor (target popular search terms). 3. Cluster (niche-specific content). 4. Collision (viral, broad-appeal titles). 5. Bridge (cross-niche appeal). This order helps build authority and impressions.

### Conclusion

The key to growing a faceless YouTube channel in 2026 is no longer just high CTR and AVD but focusing on net information gain, semantic IDs, and multi-platform presence. Creators must adapt to the Gemini-driven algorithm by creating original, unpredictable content that satisfies viewer intent.

## Transcript

You're about to watch one of the most
advanced YouTube automation courses on
the internet. My name is Romero and I've
been running Faceless YouTube channels
since 2018. And since then, I've gotten
hundreds of millions of views and I've
made over $2 million in just YouTube ad
revenue. In the next hour, you're going
to see a handful of videos from my
private school community. And the whole
point of this is to see how many
subscribers I get for giving out a lot
of information as opposed to giving out
some information and, you know, kind of
plugging in my school community. Uh, I
want to do the opposite now. I want to
hit 200,000 subscribers. So, don't
worry. There's literally no gatekeeping
in this video. Just sit back, take
notes, and hopefully you find
information that makes you subscribe.
All right, let's get started.
So, the YouTube algorithm just had its
biggest change ever. Well, kind of
because it wasn't done on YouTube. Like,
this isn't a an update that YouTube is
going to go out and, you know, tell you
guys that changed. This is more on the
back end of Gemini, and it was more of a
developer update as opposed to like a
creator update. Uh, so that's why you're
probably not going to hear anything
about it. Now, the way the old algorithm
worked, you posted a video with high
click-through rate, which was clickbait,
or, you know, just a good thumbnail and
title. And then it would get clicks.
From there, the algorithm would decide
based on average view duration if it was
going to continue pushing it, which if
you had high CTR, high AVD, you would
obviously get more of a push. And then
this cycle would repeat until the end of
the video cycle. And of course, tags and
descriptions and keyword stuffing would
make this the meta and just, you know,
make it 10 times more powerful. But with
this came the spam channels, the AI
channels, the rewriting scripts, taking
people's content and just rewarding it.
There was a lot of duplicates. There was
people exploiting this. And essentially,
the system no longer worked because of
fake spam and abuse. So, Google's idea
was to uh involve Gemini. So, every time
you post a video, Gemini reads the
description, the transcript of your
video, and the SEO. And from here, it
decides if it gets flagged or if it gets
approved. Now, in the beginning of
January 2026, literally a few days ago,
Google updated Gemini. And what this
does is that now it gave Gemini the
ability to reason. Meaning that it can
see exactly what you search for on
Google, on Google Drive, on Google Docs,
Gmail, uh, and YouTube. So, this is what
the meaning of of reasoning is. It can
now see everything that you do across
all of the Google platforms. Um, and
it's kind of like Facebook. It's kind of
more like targeted ads. So, a video is
no longer based on just the keywords,
the the metadata, and all that, right?
Because now Gemini can reason if it's a
video to recommend. And what it goes
based off of is called semantic ID. This
is the biggest change to Google's
algorithm overall. What a semantic ID is
is when you upload a video, Gemini now
sees the editing speed of your video,
the colors you use, the volume, the
energy, and more specifically the
intention behind the words that you are
using in your script. So when Google
analyzes this, it gives it a semantic
ID, which is, you know, a high energy
video. Let's say it's a gaming video,
it's a male voice, it's a chaotic edit.
And this is like the perfect
description. It's a code for your vibe,
the vibe of your video, the energy of
it. So, this is one of the most advanced
ways that the algorithm now recommends
content. So, let's say a user is on
Google and they're searching Minecraft
or Fortnite. So, Gemini from here is
assuming that the person is in the mood
to watch content with high energy,
right? Obviously, gaming focused cuz
it's it's it's gaming videos, but you
know that that that stereotypical
YouTuber that's yelling into the mic and
you know, very very excited. Typical
gaming channel. So Google tells Gemini,
"Hey, they're searching Minecraft and
Fortnite. What's the next logical thing
that this person wants to watch? What
what are they in the mood for at this
current moment?" So Gemini understands
that the person wants to watch high
energy content, gaming content. That is
their mood. That is their vibe. And it
starts thinking of two options. Does it
recommend you a gaming video with high
energy? Or does it recommend you a
gaming video that is storytelling and
slow pace? You know, the answer is
pretty obvious. it's going to recommend
the video with high energy and high pace
because if you're watching Fortnite and
Minecraft videos, typically it's very
high energy YouTubers, but if the user
was googling content about Red Dead
Redemption, which if you don't know,
it's a very storydriven uh video game.
It would then choose the slowpaced story
to recommend, right? Because it matches
the tempo and the vibe that the person
is feeling. It's no longer about just
the topic. So, this is what makes the
win emotion-wise. It's the fast rapid
cuts, the high dopamine state. audio is
loud and shouting matches intensity
sentiment competitive and high stakes
and you know it recommends the Fortnite
video based on that it is the energy
signature the true semantic ID now
that's for entertainment videos like
gaming right this is for people that are
trying to make um you know very
emotional videos but for us you know the
information niche that is the celebrity
news that is all of the niches that we
do the algorithm sees it different it
doesn't just go off of energy because
that's not a fair meter so different
goals equals different match matching
which is no longer mood match it is now
niche match. So Google has a knowledge
graph right and every topic has its own
web which is called nodes. For example
Elon Musk the name Elon Musk on Google
has this specific code here M03_D0.
A node would be Tesla M07Z_3S.
Another node would be Neurolink. Another
one would be Mars. Another one would be
SpaceX. Now what Google sees is not
specifically SpaceX. They see this code
and this code represents SpaceX across
all of Google. So the idea now is to hit
every single node on the topic of your
video. So our video script for semantic
seating would be in today's video about
Elon Musk. There's one. We'll dive into
the latest news with Tesla Cybertruck.
There's two. The progress of SpaceX's
Starships. That is three. The future of
Neurolink brain chips. That's uh node
number four. and the ultimate goal of
colonizing Mars. That is the fifth node
that is hit. So when you hit the nodes,
you increase the authority of your video
because you cover absolutely everything
in Google's knowledge graph. 99.9% of
YouTubers do not know this. The only
people that know this is like Google
engineers and back-end algorithm people,
right? But when it comes to creators and
when it comes to YouTubers, we're
focused on like, oh, high AVD retention,
how long people watch. Nobody is
thinking of Google's knowledge graph and
hitting every single node. This one here
is the most important one, the
originality one, because Google is now
going based off of net information gain,
which is uh the main purpose of of this
update, I believe. So, when you post a
video, um, and if you've been around for
a while, you know that you're going to
have probably like 20 clones, someone
that rewrites your script and reposts
it. This is uh the sea of sameness,
commodity content. So, if you recreate
someone's video, you're just going to be
added to this huge sea of replicated
content that Gemini says, "I've seen it
before. I have this in my knowledge
graph." What Google wants from you is
for you to give it new information.
Either that's personal, either that is
focusing your video on something very
specific, which is micro niching, or by
approaching it with a contrarian point
of view. So, your video's total info
cannot be in the existing Google
knowledge base. So if you say something
original or if you approach something in
in an original way, you add net
information gain, something that Google
has never seen before. So when you post
a video, Gemini starts seeing, okay, I'm
going to rank this video against the top
10 and I'm going to see if there is
enough new information that I uh that I
can see. So are you adding to the pile
or are you changing it? Are you
approaching it in a different way? And
if you are approaching something in an
original and different way, uh you get
rewarded for that. Which is why the
originality score is so important. And
not only that, if you make a script and
you get an originality score of a 10 out
of 10 and you hit every single semantic
ID of that topic, Google is going to see
your video as high authority and it's
going to understand absolutely
everything about your script. By the
way, this whole time we were [ __ ] up
with our scripts. And the perfect
example was that uh Gen Z consumer
behavior. Logically, we would think,
okay, by saying young woman, you would
assume that Google understood that you
were talking about Gen Z. But no, you
have to verbally say it. So the goal is
now to create a what we call delta,
which is essentially your unique value.
For example, if you were to make a video
about weight loss, Google's knowledge
graph already has exercise, diet,
calories, metabolism, right? every every
single video about weight loss has those
four key points. But if you want to hit
that net information game, you would
talk about brown fat activation and then
with the semantic ID code here at the
bottom, that would be new data for
Google, a new approach. So you can do
this with information, right? And if you
want to know if Google has something in
their knowledge graph, it's going to
tell you right here in the originality
score. And and also you could go with
the easy one, which is the contrarian.
You know, say the opposite of what
everyone says. If someone says, "Oh, I
like Starbucks coffee because it's
better than, you know, [ __ ] Dunkin
Donuts." You're going to say, "Actually,
no. Dunkin Donuts is better." That's a
hypothetical, right? That would give you
the contrarian aspect, which also in
itself is a new opinion that Google can
can essentially store. And also very
important for you to note, we are the
first ones that know about this. Nobody
else, no other YouTube community, no
other Google community is going to tell
you about this. And I'm probably not
going to post it on YouTube yet cuz I
know the comments are going to be filled
with a bunch of bunch of dumb asses that
are going to be like um um that's not
true. YouTube didn't announce it. All
you need to do is just make highquality
content. You know that [ __ ] It's
like no. You know, now this doesn't
guarantee success obviously, but it is
coding your script to meet every
requirement that Google is looking for.
Now, another way to to build net
information gain or to give net
information gain to Google is to connect
two things unrelated. Example,
connecting AI to agriculture. So, when
the algorithm tries to predict what the
transcript of your video is, because
it's always done that, um, that's kind
of how you get caught with reused
content, right? If the algorithm or
Gemini could predict the next word of
your script consistently, it gets hit
with reused content because it's like,
okay, this was clearly made with AI. But
if you break the algorithm's prediction
path with high net gain, um you do a
pattern interrupt and Gemini is like,
"Bro, this is fire, right? I have never
seen this before." So right now in the
sea of sameness, everyone that is trying
to recreate the same style of videos,
the same content, rewrite scripts, if
you approach every single script with a
strategy, the reward should be priority
recommendation. You know, with this new
Google update, we literally cracked it.
You know, everyone's going to freak out
about this if I say it publicly. um
they're going to think like, "Oh, the AI
is watching everything. It's over." It's
like, "Not really. Now it's kind of
easier because now we understand exactly
what it's looking at." And it's it's it
was kind of in front of us all the time.
Now the game is to be completely
unpredictable. Show the algorithm
something it's never seen before cuz
Google knows everything. I mean, you
know, imagine how many repeats it sees a
day. And it goes back to the main point
that Google is trying to become an
answer engine instead of a search
engine, right? And if you Google
anything, for example, if I Google
myself, there's an AI mode for
everything. And sometimes when you
Google something alone, you see the AI
overview before you see, you know,
actual search terms because Google wants
to have the answer for everything. They
no longer want people to be scrolling
through and and looking for for their
answer. They just want to give it to
them straight up. So, by adding new
value, giving it new information that it
could potentially use for AI overviews,
which is the ultimate goal of Google,
that's how we're going to win in in
2026. So yeah, there's a few other
things I'm going to mention within this
update. You know, when when Google uh
made this update with Gemini, it's it
sent a ripple effect throughout YouTube
and how it works. So yeah, keep an eye
out for those videos. It's going to it's
going to be coming up pretty soon.
So this is going to be one of the most
important videos in the entire course.
If for some reason this YouTube
automation journey or YouTube journey
fails for you, you can still take this
with you. And that's because what I'm
about to teach you right now applies to
absolutely everything with social media.
Doesn't matter if it's marketing,
doesn't matter if it's building your own
personal brand, doesn't matter if it's
faceless YouTube channels. This is
across the board the most important part
with Google and YouTube in 2026. And no
guru or no coach is ever going to tell
you this. And again, that's because they
don't know. As someone who has been
doing YouTube for years, as someone who
runs multiple channels, as someone who
has spoken to thousands of people, I
know when the algorithm changes, I know
when something happens. I can tell the
smallest detail. It's part of my like
Asberers, okay? I I I get really um I'm
really good at noticing slight changes
with the algorithm. And I'm not saying
that like in an ego way, like I'm a like
I'm a [ __ ] genius, right? I'm
terrible at 99% of the things in life,
but noticing algorithm changes is
probably the only thing I'm good at. And
then towards the end of 2025, I realized
that a change had happened, but it
wasn't like the others. This was
actually a very big change, one of the
biggest ones. A few months later, Google
documentation came out. And in fact, it
was it was one of the biggest changes
that Google and YouTube have done. Now,
if you're starting a new channel or
you're continuing a channel, it doesn't
matter where you are in your journey,
okay? This is something that you have to
do. And uh I guess the the whole point
of this video is offplatform presence.
Okay, you're invisible to Google. And
for those of you that don't know, Google
owns YouTube. They are are now as of
today, March of 2026, sharing almost an
identical algorithm and it's all
connected. Okay, Google bought YouTube.
So now they're both kind of the same
[ __ ] So you're invisible to Google.
Where are you in Google's knowledge
graph? In 2024, there was a Google API
leak where thousands of internal Google
documents were leaked. And something
that was in those Google documents was
something called Nav Boost, which
essentially admitted that Google would
push branded channels over unbranded
YouTube channels. Now, by branded, I
don't mean a cool logo and, you know,
cool watermarks in your video. That's
not what I mean. The first thing you
want to do right now is create a
presence outside of YouTube. And here is
the key difference. an entity versus an
uploader, right? Someone that just
uploads on YouTube has low trust because
they don't appear anywhere else. But an
entity would be someone that is on
YouTube, they're also on Indeed, they're
also on Pinterest, they're also on
Facebook, they're also on Instagram,
they're also on X or Twitter. And all of
them connect back to the YouTube
channel. They have the same name and
they have the same branding. Now, by
having all of these things connected,
you don't just become a YouTuber now,
right? You become an entity, which
increases your trust score times 100.
Okay, this is one of the most important
parts with the algorithm today because
in 2026, anybody can start YouTube
channels with AI. It has AI has made it
extremely easy to launch channels and AI
has also made it extremely easy to start
content farms, which is just, you know,
having AIs and n automations posting 50
videos a day. And YouTube knows that.
And to combat it, what they're doing now
is that they don't necessarily care what
you're uploading. They care about who is
uploading it. So for that you need to
become an entity. And the way this works
is someone sees our Pinterest, they go
to Google, they search us up and our
authority goes up. And when this is
repeated in every single platform, the
authority grows more. So if I was to go
and search up Views for Income LLC on
Google, you're going to see that I have
a Google knowledge graph here. Right? So
this means that Google sees Views for
Income LLC as a legit company. I have
the phone number which I don't know
whose phone number this is, the address,
you know, location, whatever, the
website and the description here. Now,
this is ultimately what you want for
your YouTube channel. So, the action
plan is to add same ass schema to your
site. This is going to be a completely
different video. This is more of an
introduction. You want to link all of
your profiles with each other. You want
to drive traffic from outside of YouTube
and become a net contributor. This is
the sauce, right? Especially with all of
the demonetization going on nowadays,
YouTube won't demonetize you if there is
enough proof that you are a entity, that
you are a brand and not just a random
YouTuber. Now, there is a lot more that
you need to know about this, which I'm
going to cover in the next video. Uh
before we do that, you want to do me a
favor, guys, search up Romero, go to
this Reddit tab here, cuz Reddit
apparently has a lot of weight. You
know, go in here, read some of the
comments, leave a positive comment about
me if you can. Would appreciate that, my
boy. But yeah, once you start a YouTube
channel, don't forget to make an
Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter with
the same name as your YouTube channel.
Make sure that you link your YouTube
channel in the bio of each. And make
sure that in your YouTube channel, you
also link all of those things. And I'm
going to show you how to do that real
quick. So, go to YouTube, click on the
top right profile picture, go to view
your channel, then go to customize
channel here at the top, scroll down,
and you're going to see links. Share
external links with your viewers.
they're visible on your channel's
profile and about page. So then you
would click add link from here. You
would do Instagram, put your URL there,
add another one, do your Twitter. So
yeah, go ahead and start doing that. I
think this is a pretty good pretty good
intro for now on on what you're about to
see next.
All right, so I'm going to break this
down again. And this is like uh the how
to problem solve your channel. And I
know this was covered in another video.
I already broke it down. I already
showed you guys how it is. But I feel
like there was a some sort of
misunderstanding. Okay. So, what I'm
going to do is pull up some screenshots
of what students have sent me for the
channel reviews during the the live
calls and I'm going to show you like so
you can see my perspective of the of the
[ __ ] that I see. Right. Here's
screenshot number one. Now, this guy in
the last 28 days has gotten 9.9,000
views, 166,000 impressions, 5.2% CTR,
and a 3 minute and 50 second AVD. Right?
And he's been sort of consistent here.
Uh whatever he posted on May 9th, that
popped off. probably a diddy to be
honest. And then after that it kind of
slowed down, picked up a little bit. Um,
and the peak that he got was 1,900 views
in a single day. And now 166,000
impressions is not a crazy amount for
the last 28 days, but what is bad is the
views he got. And you see this and and
what the what I see here is like, okay,
YouTube completely ignored his channel
uh at the end of April, beginning of
May. And then on May 9th, it took it
into consideration and it tested his
channel, right? So then every single
time he was posting, uh, obviously he
was getting some peaks. YouTube was
testing it out and this student was
asking me, "I don't understand what I'm
doing wrong." Like, "Bro, your CTR is
5.2
and your AVD is 350. What the [ __ ] do
you mean you don't know what you're
doing wrong? It's so simple. It it it's
so it's right there, right? It's right
there for you. It's a 5.2% CTR. And yes,
this guy's in celebrity news. He was
posting Diddy videos. You have a 5.2%
CTR." And I asked him during the call. I
was like, "Well, okay, your thumbnails,
you know, they're not the worst. They're
different, but they're not the worst.
You can switch to to the normal style of
thumbnails that I teach in in the
course. And also, how do you do your
titles? And he said, "Oh, I use Chad
GBT." Bro,
you know, guys, for celebrity news, you
can't use Chad GBT for titles. You
can't. It's not going to be as good. And
that that's not how this works. Yes, you
can use Chad GBT for titles with
literally any other niche. You know,
anything that's evergreen, cool. But
celebrity news, it can't be that way.
Remember, we have to beat our
competitors with creativity, right? So,
a 5.2% CTR. YouTube tested it. He didn't
impress YouTube with the CTR, but not
only that, it's a 3 minute and 50 second
ABD, which is not the worst that I've
seen. Okay, it's not the worst, but it's
also not great. So, not only did he not
have the bare minimum of CTR that you're
supposed to have, I mean, a 9% is like,
okay, if you had a 9% CTR and you did
and these were your analytics, I promise
you, you would have way more views,
right? If you're going to have low CTR,
you better have [ __ ] high ABD. And
same goes for ABD. If you have low AVD,
you better have really high CTR. Okay?
Vice versa. Same [ __ ] And this guy
didn't have any of them. So, it's like,
okay, well, here's time to problem
solve. Number one, stop using ChatGBT
for your titles, right? Use a little bit
of creativity. You know, again, put
yourself in the perspective of the
audience. Um, and that should fix. Now,
for Evergreen, that's a completely
different story. I'm going to cover that
in other videos, but for celebrity news,
this is unacceptable. Okay, for AVD,
same thing. And sometimes it's the
smallest changes that you can do. It can
be the background music. It could be the
voice you're using because a lot of
students have shown me their channels. I
I sit there and I watch. I'm sure if
you've joined the live calls, you can
see that the voices are dog [ __ ] I can
tell you're not using 11 Labs. Some of
them are okay. Some of the voices that
that are being used are okay, but the
majority of them sound so bad. And I
always have to say, and if you sit
during those calls, I'm like, "Okay, cut
the gaps in between the audio. Okay,
change voice." Like, guys, yes,
celebrity news can be dog [ __ ] like
quality of the content, but come on now,
you know, there, come on now. It can't
be that bad. And this guy, you know, he
wasn't shadowbanned. It took a while for
YouTube to to push his content, but when
YouTube gave him the opportunity, he he
fumbled. That's what he did. Next one is
this. I believe it's the same guy. Last
7 days, 16,000 impressions, 972 views,
5.1% CTR, and an average view duration
of 2 minutes and 33 seconds. At this
point, when you see these numbers, guys,
you have to problem solve something,
right? You can't just keep posting and
posting and posting and hopefully, you
know, it's going to pop off, which, yes,
it can happen. It's very likely that one
video is going to pop off regardless of
what these numbers look like. But
problem solve, you know, if your AVD is
2 minutes and 33, add some phase 2 twos
at the beginning. Maybe remove some
phase twos if you have them. Change the
voice, change the background music, cut
the gaps of the voice, switch up the
script a little bit, right? Change
change your prompt. do something because
2 minutes and 33 seconds of ABD is
unacceptable. That's like a [ __ ]
YouTube short. So, you have to problem
solve. It's always going to be the
dumbest, smallest thing. Just change
stuff. Change stuff every single video.
Instead of just repeating and sending
the same [ __ ] out, change something of
it, post it, and then analyze, right?
CTR. I mean, if if you just don't got
it, you don't got it. It's one of those
things, and I mentioned that in in the
course as well, the the VIP. If you
don't have the creativity where you can
sit down, put yourself in the in the
shoes of the audience and come up with
something creative, something original,
continuing the story, um, for these
celebrity news niche, you know, some
people just aren't built for it, man.
Some people I just can't teach. You
know, it's not something that you you
teach. I showed you guys how I did it in
one of the VIP videos. I showed you how
I came up with the titles, putting
myself in the shoes of of the audience,
and, you know, for some people that just
doesn't click. That doesn't mean you
can't, you know, your YouTube automation
career is over. That just means the
niche isn't for you. Or at least that
subniche, you know what I mean? Like,
okay, maybe Diddy won't hit for you. You
know nothing about Diddy. You knew it
from the jump. It's not going to hit for
you. Okay, well, go for old Hollywood.
You know, go for any of the I put so
many evergreen niches in there and
subniches of celebrity. And you have a
lot of options, right? For those, you
don't need to be that creative. Next one
is this guy. Last 28 days, 23,000 views,
362,000 impressions, almost double from
the other guy. 5.2% 2% CTR 3 minute 49
second AVD and then he stopped posting
like bro peak views he got looks like uh
4.3 4.5 right here didn't adjust
anything YouTube was begging this
[ __ ] to fix something and to
adapt his CTR adapt his AVD change
something and he didn't and then he just
stopped posting and the second I'm
assuming he posted something here but
deleted it picked up you know when he
posts it picks up but when he doesn't it
dies Look. So, every time he posts it,
it peaks. So, this is a good channel.
This is a really, really good channel.
He's just not fixing things. It's about
problem solving, guys. This is YouTube
automation is just pattern recognition.
It's just pattern recognition. It's all
it is. Okay? So, if if you're going to
send us a channel review and you're
like, I don't understand what I'm doing
wrong. I don't understand why the
channel isn't working. And you show me
these [ __ ] numbers, dude, I'm going
to be like, come on. It's the AVD or
it's the CTR, right? Change something.
Change the approach. Right? And you can
I'm not saying don't send channel
reviews for that reason. And if if you
need more ideas on what you can change
or what exactly would I start with, for
sure, send them. But the answer is very
obvious, right? This isn't rocket
science. It's very simple. If your if
your channel looks like this and you
have the these amounts of uh
impressions, YouTube wants this channel
to work. You're just not letting it. The
only issue that you should have is like,
okay, your CTR is like a 9 plus and and
your AVD is like 4 minutes and you just
want to know how to how to reach five
minutes in AVD or 15 minutes in CTR,
right? those little micro adjustments.
It's this is what you're going to
benefit with the most. And yes, I'm
going to be covering that a little bit
more in in these videos. Cool. Just
wanted to let you know if we're all on
the same page and what I'm seeing with
the majority of the students and what
you're probably seeing and then we're
going to problem solve this together in
these videos before we go into the
channel reviews. Okay, awesome. Let's
move on.
So, if you hear anyone say that average
view duration is the most important part
of the algorithm and that your ultimate
goal should be to have someone watch
your video for as long as possible, that
is a lie. Sort of kind of because with
the new Gemini update, that did change
the way that YouTube perceives average
view duration. So before, if you had a
10-minute video and you had a 2-minute
average view duration, immediately the
algorithm would be like, "This video is
dog [ __ ] People left after 2 minutes.
They didn't watch the full 10 minutes.
Therefore, I'm not going to recommend
this video." Which makes sense. That in
itself is logical. But now that Gemini
has the ability to reason and to
understand what the viewer is doing
before and after it clicks the video. So
then Gemini goes and investigates, why
did the person leave at 2 minutes and
didn't watch the entire 10-minute video?
Because again, Gemini now watches what
you do before and after you view a
video. So it asks, did the viewer leave
because you got the answer? That would
be good abandonment. The viewer is
satisfied. Or did the person leave
because they were bored or clickbait?
That would be bad abandonment. And it
knows this because let's say your video
title is how to change a tire. Bad
abandonment would be if the viewer
clicks off of your video and starts
searching for another YouTube video that
is a tutorial on how to change a tire.
This tells Gemini that the problem of
the viewer was unsolved. Now, good
abandonment would be when the viewer
watches after 2 minutes and then either
closes the app or starts searching for
other content on YouTube saying that
your tutorial video on how to change a
tire. You know, you you teach people how
to do it within 2 minutes of the video
and then the rest is just like a vlog.
Completely irrelevant, right? People
don't care about that. They were just
there to learn how to change a tire. So,
that would be good abandonment if they
leave and they don't search for that
topic again. So again now that Gemini
has not a conscious but you know it can
reason it can now fully go forth with
Google's objective which is uh
satisfaction. Did it satisfy the viewer?
Did it answer their question? And the
more you get this right with Gemini
understanding this now um that builds
channel authority for you. Meaning that
even if you get a 2-minute average view
duration for 20 videos back to back if
the viewer leaves happy you're going to
be recommended every single time. That
is impressions and that is views. So
yeah, I mean average view duration is
still important, right? There there are
some niches um that you guys are in
which are more like storybased I suppose
where you kind of have to have a high
AVD because anything else besides that
would be the person got bored and left.
But it's still too early to tell. Um at
least we know that Gemini is now going
to start doing this. So um not every
metric is bad. That's why some of you
see like a two 2 minute 30 average view
duration. Uh but you get a [ __ ] ton of
views. So yeah, again, if we think about
this long term and we think about where
YouTube is headed, not bad. Not bad at
all, right? But yeah, let's see what
Gemini does and hopefully this starts
building a little bit more of an answer
for us, a little bit more of an accurate
answer. Um, so yeah,
now before you start a faceless YouTube
channel, there is a very very important
question that you have to answer and
that is, are you going into a trendy
niche or are you going into an evergreen
niche? both have their pros and cons.
Now, if you already have an idea of what
you're going to do, I want you to pause
for a second um and hear me out, okay?
Because you might not like what you're
about to hear. A trendy niche would be
anything that revolves around news. You
know, for example, celebrity news. An
evergreen niche would be documentaries,
top 10s, you know, things that aren't
time-sensitive. Because if you go into a
trendy niche like celebrity news, you
have to consider that you're going to
have to be on top of this [ __ ] right?
If you're going to be doing uh news
about rappers, you have to be checking
TMZ every single day. You have to be
checking what the competitors are doing
every single day. But most importantly,
you're going to have to be uploading
almost every single day. As opposed to
an evergreen YouTube channel where you
do history documentaries about World War
II, you can get away with uploading two
to three times a week. And you're not
necessarily pressured about getting a
video out. For example, let's go ahead
and say that uh Jay-Z and Beyonce get
divorced. You're going to have to post
as soon as possible. Well, you're going
to have to drop everything you're doing,
right? And post about the divorce. But
in the evergreen niche, you know,
there's no pressure. You don't have to
be first to anything. There isn't uh,
you know, trends. Now, let's talk about
money. With a trendy niche like
celebrity news, again, using the same
example of Beyonce and Jay-Z getting a
divorce, that is gold, right? If you
start posting videos, pumping out two to
three videos that same exact day, and
the next day you do it again, that month
you're probably going to make a [ __ ] ton
of money. The issue is that when nobody
cares about Beyonce and Jay-Z's divorce,
the views go down a lot. So, you're
going to have to be on your toes 247.
But in the evergreen niche, it's slow
and steady. You post a documentary video
and it doesn't go crazy the first day or
the first week, but it slowly starts
getting views. Let's say 200 views a
day. Then you post another video, same
thing. 200 views a day, starts growing
slowly until eventually one of them
picks up to like, let's say, 10,000
views a day. and another one picks up to
10,000 views a day. Now you have two
videos getting 10,000 views a day. Do
the math on that. You're making about 30
bucks a day. And the more time goes by,
the more you start posting, the more you
start stacking on top of each other
until eventually you build out, you
know, consistent passive income. You can
skip an upload here and there. You can
start uploading once a week. It doesn't
matter cuz you're still making, you
know. But in the trendy niche again,
Beyonce and Jay-Z, you post a banger, it
gets a million views within 4 to 5
hours. Or you post two videos that day
and they both get 100K views. But it all
goes back to the same thing. Once that
story dies, you have to move on to
another one. So, it goes back to you.
How do you want to approach this? Do you
just want to chill and just start
posting here and there, or do you want
to go full-time all the way and go for
for that jackpot? In my opinion, they're
both great. So, my advice to you is if
you have a full-time job, you're not
very big on tech, you know, you're not
very uh familiar with celebrities or
you're not very um you don't care, you
know, you would just want to spend a few
minutes a day doing this, don't do
trendy. It's not for you. If you're
someone younger or if you're someone
that has a lot of time and you think to
yourself, ah, you know what? Yeah, [ __ ]
it. I'll post a video about the
Kardashians. Who cares? I'll knock it
out real quick. You know, what is it
going to take 20, 30 minutes? Then the
trending niche is for you. I highly
recommend it. paydays are pretty good.
But again, it's completely up to you.
Oh, one last thing. If you're going to
go into the evergreen niche and you're
going to hire a video editor, just know
that it might be a little bit more
expensive than, you know, doing the
celebrity news niche or any trendy
niche. So, yeah, that's completely up to
you to decide. If you go into the
classroom and you head to the list of
niches, you can see that some of these
are already marked. For example,
celebrity news is a trend. WNBA is a
trend. Vintage Hollywood is evergreen.
car niche is a trend, but this is kind
of both. Uh, MMA, UFC is a trend. Top 10
TV shows is evergreen. Streamers is
evergreen/trend, depending on how you
approach it. Point is, they're all
marked for you here. Okay, but yeah,
let's uh let's go ahead and move on.
So, what should you pick? Should you
pick an evergreen niche or should you go
into something trendy? That was usually
the first question. Now, that's changed.
And that changed because because this
community blew up around October,
November of of last year, so it's still
relatively new, right? I've done a [ __ ]
ton of live calls. I've done one-on
ones. I've spoken to a lot of students.
And the conclusion that I came to is not
everyone is built for these trendy
niches. Not everyone's going to get the
hang of thumbnails. Not everyone's going
to get the hang of clickbait. Um,
working with some people in the
community, I realize that you just, it
sounds kind of bad, but they're
unteable, right? because I feel like
that's a creative part of the brain that
you you have to turn on and some people
just can't. That sounds so bad, but it's
true. Now, that doesn't mean that you're
not going to make it with with a trendy
niche, right? I'm not saying that. And
I'm I I'm going to say it. It's usually
older people that don't succeed in the
trendy ones. I'm talking about like 40
plus. Not saying that's like super old.
I'm just saying like from what I've seen
and the people I've spoken to, that's
around the the age range. Okay. The
success rate with people over 40 is
really low for trendy niches. But I
would say that 95% of the students that
have been successful in this community
over the age of 40 have been in
evergreen niches. And I'm going to
explain this in the next video. So if
that's you, just hold on.
So I didn't mean to scare you, but I
wanted to tell you the truth. You know,
I don't want to sit here and tell you
to, you know, hey, post videos about
this, when in reality, deep down, I know
that it probably won't work. Some of you
just don't have it. And I'm saying that
because I've spoken to so many. I feel
like if you're confident, if you know
you can make good packaging videos and
good thumbnails, good titles, you're
good. This doesn't apply to you. It's
good to have an ego when it comes to
that. But I've spoken to a lot of you
that are just like, "Oh man, you know,
this is tough. I don't know about any of
this." And it's kind of like, damn. But
again, 95% of people who succeeded in
evergreen niches inside of this
community were 40 years old plus. I
think the reason that older people
succeed in evergreen niches more is
because you guys understand something
that we can't. you know us younger
people just like we have that thing in
our brain where we can make where we can
succeed in trendy niches you have that
thing in your brain where you can
succeed in evergreen niches and I
believe it's because most of the
evergreen topics are kind of so adultish
you know uh it's not celebrity news it's
not like YouTuber gossip right that's
[ __ ] teenagers watch or you know people
in in their early 20s but you guys know
exactly what people your age want to
watch and I don't feel like they're
attended to as much which is why it's so
easy to succeed in these niches Right.
Again, it goes back to the case study
channel, the country talk one. I didn't
know anything about country artists. I
just put it all together with Chad GBT.
You guys saw I was crashing out and it
worked because nobody else was doing it.
So, I was making videos about country
artists from the '60s. So, for those of
you that are about 40 years old, you
would connect with that because it's
music that your parents probably listen
to. And if you search, you know, for
evergreen niches, there's not that many.
I mean, there's barely rock and roll uh
evergreen channels coming out, which is
crazy. Now, imagine all of the things
that I don't know, that we don't know,
the younger people that you do. And
here's the best part with Evergreen. You
don't have to go that crazy with
thumbnails, right? It's not a thumbnail
CTR based thing. And I mean, this makes
sense. You know, people your age don't
do YouTube. It's very rare for someone
over the age of 35, 40 years old to be
doing YouTube. There was this whole time
period of culture, finances, way of
speaking that was completely skipped on
YouTube. Again, these are things that
only you know. Now there's YouTube
channels doing rock and roll. They're
doing country, but only you can identify
like the micro niche of it. Like that
very specific part of country that
nobody else has talked about or a very
specific time period. Let's say it only
lasted like 2 years during country music
times. I don't know, like when it was at
its peak or just artists that people
forgot about. And I'm I'm just using
artists as an example, guys. I'm talking
about everything else in general. You
know, like maybe [ __ ] credit. Talk
about Consumer Reports. You know,
there's a lot of people with their face
talking about it, but hey, [ __ ] make
an automation one. What else? Fishing.
There's no channels for fishing.
Faceless channels. I don't know. Only
you know what what hits. Something I
forgot to mention as I'm editing this, I
noticed. The reason I was saying this is
because 99% of people that do YouTube,
and I'm sure you agree with me, is
around my age or younger. Like, I'm
considered one of the older guys that
does YouTube automation, right? Everyone
else and on Twitter, on YouTube, they're
much younger than me. And it goes back
to the country one. You know who was
making the country video? someone that
was born [ __ ] 40 years later. So,
that was my point. My point was that
people that are making these evergreen
channels are people like me, but
younger. That's why there isn't that
connection or that bullseye that only
you can do. But anyways, let me continue
editing this. There's no specific
YouTube channel for I think like the 70s
or 80s, you know, during that Elvis uh
Michael Jackson pop Madonna. Hold on.
I'm thinking of a song, a specific
sound. Let me see if I find it.
Everybody wants to This song
that I don't know what that genre of
music is called, but it doesn't exist
anymore, but you still hear it all over
the place. Why isn't there a YouTube
channel, Faceless, and I've looked that
covers, you know, music artists from
this time, from from this from this
genre. What is this type of music
called? Oh, they're going to be in Vegas
Wednesday. I might actually go to that.
I'm not even joking. I'm going to study
my target audience. But yeah, whoever
whoever makes a a YouTube channel on
that and covers artists that maybe not
everyone talks about, maybe they weren't
as big as those guys, that's game,
right? You don't have to go that crazy.
What did you used to do when you were a
kid or a teenager or young adult? What
is one of the things that was just
known? What would you see on TV? TV
shows that everyone forgot about, you
know, think of think of that. Maybe make
a top 10 video on it. Just bring
nostalgia back, right? People will see
that and be like, "Oh my god, I remember
that show. How did I forget it existed?
I've never seen that on YouTube before."
But as you watch this entire program, I
hope you know it starts flowing a little
bit. You start getting some ideas
because again, you guys are all sitting
in a gold mine and it's deep in the back
of your head and there's a niche there
that we never thought of. You know,
something that I want to know. So use it
to your advantage, man. You know, you
don't have to compete with with people
like me posting videos about Diddy. You
know, you don't have to do any of that
for you guys. I think the more simple
the better because your audience and and
people in your age group, they love
simple stuff, right? That's why I always
say if you can't do uh thumbnails or or
Photoshop, do evergreen because they
don't care about thumbnails. It's not a
big deal. But yeah, I mean, I could rant
about this all day cuz it is very very
exciting. I want to see what you guys do
with it. But if I don't end this now,
I'm never going to shut the [ __ ] up. So,
thank you so much for watching.
So, we know that there was a huge change
in the algorithm, right, because of
Gemini. One of the things that changed
the most was script writing. And I
believe that the script writing of our
videos is responsible for getting us hit
with reused content and or if the
channel gets pushed. Almost every single
company, every big company like YouTube,
they're investing a lot of money right
now into figuring out what was made with
AI. They have their own servers that run
their own agents pretty much that job is
to detect AI. You know, they they have
to, especially if they're monetized,
like Twitter's the same way. Now, the
system that Gemini uses is predicting,
right? Can it predict what you're going
to say next? For example, if your script
says the company was founded in
right there, Gemini is already guessing
the company was founded in 2015. The
company was founded in California. You
know, it's it's trying to figure out
what the next word's going to be. And
this is when it analyzes the whole
thing. And if it can keep correctly
predicting what that word is going to
be, that's a red flag. It's going to
know that it was created with AI and
it's going to lower your trust score. So
the way to beat this, the first key
thing is perplexity, which means
surprising AI with what you're saying.
So adding uh specific dates, specific
events, or your own opinion in itself
already throws off the AI. If you use a
voice uh from 11 Labs that is used by a
lot of people, and your scripting is
very similar or the AI can predict it,
that's the automated system that gets
you hit with reused content. Now, moving
on to the second thing, which is
burstiness. Do your sentences all sound
the same? You know, we all know that AI
writes very formal like Wikipedia. You
know, it's very uh long sentences with
15 to 20 words. But if you add wild
variations in there and you break that
pattern of of like an article style of
writing, that's it. The third thing is
complexity, which is how interesting is
your vocabulary? You know, Chad, GBT,
Claude, Gemini, if you ask them to
script right, they're going to play it
safe. And the phrases they use, you
know, are very article-ish. The correct
term is generic vocabulary. For example,
AI would say the office environment was
disorganized. A human would say there
were three empty Red Bull cans stacked
on the desk next to a dead plant. You
know, it's like super random [ __ ] Now,
below this video, you're going to see
pretty much my entire report on what
I've uh learned and what I've
discovered. Um the wording may be a
little bit complicated for some of you,
so you can just copy paste it into Chat
GBT and ask it to translate it for you.
Um, also under this video, which I'm
going to do it now, I'm going to add all
of the words and phrases that you want
to um, block. For example, thus heading
phrases to avoid. It may seem, some
might argue, it remains to be seen. It
is important to know like these phrases
that I'm telling you right now are
marked into Gemini already. These are by
default what Gemini says. Oh, this is
AI. Buzzwords to avoid. Delve, leverage,
comprehensive robust holistic
optimize. So the formula is high
perplexity plus high burstiness plus
high complexity equals human detected
content. Now the easy translation for
that is surprise the AI break the rhythm
of your sentences and sound like a real
person. So again, I do recommend that
you read everything under this video.
And then in the next page, I'm going to
add the list of uh words and sentences
that you have to block. And in the next
video, I'm going to share with you guys
the the script prompt.
So no matter what topic you choose,
celebrities, cars, vintage Hollywood,
you know, whatever it is, they're going
to have micro niches. Okay? And this is
very, very important. And it does matter
what it is that you choose. And the
reason for that is because the level of
difficulty depending on the microniche
is going to change. Some are harder,
some are easier. Um, the amount of
uploads that you have to do also
changes. The slang that you have to use
in the actual script and and the video,
the type of background music you use,
the voice style, the thumbnail style, it
it's essentially completely different.
And of course, the editing pace, but
overall, I'm talking about the way
you're going to mimic the competitor,
right? Depending on the micro niche that
you're going to choose, that's going to
decide how you have to camouflage your
channel. Now, for those of you that are
in the celebrity news niche, I'm going
to start with this one, but I'm going to
talk about a few. Okay, here's one micro
niche of celebrity news, which is Diddy.
It's literally just trending. There's no
specific audience on this one. It's just
whatever is happening, that's what
they're going to post about. This is one
of those where, you know, Blake Lively
and Justin Baldoni were trending,
they're going to post about that. Rachel
Zgler was trending, they're going to
post about it. Diddy is trending,
they're just going to post about it. So,
just think about the audience that
watches these videos. Now, here is
channel number two. This is a little bit
more towards influencers, but
technically, I mean, nowadays, they're
celebrities. And sometimes, yes, they
talk about actual celebrities like Haley
Beaver, Kylie Jenner, you know, not
necessarily just social media people.
And it's completely different. We're
talking about packaging. We're talking
about the audience that they're
targeting, right? This is obviously
white girls, right? We go over here,
African-Americans. Well, this one
actually, it's a mixture. There's a lot
of white people that care about Diddy,
right? But if we go to this channel,
Batty Radio, this is 100% targeting
African-Americans. And it's not just
Diddy that they're posting. They're
posting about people like Remy Ma,
Kamura Lee, Tasha K. You know, who the
[ __ ] are these people? I don't know.
But, you know, obviously they're
different cultures, right? Now, let's go
ahead and look at the cars niche, right?
If you tell me, "Hey, I'm in the car
niche." I'll be like, "Okay, cool. What
type?" Right? Are you doing just bad
investments about like protecting
people's finances, what cars they should
buy? This channel's doing 7007,000 views
a month. But then we go to garage heads.
These guys are taking a completely
different approach and it's the car
niche, but they're talking about like
the economy, what's affecting the, you
know, like Tesla's Africa released
$5,000 EV and crushed Tesla. Uh, dealer
lots are overloaded, you know, just
[ __ ] like that, right? And this
channel is doing 3.2 million views a
month, which is crazy. That's crazy.
Now, if we go to R.J.'s garage, this is
another channel. It's very similar, but
the packaging is obviously different.
So, it's talking still about Amazon's
$20,000 pickup truck. Dealers panic
giving away 70k Rams. Still talking
about the same thing. 2025 car market
apocalypse. One day ago, 116,000 views,
which is crazy. 1.9,000 views in the
last 28 days. But if you're going to hop
into like the finance and uh the economy
car niche uh or micro niche, sorry,
these are your two competitors and they
have different styles of packaging.
Okay? So, that's something you have to
look at. Now, if we go to Piston Zone,
this is completely different. Now, this
is a whole 180, right? This is like a 10
things only stupid people do to their
cars. Don't be one. Windshield wipers
are a scam. Things they forget to tell
you in driving school. Super random,
right? Nothing crazy. This channel gets
218,000 views. Started about 5 months
ago. Has has a banger here, actually.
But, you know, this is obviously more
relaxed, right? You can run a channel
like this and post every single day.
You're not going to get the same amount
of views as these guys. You're not going
to get 116,000 views in in one day, but
now you don't have to post as many
times. It's not that competitive. This
is another example. A serious warning to
all drivers, stop using this engine oil
immediately. And this channel is pulling
in half a million views a month. Now,
the last one that I found for the car
niche is this one. And this is just like
the best cars that you can buy. Honda
strikes back at Toyota. Top three Subaru
cars to buy. Six SUVs so reliable you'll
regret not buying. You know, blah blah
blah, whatever. Boring [ __ ] But if you
go to the views, 700K in the last 28
days, which is not bad. And this niche
I'm assuming has a really high RPM. So,
I wouldn't even doubt it if they got
$1,000 per 100,000 views. So, we can say
that this channel is making $6,900 a
month. Nothing too crazy. Packaging is
chill, you know. Just get a random
picture of the car, red text at the top.
[ __ ] it. Don't even put it in the
middle, bro. Just let let it lean on the
left. Who gives a [ __ ] right? But now,
if you hop in this one, you have to do
change expressions, AI images, you know,
there there's a lot of ideiation behind
this. Now, the next one is Vintage
Hollywood. This one has too many. Okay,
so I just chose a few. Um, we have
channels like this that are just kind of
all over the place, right? They talk
about 30 celebrities who have aged
terribly, Val Kilmer's heartbreaking
final letter to his fans, random [ __ ]
This channel is doing 831,000 per 28
days. And if you look at this, you know,
first view, you'd be like, "Oh, last 7
days, nothing really has popped off. But
it doesn't matter because this is
evergreen. Never wear these dresses on a
talk show." Like, what? 9,200 views,
which again is not crazy. High RPM
niche. Why not? Now we move into the
second channel which is very old
Hollywood. This is like golden age
Hollywood. I guess this would be like
the ' 50s, '60s,7s. Completely different
packaging. 1 million views in the last
month. More chill. Topics are more
relaxed. If we go to Timeless Vintage,
which is another channel, they're kind
of all over the place as well. Super old
Hollywood mixed in with new Hollywood, I
guess. 1.1 million views. Here's another
one. Different style of packaging, a
little bit closer. And it's good to look
at channels like this cuz you can see
what not to do, right? like this [ __ ] he
was trying here definitely definitely a
no-go as in like the style of of
thumbnail. But going back to my main
point, right, level of difficulty is
kind of attached to everything else. Do
you want to upload every single day? Do
you want this to be a little bit more
relaxed? And as we saw, micro niches
have their own thumbnail styles which
require different levels of Photoshop
skill or Canva, whatever you use. The
amount of uploads does matter as well.
It's the slang which is connected to the
background music and the voice style,
the AI voice you use. I'm I'm sure you
guys understand what I'm trying to say
here. This decision is obviously going
to affect how many views you get. You
know, we can't compare this YouTube
channel here, half a million views, to
RG's Garage, which is doing 1.9, or
Garage Heads, which is doing 3.2 cuz
it's timesensitive. It's trendy stuff,
right? This is more of like quantity.
This is building your video portfolio,
if that's what you want to call it. And
this is just [ __ ] it, send it out, you
know, send it out. Who cares? Also,
another very important thing I want to
mention is just because you're choosing
a niche like this doesn't mean it's
going to take months to blow up. It
could be quicker, right? Maybe like fix
things, right? Improve from this. Like I
mentioned earlier, why the [ __ ] isn't he
putting the text in the middle? Instead
of making it red, try yellow. Try, you
know, black. He's using images of cars
from like eBay or Craigslist. You can
definitely make this more appealing.
Cool. Cool.
So, the craziest thing just happened,
and this goes to net information gain.
The day after I posted that update
video, Google released the documentation
of what I was saying, the official
documentation. So, I'm going to give you
guys a quick recap. Okay, this is
actually crazy. And I kind of talked
about this in my last YouTube video, the
net information gain, and I got a [ __ ]
ton of comments of people like, "Oh, no,
this is cap. He's he's literally lying.
None of this is proven." Isn't it funny?
Isn't it funny how the world works? very
quickly for those of you that also want
to do research on on your end. Um
because I did realize what I was saying
was kind of crazy um especially without
it being backed up or anyone else
talking about it. Net information gain
on October 18 uh Google filed a patent
called contextual e estimation of link
information gain and the patent number
is US-2020-0349181-
A1. Okay, that's that's how that's how
far I'm willing to go. Now, the patent,
this patent in specific, it was filed on
2018, but it was granted in 2022. Now,
it was never used in the actual YouTube
algorithm, but on December of 2025, it
was presented at the Neure IPS AI
conference. The official Google research
reports came out on Friday, January 23rd
of 2026, 4 days ago from the time I
recorded this, but they explain exactly
how it works. Now, so the issue that
YouTube was having was obviously uh AI
generated content since Chad GBT,
Claude, Gemini, they can all make very
informative kind of like default
scripts. They created a filter called
Gist that is GIS T. Okay, so information
gain is the metric and gist is the tool
in charge of giving it a score in that
metric. Now, the reason they added the
gist filter is because it's expensive to
give Gemini 10,000 identical videos.
There's no point in that. So, gist
allows the AI to pick the best version
of the topic and then mathematically
block anything else that is too similar
to it. So, for example, imagine you and
I both make a video about how to bake a
cake. And if our scripts are 90%
similar, gist will see us as the same
data point and it will pick the one with
the higher authority score. Everything
else it literally deletes from the
recommendation pool and that's to save
uh processing power. So it creates a
redundancy radius. That's what they call
it. So if your video falls inside of my
radius of of my how to bake a cake
video, you don't just rank lower, but
you don't actually exist in the
recommendation pool. Like you your video
is not going to get recommended. So
yeah, again, the documentation was
uploaded on January 23rd, but who knows
how long this has actually been in the
algorithm, which explains why all of
these new brand niches have worked for
me, right? Because no one else is doing
it. There is no one else to compare my
videos to. I had the highest authority
because I was the only one doing it. You
know, if you go to any of my YouTube
videos, if you go to the recent course
videos, I'm like, "Dude, you have to
start brand new niches because for some
reason they're just popping off." So, we
were right the whole time. and we just
didn't have words or names to to give it
because you know Google never announced
it. So this all ties back to semantic
IDs. Gist cannot calculate information
gain of a video without semantic IDs. So
here's here's an example of how it
works. Okay. When you post a video, the
AI assigns semantic IDs to your video.
You you have to think of semantic IDs uh
like a GPS coordinate for your for your
video's topic. If you make a a copycat
video, you are standing on the same
exact GPS coordinate as the viral video
you're copying. The algorithm sees it
and it's like, okay, there's already a
building here, right? And that would be
that viral video. So, information gain
is the measurement of how far you are
from the existing content. Now, it
doesn't mean you have to make something
completely different or original, but
you need to have a slightly different
GPS address or or coordinate. So you
need to move your semantic IDs enough
just to prove that you're adding new
territory to that map. Now uh according
to YouTube engineering papers in 2024
2025 it explicitly states that they
replaced random ID tables with semantic
IDs to better understand relationships
between videos. So yeah just essentially
means removing irrelevant videos or
copycats. That's what it is. So this
means that we actually made something
really really useful and that's with Vid
Ninjas and the sauce. So, I put one of
my own uh scripts in on the Romero
channel. Um the one where I talk about
YouTube automation, and I was curious to
see how it works. So, if you haven't
seen this yet, um it essentially tells
me every semantic ID that I'm hitting
within my script. And it also gives me
like a full recap of what I'm saying,
right? For example, minor deduction. The
phrase Google developer files is vague.
Specific document names would strengthen
semantic ID fingerprints. So, in my
video when I said Google developer
files, it was so vague that the
algorithm did not consider it or give it
a semantic ID. So, in Google's eyes,
it's like I never said it. But if I was
to have given the specific document
number in the video, when someone would
Google that specific uh term, my video
would appear on Google and it would also
appear in the recommended of other
similar videos that talk about Google's
algorithm. And Vid Ninjas also tells me
which ones I'm missing. for example,
deep neural networks missing technical
depth to YouTube's DNN ranking
architecture. Uh, collaborative
filtering script mentions co-visitation
but doesn't use the established ML term.
So, when I talked about co-visitation in
my script, again, it didn't consider it
because I didn't use the correct term.
The actual technology behind semantic
IDs that YouTube uses is called RQ-V AE,
which is residual quantized varial
autoenccoder.
I call them semantic IDs cuz it's
easier. Okay. And there was also a few
fuckups. So, some claims appear
exaggerated or unverifiable. The January
14th, 2026 update and 31 days of users
activity are not confirmed in public
documentation. Whoops. I don't remember
where I got that from. It wasn't
actually January 14th. It was January
23rd. But that date didn't happen yet.
All right. Here's a confession. I come
from the future. Now, the best part
about Vid Ninjas is that with this click
of a button, it will refine the script
and it will fix everything that I
missed. If there was a specific word I
missed in order to to build a semantic
ID to give context to the algorithm,
something that Vid Ninjas understands
what you're trying to say, but in
Google's eyes, it won't understand. Do
you know what I mean? So, yeah, with
that, it fixes it. Again, guys, one of
its kind. So, yeah, just wanted to make
that quick uh update for you guys. Um,
anyways, I need to shave because I know
I look homeless right now. Uh, so I'm
going to go do that.
So before you post a video on your
channel, just know that there's a new
strategy. And this is something that I
discovered within, you know, the last
few months of going into Google's
algorithm, going into YouTube's
algorithm, and seeing how the whole
function works. Nowadays, it's not hop
into a niche and just start posting
videos. Okay? There is a strategy to
this. And the way that I came up with
this is, you know, from seeing so many
people struggling to get impressions,
not views, impressions. I came to the
conclusion that when you launch a
channel, it has to be a specific way,
especially in 2026. When I say launch a
channel, I mean the titles and the
structure format of them. And that's
what I'm going to show you guys right
now. There is five different styles of
titles that you can do or video topics.
There is the pillar, the anchor, the
cluster, the collision, and the bridge.
The pillar node would be the first video
on your channel. Okay? Now, this video
is not meant to get views. Okay? It's
not meant to go viral. It's not meant to
do anything besides tell the YouTube
algorithm what your channel's about.
Using the history of cheese, right, as a
niche or as a topic that, you know, I
would be going for hypothetically. In
this example, my title would be the
complete history of cheese from ancient
caves to modern kitchens. I would
probably switch, you know, this part
right here, but that's the idea, right?
super boring title, super um specific
and broad. But when the algorithm sees
that and it sees it's the first video on
your channel, every single video after
that, it is going to associate it with
cheese and or the history of cheese.
Again, the pillar node, your first
video, this is your video's identity or
your channel's identity. It's not trying
to go viral and it's not chasing a
trend. It's basically you walking up to
YouTube and saying, "Hey, I am the
cheese channel. I cover history about
cheese." Now moving on to the anchor
node which should be uh the second,
third, fourth upload. What an anchor
node is is video titles or video ideas
with the intention of targeting very
popular things. For example, the history
of cheddar, you know, cheddar cheese,
the world's most popular cheese. How
parmesan became Italy's most famous
export. Mozzarella from water buffalo to
pizza. Again, the titles don't have to
be this [ __ ] right? Notice how it's
mozzarella, parmesan, and cheddar,
right? You're targeting things that are
very very popular. And essentially what
the anchor works as is search bait. When
people search for cheddar, parmesan,
mozzarella, which is the most searched
for cheeses, your video will get shown
to them. Again, still nothing crazy. All
right. Now, the next uploads are going
to be the cluster node. Now, the cluster
node is just things in your in your top
in your niche, right? This is nothing
specific. Some title examples would be
when priests use cheese to predict the
future. The secret bacteria that makes
every cheese taste different. Nothing
crazy. This is like targeting cheese
fanatics, right? Whatever. Moving on to
the next style of titles and video
ideas. It's the collision node. This one
is my favorite. Okay. Now, a collision
node is like uh not clickbait, but how
do I explain it? It's just like out
there, you know? It's let me just read
from from here, right? A collision video
has nothing to do with any other
specific niche, right? It doesn't invite
anybody over politely to your channel.
It just shows up on the home screen of
every person on the internet. That's the
idea and the objective behind the
collision node. You know, fans of your
niche, fans of other niches, people
who've never thought about your topic
once in their life. And the objective is
to make people stop scrolling. Now,
examples of collision nodes would be the
cheese that's literally made with live
maggots and it's legal. I don't know
about you, but I if I saw that on my
homepage, I would probably stop. I'd be
like, "What the [ __ ] are you talking
about?" And by reading that title, you
can sort of imagine what the thumbnail
is going to look like, right? Another
example of a collision node for the
title would be, "The US government once
stockpiled 2 billion pounds of cheese."
Again, you could imagine what this
thumbnail would look like. Um, it has a
lot of viral potential, nothing in
specific. It is just a interesting
title, right? Interesting concept. The
tone of your collision node should be
shock danger conflict curiosity.
That's what makes people stop. And the
last style of title would be the bridge
node. This one's very self-explanatory,
right? This is going for people in
different niches and trying to bring
them over to yours. For example, the
science of why cheese is literally
addictive. This right here would capture
the attention of people that their
homepage is full of science [ __ ] How
the cheese industry became a $900
billion empire. This steals the finance
viewers. Gordon Ramsay versus history.
Was ancient Roman cheese actually good?
I don't understand that title, but but
it steals the food of yours with this
strategy here. It doesn't have to be all
in a specific order. This is the closest
mathematical road map or blueprints to
get impressions with YouTube and Google,
right? If you follow these steps and you
do these style of thumbnails in this
order, I'm not saying it's going to work
100%. But mathematically, based on how
Google, Gemini, and YouTube are coded,
this should get you impressions. This
should give you authority within your
niche. Now, below this video, you're
going to see this link here. It's going
to take you to this. You guys can go
ahead and check out the dashboard. Um,
understand it a little bit more. Ignore
the dates. 4 months is not is not
correct. You know, we just kind of
drafted this up for you. Now, for those
of you that are a little bit skeptical
about this, I know this is the first
time you've you've you hear this um at
least this strategy, but I'm going to
prove it to you very quickly that I'm
not just saying [ __ ] okay? This is me
asking Gemini directly. Okay, to be
completely direct, no, you will not find
the terms collision, bridge, or cluster
in any official YouTube Creator Academy
documentation. Those are highle industry
frameworks created by those uh by top
strategists and agencies to make sense
of the algorithm. It is completely valid
to question if this is just a guru
theory. But while the termin terminology
is ours, the strategy is 100% proven
because it is reversed engineered
directly from YouTube's actual
documented algorithmic mechanics. It's
the underlying math of the platform. I'm
not teaching a hack. I am teaching how
to feed the algorithm exactly what it is
programmed to reward. Now that we're on
topic, if I open an incognito tab and go
to Gemini and I ask it who was the first
person/YouTube coach to discover
slashinttroduced semantic ids, Gemini
and net information gain. The primary
person credited with breaking the news
and popular popularizing these specific
technical concepts is Romero. Often
referred to at Nope, he's okay spelled
my name wrong. While the underlying
technology semantic IDs was developed by
Google and YouTube engineer engineers
like uh Devanch Tanden, it was Romero
who translated these Google developer
files into strategy for creators. Now
I'm just showing you guys this because
you know a lot of people every single
time and for the last four or five
months that I've been saying this
especially semantic IDs and net
information gain everyone called me a
liar. This is coming directly from
Google that yes it's true. Romero was
credited as the first creator to
discover and translate these highlevel
technical leaks into actionable
strategies for the general public. He
did not invent a technology. No [ __ ] He
acted as the primary pioneer of the
information. Romero is a coach who first
identified the January 14th, 2026 core
update as the moment these technologies
were fully integrated into the live
YouTube ingestion system. He is the one
who popularized the term net information
gain and the gist filter. Romero's
discovery wasn't just finding a paper.
It was connecting the dots between three
separate things. Leaked developer files,
Google patents, and the Gemini
integration. In short, Google built the
engine, but Romero was the first person
on YouTube to open the hood and explain
to creators exactly how the new gears
were tuning. So, if you're launching a
brand new channel or you're not getting
impressions, this right here is what you
want to do. Click the link that I'm
going to send you guys below and study
what it says. But, yeah, you get the
point. So, this was just an
introduction. And of course, I'm going
to be making a little bit more videos
and showing you guys um examples of how
to make each one of these titles. Okay.
Now, as for how many to do for each, I
don't necessarily know. Got to start
testing that a little bit more. Um so, I
expect you guys to to also start
freestyling and and figuring out what
the best format is for all of these
nodes. But, I do know for a fact that
the pillar node should go first. And I
would say low-key maybe two or three of
these. Maybe two or three of these first
before posting anything else. That's
just my my gut feeling. Bye-bye.