--- title: 'How to Automate a YouTube Channel with AI (2026)' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZZctFjk0J9o' video_id: 'ZZctFjk0J9o' date: 2026-07-15 duration_sec: 861 --- # How to Automate a YouTube Channel with AI (2026) > Source: [How to Automate a YouTube Channel with AI (2026)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZZctFjk0J9o) ## Summary This video provides a step-by-step guide on how to automate a YouTube channel using AI, covering niche selection, script generation, voiceover, and thumbnail creation. The creator shares personal results, including earning $7,000 in 28 days on one channel and nearly $1 million annually on another, to demonstrate the potential of AI-driven content creation. ### Key Points - **Channel Results Overview** [00:01] — The creator shows earnings: $7,000 in 28 days on one channel, $995,000 in a year on another, and $180,000 over two years on a small channel. - **Four Factors for Niche Selection** [00:28] — The four factors are potential visits, competition, RPM, and evergreening. These determine whether a niche will be profitable. - **Example Channel: Everything Professor** [00:43] — This channel has 198,000 subscribers with only 30 videos, showing high potential visits in the education niche. - **Analyzing Competition with TubeBuddy** [01:11] — Using TubeBuddy's Keyword Explorer, the competition for 'drugs and their effects' is low, and for 'manipulation techniques' it's excellent. - **RPM in Education Niche** [02:05] — In the education niche, RPM is around $3-4 per 1,000 views for videos longer than 15 minutes. - **Evergreen Content** [02:20] — Evergreen content maintains consistent views over time, as shown by a steady upward graph for a drug-related video. - **Three Undiscovered Niches** [02:44] — The niches are: courtroom consequences (e.g., Court Room Consequences channel earning $10k-$34k/month), motivation (e.g., Sam Unfiltered Guy with 338k subscribers from 9 videos), and outer space (e.g., Gravy Pool earning $5k-$14k/month). - **Finding Viral Video Ideas** [04:35] — Use a reference channel and the IQ Life Extension tool to identify outlier videos with a multiplier above 3 and high views per hour (VPH). - **YouTube's Algorithm and Key Metrics** [06:35] — YouTube prioritizes videos with high CTR (aim for 10%) and audience retention (aim for 60%). - **Using AI for Script Generation** [07:32] — Copy the transcript of a successful video, remove timestamps, and use a ChatGPT prompt to generate a new script for your video idea. - **AI Voiceover with Eleven Labs** [09:03] — Use Eleven Labs' text-to-speech feature to generate a voiceover for the script. Multiple accounts can be used for free. - **Video Editing and Thumbnail Creation** [09:42] — Edit the video using CapCut or hire editors on Fiverr/Upwork. For thumbnails, use Pixels to recreate viral thumbnails from successful videos. - **Optimizing Metadata** [10:07] — Use ChatGPT to generate title, description, and tags. The thumbnail is the most important element for CTR. - **Analyzing and Improving Performance** [12:08] — Compare actual CTR and retention against targets (10% CTR, 60% retention). If CTR is low, change the thumbnail. If retention is low, analyze the retention graph to identify drop-off points. - **Expectation Setting** [13:56] — It may take up to 10 videos to achieve viral success, but maintaining good metrics will eventually lead to monetization. ### Conclusion By systematically applying AI tools for scriptwriting, voiceover, and thumbnail creation, and by rigorously analyzing performance metrics, you can build a profitable YouTube channel even as a beginner. The key is to choose the right niche, create evergreen content, and continuously optimize based on data. ## Transcript artificial intelligence, but you don't know where to start. So you know I know what I'm taken a channel from zero to over a million subscribers and I'll show you some of my results. For example, with this channel we generated $7,000 in the last 28 days . With that other channel, in the last year we reached almost a million dollars in revenue, $995,000. And with one of my smallest channels in the last 2 years, since this channel was created, we billed $180,000. need to do is choose the right niche. And there are four things that define where you're going to make a lot of money, or if absolutely no one is going to watch your videos. And these are potential visits, competition, RPM and evergrinity. Yes, I think I just But I'm not going to bore you with theory, so let's get straight to applying this in this channel here called Everything Professor, which with only 30 videos has 198,000 subscribers. And if we look at their videos, we have videos from a month ago with over 2,000 views. We have videos with 1.3 million views, 1 million views. This indicates that the niche Now, the second factor was competition, and to see if this niche going to do is look for one of the video ideas within T Body, which is a So, what we're going to do is, for example, this video idea is all about drugs and their effects explained. We're going to To Body, which description. We're going to go to the Keyword Explorer tab and here we're going to put drugs and their effects. We click on Explore and as you can see here it will show us everything we need. Come here where it says competition, it's in English means that there is not too much competition in the sector. And we're going to do the same with some other video ideas, for example, manipulation techniques. So, we return to Your Body, Keyword Explorer, manipulation techniques. And as we see here where it says competition, it tells us excellent. visits and the competition. And now, we would all like to earn the most Well, that's where RPM comes into play, and it's very difficult to know the RPM if you're starting out in a niche, but in the education niche like than 15 minutes, I can assure you that the RPM is around 3 to 4 per 1000 last step, which is evergrinity, which in simpler terms is whether the videos are relevant to people over time or if that relevance is only at this moment. And in this case it's a completely bergreen niche, which is because, for example, a video about drugs, if we go to watch this video, we see this graph which shows the video's views and as you can see, the graph goes up constantly, there isn't a peak and then a drop, but it every day. That gives you a clue that the niche is Evergren. Once you understand the theory, I'm going to give you three niches that nobody is talking about and , we have this channel called Court Room Consequences, which basically talks about iconic things that happened in the United States court. And as we can see, he has videos from a year ago with 23 million views, meaning that this video alone earned him approximately $50,000. And the is having very eye-catching thumbnails. [music] how a prisoner is pointing a gun at a lawyer or a judge. And as you can see, they are relatively long videos of 25, 30 minutes. Ahoraico, how much is this channel earning? Well, according to Vidaq, this channel is earning between $10,000 and a month. And the best part is that I didn't see any channel doing this in Spanish, so I niche of motivation. We have this channel called Sam Unfiltered Guy. With only nine videos, he gained 338,000 subscribers and has videos with 3.8 million views, which in this niche is equivalent to about $21,000. And when you watch the videos, you'll literally see that it's a voiceover with a stick figure appearing on screen. [music] only 7 minutes. Now, for some reason, this channel stopped uploading videos 8 months ago, even though each of its videos went viral. So you resume it in English, since you literally won't have any we have the outer space niche with this channel called Gravy Pool, which only has 34 videos uploaded and is generating between $5,000 and $ 14,000 a month. And for example, he has very interesting videos like, why is it very interesting videos like, why is it a shitty thing to be a black hole? outer space. And if we look at the visitor graph, this confirms is gaining new visits every day. Okay, he grabbed one of these three niches and it's time to learn how to make viral videos. And to make a viral video, the first thing we have to do, and the fundamental piece, is to find a good go into our reference channel and if we have the IQ life extension installed, we'll be able to see a small number below each video. This little number here that says 0.5 is the multiplier and it tells us which videos are outliers and which are not. So, what does 0.5 mean? To put this into perspective, a one per 1000 would mean that the video you're showing us has exactly the same number of views as the channel usually gets on all videos with 10,000 views and uploads a video that gets 10,000 views, that would be one per. A 0.5 per share would imply that if you have 10,000 views per video, Now, we are going to look for Outliers and an Outlier is considered to be from 3 per, which implies that that video has three times more views let's see how to get outliers. What we have to do is simply go into the videos, filter by popular, and here we will find the videos that are more outliers. For example, this one has 16, this one example, this one has 16, this one has 7.1, this one has 5.8, and so far only concerned with that, but also with this metric here, which is BPH. And HPV means visits per hour. And why is this metric so important? Well, in addition to being an outlier that has done better than what normally goes for that channel, it is currently getting views to see if within the avalanches we have, we need to check which ones are still getting hourly visits. For example, this video, which is a 7 outlier, has 33 views per hour, while this one is a 5.8 outlier and has 68 views per today than this other one. However, the most relevant of all is this one, which is 16 per hour and has 146 visits per hour. So this could be try. So, as you can see, once you have the reference channel, it's winning video ideas. So now all that's left is to create the video and pray that it goes viral, right? Well, I'd leave God alone and focus on making easier than it seems. YouTube is a business, and like any oppressive capitalist business money as possible. And when does YouTube make money? When viewers see an advertisement. watch your video and you keep them on YouTube for a while and they watch a benefits YouTube. In other words, your video will be shown to more people. So, what I just briefly translate it into terms that are what you'll see inside YouTube Studio. First, we need a good CTR. CTR is the number of people who decide to click on your video out of every 100 impressions, and we need to have good audience retention, that is, a higher average view percentage than happens by making our video entirely with YouTube and artificial intelligence have a toxic relationship as a couple, so artificial intelligence, you're not going to earn a penny from that video. So let's intelligently in the parts where it's appropriate, to save ourselves some work. So what we're going to do is go into our going to scroll down to this button that says "show transcript". we have the transcript of the entire video, but it has these click here on the three dots and we'll turn timestamps on or off . And now you're simply going to copy the entire guide. You're going to enter the leave in the video description. What does it say? He acts like a retention and gives you a lot of things we're not interested in, but the prompt is very good free. The only thing that interests us is where it says "pega e acá el guion modelo". You're simply going to delete this part, put the template script there, and here where it says the video topic, delete it and put the video idea, which in this case is what would happen if we changed the sun for extreme objects. And finally, if the objective of the video is to educate, to sell, you're going to delete this. And in this case I'm going to put "entertain". And now we press enter. And there you can see that what it does is pretty good . You wake up feeling bad, you open your eyes and the sun is not there. Instead, there is something that shouldn't be here, and it's not a little more heat, it's the beginning of the end. As you can see, the script is really good, so we're going to take that script and use it for our video. And here you have someone $ to do the transcription for you, which is what I would artificial intelligence, which I'll show you how to do. What we're going to do is go into 11 Labs, which has a text-to-speech feature, and it has a you can create many accounts and do it completely free of charge. What we do is take this GPT chat script and paste it into Eleven we simply select the voice. There are a lot of voices you can select. What impact did these testimonies have on the lives of those who witnessed them ? The experiences they A fairly normal voice. Once you have the script pasted in, click on generate generate. You wake up feeling bad, open your eyes and the sun is not there. Instead, there is something that should never be there. And no, it's not just a end. As we can see, it's extremely good for having done it completely free of charge and in 2 seconds. And now all that's left is to edit the video, free tool called Capcat . Or you can pay other time as I do today. You can find those people on Fiverr or Upwork. And now we have the video ready, we upload it and that's it, it gets leaving it to chance, we need to make sure our can go viral on YouTube. We do this by telling YouTube YouTube doesn't have telekinesis yet, we have to explicitly tell it what it's about metadata. The metadata includes the title, description, tags, and thumbnail of the video. As you can see, I simply asked Chat GPT to create a title, video, and based on what Chat GPT tells us, we'll modify it to we have a title that says, what would happen if we replaced the sun with extreme objects in the universe? The title is pretty good, as you can see, the key here is the idea of ​​what happens if we replace the sun and the extreme objects, it gives it a bit more CTR. Remember that CTR is for people to click on expands a little more on what sun with the most extreme objects in the universe, giant stars, and tell us a exactly what you have to do, and the tags are not important at all, and in fact what GPT chat throws at us is quite bad, but since they are not fact, YouTube itself says that labels don't matter at because it's the most important thing for people to choose let's see what this channel does. As we can see, this channel shows replaced by a black hole and there was a person going towards the black hole? black hole, what would happen if it were another type of star and this other one? So, what similar or go for something completely different. To keep it simple, let's artificial intelligence saves our lives again. We have this tool here called Pixels, which allows us to recreate viral thumbnails. And as you can see, you can try it for $ a month, so if I were you I'd give it a go. So would have to do is copy the link of this video, go to the simply tap on generate. And look, there we have the recreated miniature, which is extremely good; it's similar, but the details are is change these texts here. So, to change those texts, we go here to the little pencil where it says edit. You simply select where it says the need to change this one from Black Hole because the other two are already the name of the star. And here you put black hole. Okay, Nico, I followed all the steps you gave me. Now I'll upload the video and it'll go viral. Well, probably not. first video we make doesn't go viral, and then we can get depressed and go to bed to watch a series while eating ice cream, or we can analyze the results to improve. As we saw in science at school, comparing results is comparing a standard with do. We're going to compare our actual CTR against our target CTR. And the same goes for audience retention. We are looking for a 10% CTR and a 60% audience retention rate. And since you probably didn't reach those numbers in the first video, which analyze how you can improve. If your CTR is bad, it's very easy. Either change the Personally, I prefer to change the thumbnail because it's what has the biggest impact see your thumbnail before they see your title. And if your retention is the problem, you need to look at the retention graph and see where people stopped watching your audience retention graph, like I have a 31.9% and that's why this video didn't go viral. So, what I do is analyze where introduction, in fact, . So, what I need to do is analyze this introduction and times when people leave, for example, here. And also at the end here, a you did, never do it again. And the same goes for the CTR, as you can see, I have a 4.6% CTR. We said we were looking for a 10, it's less than half. So, you see, on this day here, the 4th, I made a thumbnail change in the video and the next day we got a 6.1% CTR. This drop, which should be our CTR is improving. So I'll keep the changed thumbnail. Now, mentioned, your next video probably won't go viral either, and neither will the third one , but if you maintain a 10% ZR and a 60% audience retention rate on your viral videos within the first 10 videos you upload. And when you add money for every view. Now, that's all for this video. If you want to see a complete 5-hour course—because a lot of people would charge you we see advanced strategies that allowed me to achieve the results I click on this video. I assure you that you won't find this quality of information in any other content on YouTube. I'll see you there.