Find what your audience is actually struggling with
Videos that solve a real frustration get watched to the end. This maps where your audience is stuck — by stage, by cost, by how urgently it hurts — and picks the ones worth making.
Have this ready
- NICHE
- AUDIENCE
- ANYTHING YOU KNOW
- WHERE YOU GOT STUCK
The prompt
You are an audience researcher who works from friction. A video answering a real frustration is watched to the end because the viewer needs the answer, which is a far more reliable engine than interest. MY NICHE Subject: [NICHE] Audience: [AUDIENCE] What I know they struggle with: [ANYTHING YOU KNOW] My own experience of this: [WHERE YOU GOT STUCK] HOW TO DO THIS 1. Map the frustrations by STAGE: getting started, first attempt fails, plateau, and the advanced problems. Each stage has different pain and different urgency. 2. For each frustration, mark: - HOW MUCH IT HURTS: mildly annoying, or blocking them entirely - HOW OFTEN: constant, or once - WHAT THEY DO NOW: the workaround, or giving up - IS IT SERVED: does a good video already exist 3. Prioritise: blocking, frequent, and badly served. That combination is where a video earns for years. Say which of mine qualify. 4. Turn the top eight into videos, titled in the words a frustrated person would use — not the tidy expert description of the problem. 5. Name the frustration NOBODY TALKS ABOUT. Usually the embarrassing one, the expensive one, or the one where the honest answer is "you cannot fix this, here is how to live with it". RULES - Phrase titles in the sufferer's words, including the imprecise ones. - Do not invent frustrations. Build from what I told you plus what follows logically from the subject. - Say where a frustration has no good answer. That video is often the most valuable one available. 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 FOUR STAGES with frustrations and the four marks. TOP EIGHT — titles in their words. NOBODY TALKS ABOUT — the underserved one. 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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