How I Find Viral YouTube Ideas That Get 1,000,000s of Views

[00:00] In this video, I'm going to show you the

[00:01] entire process of how I ideulate,

[00:03] script, and then make faceless YouTube

[00:05] shirts that make more than a thousand

[00:07] bucks per every video we post. This is

[00:10] something that I was able to achieve

[00:11] with my flagship channel more than 70

[00:14] times. 7. If you look at this colum, you

[00:17] will see that this YouTube short made me

[00:19] $7,000. Uh this one as well, 6.7 6K. And

[00:23] if I scroll all the way down, all of

[00:25] those shorts make me more than four

[00:27] figures each one of those. And keep in

[00:30] mind these are just 20 90 secondond

[00:32] videos uh that are made by my team. So I

[00:36] literally don't spend any time uh

[00:38] actually making those videos. Um so this

[00:41] is something that we achieved once on

[00:43] this channel more than 70 times on this

[00:44] channel and then on other channels as

[00:46] well as you can see here here and here.

[00:49] Uh all of those videos are making me

[00:51] more than four figures and all of them

[00:53] are simple YouTube shirts. So, in this

[00:56] video, I'm going to break down the

[00:57] single most important strategy to

[00:59] understand while searching for ideas for

[01:02] your YouTube charts. But first, why

[01:04] should you even listen to me and this

[01:06] video? Because the reason is actually

[01:09] very simple. Because unlike everyone

[01:11] else, I didn't just start YouTube

[01:12] channel at 15 and then got rich at 16.

[01:16] My journey was uh way harder than uh

[01:19] most of those people uh that you see on

[01:21] YouTube. Uh, I spent five years, five

[01:24] actual years building my content agency

[01:26] and scaling it to $98,000 a month. And

[01:29] we did short form content for brands

[01:31] like Sephora. I managed a team of 13

[01:34] people since I was 20 years old. And I

[01:36] even successfully sold a part of my

[01:38] agency to an investor. And that's when I

[01:41] decided to buy my uh first ever dream

[01:43] car around 2 years ago. So my journey

[01:45] was not simple. And with all of that

[01:47] background, I decided to start uh

[01:49] YouTube. So YouTube is not my first

[01:51] business and uh this is actually

[01:53] something that I approach from the

[01:55] business perspective just because I have

[01:57] years of experience like that running my

[02:00] own agency and that's when I launched

[02:01] the art of war channel the YouTube

[02:03] shorts brand that is now doing 40 to 50k

[02:06] a month 3.7 billion views uh 260k made

[02:10] only from AdSense we also had uh an

[02:12] extra 20k from Tik Tok uh money from

[02:15] Facebook and brand deal uh and recently

[02:17] I invested in three more branded

[02:19] channels, adding them to the portfolio

[02:21] that is now doing over 5 billion views

[02:23] per year. But today's video is not about

[02:26] me. It's actually about you and how you

[02:28] find fresh viral ideas for your

[02:30] channels. So, let's start at the very

[02:33] beginning. How do you find those ideas?

[02:34] To consistently find those ideas, you

[02:36] need Vid IQ. So, number one thing I

[02:38] actually recommend you do is to create a

[02:40] list of competitors in different content

[02:43] categories and uh uh even formats. So

[02:45] for example, this is a list of

[02:47] competitors for one of my channel as you

[02:49] can see which uh this list has direct

[02:52] competitors. It has long form

[02:54] competitors that we can then adapt for

[02:56] short form. It has other languages

[02:58] competitors uh 2D competitors and etc.

[03:01] So you want to have a variety of

[03:03] different accounts that you take

[03:04] inspiration from. Long form, short form,

[03:06] uh 2D, 3D, talking hat creators, uh

[03:09] influencers, anyone you can take ideas

[03:12] from, add them to the spreadsheet

[03:14] because then we will need them. Then one

[03:16] thing you do after that is you go to Vid

[03:18] IQ. I have Vid IQ right here. Uh so you

[03:20] go to VidIQ, you go to competitors, and

[03:22] then here you just keep adding those uh

[03:25] competitors here until you have a like a

[03:28] full list of accounts that you will pay

[03:30] attention to. And then uh what you do is

[03:33] uh you can filter them out by let's say

[03:35] the amount of video uh views they have

[03:37] or uh the amount of views they generated

[03:40] this week or last week and etc. And uh

[03:42] you will be able to see their most

[03:45] popular videos by the outlier score.

[03:47] This is very important. And what I often

[03:49] do here is I go to my competitors, the

[03:52] ones that interest me the most right

[03:54] now. I rank the videos by the outlier

[03:57] score just to find uh the ones with uh

[03:59] the biggest one. And what I would do is

[04:02] I would just simply look into those

[04:04] ideas and some of them I would use

[04:06] directly and some of them I would adapt

[04:09] using the uh framework that I'm going to

[04:11] show you uh in a second. So the two key

[04:14] strategies here is you can use views per

[04:17] hour. So here you can simply rank the

[04:20] videos by the amount of views they're

[04:21] getting at this exact moment. So you can

[04:24] predict how many more views it can

[04:26] potentially get. This way you can copy

[04:28] the videos early on without them getting

[04:30] crazy views just yet. Uh and number one,

[04:32] you can use the the weekly views tracker

[04:34] to see what channel are currently

[04:36] outperforming the rest. So for example,

[04:38] I would go down here and I would see

[04:40] that this this week was quite good week

[04:42] on YouTube. As you can see, every single

[04:44] channel kind of outperform its results

[04:47] last week besides just uh Richi who's

[04:50] drastically underperforming. or for

[04:52] example like doggyizuko performed like

[04:55] 400% more than usual, I would probably

[04:57] just go to this page and see what

[04:59] happened and the why their videos are

[05:02] performing that well. So this is one of

[05:04] those strategies. And then once you have

[05:06] the original ideas, once you have all of

[05:08] those videos collected from your

[05:10] competitors and you know exactly what

[05:12] you want to copy, you don't want to copy

[05:14] them directly. You don't want to just

[05:16] steal those ideas. You want to scale

[05:18] them. Meaning you want to turn every

[05:20] idea into a list of multiple ideas. So

[05:24] every viral video has at least five

[05:27] variations or maybe even 10 variations

[05:29] of ideas and uh uh that will also work

[05:32] based on the same exact viral triggers.

[05:34] So what you do next is you go to charge

[05:37] or cla but I recommend you actually go

[05:40] on both and uh put the same prompts into

[05:43] both because for ideiation I've realized

[05:46] that some days for some reason charg

[05:48] performs better than clot and some days

[05:51] cloth performs better than chgpt. I

[05:53] don't know why it happens but uh I just

[05:56] ended up using both because sometimes I

[05:58] like the ideas from chat and sometimes I

[06:01] I really love the ideas from clot. So I

[06:03] would recommend you still do both of

[06:05] them. Let's say I want to check the

[06:06] videos from Zak day films today, right?

[06:09] Uh this I'll go this week. So this video

[06:12] has the most views. I'll copy the link

[06:14] to this video. I'll go to no GPT. I

[06:17] would paste the link there. And again

[06:19] once you sign up, it's free. It's very

[06:21] easy to do. You'll get the transcript of

[06:23] this video. And then using that

[06:25] transcript, I will then ask Claudi and

[06:28] not and charge to create me multiple

[06:31] ideas just like this one. uh using this

[06:33] prompt. So you're a viral uh viral

[06:35] content strategist uh using this script

[06:38] and here you paste the transcript of the

[06:40] video that you just copied. Uh your task

[06:42] is to identify the exact viral triggers

[06:45] and then create X meaning 10 ideas, 15

[06:48] ideas, you can put whatever number you

[06:50] want here. Uh they use the same viral

[06:51] triggers and structure. This will give

[06:54] you a list of viral ideas with the same

[06:56] exact viral triggers and viral hooks

[06:59] that AI will come up for you. So, for

[07:01] example, if the original video is what

[07:04] happens if you shoot a bullet at a

[07:06] crocodile, then a bunch of different

[07:08] ideas are going to be what happens if

[07:09] you shoot at an elephant at at a

[07:11] gorilla, at a at a beer, etc. So, AI

[07:14] will basically replace one or two things

[07:16] in the original video and make it

[07:18] completely new video, but the video that

[07:21] will follow the viral format. So, this

[07:24] is probably the most important part of

[07:25] coming up with viral content. And what I

[07:28] also recommend you do is besides just

[07:30] using this uh prompt, split test it with

[07:33] uh a simpler version of it because again

[07:35] AI sometimes more professional prompts

[07:38] like this one work. But sometimes I

[07:40] actually see quite good success with a

[07:41] very simple prompt. Here's the video

[07:43] from my competitor. Please find me 15

[07:45] ideas about what happens if you shoot at

[07:47] someone that has the same viral

[07:49] potential but a different animal, for

[07:52] example. And you just split test this

[07:54] two and you see which one works best.

[07:55] And after that what you need to do is to

[07:57] create a list uh ideas that you chose

[08:00] and uh uh basically just uh put them in

[08:02] a spreadsheet. Keep everything

[08:04] organized. The spreadsheet for ideas

[08:06] should look something like this one. Uh

[08:08] something where you put the formats and

[08:10] the idea summary and references as well.

[08:13] Every single idea of yours should have a

[08:15] reference. Uh and then also you can rank

[08:18] them yourself. Approved, not approved. U

[08:20] again don't uh don't be gentle with

[08:23] ideas. Your approval score should be not

[08:26] more than 30%. So only one out of three

[08:29] ideas should actually be executed.

[08:31] That's the nature of coming up with

[08:33] content. Uh and yeah, as I said, don't

[08:36] be generous. Kill your ideas. Um you

[08:38] know, kill most of your ideas most of

[08:41] the time because that's the only way you

[08:43] can get higher quality of videos. Uh and

[08:45] then use the third step, the real world

[08:48] validation, which many people ignore,

[08:50] but it actually is one of the keys to

[08:53] success on YouTube. Because before you

[08:56] have data from YouTube, before you have

[08:58] analytics and comments and uh feedback

[09:00] from the real audience, you still need

[09:03] feedback on your ideas, you still don't

[09:05] understand what is good and what is bad

[09:07] just yet. You need a little bit of

[09:09] guidance, a little bit of direction

[09:11] there. So, uh how do you get the real

[09:13] world feedback? go out there and you

[09:15] pitch your idea or script to someone. It

[09:19] can be your friend. It can be your

[09:21] business partner. It can be your

[09:23] girlfriend or your parents. Listen to

[09:25] what they say and improve your content.

[09:28] Improve your idea. Improve your script

[09:30] based on their feedback, especially if

[09:32] they are your target audience. Because

[09:34] remember that behind every view that you

[09:37] see on your YouTube studio is a real

[09:39] person who just watched this piece of

[09:41] content. meaning they are probably

[09:43] having the same traits, the same

[09:45] characteristics like many people in your

[09:47] life. And if you're creating very

[09:49] entertaining, generic content, then

[09:51] maybe your parents are going to watch

[09:53] it, maybe your friends are going to

[09:54] watch it, maybe they are your target

[09:56] audience. So ask them for their

[09:58] feedback. And uh again, many of you

[10:01] might say that it is stupid, but I took

[10:04] my own channel from zero to the first

[10:06] 100 million views doing exactly that. I

[10:09] had a girlfriend, my girlfriend who

[10:11] actually recommended me some of the

[10:13] ideas and I pitched her other ideas and

[10:16] some of them she called stupid and I

[10:17] decided not to go forward with them and

[10:20] some of them were actually very smart

[10:21] and they made her laugh and that's the

[10:24] ideas we ended up executing. I remember

[10:27] uh one of my first ever videos to hit 20

[10:29] million views was the video that she

[10:31] actually recommended me. So again, uh

[10:34] remember to pitch your ideas in the real

[10:36] life. And if everyone you tell your

[10:38] ideas to tells you that they absolutely

[10:40] love it, the the idea is validated and

[10:43] uh ready to be executed. So you can go

[10:45] ahead and create a video about it. And a

[10:48] story about my channel uh related to

[10:50] this exact process is that I did the

[10:53] exact same thing, the exact three steps

[10:55] that I just showed you, and I posted

[10:57] seven videos on a on a brand new uh

[11:00] channel. It wasn't brand new. It was

[11:01] aged, but still like it was no videos.

[11:04] So, seven videos posted from scratch. My

[11:06] first six got stuck at 50,000 views, but

[11:09] then the seventh one blew up, got

[11:11] monetized, and made us $1.1,000.

[11:14] I can show you how it looked like from

[11:16] uh the inside of the YouTube studio. If

[11:18] I go to shorts, if I go to the first

[11:21] ones, you will see that the first ever

[11:23] video I posted on January 27th. This is

[11:26] the seventh video that I posted that

[11:28] blew up from zero to 80k views in a

[11:31] single day. Then 2 million views on that

[11:34] on day two. And then by day four, it was

[11:36] 16 million. We got monetized there. And

[11:38] then slowly kind of stopped, but then it

[11:41] still made us our first $1,000, which

[11:44] proves the point that you can simply

[11:45] follow this three steps. Find viral

[11:47] ideas through competitors in Vid IQ.

[11:49] Then uh scale those ideas using simple

[11:52] prompts with AI and then validate those

[11:54] ideas in the real world by talking to

[11:56] your friends, girlfriends, parents or

[11:59] someone. And if you do that enough

[12:00] times, it will essentially blow up and

[12:03] get to uh some crazy views.