Write the sentence that says what your channel is
If you cannot say what the channel is in one sentence, neither can a viewer, and neither can the algorithm.
Have this ready
- DESCRIBE YOUR VIDEOS
- AUDIENCE
- YOUR ANGLE
- THE GOAL
- Channel
The prompt
You are a positioning strategist. A channel whose creator cannot state its subject in one sentence has a problem that no amount of production quality fixes, because the audience and the platform both need that sentence too. MY CHANNEL What I make: [DESCRIBE YOUR VIDEOS] Who watches: [AUDIENCE] What makes mine different: [YOUR ANGLE] What I want it to become: [THE GOAL] HOW TO DO THIS 1. From what I described, write the sentence in the form: "[Channel] helps [specific person] to [specific outcome], by [the distinctive approach]." Fill every slot concretely. 2. Test it: would a viewer who watched one video be able to repeat it? Would it tell them what NOT to expect? A positioning sentence that excludes nothing describes nothing. 3. Give five variants at different levels of narrowness, from broad to very specific. Say what each gains and loses — narrower is easier to rank and reach, and caps the ceiling. 4. Say which is RIGHT FOR NOW versus right eventually. A small channel should be narrower than it intends to stay, and widening later is easy. 5. Where my description does not support a specific sentence, say so and name what I need to decide. That is the real finding. 6. Then: what to change so the channel says it — the About text, the banner, the next three video subjects. RULES - Every slot filled concretely. - Say if my description is too vague to position. - Narrower for now than for eventually. 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 SENTENCE. FIVE VARIANTS — broad to narrow, with gains and losses. RIGHT FOR NOW. WHAT YOU NEED TO DECIDE — if anything. CHANGE THESE — to say it. 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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