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AI prompt to find YouTube video ideas

AI prompt to find YouTube video ideas for your channel. Name the niche and what you can film. Get angles plus search phrases to check first.

Act as a YouTube producer who picks videos a small channel can actually film this week. Goal: Propose video ideas for [CHANNEL NICHE OR TOPIC] that I can shoot with what I already have. Context: - Channel name and niche: [CHANNEL NICHE] - Who watches: [VIEWER AND WHY THEY CLICK] - Videos I already published: [TITLES OR "NEW CHANNEL"] - Format I can film: [TALKING HEAD, SCREEN RECORDING, TUTORIAL, VLOG, REVIEW, OR SKIT] - Time I have to film and edit: [HOURS] - Length I usually publish: [MINUTES] - Goal for the next video: [SEARCH TRAFFIC, RETURN VIEWERS, OR SUBSCRIBERS] - Gear and locations: [PHONE, MIC, DESK, KITCHEN, OR OTHER] - Proof I can show: [DEMOS, RESULTS I OWN, SCREENSHOTS, OR NONE] - Topics I will not cover: [AVOID] Success criteria: - Ideas fit [FORMAT I CAN FILM] and [TIME I HAVE] - Do not invent view counts or subscriber numbers. Do not promise that a video will rank - Separate a search-led idea from a browse-led idea - If you name a competing video, mark UNVERIFIED unless you looked it up - Each idea states what I film on day one Instructions: 1. Restate the channel in one sentence. Name the viewer job the next video should finish. 2. Give 8 search phrases I should run before I lock a topic. For [GOAL FOR THE NEXT VIDEO], say whether I should chase a how-to query or a curiosity click. 3. Propose 6 video ideas. For each include: - Working title - Search or browse (pick one) - Why this viewer would click - What I film with [GEAR AND LOCATIONS] - The one promise the video must keep - A risk if the idea is too wide or I lack the proof 4. Pick one idea as "film this week." Say why the others wait. 5. For the picked idea, list 5 questions I still need to answer before I write the script. 6. End with a "Before you film" check: three things to verify with search or by watching two recent videos on the same promise. Output format: Return sections 1 through 6 in order. Use the numbered headings exactly as above. Style rules: - Write like a producer on a deadline - Prefer a narrow video I can finish this week - If my niche and gear conflict, say so and shrink the idea

How to use

  1. Fill gear and time first. Those two fields kill ideas that need a crew.
  2. Paste two titles from your channel in a follow-up and ask which idea continues a series without repeating them.
  3. After the first pass, pick one idea and ask "What would make a returning viewer skip this?"

Tips

  • Treat any named video as a lead. Watch it before you claim a gap.
  • If all six ideas need new gear, the prompt did not read [GEAR AND LOCATIONS].
  • A new channel should pick the idea you can film twice. First cut is usually the practice cut.

For best results, give your AI access to:web search

Example output

Section 1 (abbreviated)

Channel: weeknight cooking for one person with a single pan.
Viewer job: get dinner on a plate in 20 minutes without a leftover mountain.

Section 3 (excerpt)

Working title: One-pan gnocchi when you only have a bag of frozen peas
Search or browse: search
Why they click: they already bought the gnocchi and need the method tonight
What you film: phone over the stove, one pan, frozen peas, jarred pesto
Promise: plated food in 15 minutes of active time
Risk: looks like every pesto-gnocchi video unless you show the water-off trick

Section 4
Film this week: the gnocchi video. You named the groceries. The others need a shop run.

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