Small Channels: Do THIS and the Algorithm Will LOVE You!

today I want to show you how I went from getting less views than a Minecraft Let's player to now the algorithm literally sending me 1 to 2,000 views every single hour and in turn that blew up my Subs helped me make a bunch of money and helped me monetize not just this channel but a bunch of different channels as well some of them with literally one video so let's go through this step by step step number one is we need to figure out why the algorithm isn't promoting your channel now most people think that the

algorithm just hates them but there's a way to actually go into your analytics and verify whether it is the algorithm that hates you or there's a deeper problem at play so just come to your YouTube studio and this is just like a random example Channel I have then come down to Content and then in content come to whatever video you think the algorithm hates let's say this one's been up for over 2 years and only got 30 views in that period of time then go to analytics by hovering over this button here last we're going

to go across to this reach Tab and what we're going to look at is this number here Impressions cuz Impressions essentially tells us how many times the algorithm has promoted our video and in the case of this video you can see here even though we've only got 9 views the algorithm has actually promoted our video 400 times the problem is our video just actually isn't enticing enough to viewers if we come and look at the retention of this video I got to overview and come down here by the time the video reaches the 10c mark

over 50% of viewers have left the video and so the issue here is like what Mr Beast said the algorithm didn't like that video no the audience didn't like that video it's just that the data is showing us here that the video isn't resonating or clicking very well with viewers and this is going to be some tough love here it's going to make a bunch of you leave but a lot of you if you actually were honest with yourselves and went into your analytics and had looked at them the majority of you would have this

exact same problem here and that's totally okay I'll show you how to fix that in this video it's actually easier than you would think but really quickly I know there's going to be a bunch of you in the comments and rightly so being like but Marcus my content is good I get great feedback on it from viewers I get great feedback on it from my friends and family and I think here's what I would say to you it's not necessarily that your video is objectively bad cuz it's not about whether or not your video is

good or bad it's about whether or not your video is better than the alternative options viewers have to choose from so for example if you look at this video it's like how to make a simple Minecraft Lightsaber look at the title and thumb of this video now if we just go to YouTube and type in how to make a Minecraft Lightsaber look at some of the other options that show up there's this video here there's this video here there's this video here and without even watching these just from looking at the titles and thumbnails these

videos are so much more enticing which explains why this video is been promoted to over 400 people and yet not very many of them resonated with it and so the video didn't get much love from the algorithm so I want to show you one of my favorite ways to create great videos in any Niche that get a ton of views even if you don't have the same amount of time and money to invest into your content as maybe some of your competitors in fact I've used this process to single-handedly blow up videos in niches with

other YouTubers that literally full-time have like 10 plus man teams and hundreds of thousands of dollar budgets and it takes you like one weekend to do you've just got to work smarter not harder and so that leads us to step two what we need to do is come to YouTube and start typing in what I call umbrella terms that are related to your Niche so let's say for example you run a how to make money online Channel umbrella terms for that Niche would be like make money and when you type that in a bunch of

videos are going to show up but more importantly we're going to look at the channels so I'm going to hold down control on my keyboard and just open up all these different videos and you would go through and do this to all of the videos that show up I'm just going to do it to these ones for now and then what I'm going to do to every single one of these channels is subscribe to all of these and then what I'm going to do is on these videos I'm going to go down to the recommended

videos here and there's going to be a bunch of other videos from other channels and I'm also going to open up these and do the exact same thing go to this one hit subscribe this one subscribe so I'm going to subscribe to all of these and basically what we're trying to do here is you're trying to build out a list of all of the players or competitors in your Niche so for me on this channel for example I have a list of over 300 channels posting how to grow on YouTube related content and this will

probably take you a couple of hours to do it will be super boring but I promise you it'll be worth it if you stick around you'll see why a few moments later and now that I have these channels at my Niche what I'm going to do is an analysis of all of them to figure out what's making them successful and there's very specific way I do this so what I'll do is I'll come to this website b.co and you can do what I'm about to show you completely for free it's just V saves a bunch

of time makes it easier so for the sake of this video I'll show you that and once you're logged in what you're going to do is come down to saved channels and then come over to create list and create a channel list and just title It Whatever the name of your Niche is so I might do like make money channels it's save and that's going to create a list that I can then click into and then what I'm going to do is come to add Channel I'm going to add all the different channels I found

inside of the make money niche so for example I found this one I'm just going to copy the link just paste this in here hit track Channel and what you'll see is it's going to populate all the videos from this channel inside of this channel list now let's do this to this channel for example so I'm going to copy this link add this channel track it and then we'll grab the videos from this Channel and Chuck them into the list as well the same thing with this channel Chuck this in here you can see now

videos from this channel is showing up in here as well and basically you're going to go through every single channel that you found in your Niche which I know is going to be a pain but you're only have do this once and just add them into your track channel list now I've already done this to save a bit of time earlier into this business/ make money online channels I think I've got about 150 different channels with all of their videos loaded inside here and now we'll do an analysis of these channels to figure out what

is getting them views because once we have that information we can use that to help get views for our own channel regardless of how small it is so what I like to do is come into filters here this button here I like to come down to multiplier and set this to 2.5 I like to come to duration here and bring that up to at least like 5 minutes or so and then what I like to do is come to custom and set a date range to filter out any videos that got a lot of views

that they were posted a really long time ago now as for the date range that you should set this really depends on how your Niche works so if you're in a niche that's evolving very quickly and there's constantly new trends and things that used to get views say like a year ago now get like no views then you want to set a small date range like maybe last 180 days or last 365 days because we only want to run our anal over videos that were posted recently so we can exclude all those videos that blew

up because of old Trends but if you're in a more Evergreen Niche so like the make money space sure there's been blips like AI became a thing and then there was crypto and nfts and whatever but in general people still just want to get rich and make money passively right so I'm going to go custom I'm going to go back about 3 years and then I'm going to click on this calendar and I'm going to go back to 2024 go back to like August and today and then hit apply and now is going to load

up all of the videos from the channels tracked in this list that meet the criteria we just set but we'll do one last thing we're going to go to sorts over here sort by views and then sort by most views to least views and this is going to order our videos in order of ones getting most views to the least views and now we can see the most successful videos from all these channels in one place but before I show you how to do our analysis I want to do one more thing and that is

sometimes channels will post videos on different topics that aren't relevant to our Niche so for example we can see abdal he does post videos on making money online here but he also posts videos on his skincare routine right we don't care about skincare videos so what I'm going to do is note down skin care as a negative keyword so I'm going to go into my filters and click on Advanced filters so I'm going to come down to exclude keywords and I'm just going to put like skin care right and hit apply and now we can

see that skincare video from Ali abdal got removed now I can see that there are a couple of other videos in here like this desexualizing your brain one or understanding English one so I'm just going to go through here really quickly and add some negative keywords that will get rid of these cool let me add them in apply and now I have a list of just videos that meet the make money online criteria that I want and here's where we do the analysis so what we're going to look for is topics so the ideas intrinsically

baked into to these videos that have all done really well and we're going to make a list of Highly Successful topics within this Niche so let me give you some examples what I can see here is nine passive income ideas how I make 27k per month from Ali abdal this video almost has 14 million views posted 3 years ago it is the most successful make money online video in the world in the last 3 years based on the list of creators I've found so what I might take from this is passive income is something people

are very interested in and what I want to try and do now is verify that by seeing other videos that have been successful talking about passive income so I could do that by coming to search here and just typing in passive and look at all these videos that are showing up we've got our original one here we've got this one how to make money selling books with passive income this one seven passive income ideas this one passive income this one passive income passive income and what's more importantly is we can see this outlier score here

on these videos which shows us how much of an outlier or breakout video this is and all of these videos that we're seeing that have passive income in them they all have positive or high outlier scores so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to come to like a Google doc or something and I'm just going to write down passive income now let's get rid of our passive income search get rid of this concept and let's see if we can find a couple more breakout topics and then we'll do some pretty cool stuff

to them in a sec and I'll show you how you can use them to get a bunch more love from the algorithm on your channel so if I scroll through this a bit more I might just bring this out like this so I can just see more videos in the same topic I can see another sort of trend that's pretty interesting so meet the billionaire that works a normal job asking millionaires how to make a million dollars how much money Mr Beast makes how I went from 500 to half a billion in 5 years asking

80-year-old millionaire if was worth it long story short another topic seems to be interviewing rich people and teasing out their knowledge so I'm going to mark that down as a topic and let's just get a couple more here see another thing that's kind of interesting if I zoom in here on the titles a bit I can see another thing notice this do this to make $10,000 as a student here's another one seven principles for teenagers to make money how teenagers can make money 19-year-old starts a tracking business so what I can do is I'll write

down that as a topic here now I'm going to go through and find a few more topics and if you're following along with this tutorial you should do the exact same thing try and find all of the key topics ICS specifically among the top videos across your entire Niche a lot of people look for topics that did kind of well that's not good enough we need to find topics across videos that are literally the most successful videos in the world in this particular Niche which is what we've done here with valo and if you're doing

this manually you just going to go through the list of all the competitive channels you found then just go to their videos Tab and go to most popular and look at the most popular videos that were posted in the time frames you decide then take all their top videos and log them in a spreadsheet with their stats then sort and manually apply the the filters I talked about earlier and look for patterns and again you want to do this across all of the channels that have posted successful videos in your Niche a lot of people

get lazy here and just do this to 10 or 20 channels no you want to do this to everyone cuz that's how you're going to find the actual goal so I've done a little bit more analysis here and I found a couple of topics that have multiple real case studies of working across our Niche and this information is really useful but even people who get to this stage tend to not get views if they don't do the next step I'm going to talk about see what you're going to want to do is if you're on

V come to the research tab if you're on YouTube just go to like YouTube search just going to get rid of my filters here and then I'm going to come up to filters again here I'm going to change my search Precision to balanced I'm going to go to views and I'm going to select 600,000 I'm going to go to video duration and set that around 5 minutes as well and then I'm going to go to advaned filters and then select the view sub ratio so what this is is this is a number that represents how

many views the video got in relation to that channel subscrib account so let's say we have a channel that has 10,000 subscribers but they post a video that gets 50,000 views 50,000 is 5 time 10,000 so what I like to do is I like to set my views to sub ratio to five then I'm going to hit apply and we're going to have a bunch of videos that pop up across YouTube that meet the criteria we just set and what we're going to do here is look for formats of videos that are doing really well

at the moment so for example like 10 years ago top 10 videos were a format that worked really well it was top 10 movies top 10 songs top 10 this top 10 that also a long time ago tips and tricks videos did really well often combined with top 10 so it'd be like top 10 tips and tricks to do XYZ 30 tips and tricks to do blah blah blah so tips and tricks were also a format now those two formats have been done to death right now so they don't work that well but what we're

going to do now is try and find some new formats that are working at the moment and then we're going to use those formats with the topics we found earlier to make some viral video ideas which we'll get into more later in the video so already there are a bunch of cool formats that have shown up in here here's one that jumps out to me what's the hardest part of life in Germany and the reason I say this is a format because there's a variable here that could be switched out that would allow us to

completely remake this video while keeping the same format so in this case the variable is life in Germany and I say that's a variable because I could take this title and just swap out life in Germany for something completely different and the video would still make sense so for example one of the topics I found when I was going through our videos earlier was investing so you could take a video like this and be like what's the hardest part of investing or what's the hardest part of making money as a student anyway this isn't really

the best example of a format i' look for but it's good enough that I do want to save it just in case for later so what I'll do is I'll hit this little box here and then I'll click here into manage folders and I'm going to select to create a folder and then I'm just going to call this like slake Money video formats and hit save changes and we can see our business/ make money formats folder pops up here I'm going to select that and I can add some tags to this video as well if

I want to organize it further the only thing I really care about in this video is the title and idea so I'm just going to get rid of my thumbnail tag and what I can do also up here is Click add note and I can write down my inspiration for this video so I could be like so what's the hardest part of investing SL passive income whatever right I'm going to hit save video and what's going to happen now is if I go to my saved videos folder and I come to my makem money SL

business formats folder that we just created you can see this video is save there for later but anyway we're going to go back to our research tab because I like to do an extra thing to help us get even better formats quicker and that is there are certain key terms that a lot of interesting formulas have in common or are related to and I'll put a bunch of them on screen right now for you to copy that you can enter into the search bar here and find some really cool stuff and save a bunch of

time and one of my favorite ones for education channs is the How I Learned terms and I'm just going to hit search on that and now we can see a bunch of interesting videos show up and these ones are actually a lot better than the ones we were just going through a couple that immediately jump out to me are this one so it's how I learned English by myself in a lazy way the variables are English and polygon cuz what I could do is I could take this title and I could be like how I

learned investing by myself in a lazy way without studying and then I could change this to advice from a multi-millionaire if I was going for the investing topic or I could do something like how I created a multi-million dollar business by myself in a lazy way without studying advice from a 17year old if we were trying to go for the how to make money as a student/teacher topic we identified so this one's really cool I'm going to save this now there are so many ideas here like I could literally be doing this for hours and

you probably should be doing this for hours to find the best cream of the crop but for me I'm just going to do a couple more so we can move on to the next part of the video this one here is very cool 5 years of coding everything I've learned take any variable we found ear 5 years of passive income everything I've learned 5 years of investing everything I've learned 5 years of online business everything I've learned save that again just taking the variables and swapping them for what's going to be relevant to the proven

topics we found here and here's one last cool idea here I'm at 94 billionaires here six things I learned but again if we look at our topics here this video actually hits on one of the topics we identified which is this one but we could add another angle to this with the student SL teenager topic we identified so we could do something like I met 94 teenaged millionaires here are the six things I learned great video idea should definitely be saved and you can see there are a ton of really interesting formats I could find

here that I can just keep scrolling through if you're in a niche where you find a little bit difficult though to find certain formats what you can do is when you do find a format that's applicable to you let's just say like this one I can click on these three dots and then go view similar videos and as you can see it's now going to show me a bunch of videos that are very similar to the types of formats I'm looking for and then you can do exactly what I just showed you and then just

save them to your folder and then once you do that the last step is just go to your save video folder folder this is the one that we were just working on here but you can see there aren't many videos in it so I'm just going to go to one I prepared earlier so go to that save video folder and just come down to sort and you're going to sort by you guess it the ones that have the most views and then also you're going to have a look at your list of topics and you're

going to start at the top of the topic that you found was most common across successful videos when you're researching your Niche and you're just going to mix and match your way because they're the most likely to do well and just create those videos for your channel and I know that might sound overly simple but let me show you an example to prove that this actually works so I was doing this exact same process I was just showing you a while ago and I identified that in my Niche Mr Beast was a trending topic even

if you go to my save Channel folder here for YouTube education and let's just s Mr Beast what you can see Mr Beast video 500,000 Subs 4 million views 11x outlier another Mr Beast video here Mr Beast video Mr be again Mr Beast was a massive trending dude but the thing was just making a Mr Beast video wasn't going to be good enough so I found a format from another Niche and it was actually this video here Tom Holland being a meme for 4 minutes straight really great format cuz look 10 million views from 123,000

subs and so I took those topics and formats swapped out the variables and fused them together and that is this video right here as you can see got over 5 million views and 16,000 subscribers it's generating me almost 2,000 views every 48 hours and in case you're wondering oh but Marcus your channel was big when you posted this video no that's not the reason this video worked if we come into to reach and then we go to browse features you can see here that 90% of these views are coming from the algorithm promoting me another

5% are coming from YouTube search another are coming from suggested videos I have to go all the way down here if we look at the amount of views that I got in the beginning from like people being sent notifications on my video is literally like 240 views so we went from 240 views to almost 5 million just by following the process I just showed you and this process works so well because most people are too lazy to do everything I just showed you it takes work it is freaking boring and it's not going to work

100% of the time you might make 1 2 three videos and they don't hit but eventually if you keep doing this consistently one of your videos will hit that will blow up and literally one video blowing up can change your entire life so as mentioned you can do everything I just showed you for free just literally by like subscribing to channels manually checking them out using YouTube search Etc but I found that to be a huge pain in the ass when you're researching hundreds of channels also using YouTube search to find formats kind of painful

because you don't have the filters and stuff and so that's why I made v v launched this month and to celebrate that you can use code launch to try V for an entire month for just $1 on top of that everyone who signs up to within 7 days of this video being posted I will give you my viral video swipe file which basically has a list of around 100 different formats that I've already pre- researched for you and it doesn't matter what Niche you're in you can just take some of these formats apply them to

the winning topics you've found in your Niche and start getting a hell of a lot more love from the algorithm so you can check out Val with a link down below but if for some reason you're not ready for that you don't trust me which is reasonable I'm just some random Australian man screaming you on the internet uh there's a video on screen you can watch where I'll show you another way to make viral videos even if if you have a very small Channel or starting from zero