5 Ways to Get Viral Video Ideas (Every YouTuber Should Know)

[00:00] I use five main strategies to come up

[00:01] with viral video ideas that get views

[00:03] like this for myself and also my clients

[00:06] and in this video I'm going to share all

[00:08] five of them with you so that you'll

[00:09] never run out of Banger video ideas ever

[00:11] again so let's start with strategy

[00:14] number one the absurdity formula the

[00:16] absurdity formula relies on creating

[00:18] content that is within the realm of

[00:20] possibility but is so absurd that it

[00:22] seems almost impossible and I'm going to

[00:24] show you how to use it for yourself in

[00:26] the early days of YouTube it wasn't that

[00:28] hard to get a ton of views if you knew

[00:30] what you were doing because the

[00:31] standards for Content were so much lower

[00:33] than what they are now for example 6

[00:35] years ago Mr Beast published this video

[00:37] where he gave away $10,000 which was

[00:39] absolutely crazy for the time it ended

[00:42] up getting 10 million views whereas this

[00:44] video on giving away $10,000 that was

[00:46] posted by a Creator who has way more

[00:48] subs than Mr Beast did at the time only

[00:50] got 35,000 views which is pretty good

[00:52] nonetheless but is a long shot off of Mr

[00:54] B's 10 million nowadays if an unknown

[00:57] Creator were to publish this video it

[00:58] would probably struggle to even crack

[01:00] 1,000 views potentially because giving

[01:02] away $10,000 in a video is no longer

[01:04] absurd enough because it's been done so

[01:06] many times to weigh bigger scales so to

[01:09] use the absurdity formula you need to

[01:11] come up with ideas that people think are

[01:13] absurd or aren't possible on my old

[01:15] gamedev Channel Nate Dev I created a

[01:17] video called I made a game in one line

[01:19] of code which got over 2 million views

[01:21] the reason this video did so well is

[01:23] that most people understand that even

[01:25] small video games require hundreds if

[01:27] not thousands of lines of code to make

[01:29] them work so doing it in one line of

[01:31] code was crazy to people however I

[01:33] mentioned earlier that it also needs to

[01:35] be within the realm of possibility

[01:37] despite seeming almost impossible and

[01:39] this is important because if you make an

[01:41] absurd claim and then don't deliver on

[01:43] it in the video your viewers will get

[01:44] upset and click off your video killing

[01:46] its performance on the flip side if you

[01:48] make a bold claim like I did and then

[01:50] actually deliver on it you'll get way

[01:51] more clicks on your video than you even

[01:53] know it to do with in fact I literally

[01:55] did this with two other videos on the

[01:56] exact same channel that did the same

[01:58] thing as the first so to use this

[02:00] technique for yourself you want to first

[02:01] put yourself in the mind of the viewer

[02:03] and then write down 10 to 20 absurd

[02:05] video ideas don't even worry about

[02:07] whether these ideas are possible right

[02:08] now just generate the absolute best

[02:10] videos you can think of for example if

[02:12] you make Finance content you might want

[02:13] to make a video called I don't know I

[02:15] built a$0 million business in 24 hours

[02:17] or if you make cooking videos for

[02:19] example maybe you'll come up with a

[02:20] video called cooking a five-star gourmet

[02:22] meal with $5 just make sure your ideas

[02:25] don't seem too impossible or viewers

[02:26] will think you're lying and won't click

[02:28] and once you've written down a bunch of

[02:30] video ideas you'll want to figure out

[02:32] exactly how you're going to deliver on

[02:33] them which might seem really difficult

[02:35] until you get creative and realize that

[02:37] you can cap a little bit if you just

[02:38] follow it up with a super educational or

[02:40] entertaining video to make up for it for

[02:43] example in this video where I made a

[02:44] game without using my computer I

[02:46] technically made the game without using

[02:48] my computer because I actually ended up

[02:49] calling my friends on my phone and

[02:51] telling them how to make the game with

[02:53] their computers and the only reason this

[02:55] worked and didn't feel like clickbait to

[02:56] my audience is because I followed it up

[02:58] with a super entertaining story and

[03:00] video but if this strategy doesn't end

[03:03] up working as well as you'd like then

[03:04] don't worry because I have four more

[03:06] strategies that I'm going to show you

[03:07] for coming up with viral video ideas

[03:09] which leads me on to number two the

[03:10] social hack social hacking involves

[03:12] creating an idea that capitalizes on

[03:14] familiarity and relevance even large

[03:17] Brands like Nike outside of YouTube use

[03:19] social hacking like when they partnered

[03:21] with Michael Jordan to create the Jordan

[03:22] shoe line and I'm going to show you how

[03:24] you can use this method as well but

[03:26] first take a look at George jenko's

[03:27] Channel you can see that his videos get

[03:29] 10 of thousands of views with the odd

[03:31] video getting a few million views and

[03:33] then bam he creates a video with Andrew

[03:35] Tate becoming his most popular video and

[03:37] gets over 12 million views the reason

[03:39] social hacking he knew that his core

[03:41] audience was in the range of 18 to

[03:43] 25-year-old men and what is this

[03:45] audience love Andrew Tate so he got in

[03:47] contact with his best friend Patrick f

[03:49] David asked him to connect with Andrew

[03:51] flew all the way out to Romania and then

[03:52] did a podcast with him he took on a ton

[03:54] of risk but it paid off because of the

[03:56] power of social hacking his audience was

[03:58] super familiar with Andrew so they

[04:00] clicked right away now the good news is

[04:01] that you don't even need to have

[04:02] somebody famous come onto your channel

[04:04] to utilize social hacking instead you

[04:06] can always just capitalize on stuff

[04:08] that's currently trending for example

[04:09] the game power world recently blew up so

[04:12] on our client's Channel we knew a video

[04:13] about it would probably do well however

[04:15] every single video about po World

[04:17] circulating YouTube at the time was

[04:19] talking about the game's controversies

[04:21] and we knew that if we didn't do

[04:22] something different we just get lost in

[04:24] the SE of video saying the exact same

[04:26] stuff over and over again and probably

[04:28] wouldn't get fused so we took a

[04:30] different approach and instead focused

[04:32] on PO world's marketing success and it

[04:34] became a 20x outlier on the channel

[04:36] pulling in over 20,000 views on a newish

[04:39] 300 sub Channel and speaking of outliers

[04:42] let's move on to number three the

[04:43] outlier method an outlier is a video

[04:46] that performs extremely well compared to

[04:48] everything else on a given Channel now a

[04:50] lot of outliers come as a result of luck

[04:52] but these days there are tools that

[04:54] specifically help you find outliers and

[04:56] I'm going to show you the one that I use

[04:57] every single day so first you'll want to

[04:59] find niches that are adjacent to yours

[05:01] meaning you share a very similar

[05:03] audience with them for example the

[05:04] Roblox Niche is very adjacent to the

[05:06] Minecraft Niche the female fashion Niche

[05:08] is adjacent to the male fashion Niche

[05:10] and the YouTube education Niche is

[05:12] actually adjacent to the finance Niche

[05:14] basically F niches with a very high

[05:16] audience overlap to yours then you'll

[05:18] want to use the tool one of 10 to search

[05:20] these niches for videos that are huge

[05:21] outliers and then adapt them to fit your

[05:23] Niche for example when generating ideas

[05:25] for this channel I search through the

[05:27] finance Niche because it has a very

[05:28] similar audience to the YouTube

[05:30] education Niche and found Alex horos

[05:32] video if I wanted to become a

[05:33] millionaire in 2024 this is what I would

[05:35] do full blueprint which was a pretty big

[05:38] outlier I then adapted it for my own

[05:40] channel and created the video the

[05:41] blueprint to blow up on YouTube in 2024

[05:44] and it got a one of 10 almost instantly

[05:46] one of 10 has also been kind enough to

[05:48] sponsor this video but I genuinely use

[05:50] this tool every single day to give

[05:51] myself fresh inspiration for video ideas

[05:53] on a plethora of different channels I'm

[05:55] working on and it's never let me down in

[05:57] fact it's literally the third tab in my

[05:59] bookmark marks bar for easy access and

[06:01] for good reason so if you want to use

[06:03] one of 10 like I do then click the link

[06:04] in the description below for a 20% off

[06:07] discount code next up is number four the

[06:09] research tab alongside recommendations a

[06:11] lot of viewers also find videos through

[06:13] YouTube search features and you can use

[06:15] that to your advantage with the research

[06:17] technique to use this technique you want

[06:19] to first go to YouTube Studio analytics

[06:21] and then click the research tab where

[06:22] you'll be able to see things that

[06:23] viewers of your channel are searching

[06:25] for when looking for a video in fact

[06:27] it'll also show you searches that had

[06:29] what YouTube calls content gap which are

[06:31] gaps in the market where there's high

[06:32] demand for a specific search term and

[06:34] not a lot of Supply or you know content

[06:36] to deliver on that search term so if

[06:38] you're ever stuck for a topic idea I

[06:39] suggest checking out the research tab on

[06:41] your channel and using a Content Gap

[06:43] search you already know people want it

[06:44] and that in turn will increase the

[06:46] chances of it going viral if again you

[06:48] follow it up with a banger video and

[06:50] finally number five is the

[06:52] recommendation station the

[06:53] recommendation station is the simplest

[06:55] of the five strategies to keep it simple

[06:57] here's a quick tutorial on how to do it

[06:59] first you want to download the one of 10

[07:00] Chrome extension using my link in the

[07:02] description below then you'll want to go

[07:04] to the YouTube recommendations page and

[07:05] the one of 10 Chrome extension will then

[07:07] give you the outlier scores on the side

[07:09] of each video once you find a video that

[07:11] is in a niche that's somewhat adjacent

[07:13] to yours you can then just repackage

[07:14] that video and then use it on your own

[07:16] channel very similar to how we do it

[07:18] with the one of 10 tool except it's so

[07:20] much easier and you can even do this

[07:21] while you're on a break watching YouTube

[07:23] or doing anything else anyway I hope you

[07:25] found this video useful and if I missed

[07:27] any of your favorite ways to come up

[07:28] with video ideas then just just comment

[07:30] them down below so that I can make

[07:31] another video like

[07:37] this