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title: 'How to get the video ideas the algorithm is looking for'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=fDIjmwgHNuE'
video_id: 'fDIjmwgHNuE'
date: 2026-06-14
duration_sec: 700
---

# How to get the video ideas the algorithm is looking for

> Source: [How to get the video ideas the algorithm is looking for](https://youtube.com/watch?v=fDIjmwgHNuE)

## Summary

The creator shares how they transformed their YouTube channel from getting hundreds of views to hundreds of thousands by focusing on popular areas of interest. They outline a three-part process: finding what the audience wants, brainstorming creative ideas, and filtering ideas through a checklist.

### Key Points

- **Channel Growth Comparison** [00:00] — The creator shows their previous channel's view graph and notes that a recent video almost reached a million views in two weeks, while earlier videos struggled.
- **Popular vs Unpopular Areas of Interest** [00:35] — A video about one secret seed (unpopular) vs finding the craziest seeds (popular) demonstrates the difference in viewer interest.
- **Effort vs Reward** [01:05] — It would take over a thousand videos in an unpopular area to match the views of one video in a popular area.
- **Three-Part Process Overview** [01:31] — Part 1: Find popular area of interest. Part 2: Get creative with video ideas. Part 3: Checklist to identify worth ideas.
- **Finding Audience Interest** [01:45] — Create a list of videos your audience watches most and look for patterns. Use YouTube Studio analytics or tools like videoo.
- **Expanding to Potential Audience** [02:29] — Add channels your audience might like from suggested videos. Spend at least an hour building the list.
- **Analyzing Patterns** [03:03] — Sort by most viewed and note recurring topics, pain points, goals, and what words or concepts get attention.
- **Brainstorming Strategies** [04:24] — Strategy 1: Be more creative by combining components of audience interests. Strategy 2: Use concepts from other niches but adapt to your audience.
- **Creativity Hack** [05:28] — Review notes daily and let your mind wander, especially when half asleep (e.g., hitting snooze in the morning).
- **Outlier Video Strategy** [06:23] — Find outlier videos (high views relative to channel average) outside your niche, but ensure the concept aligns with your audience's needs.
- **Using videoo for Ideas** [07:58] — Search phrases your audience likes, filter by high views and outlier scores, save concepts with notes.
- **Checklist: Fresh Perspective** [09:26] — Wait a couple days after writing an idea to see if it still feels good. Most ideas don't pass this test.
- **Checklist: Uniqueness** [09:55] — Search YouTube for similar titles. If the idea exists, improve the title/thumbnail or add a twist.
- **Checklist: Best Option** [10:24] — Aim for ideas with at least 5-10x outlier score instead of 1-2x. Raise the bar for what you consider a good idea.
- **Final Test: Title and Thumbnail First** [11:35] — Create title and thumbnail before making the video. Ensure they connect the audience's motivations to the video's value.

### Conclusion

By focusing on popular areas of interest and using a structured ideation process, creators can significantly increase their video performance. The key is to research audience patterns, brainstorm creatively, and rigorously filter ideas.

## Transcript

look this is my previous Channel's view
graph and right here is the last video
I've posted to YouTube that hasn't
reached 100,000 views two weeks later I
posted this video now almost at a
million views but it wasn't a lucky
accident even my first videos on a brand
new channel got tens of thousands of
views in just a few weeks so how did I
go from making videos getting just a few
hundred views to making videos getting
hundreds of thousands of views in only 2
weeks well what do you think what's the
difference between these two videos
[Music]
here's a hint a secret seed is a special
code that changes how the game normally
works this lets people play with a brand
new experience this video pours over
everything to say for one secret seed
and this one offers to find the craziest
seats so how many people do you think
are interested in just one feature of
the game how many do you think are
interested in the craziest most bizarre
most difficult things that the game
offers this right here is what I like to
call a popular area of Interest likewise
this is an unpopular area of Interest so
here's the deal I would need to make
well over a thousand videos for that
unpopular area of interest to be able to
match the views I got with one video in
the popular area of Interest so I really
can't put into words how worth it it was
to spend these 5 days researching and
brainstorming I know it sounds like a
while but hitting the bullseye of a
popular area of interest is extremely
difficult however my process is yet to
fail me so I want to share it with you
today in part one we'll find the popular
area of interest of your audience in
part two I'll walk you through getting
so creative that you get more video
ideas than you could possibly make
videos on and then in part three we'll
go over my checklist that identifies
which ideas are worth making part one
finding what your audience wants to see
it's a simple process we'll create a
list of the videos that your audience
has shown the most interest in and then
look for patterns which reveal what
sorts of things your audience is looking
for I'll be using this tool called
videoo to automate this but I'll show
you how to do it manually as well first
let's find the videos YouTube says your
current audience is watching in the
YouTube Studio go to analytics and then
audience if you scroll down a bit you'll
see these two panels the videos your
audience watches and the channels they
watch now I'm going to link the channels
and also the ones here uploading the
videos into videoo which will
automatically find all the videos but if
you're following along manually then
don't worry you don't need to find every
single video we only need each Channel's
top 15 or so most viewed videos in your
list anyway now we have a list of the
videos your current audience is watching
but I'm guessing your current audience
is kind of small so we want to get your
potential audience as well start by
considering any other channels you know
of that your audience might like and you
can also just open up some of the videos
in your list and add any relevant
channels that appear in the suggested
column now spend at least an hour
building up this list because the best
results come when you have pretty much
every video your target audience watches
in one place obviously there's not a
single viewer who's watched all of these
or hopefully not but most of the top
viewed videos have been watched by a
decent chunk of your target audience
therefore these videos reveal your
audience's criteria for a great video
idea sort the videos out by most viewed
and look for patterns first note down
any reoccurring topics you find here but
let's go deeper than just topics let's
find out exactly why they've shown the
most interest in these videos you can
see my audience loves learning the
strategies behind how the best creators
are growing the top 12 videos are
exactly that so I know that's a great
format to explore with future ideas
there's actually way too many of these
case study videos here so I'm going to
temporarily hide the channels making
them now almost all of the other videos
are either suggesting some method to
quickly get results or it's about how to
improve your video editing so I'll make
a note to brainstorm ideas in that
direction and there's a whole lot more
to study with this as well what pain
points goals and subjects get the most
views does a positive or negative
approach work better what words seem to
demand attention what concepts do they
enjoy the most for example on my gaming
channel I found the concept of playing
the game with a Twist on it had the most
interest chaotic looking thumbnails got
a lot of attention too videos based on
questions did great as well I know it
sounds like I'm just rapid fire listing
off all of these but remember I spent
days researching all of this you're
going to get stuck at first and that's
okay just remember how crazy a good
video idea is on screen right now is all
the stuff that you need to study I
recommend writing it all down to make
kind of a research checklist because in
just a moment we're going to need all of
this stuff for our brainstorming so part
two or step two I don't know getting a
ton of ideas so there's two strategies
that I've been doing to get get my ideas
the strategy that's given me the most
views is what gave me the idea for this
video on my gaming channel and these two
title ideas on the education Channel but
actually most of my ideas come from this
first strategy just being more creative
let me explain even a brand new idea is
always made from stuff that came before
it no one 3,000 years ago could have
been creative enough to invent the
printing press we only just started
making paper but once all the components
were around it just took someone who
knew a lot about them to be able to
combine them so just as Gutenberg knew
all the components of his invention very
well we must know the components of
possible video ideas very well those
components are the concepts your
audience loves the subjects they're
interested in their pain points wants
and needs research everything possibly
related to each of these go down every
rabbit hole and search for new stuff
that hasn't been seen before
fundamentally your ideas are simply
unique combinations of different
information so the more knowledge you
have and the more diverse the knowledge
is the more UniQue Ideas you get now I'm
going to give you some HK work this is
what I've been doing to be more creative
and you should do it too get a notebook
to write down all your research notes in
then every single day quickly review
your notes therefore you'll remember all
this stuff and find yourself thinking
about it throughout the day we haven't
actually gotten to the brainstorming yet
but still at this point if you spend
some time during the day without any
distractions and just let your mind
wander freely you'll start to get a few
ideas but we want a lot of ideas and we
want them now so what's the best way to
brainstorm well first of all you can't
force yourself to be creative you have
to let yourself be creative so don't sit
down and try to think about what you've
researched just let the thoughts come to
you and science shows being half asleep
is the sweet spot for creativity so
genuinely the best thing you can do is
as follows set an alarm for a little bit
earlier in the morning than usual then
when you wake up hit snooze and spend
like 2 minutes skimming through your
notes then go back to sleep and each
time the alarm goes off hit snooze again
all right the second strategy is to use
Concepts that other channels got a lot
of views doing but then change the
subject matter to what your audience is
interested in now a lot of people make a
big mistake with this strategy so I need
you to pay close attention so the idea
of it is that you look for inspiration
outside your Niche so that you can do
something that your audience hasn't seen
a 100 times before and then you'll find
videos that got way more views than the
average views of the channel That
uploaded it this will be called an
outlier video with an outlier score
based on its performance the mistake
people make is when they find an outlier
video they assume the concept is
guaranteed to work for Their audience
too it isn't take this example I make
videos for YouTubers looking for how to
improve their videos so I need a video
idea and I just found these four outlier
videos which concept should I use blank
explained blank
stereotypes 21 blank lessons for
blank or how to get so blank you
blank obviously one of these last two is
the right pick but why this stereotyped
concept is entertaining this explained
concept is interesting but my audience
only cares about content that helps them
improve their YouTube videos and only
these two concepts are actually helpful
but all right let's start the process
now I used to do this with vid iq's free
Chrome extension because you can go on
YouTube and see the outlier score next
to each video but that was a lot of
scrolling and there was that issue with
the incompatible Concepts so recently
I've been using videoo because you can
pretty much completely rule out that
incompatible concept problem and it's
also much faster so first find the
phrases that you're Target audience is
interested in do you remember how in
part one we found the types of things
your audience watches the most for me it
was quickly get results or it's about
how to improve your video editing using
chat GPT let's find some phrases that
match those desires this is the prompt
that I've been using and you can see the
results are exactly the concepts my
audience loves now on videoo search each
of these and then set the filters to
only show videos with high views and
outlier scores next take each good
concept you see and save it to a video
ideas folder but before you save it I
like to add a note with how you might
use the concept then also select the
specific parts of the concept that you
like now I also have been saving the
channels to a list because look at this
I can open up a list of videos from
specifically channels making education
content to help people reach their goals
although the goals and subjects are
different the concepts working for them
will work for me too here I can sort by
outlier score and then see the best
Concepts that my type of audience likes
so like you're my audience so you tell
me would you click on this how to
increase retention evidence-based
editing tips or get the perfect
thumbnail with this simple hack now I've
only shown you a couple of the ways that
video helps you get video ideas if you
want to see some more ways that can help
you out then I put a link in the
description it's $25 a month and if you
use my code then you get access to an
hourlong video I made just for my
viewers I'll break down how the
algorithm works and what you actually
need to do to get views on YouTube part
three or step three I don't know
checklist the last thing here is is the
most important but this first one is
actually the thing that ruls out most of
my ideas and it's easy too is to get a
fresh perspective on your video idea you
see the past year I've had this channel
I've written down every single idea I've
got now these ideas at the time of
writing them I thought I was a genius
but after a couple days how many of them
do you think I still felt so good about
half of them a third of them not less
than a quarter of them I still felt good
about now the next test is to make sure
that no one's beat you to it with this
idea because if your audience has
already seen the exact same thing before
they can't help but assume you have
nothing new to offer so copy or wouldbe
title into the YouTube search along with
a few variations and then check if the
video has been made or not if it has
then don't worry most videos have a
click three rate under 10% so there's
plenty of new people to watch a video on
that specific thing if you can just make
an improvement on the title or thumbnail
or put a Twist on the idea then you're
good the third and second to last test
is to make certain the idea is the best
option you have you see if you make a
video on just any good idea you get
you'll waste your time love him or hate
him Mr Beast was right when he said most
YouTubers watching this you could pull
triple the views with half the work if
you just have better ideas so instead of
planning to make five videos with a one
or 2x outlier score take the extra time
on your ideation phase to find those
ideas that give you at least a 5 to 10x
outli score raise the bar for what you
consider a good idea if you take only
the top 10% of your ideas from this
process you'll be sure to get your
breakthrough in no time I'll tell you
about the finnel test in just a second
but first I want to tell you a little
bit about my Discord server if you want
to get all of the internet's best free
YouTube education material in one place
then you can be like these wonderful
people uh thank you guys for being the
first 100 users into my Discord server
uh you you guys are my best fans the
rest of you Su and now beyond the free
stuff I'm also working on a curriculum
to teach like the actual skills of
YouTube it's still in the Prototype form
so I need a couple people to test it on
I made a form you can go through that
see if you're the right fit it's Leo
learn by leo.com Form but anyway it's
time for the next test which is to
subscribe to the
channel no I'm kidding it's actually the
last test is to First make the title and
thumbnail before you get to work on
anything else if you sat face to face
with your viewer telling them why to
watch what would you say review their
interests their goals and pain points
make sure that there's a solid
connection between your audience's
motivations to watch content and the
value that this video would provide your
title and thumbnail have the job of
making this connection clear that is
making it clear that your video offers
exactly what your audience was looking
for when they decided to open YouTube If
you can't find a way to make that
connection the idea won't work now
making that connection can be really
hard so check out this video here on
making a title and thumbnail