- I'm gonna tell you ten different ways
to come up with ideas for videos
regardless of the type of content that you're making
so that you have an endless supply of ideas forever.
And we're starting right now.
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Alright I've been on YouTube for quite some time
and there's been a lot of videos made during that time
and I understand the struggle
when it comes to coming up with video ideas.
So I put together this list of different ways
that you can come up with video ideas,
so that you never run out.
Number one is YouTube and Google search auto complete.
And what that means is when you go to the search bar
on YouTube and you start typing something in,
all of the different suggestions that come down
that's YouTube trying to auto complete
based on the things that people are looking for.
It's important for you to know
that those are not in order of search volume,
however those are things that people are looking for.
So you start typing stuff into YouTube search,
you start typing stuff into Google search,
and what's gonna happen is you're gonna start
coming up with different lists of things
that people are actually looking for,
content that they want to see.
And then you can say to yourself,
hey this is something that I can make a video about,
so I'm gonna write this on my list of video ideas.
The second thing you can do to come up with video ideas
is you can use tubebuddy.
Inside of tubebuddy, I've got a link to them
down in the description below,
but inside of tubebuddy they have something
called a keyword planner.
Inside of said keyword planner,
you can put a word or a phrase that has something to do
with the type of content that you make
and then tubebuddy is going to spit out different ideas
based on things that people are searching for as well.
And as a bonus if you're using tubebuddy,
they're gonna show you your chances of ranking
for that particular thing
you happen to be making a video about
based on your channel.
I personally use this for every single video
that I put out.
With the exception of videos that I make
just because it's stuff
that I think people need to know about.
The third thing that can help you come up with video ideas
is to ask the people that are watching your videos.
Now hold on.
What you do not want to do,
is you do not want to make a video and say,
hey in this video I just want to, you know,
reach out and see
if you can help me come up with video ideas.
You don't wanna do that.
Because you're just wasting people's time
and nobody likes to have their time wasted.
So when you're putting up content,
you want it to be actual content.
But how you can do it is when you are publishing videos
to your channel, you can add a pen to comment
and in that pen to comment you can ask.
Hey, what type of videos would you like me to make,
or is there any specific video that you would like to see
on my channel?
And you'd be surprised at the feedback
that people will give you for the stuff
that they want to see, and this is coming directly
from your audience.
Which makes that a fantastic way
to come up with video ideas.
Next up is to look in your comment section
for things that people already wanna know about.
Questions that your viewers are already asking you
and any recommendations that they might have already made.
So here's a pro tip for you.
Inside of your YouTube admin,
you can actually search your comments
for specific words or phrases,
so what you can do is you can put in,
how to, or how does, how do, or why are.
The idea is to simply put in question words
with you know little additions added to them
to help you track down questions
that you're audience has for you.
Another really great way
to come up with a lot of video ideas
is all of the people that are making content like yours.
Go and watch their content
and then go down to the comments section
and look for questions
that their audience might be asking them.
This can be very affective,
especially if you have channels that are really big
and the type of content that you make,
because in reality,
you know they're getting so many comments
that a lot of the ideas are questions
that people are asking in their comments
they might go overlooked.
Next up is to look at websites
around the type of content that you make.
So for example if you have a specific industry
that you are serving, you can go and you can look
at the websites for that industry.
If you're a gamer, go and look at all of the websites
that are around the game or talking about the game
that you make.
If you cook cakes then you can go and look
at all the industry websites around cooking for example.
And what you can do is you can look at the titles
of the stuff that they're doing and you can say,
okay, well they're making this
so people will probably wanna know about that type of thing
so I'm gonna make something similar.
But of course you don't take their content
and make a video out of it, what you do is,
you just look at the concept of what it is
that they're talking about
and you make a video about that.
You do not wanna take what it is
that they're putting out,
you wanna come up with something original
that you were doing.
Most of you already know that, but you know,
I just gotta make this stuff clear for those of you
that may not.
Google trends is also a fantastic place
to come up with video ideas,
especially if you are making any type
of entertainment content or there's another one
where if you're serving a specific industry,
this is a great place to where you can see
what are people actually hunting for right now.
And the really cool thing about Google trends as well
is if you happen to hit one of those trends,
then it can really make a video take off big time
which can also be a big advantage,
so not only are you trying to come up
with an idea from there, but you also might be able
to make content that is also going to take off,
because it's trending.
Another way to come up with video ideas
is by looking at magazines.
Go to your local grocery store, or book store,
or wherever it is that magazines happen to be
where you live.
Just look at all the different magazines
and look at all the headlines.
Open them up, dig through them and see
what it is that they're talking about
if it's a magazine that is similar to the type
of content that you make in terms of the industry
or the niche, definitely use those for video ideas as well.
I know it's not everybody's thing,
and I know that some people are on there,
some people are not on there,
but reddit is another place that can be a goldmine
for video ideas.
In case you don't know, reddit is a website
that is basically user generated content
and it's people looking for solutions to problems,
it's fans of things looking to talk about things
that they're into.
And a whole bunch of other stuff
that can also lead you down a pretty deep rabbit hole.
So be careful, but reddit is also a fantastic place
where you can come up with video ideas.
Next up on the list is list videos about video ideas.
So basically I made handful of videos.
I'll put up a link to them right up here.
But a list of videos where I just said,
hey, video about this, video about this.
Here's 30 video ideas, here's 28 video ideas
and I just broke down a bunch of different video ideas.
You can go into that playlist right up here.
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