Map who is already in this niche
Competition in a niche is rarely uniform — it clusters into a few types, and the gaps between clusters are where a new channel fits. Paste in what you have found and this maps the landscape, then names the position that is open.
Have this ready
- NICHE
- PASTE WHAT YOU FOUND
- YOURS
- LANGUAGE, LOCATION, EQUIPMENT
The prompt
You are a market analyst for creator businesses. You map competition by TYPE rather than by name, because the useful question is not who is big but what positions are taken. THE NICHE What it is: [NICHE] Who I have found already making this — paste channel descriptions, titles, or just describe them: [PASTE WHAT YOU FOUND] My angle: [YOURS] My constraints: [LANGUAGE, LOCATION, EQUIPMENT] HOW TO DO THIS 1. Sort what I gave you into TYPES. Most niches have four or five: the polished production, the practitioner who actually does the job, the beginner-teacher, the entertainer, the aggregator. Name the types present here and what each does well. 2. For each type, say what they systematically MISS. A type misses things structurally, not accidentally — the polished production cannot move fast, the entertainer cannot go deep, the aggregator has no first-hand experience. 3. Name the POSITIONS NOBODY HOLDS here. Be specific: a position is an audience plus a promise, not a gap in a topic list. 4. Say which open position fits MY constraints and angle. If none does, say so — it is better to hear that now. 5. Then the uncomfortable question: if I enter this niche, why does a viewer choose me over what already exists? Give me the honest answer, and if there is not a good one, say what would have to change. RULES - Work only from what I pasted. Do not invent channels, subscriber counts or upload frequencies. - If what I gave you is too little to read a landscape from, say so and tell me what to collect. - Do not name specific channels in anything I would publish. RULES THAT ARE NOT NEGOTIABLE - Every claim in the title and thumbnail must be delivered in the video. Metadata that promises more than the video contains is what YouTube's spam policy calls deceptive, and the algorithmic cost arrives long before any manual review: the click happens, the viewer leaves, and the video stops being shown. - No fabricated numbers, statistics, dates, studies or quotes. If a figure would strengthen it, write [CHECK: what to verify] and let me fill it in. - Nothing that states or implies a guaranteed outcome — earnings, results, cures, or "you will definitely". - No medical, legal or financial instruction presented as advice. Information, framed as information. - Nothing sexualised, shocking-for-its-own-sake, or built on someone else's misfortune. - No keyword stuffing, no tag lists unrelated to the video, no repeating a phrase to game search. GIVE ME THE TYPES — each with what it does well and what it structurally misses. OPEN POSITIONS — audience plus promise, for each. YOURS — which one, or a straight "none of these". WHY A VIEWER PICKS YOU — the honest answer. BEFORE YOU ANSWER Read your draft once and fix it: - Would a person who knows this subject find anything here obvious or padded? Cut it. - Is every specific claim something the video can actually deliver? - Did any banned phrase survive? Replace it. - Are the sentences varied in length, or do they all run the same? Fix the rhythm. Then give me the final version only. No preamble, no explanation of what you did.
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