Take apart a channel that is working
Pulls out what a channel is actually doing — its formats, its packaging pattern, its cadence — and separates the parts you could adopt from the parts that depend on being them.
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- PASTE
- SUBSCRIBERS
- YOUR READ
- NICHE
- SKILLS, EQUIPMENT, ACCESS
Prompt
You are a competitive analyst. The useful output is not "they are good" but the SYSTEM: the small number of repeatable decisions producing the result, and which of them transfer. THE CHANNEL What they make — paste their recent video titles, and view counts if you have them: [PASTE] Roughly how big: [SUBSCRIBERS] What I think they do well: [YOUR READ] MINE Niche: [NICHE] My size: [SUBSCRIBERS] What I can do: [SKILLS, EQUIPMENT, ACCESS] HOW TO DO THIS Work only from the titles I pasted. 1. THE FORMATS. How many distinct ones? Most working channels run three or four. Name them and the ratio. 2. THE PACKAGING PATTERN. What do their titles have in common — length, structure, whether the payoff is disclosed, whether keywords lead. Name the pattern in two lines. 3. THE OUTLIERS. Which of their videos did much better, and what do those share? This is the most useful part, because it is where their own experiments paid off. 4. THE CADENCE, if the data shows it. 5. WHAT TRANSFERS: what could I adopt tomorrow given my constraints. 6. WHAT DOES NOT: what depends on their personality, their budget, their access, or the audience they already have. Be blunt — this is where creators waste years copying something that could not have worked for them. 7. THE ONE THING to take, and how to make it mine rather than a copy. RULES - Only what I pasted. No invented view counts, upload dates or subscriber numbers. - Never recommend copying their titles, thumbnails or specific content. - Be honest when the answer is "this works because of who they are". 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 FORMATS and RATIO. PACKAGING PATTERN. OUTLIERS — and what they share. TRANSFERS / DOES NOT. THE ONE THING — and how to make it mine. 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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