- In this video, I'm gonna show you five ways
that you can come up with good video ideas for YouTube
using your smartphone, and look,
let's just get right to the point here.
Comin' up with video ideas for YouTube can be difficult,
especially if you're just starting out,
or maybe you've been doing this for awhile
and you've just hit a creative wall,
and you can't think of any more video ideas.
Well, I've got you covered, so grab your phone,
(bell dings) and let me show you
how to use your smartphone to come up with video ideas.
The first way to come up with great video ideas
is to use the YouTube and Google search feature.
This is where it auto-completes your search.
Anytime you've gone to search for anything
on YouTube or Google,
as soon as you start to type something in,
you're gonna notice a dropdown.
This is their auto-complete feature
showing you what other people are searching for.
Now when the auto-complete feature
actually starts to show you these other phrases,
these phrases are exactly how people are searching,
so this is how you wanna create your title,
and another thing you can do to get even more search results
is to start to type in a couple of keywords,
and then simply type in the letter A,
and it's gonna change the results
that was just showed to you by the auto-complete feature,
and then back that up, delete that,
and then type in the letter B,
and then type in the letter C, and then delete each one,
and keep going through the alphabet,
and every time you add a new letter,
you're gonna be presented with even more search results,
and more search phrases, and by the way,
keep in mind here that you wanna think
in terms of search phrases
because this is how people actually search.
When they go to Google, they search in search phrases.
When they go to YouTube, they search by phrases,
so as you're building your titles, think in phrases
and not individual keywords.
The next way that you can come up with video ideas
is to go find the most popular video in your niche,
or popular videos, popular channels,
and go read their comments.
Go read all the comments under those popular videos.
You're gonna be able to read in those comments
what people in your niche are looking for.
The next way to get video ideas is my personal way,
and that's to use TubeBuddy.
Now, if you do everything on your phone,
you shoot, you edit, you make your thumbnails,
you do your research on your phone,
this particular way is not for you, but hang on,
I do have other ways that are,
but if you do have access to a desktop computer or a laptop,
you wanna make sure that you install TubeBuddy
and learn how to use the Keyword Explorer Tool.
The Keyword Explorer Tool
will allow you to enter a word or a phrase,
and it will rate you based on the data from your channel,
and the data from YouTube, and it will tell you
this is a good phrase to go after,
or a bad phrase or title to go after.
The Keyword Explorer will also give you some other titles
that you might wanna take a look at,
as well as tell you the search volume
for the phrase or keywords that you're looking for.
That's how you find out if it's actually
a good fit for your channel or not,
because if nobody's looking for what you're making,
you're probably not going to get a lot of views.
If you don't have TubeBuddy yet,
there's a link in the description down below.
Click on that, you can install it on your favorite browser,
and now, they do have an app,
but it doesn't have this particular feature,
at least not yet, but a little bird told me
that it might be coming.
The next way you can find video topics
is to actually ask your audience.
Now, don't make a video specifically about this,
but somewhere in your video,
ask them to go down and leave a comment,
ask them for their opinion.
Say, "Hey, do you like my videos?
"What would you like to see next?
"Go down, leave a comment, and let me know."
And then go down in your comments
and see what people have to say.
You can also leave a pinned comment under your own video,
and by the way, I have a video about this.
I'm gonna put a link to that right there,
leave a pinned comment and ask a question.
Ask them, "How can I help you?
"Where are you stuck?
"What hurdles are you trying to overcome?"
Ask them, and they will tell you,
and if you have the YouTube Community Feed,
you can create a poll on your Community Feed
to ask your community what they think
about a certain topic, and by the way,
if you're on Twitter, you can do the same thing on Twitter.
The next way to come up with video ideas
is to simply open up the YouTube app
or open up the browser, and look at the Trending tab.
These are videos that are trending right now.
Now, if you can find a video that's trending in your niche,
that's perfect, or maybe one of these videos
will inspire you to come up with another idea,
but be warned.
I don't recommend that you just build a channel
chasing trends, because what could happen
is you could fragment your audience.
If you go after one trend, and your video gets popular,
you're gonna get an audience on that trend,
and if you chase another trend that's not related,
then you're gonna get additional audience,
and so on and so forth.
What you wanna build is a focus channel
with a focus community,
instead of havin' a bunch of fragmented communities
built around your channel,
so be careful if you're chasing trends,
but this is a great way to get video ideas,
you just have to be selective about the video ideas
that you choose from the Trending tab.
And if you're on Twitter, they have a Trending tab as well.
Now of course, those are not the only ways
that you can come up with great video ideas,
but those are five ways to get you started,
and if you wanna see some other ways to do this,
go down, and leave a comment, and let me know,
say, "Yes, give me more."
Spell it however you want, I don't care.
I'm not the grammar police.
I read every single question and comment,
and I reply to as many of them as I can.
When this video's over, I am gonna go down there
and see if you wanna see more videos like this,
and I'm also gonna see how you spell more.
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Thank you so much for watching, I do appreciate it,
and I'll see you in the next video.
Is it niche or is it niche?
There's riches in niches.
I'm goin' with niche.