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title: 'How I Find Viral YouTube Ideas That Get 1,000,000s of Views'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=zjrs6LLsINM'
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date: 2026-06-14
duration_sec: 725
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# How I Find Viral YouTube Ideas That Get 1,000,000s of Views

> Source: [How I Find Viral YouTube Ideas That Get 1,000,000s of Views](https://youtube.com/watch?v=zjrs6LLsINM)

## Summary

The video outlines a three-step process for finding viral YouTube Shorts ideas that generate over $1,000 per video. The creator shares his experience building a content agency and a successful YouTube channel, emphasizing a business-oriented approach to content creation.

### Key Points

- **Introduction to the Process** [0:00] — The creator will show how to ideate, script, and make faceless YouTube Shorts that earn over $1,000 per video, with over 70 such successes on his flagship channel.
- **Credibility and Background** [1:04] — The creator spent five years building a content agency to $98k/month, managed a team of 13, sold part of the agency, and then launched a YouTube Shorts channel doing 40-50k/month with 3.7 billion views.
- **Step 1: Find Viral Ideas via Competitors** [2:34] — Use VidIQ to track competitors, filter by outlier score, views per hour, and weekly views to identify trending videos. Create a list of competitors in various formats and languages.
- **Step 2: Scale Ideas with AI** [5:06] — Use ChatGPT and Claude to generate multiple variations of a viral video by identifying viral triggers and creating new ideas with the same structure. Use prompts like 'create 10 ideas using the same viral triggers and structure'.
- **Organize and Filter Ideas** [7:55] — Keep a spreadsheet with formats, idea summaries, and references. Approve no more than 30% of ideas; kill most to maintain quality.
- **Step 3: Real-World Validation** [8:45] — Pitch ideas to friends, family, or target audience for feedback. The creator's girlfriend recommended a video that hit 20 million views.
- **Case Study: Seven Videos to Success** [10:48] — On a new channel, the first six videos got 50k views, but the seventh blew up to 16 million views in four days, leading to monetization and $1,000 earnings.

### Conclusion

By following the three steps—finding viral ideas via competitors, scaling with AI, and validating in the real world—you can consistently create YouTube Shorts that achieve millions of views and generate significant revenue.

## Transcript

In this video, I'm going to show you the
entire process of how I ideulate,
script, and then make faceless YouTube
shirts that make more than a thousand
bucks per every video we post. This is
something that I was able to achieve
with my flagship channel more than 70
times. 7. If you look at this colum, you
will see that this YouTube short made me
$7,000. Uh this one as well, 6.7 6K. And
if I scroll all the way down, all of
those shorts make me more than four
figures each one of those. And keep in
mind these are just 20 90 secondond
videos uh that are made by my team. So I
literally don't spend any time uh
actually making those videos. Um so this
is something that we achieved once on
this channel more than 70 times on this
channel and then on other channels as
well as you can see here here and here.
Uh all of those videos are making me
more than four figures and all of them
are simple YouTube shirts. So, in this
video, I'm going to break down the
single most important strategy to
understand while searching for ideas for
your YouTube charts. But first, why
should you even listen to me and this
video? Because the reason is actually
very simple. Because unlike everyone
else, I didn't just start YouTube
channel at 15 and then got rich at 16.
My journey was uh way harder than uh
most of those people uh that you see on
YouTube. Uh, I spent five years, five
actual years building my content agency
and scaling it to $98,000 a month. And
we did short form content for brands
like Sephora. I managed a team of 13
people since I was 20 years old. And I
even successfully sold a part of my
agency to an investor. And that's when I
decided to buy my uh first ever dream
car around 2 years ago. So my journey
was not simple. And with all of that
background, I decided to start uh
YouTube. So YouTube is not my first
business and uh this is actually
something that I approach from the
business perspective just because I have
years of experience like that running my
own agency and that's when I launched
the art of war channel the YouTube
shorts brand that is now doing 40 to 50k
a month 3.7 billion views uh 260k made
only from AdSense we also had uh an
extra 20k from Tik Tok uh money from
Facebook and brand deal uh and recently
I invested in three more branded
channels, adding them to the portfolio
that is now doing over 5 billion views
per year. But today's video is not about
me. It's actually about you and how you
find fresh viral ideas for your
channels. So, let's start at the very
beginning. How do you find those ideas?
To consistently find those ideas, you
need Vid IQ. So, number one thing I
actually recommend you do is to create a
list of competitors in different content
categories and uh uh even formats. So
for example, this is a list of
competitors for one of my channel as you
can see which uh this list has direct
competitors. It has long form
competitors that we can then adapt for
short form. It has other languages
competitors uh 2D competitors and etc.
So you want to have a variety of
different accounts that you take
inspiration from. Long form, short form,
uh 2D, 3D, talking hat creators, uh
influencers, anyone you can take ideas
from, add them to the spreadsheet
because then we will need them. Then one
thing you do after that is you go to Vid
IQ. I have Vid IQ right here. Uh so you
go to VidIQ, you go to competitors, and
then here you just keep adding those uh
competitors here until you have a like a
full list of accounts that you will pay
attention to. And then uh what you do is
uh you can filter them out by let's say
the amount of video uh views they have
or uh the amount of views they generated
this week or last week and etc. And uh
you will be able to see their most
popular videos by the outlier score.
This is very important. And what I often
do here is I go to my competitors, the
ones that interest me the most right
now. I rank the videos by the outlier
score just to find uh the ones with uh
the biggest one. And what I would do is
I would just simply look into those
ideas and some of them I would use
directly and some of them I would adapt
using the uh framework that I'm going to
show you uh in a second. So the two key
strategies here is you can use views per
hour. So here you can simply rank the
videos by the amount of views they're
getting at this exact moment. So you can
predict how many more views it can
potentially get. This way you can copy
the videos early on without them getting
crazy views just yet. Uh and number one,
you can use the the weekly views tracker
to see what channel are currently
outperforming the rest. So for example,
I would go down here and I would see
that this this week was quite good week
on YouTube. As you can see, every single
channel kind of outperform its results
last week besides just uh Richi who's
drastically underperforming. or for
example like doggyizuko performed like
400% more than usual, I would probably
just go to this page and see what
happened and the why their videos are
performing that well. So this is one of
those strategies. And then once you have
the original ideas, once you have all of
those videos collected from your
competitors and you know exactly what
you want to copy, you don't want to copy
them directly. You don't want to just
steal those ideas. You want to scale
them. Meaning you want to turn every
idea into a list of multiple ideas. So
every viral video has at least five
variations or maybe even 10 variations
of ideas and uh uh that will also work
based on the same exact viral triggers.
So what you do next is you go to charge
or cla but I recommend you actually go
on both and uh put the same prompts into
both because for ideiation I've realized
that some days for some reason charg
performs better than clot and some days
cloth performs better than chgpt. I
don't know why it happens but uh I just
ended up using both because sometimes I
like the ideas from chat and sometimes I
I really love the ideas from clot. So I
would recommend you still do both of
them. Let's say I want to check the
videos from Zak day films today, right?
Uh this I'll go this week. So this video
has the most views. I'll copy the link
to this video. I'll go to no GPT. I
would paste the link there. And again
once you sign up, it's free. It's very
easy to do. You'll get the transcript of
this video. And then using that
transcript, I will then ask Claudi and
not and charge to create me multiple
ideas just like this one. uh using this
prompt. So you're a viral uh viral
content strategist uh using this script
and here you paste the transcript of the
video that you just copied. Uh your task
is to identify the exact viral triggers
and then create X meaning 10 ideas, 15
ideas, you can put whatever number you
want here. Uh they use the same viral
triggers and structure. This will give
you a list of viral ideas with the same
exact viral triggers and viral hooks
that AI will come up for you. So, for
example, if the original video is what
happens if you shoot a bullet at a
crocodile, then a bunch of different
ideas are going to be what happens if
you shoot at an elephant at at a
gorilla, at a at a beer, etc. So, AI
will basically replace one or two things
in the original video and make it
completely new video, but the video that
will follow the viral format. So, this
is probably the most important part of
coming up with viral content. And what I
also recommend you do is besides just
using this uh prompt, split test it with
uh a simpler version of it because again
AI sometimes more professional prompts
like this one work. But sometimes I
actually see quite good success with a
very simple prompt. Here's the video
from my competitor. Please find me 15
ideas about what happens if you shoot at
someone that has the same viral
potential but a different animal, for
example. And you just split test this
two and you see which one works best.
And after that what you need to do is to
create a list uh ideas that you chose
and uh uh basically just uh put them in
a spreadsheet. Keep everything
organized. The spreadsheet for ideas
should look something like this one. Uh
something where you put the formats and
the idea summary and references as well.
Every single idea of yours should have a
reference. Uh and then also you can rank
them yourself. Approved, not approved. U
again don't uh don't be gentle with
ideas. Your approval score should be not
more than 30%. So only one out of three
ideas should actually be executed.
That's the nature of coming up with
content. Uh and yeah, as I said, don't
be generous. Kill your ideas. Um you
know, kill most of your ideas most of
the time because that's the only way you
can get higher quality of videos. Uh and
then use the third step, the real world
validation, which many people ignore,
but it actually is one of the keys to
success on YouTube. Because before you
have data from YouTube, before you have
analytics and comments and uh feedback
from the real audience, you still need
feedback on your ideas, you still don't
understand what is good and what is bad
just yet. You need a little bit of
guidance, a little bit of direction
there. So, uh how do you get the real
world feedback? go out there and you
pitch your idea or script to someone. It
can be your friend. It can be your
business partner. It can be your
girlfriend or your parents. Listen to
what they say and improve your content.
Improve your idea. Improve your script
based on their feedback, especially if
they are your target audience. Because
remember that behind every view that you
see on your YouTube studio is a real
person who just watched this piece of
content. meaning they are probably
having the same traits, the same
characteristics like many people in your
life. And if you're creating very
entertaining, generic content, then
maybe your parents are going to watch
it, maybe your friends are going to
watch it, maybe they are your target
audience. So ask them for their
feedback. And uh again, many of you
might say that it is stupid, but I took
my own channel from zero to the first
100 million views doing exactly that. I
had a girlfriend, my girlfriend who
actually recommended me some of the
ideas and I pitched her other ideas and
some of them she called stupid and I
decided not to go forward with them and
some of them were actually very smart
and they made her laugh and that's the
ideas we ended up executing. I remember
uh one of my first ever videos to hit 20
million views was the video that she
actually recommended me. So again, uh
remember to pitch your ideas in the real
life. And if everyone you tell your
ideas to tells you that they absolutely
love it, the the idea is validated and
uh ready to be executed. So you can go
ahead and create a video about it. And a
story about my channel uh related to
this exact process is that I did the
exact same thing, the exact three steps
that I just showed you, and I posted
seven videos on a on a brand new uh
channel. It wasn't brand new. It was
aged, but still like it was no videos.
So, seven videos posted from scratch. My
first six got stuck at 50,000 views, but
then the seventh one blew up, got
monetized, and made us $1.1,000.
I can show you how it looked like from
uh the inside of the YouTube studio. If
I go to shorts, if I go to the first
ones, you will see that the first ever
video I posted on January 27th. This is
the seventh video that I posted that
blew up from zero to 80k views in a
single day. Then 2 million views on that
on day two. And then by day four, it was
16 million. We got monetized there. And
then slowly kind of stopped, but then it
still made us our first $1,000, which
proves the point that you can simply
follow this three steps. Find viral
ideas through competitors in Vid IQ.
Then uh scale those ideas using simple
prompts with AI and then validate those
ideas in the real world by talking to
your friends, girlfriends, parents or
someone. And if you do that enough
times, it will essentially blow up and
get to uh some crazy views.