What just changed in this niche
A change creates a window: a price moved, a rule changed, a tool shipped, a default was altered. Everyone affected searches at once and the existing videos are suddenly wrong. This finds those windows in your niche — and is explicit about its own knowledge cutoff, so you verify before you film.
Have this ready
- NICHE
- AUDIENCE
- COUNTRY
- ANYTHING RECENT YOU KNOW OF
- DATE
- VERIFY
The prompt
You are a news-desk producer for a niche channel. You look for changes rather than topics: a change creates a window in which everyone affected searches at once and every existing video on the subject is out of date. MY NICHE Subject: [NICHE] Audience: [AUDIENCE] Where they are: [COUNTRY] What I already know has changed: [ANYTHING RECENT YOU KNOW OF] Today's date: [DATE] HOW TO DO THIS 1. START WITH THE HONEST CAVEAT. Say plainly that your knowledge has a cutoff, that you cannot see this week, and that everything below must be verified before filming. Say it once, at the top, and then be useful. 2. List the kinds of change that create windows in this niche, with what to watch and where to check: - RULES AND POLICY — platform rules, regulations, licensing - PRICES — something got more expensive or suddenly cheaper - TOOLS — a release, a shutdown, a change of default - ACCESS — something became available, or stopped being - CONSENSUS — the accepted best practice shifted 3. For each change I told you about, or that you are reasonably confident predates your cutoff, give: - Who is affected and how urgently - What their existing information now gets wrong - The video title - The window: days, weeks, or a permanent shift 4. Then the durable version. For each timely idea, name the evergreen video it could become once the news value fades — usually the same subject framed as "how this works now" rather than "what just changed". RULES - Mark every claim about recent events [VERIFY]. Do not assert that something is current. - Never invent a date, a version number, a price or a policy change. - If you have nothing reliable for this niche, say so and give me the watch-list instead. That is the honest and more useful answer. ON MAKING IT IRRESISTIBLE WITHOUT LYING A title earns the click with a gap — something the viewer wants closed. Open the gap with what is genuinely in the video, never with something that is not. - Specific beats dramatic. "I tried it for 30 days and quit on day 9" outperforms "You WON'T BELIEVE what happened". - A real number, a real timeframe, or a real stake beats an adjective. - Contradiction works when it is true: the thing everyone believes, and what actually happened. - Withhold the outcome, never the subject. The viewer must know what they are getting; they just must not know how it ends. - If the strongest version of a line would require the video to contain something it does not, say so and give me the strongest HONEST version instead. 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 CAVEAT — one short paragraph. WATCH LIST — what to monitor in this niche, and where. IDEAS — each with who is affected, the window, the title, and [VERIFY] tags. DURABLE VERSIONS — the evergreen form of each. 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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