YouTube Just Changed The Entire Algorithm 😭 DO THIS GET MORE SUBSCRIBERS IN JUNE 2026

[00:00] YouTube just released a brand new

[00:01] algorithm update that makes it easier

[00:03] than ever before to get views, get

[00:04] subscribers, and ultimately get

[00:05] monetized on YouTube so long as you make

[00:07] the six changes I share with you in this

[00:09] video because they've completely changed

[00:11] what kind of content you should be

[00:12] creating, how you should be using AI,

[00:14] and they've released a bunch of new

[00:15] settings that you need to make sure

[00:17] you're disclosing the right things in

[00:18] your content, otherwise, they could end

[00:20] up banning your channel. So, let's dive

[00:22] into all of it. Change number one is a

[00:24] bunch of new statistics just came out

[00:26] about what you should be including in

[00:28] your thumbnails and you're going to find

[00:29] this incredibly interesting. Okay, so

[00:32] there are 10 different notes and changes

[00:33] that you need to be aware of. The first

[00:35] one is that face presence, aka having a

[00:37] face in your thumbnails, is going to

[00:39] drive twice as many clicks versus not

[00:42] having a face in your thumbnails. This

[00:44] applies both for long-form content and

[00:46] for shorts content. The second thing

[00:48] that you're going to notice is that real

[00:49] thumbnail photos outperform

[00:51] illustrations. So, if you use an

[00:52] illustration like what's on the left

[00:54] right here versus actually having a

[00:56] person here, guess what? The actual

[00:57] person on the right-hand side is going

[00:59] to drive more clicks. Also, even if that

[01:01] person is going to be AI-generated or an

[01:04] AI version of you. The third thing that

[01:06] we're going to find is actually coming

[01:07] with the title. So, second and

[01:09] first-person titles, for example,

[01:11] you/your, that will actually give you a

[01:13] 100% lift in how many views you get and

[01:15] first-person titles like I/my/we give

[01:18] you a 106% lift. So, you want to make

[01:20] sure that you have those inside of your

[01:22] titles. In addition to that, putting the

[01:24] year in your title is actually going to

[01:26] deboost your video. It's going to get

[01:28] 40% less views unless you're posting it

[01:31] November to February 4 that upcoming

[01:33] year. So, in November, in December,

[01:35] January, and February, you want to post

[01:38] about the upcoming year. For example, if

[01:40] it was November 2025, you'd want to post

[01:42] about 2026. Otherwise, it's going to

[01:45] decrease your reach. In addition to

[01:46] that, yellow is the worst performing

[01:48] thumbnail color, lowers your views by

[01:50] 5%. I'm talking about literally the

[01:52] entire thumbnail being yellow. Green is

[01:54] the best performing thumbnail color,

[01:56] it's going to increase your views by

[01:58] 10%. The ideal video duration right now

[02:00] if you're uploading long-form content is

[02:02] going to be 12 to 20 minutes. Ideally,

[02:04] your hook length should be 27 to 45

[02:07] seconds. 96% of top-performing videos

[02:10] put a call to action in the first 10% of

[02:12] the video. In fact, the top-performing

[02:14] videos on YouTube right now have three

[02:16] calls to actions in them. And then

[02:17] finally, strategic capitals in your

[02:19] title is going to give you a 52% lift.

[02:22] That looks like this where how this

[02:24] title gets more clicks, this and more in

[02:27] all caps. This is going to increase your

[02:29] views by 50%. You want to make sure that

[02:31] you're using these 10 principles right

[02:33] now on YouTube to help increase your

[02:35] reach. Change number two is that YouTube

[02:37] is now completely changed how they're

[02:39] actually handling AI content. You want

[02:41] to make sure that you don't skip this

[02:42] part because this literally could get

[02:43] you banned or demonetized even if you're

[02:46] not using AI. So, these changes right

[02:48] here come actually directly from

[02:50] YouTube. So, the first one is that they

[02:52] are making new AI disclosures simpler

[02:54] for creators and clearer for viewers.

[02:57] So, right now, the way that this

[02:58] essentially works is you have to

[02:59] disclose whether or not your video's AI

[03:01] generated. And like 99% of YouTubers

[03:03] that I talk to don't even realize this

[03:05] exists. For example, if we come over to

[03:07] my AI channel, this most viewed video

[03:09] has over 600,000 views. If we actually

[03:12] come into the details of this video, I

[03:14] did disclose that this was actually AI

[03:16] generated cuz this video's about HeyGen

[03:18] and how to create AI avatars. If we come

[03:21] down here, we can see that under more

[03:23] details right here, AI in use, I put yes

[03:26] because this video does make a real

[03:28] person appear to say or do something

[03:30] they didn't do because I cloned myself.

[03:32] It alters footage of a real event or

[03:34] place or generates a realistic-looking

[03:36] scene that didn't actually occur. But

[03:38] like I said, YouTube is now making this

[03:40] easier. So, labels for realistic

[03:41] AI-generated content are now going to

[03:43] appear on the actual video itself both

[03:46] for long-form content and for videos.

[03:47] This is basically just going to be

[03:49] better disclosure to the viewer of,

[03:51] "Hey, this is AI generated. In addition

[03:53] to that, they're introducing automatic

[03:55] AI detection to help creators label

[03:57] their AI content more effectively.

[03:59] Essentially, the way that this is going

[04:00] to work is when you upload a video right

[04:02] now on YouTube, it goes through a checks

[04:04] process in order to see if it can be

[04:06] monetized. It makes sure that you don't

[04:08] have anything that is actually against

[04:10] any monetization rules or things like

[04:12] that on YouTube. Well, now they're also

[04:14] going to be doing this for AI. In

[04:15] addition to that, they're going to be

[04:16] giving channels 18+ access to their

[04:20] likeness detection technology to help

[04:22] them spot AI deepfakes of themself.

[04:24] Doesn't matter how many subscribers you

[04:26] have, if you're monetizing or if you

[04:27] posted a video yet, everybody's going to

[04:29] actually get it. And then here's what

[04:30] these things are actually going to look

[04:32] like on YouTube's UI. So, this right

[04:35] here is what the label is going to look

[04:36] like on a short. You're going to see AI

[04:38] in the bottom left-hand corner. In

[04:40] addition to that, we are also going to

[04:42] see the same exact thing with this

[04:43] introducing automatic detection. So,

[04:45] this will now in May 2026, which

[04:47] obviously is this month, this is now

[04:49] going to go through and automatically

[04:51] detect whether or not you're actually

[04:52] using AI and whether or not you should

[04:54] be disclosing this. In addition to that,

[04:56] we're going to see right here that you

[04:58] can still go through and manually check

[05:00] it no. But, one thing I would be hyper

[05:02] aware of is if you lie to YouTube about

[05:04] this, you're going to get demonetized,

[05:06] you're going to get your channel banned.

[05:07] If you don't believe me, look up on

[05:08] Reddit people getting their channel

[05:10] banned because of AI detection. People

[05:11] are getting banned like crazy. That

[05:13] could be an AI voice, that could be an

[05:15] AI avatar, it could be creating

[05:16] something with AI as part of the video.

[05:19] If it's an image or video that's being

[05:21] shown and it's AI generated, I would

[05:22] make sure that you're definitely

[05:24] disclosing this. Change number three is

[05:26] I would strongly urge you right now if

[05:28] you have a growing YouTube channel to

[05:29] open up a second and a third YouTube

[05:31] channel because this strategy is

[05:34] crushing it right now for so many

[05:35] people. Let me show you an example.

[05:37] Okay, so a perfect example of this is

[05:39] going to be what Alex Hormozi right here

[05:41] is doing. So, we could see that he has

[05:42] his main Hormozi channel. If we come

[05:44] under videos right here, we could see

[05:46] that he posts once a week on long-form

[05:48] content on this channel. If we come over

[05:50] to shorts, the last time I checked this,

[05:52] he was posting about eight shorts a day.

[05:54] Let's see if that is still true. So, we

[05:56] could see right here, 2 days ago, we see

[05:58] 1 2. We come down here, we have three.

[06:02] So, it looks like he's posting around

[06:03] three a day right now. Actually, we have

[06:05] 3 days, 1 2 3 4 5 6. It looks like six.

[06:09] So, he's posting anywhere from like

[06:11] three to eight times a day on YouTube

[06:13] shorts on this channel. With long-form

[06:16] content, he's only posting once a week.

[06:17] But, if we actually come over to his

[06:19] home page, then we actually scroll down

[06:21] here, we're going to see other channels

[06:23] that he has. So, like this More Mosey

[06:25] channel right here. If we come over here

[06:27] and look at videos right here, what

[06:29] we're going to find is that he's posting

[06:31] a ton on here. If we just look at 14

[06:34] hours ago, he posted four times. 20

[06:37] hours ago, he posted three more times.

[06:39] So, in the last 24 hours, he's posted

[06:41] seven long-form videos on this channel.

[06:44] But, what we'll also see is that he's

[06:45] actually not posting any shorts over

[06:48] here. So, essentially, what he's doing

[06:49] is he's now using multiple channels. On

[06:51] one of them, he posts low content in

[06:54] terms of volume, long-form, and a ton of

[06:57] shorts every day. On the other one, he's

[06:59] posting a ton of long-form and barely

[07:01] any shorts. And that's the strategy that

[07:04] you should also be implementing if you

[07:05] want to maximize the amount of content

[07:07] that you are currently putting out. You

[07:08] should have two to three channels. They

[07:10] should each be focused on different

[07:11] types of content, but they should all be

[07:13] posting every type of content. You just

[07:16] want to make sure that the cadence is

[07:17] going to be broken up appropriately. And

[07:19] essentially, what this allows you to do

[07:21] is flood the zone with things in your

[07:23] niche. You'll be able to rank for search

[07:24] way much better. You'll be able to

[07:26] actually put out trending videos way

[07:28] better. And this also allows you to

[07:30] actually take a step back and not have

[07:32] to edit or produce your content as much

[07:34] in order to get as much content out. And

[07:36] this right here will increase the amount

[07:38] of subscribers you get, the views you

[07:39] get. And this right here significantly

[07:42] increases the amount of business that

[07:43] you can actually generate and strum up

[07:45] on YouTube. Now that next thing you need

[07:47] to make sure you're doing is you need to

[07:48] make sure that you are hooking up

[07:50] YouTube to Claude. If you aren't using

[07:53] this AI workflow that I'm about to share

[07:54] with you, you're at a serious

[07:56] disadvantage. You're going to spend way

[07:57] too much time creating content. You're

[07:59] not going to be getting the results that

[08:00] you want when literally AI could be

[08:02] doing most of the work for you and I'm

[08:04] going to share with you the exact

[08:05] prompts that I use to automate my

[08:06] channel. So when you actually have

[08:08] YouTube hooked up to Claude, you're

[08:10] going to be able to do some pretty crazy

[08:12] things. For example, you'll be able to

[08:13] come over here every morning and say

[08:15] something like, "What topics are

[08:18] trending in my niche? Please list them

[08:22] out by VPH

[08:24] and let me know what I should upload

[08:28] about today." Now what this is going to

[08:30] do is this is not just going to use

[08:32] Claude or ChatGPT or Gemini. It is

[08:34] actually going to scan YouTube and

[08:36] access YouTube's data in order to

[08:38] actually give us an answer right here.

[08:40] We can see that this is actually loading

[08:41] up tools in order to be able to do this

[08:43] right here, which is pretty awesome.

[08:45] This is now using VidIQ. It's going

[08:47] through all the different trending

[08:48] videos. It's thinking through all this

[08:49] and this is actually going to give us a

[08:51] really good strategy right here, which

[08:54] is pretty cool. Now guess what? If we

[08:56] actually had this set up in Claude

[08:57] Co-work, we could schedule this out as a

[08:59] task so that this happens every single

[09:01] morning without us actually prompting

[09:03] this. And this isn't the only thing that

[09:05] you could do here. If we open up another

[09:06] chat, we could say something like, "Go

[09:09] through my last [snorts] seven uploads

[09:12] on my YouTube channel.

[09:14] Let me know what I can improve

[09:18] in my content and in my packaging." Now

[09:21] what this is going to do, and again, you

[09:23] could set this up to happen every single

[09:24] week, it's going to go through all of

[09:26] your content and actually tell you,

[09:28] "Hey, this is what you should have done

[09:30] differently." And look at this. It's

[09:31] literally pulling my channel's recent

[09:33] uploads. It's analyzing them. It's going

[09:35] to watch the videos. It's going to look

[09:37] at the thumbnails. It's going to look at

[09:38] the titles. It's going to look at the

[09:40] script. It's going to look at the

[09:41] analytics and it is going to give me

[09:43] actionable advice. Now, if we come back

[09:45] over into here, we can see right here

[09:47] that this went through and actually

[09:48] pulled all these different trending

[09:50] topics right here in my niche, shows us

[09:53] the actual views per hour, the video,

[09:55] the channel subscribers, how much of a

[09:57] breakout video it is, and these are a

[09:58] bunch of different things that I

[09:59] otherwise would not have found right

[10:01] here. Gives us the best themes right

[10:03] here. What they would upload today and

[10:05] what we could actually do is we could

[10:06] say, "Great, please script this

[10:10] out in my format." Then guess what this

[10:12] is going to do. This is now going to go

[10:14] through and this is going to script this

[10:16] out using the exact method that Claude

[10:19] knows I like to script my videos out

[10:21] with and it's going to do this

[10:23] incredibly quickly. And what's even

[10:24] cooler,

[10:25] it's actually going to base this off of

[10:27] what is actually working on YouTube

[10:29] because if you're working with AI, be it

[10:31] Claude, be it Gemini, be it ChatGPT, and

[10:34] it is not hooked up to YouTube and

[10:36] actually getting its advice or getting

[10:38] what you should do from YouTube, well

[10:40] then guess what? You're at a massive

[10:42] disadvantage. Now, the best part about

[10:43] this YouTube and Claude integration is

[10:45] that you can get started with it today

[10:47] using vidIQ's MCP. And if you go to the

[10:49] pin comment below, you can get started

[10:51] with it for only $1. This is an absolute

[10:53] no-brainer. It's immediately going to

[10:55] allow you to automate your YouTube

[10:56] channel and automate a lot of the

[10:58] tedious tasks that you are currently

[11:00] doing. So, what are you waiting for? Go

[11:01] to that pin comment below and get

[11:03] started with this today. It's going to

[11:04] help you get more views, get more

[11:05] subscribers, while spending way less

[11:07] time creating content. Now, change

[11:10] number five is you need to make sure

[11:11] that with your content, you have perfect

[11:13] alignment on three things because these

[11:15] three things are going to completely

[11:16] determine whether or not YouTube pushes

[11:18] out your content. It doesn't matter if

[11:20] you're going live, if you're uploading

[11:21] long-form content, or if you're posting

[11:23] shorts on YouTube, you need to make sure

[11:25] that one, your packaging is correct, aka

[11:28] your title and thumbnail stand out and

[11:29] somebody's going to want to click on it.

[11:31] Two, that the length of your content is

[11:33] correct, and yes, having just a few

[11:35] minutes or a few seconds off could

[11:36] actually destroy your reach, and then

[11:38] that third thing is you need to make

[11:39] sure that the topic that you were going

[11:41] after is the highest view per hour

[11:43] topic. If you get just one of these

[11:44] things right, you won't go viral. If you

[11:47] get two of them right, you won't go

[11:48] viral. If you get three of them right,

[11:50] then you have a chance of actually

[11:51] getting the views and virality that you

[11:54] deserve, but let me walk through exactly

[11:56] how you could figure each of these out.

[11:58] Okay, so when it comes to that first

[11:59] thing, which is going to be figuring out

[12:01] what length you should be creating your

[12:02] content, whether you're uploading

[12:04] long-form content or shorts, you want to

[12:05] come into your analytics, you want to

[12:07] click on trends, you want to type in

[12:08] whatever you're going to be posting

[12:09] about. For example, I'm posting a video

[12:11] today about Claude Opus 4.8 on this

[12:13] channel. So, I'm going to type in the

[12:15] topic of the video right here, and then

[12:17] this is going to allow us to search

[12:18] through long-form content and shorts

[12:21] content in order to figure out the best

[12:22] length in seconds. Because what we're

[12:24] going to be able to do is actually come

[12:26] over here, come under show all, we could

[12:28] see all videos, and we could see that

[12:30] these videos are predominantly anywhere

[12:33] from 12 minutes to 28 minutes right

[12:35] here. So, if I wanted to upload a video

[12:37] on this topic, ideally, I want it to be

[12:40] at the longer end of that spectrum.

[12:42] Because if not, what's going to end up

[12:44] happening is you aren't going to keep

[12:45] people on YouTube for a long enough

[12:47] period of time. In addition to that,

[12:48] this will actually show you what videos

[12:50] your video is going to show up against.

[12:52] So, we could see right here that my

[12:54] videos are going to show up against all

[12:55] these videos. So, when I craft my title

[12:58] or when I craft my thumbnail, I want to

[12:59] make sure that both my title and my

[13:01] thumbnail are better than these videos

[13:03] to make sure that I stand out amongst

[13:05] them, and I'm actually going to get

[13:06] clicks, and I'm actually going to get

[13:08] views. And then that views per hour

[13:10] metric is actually something you're

[13:11] going to be able to find on VidIQ that I

[13:13] was showing you earlier. So, again,

[13:15] let's say that we come over here, we

[13:16] type in Claude Opus 4.8, because that's

[13:19] what I'm going to be posting about. This

[13:21] will actually allow us to come over here

[13:22] and look at the videos and see which

[13:24] ones of them are getting the most views.

[13:26] This one's getting 1,100 views every

[13:28] single hour. This one's only getting 63.

[13:31] This one's getting 115. This one's

[13:33] getting 53. So, this will actually allow

[13:35] us to be able to see what our outlier

[13:38] videos, what our trending videos under

[13:40] here. And this will actually tell us

[13:42] that this is down this hour. This is up

[13:45] this hour. And this allows us to

[13:46] actually say, "Hey, this is what we

[13:49] should be creating." In addition to

[13:50] that, if we come under thumbnails right

[13:52] here, you're going to see all the

[13:53] different thumbnails that are performing

[13:55] well for this topic so that you could

[13:57] easily see what you need to stand out

[13:59] against. You could see all the channels

[14:01] that are posting about this. You could

[14:02] see all the different shorts that are

[14:04] posting about this. And if we come under

[14:06] keywords right here, we can actually see

[14:08] whether or not it's going up or down in

[14:10] search volume. And this is going to help

[14:12] you actually create a good video because

[14:14] you want to be focused on these three

[14:16] metrics to make sure that you're

[14:17] actually uploading something that

[14:19] YouTube's algorithm, one, wants to push

[14:21] out, two, that your audience cares

[14:23] about. And having these types of metrics

[14:25] on YouTube is just going to help you

[14:26] have a huge advantage over your other

[14:29] competitors that don't use stuff like

[14:31] this. Now, if you feel like you're

[14:33] shadowbanned on YouTube and you want to

[14:34] learn how you could fix it and what you

[14:36] could do to prevent it, I would strongly

[14:37] suggest you check out this video right

[14:39] here that walks you through how to

[14:40] identify whether or not you're

[14:41] shadowbanned on YouTube and what you can

[14:44] actually do in order to fix it. That

[14:46] sounds interesting. I'll see you over

[14:47] there.