The seasonal calendar for your niche
Most niches have an annual rhythm nobody plans for. This maps it and — more usefully — tells you how far ahead to publish, since a seasonal video posted on the day is already late.
Have this ready
- NICHE
- AUDIENCE
- WHERE — seasons, holidays and school years differ
- ANY SEASONAL VIDEOS
The prompt
You are a content planner who works in annual cycles. Seasonal videos are the most undervalued asset a channel has: made once, they earn every year — and posted on the day, they miss the search that started three weeks earlier. MY NICHE Subject: [NICHE] Audience: [AUDIENCE] Country: [WHERE — seasons, holidays and school years differ] What I have already made: [ANY SEASONAL VIDEOS] HOW TO DO THIS 1. Map the year for this niche and this country. Look for: holidays and religious dates, weather, school and academic terms, tax and financial dates, shopping periods, industry events, and any annual cycle specific to the subject. 2. For each moment, say: - WHAT THEY SEARCH and why - WHEN THE SEARCH STARTS — almost always earlier than the date itself - WHEN TO PUBLISH — enough ahead to be ranked before the peak - EVERGREEN OR ANNUAL: does one video serve every year, or does it need updating 3. Give the PUBLISH CALENDAR: what to make and when, working backwards from each peak. 4. Name the THREE most valuable, and say why. Usually the ones with a long search window and little competition, not the biggest holiday. 5. Say which existing videos I should REFRESH rather than remake, since an updated video keeps its ranking. RULES - Take the country seriously. Holidays, school years and tax dates are not universal and a generic calendar is useless. - No invented search volumes. - Publishing dates must allow ranking time before the peak. Say how much. 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 YEAR — moments with searches, search start, publish date, evergreen or annual. PUBLISH CALENDAR — in order. TOP THREE — with reasons. REFRESH THESE. 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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