A coach walks a complete beginner from zero to a monetized Shorts channel, with the day-by-day analytics left in.
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Big Idea
The argument in one line.
A beginner can reach YouTube monetization in under three weeks by re-editing proven viral videos through a fixed three-criteria ideation filter and reading hourly analytics instead of view counts.
Who This Is For
Read if. Skip if.
READ IF YOU ARE…
You have never uploaded a YouTube video and want a process where the idea, the footage, and the structure are already decided for you.
You run a small Shorts channel and cannot tell whether a slow first day means a dead video or one that has not been pushed yet.
You clip or re-upload other people's content and want to know what actually passes the reuse policy at monetization review.
You are coaching or teaching a beginner creator and want a template for staging their first wins without burning them out.
SKIP IF…
You want to build a channel around your own face, voice, and original footage from day one. The method here deliberately avoids all of that.
You already know YouTube Studio well. Roughly a third of the runtime is reading candles and the engagement tab out loud.
You are uncomfortable with a channel whose entire supply is one other creator's back catalog. The video itself names this as the fatal flaw.
TL;DR
The full version, fast.
The thesis is that beginners fail on process, not talent, so the coach removes every decision a beginner would get wrong. The niche is picked by three criteria: beginner-friendly, time-efficient, low competition. That leads to value-add re-edits of one science channel's viral videos. Every video then passes a three-part ideation filter: universal relatability, completion compulsion via a looped arc with a conflict and a comeback, and an open-loop hook that asks a question instead of answering it. The first upload does 3,000 views in 24 hours with 82 percent average view, which the coach reads as near-perfect, and it later passes 10 million. The channel is monetized on day 19. The closing lesson is that this niche is a training ground, since the whole supply belongs to another creator.
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The beginner is introduced, the promise is a channel from scratch that goes viral in seven days, and the viewer is told to follow the same steps.
00:20 – 02:58
02 · Selecting the niche
An earlier couples channel did 150,000 views on one upload but needed the coach's gear and idea. Those failures become the criteria: beginner-friendly, time-efficient, low competition. The answer is value-add re-edits of existing viral videos, and 16 minutes of research lands on a science channel with huge average views and nobody re-uploading it.
02:58 – 04:35
03 · Channel creation in eight minutes
The beginner's personal account is customized live. ChatGPT generates handle ideas, the taken handle gets one extra letter, and profile picture and banner are made in Photoshop. Total time eight minutes, because art does not move views.
04:35 – 08:30
04 · Video ideation: the three criteria
The beginner picks the 21 million view video and is told no. Criterion one is universal relatability, so a Red Bull video wins over beakers and bismuth. Criterion two is completion compulsion via a looped arc that adds a conflict and a comeback. Criterion three is an open-loop hook that asks a question instead of stating the result. Ideation takes 45 minutes.
08:30 – 10:05
05 · Editing the first video in CapCut
The source video is cut to the timestamps, the voiceover is generated line by line in ElevenLabs, dead space is trimmed, then graphics, sound effects, captions, and music are added. The coach demonstrates each action and the beginner repeats it. 51 minutes, and the timeline is read as the structure phases left to right.
10:05 – 11:55
06 · Upload settings and setting expectations
The title describes what happened plus two shock emojis and a credit to the original creator. The description is a longer version of the same, tags are casual, content is marked not for kids, and every other setting is ignored. The coach warns that the first one to three uploads often look bad.
11:55 – 13:50
07 · Day two: 3,000 views and the number that mattered
The beginner guesses 100,000 and finds 3,000. The chart shows three small pushes, at 300, 1,000, and about 3,000, then flat. The coach calls the video almost perfect on the strength of 82 percent average percentage viewed and says to wait 24 hours and start video two.
13:50 – 16:00
08 · The pep talk and video two
Ideation for the second video, a 20-beers-in-one-drink re-edit, is a grind because the beginner is deflated. The coach shows his own graveyard of clipping channels and says it took more than 50 attempts before his first viral video. She stops for the night anyway. Next morning video two is finished in 65 minutes with analytics off limits.
16:00 – 19:30
09 · Day three: 380,000 views and the Studio walkthrough
The first video has jumped to 380,000 views and 186 comments. The coach reads the hourly candles, renames 'how viewers engaged' the swipe-through rate and sets 80 percent as the viral floor, notes 52 seconds of average view on a 61-second Short, and explains the audience tab predicts RPM. The rule for the next upload: wait until candles stay under 5,000 views per hour for 24 hours.
19:30 – 20:58
10 · Day four: 1.2 million and one 100,000-view hour
The beginner now checks her phone every ten minutes. The video passes 1.2 million, subscribers approach 1,000, one candle shows 100,000 views in a single hour, and the swipe-through rate has risen a full point while YouTube keeps pushing.
20:58 – 22:26
11 · Day six: 5 million, slowing, second upload goes live
The first video is at 5 million but hourly views have fallen from 120,000 to 40,000. Not as low as the coach wants, but the seven-day clock forces the second upload. Views arrive from the Shorts feed within 12 minutes and the coach predicts 20,000 in the first day.
22:26 – 23:10
12 · Coaching pitch
The coach offers the same live help through his coaching site, positioned around mapping a channel strategy to your skills and interests and pointing to member testimonials.
23:10 – 25:05
13 · Day seven: the second video stalls, the monetization checklist
Video two sits at 16,000 views with a 72 percent swipe-through rate climbing toward 75. Video one is at 7 million. The earn tab shows the Shorts bar, 3 million views and three uploads in 90 days, and the coach explains the view count lags because YouTube validates views over several days. Value-add editing is what should pass the content review.
25:05 – 27:45
14 · Third video solo, then the AI swap
The beginner cuts video three with no help and the coach has no notes. To reduce monetization risk they replace clips with AI video: copy a script sentence, have ChatGPT write a video prompt, generate in Higgsfield, drop it in. Ten minutes replaces about 28 seconds, nearly half the video. The third upload goes live and validated views sit at 2.5 million.
27:45 – 29:05
15 · Day ten: verified, AdSense filed, waiting
YouTube confirms the 3 million views and three uploads. The terms are accepted and an AdSense account is created off camera. AdSense review can take up to three weeks and channel review up to a month. The channel is about to cross 10 million views and an estimated revenue tab has appeared.
29:05 – 30:54
16 · Day nineteen: Partner Program and the pivot question
AdSense clears on day 18 and the channel is accepted on day 19. It sits at almost 7,000 subscribers and 11 million views across three uploads. The coach names the flaw: one creator is the entire supply. Monetized from day one, the channel would have earned about 4,000 dollars. He leaves the continue-or-pivot decision with her.
30:54 – 32:22
17 · Final update and what the approach was for
Weeks later the first upload is past 10 million, two uploads flatlined near 100,000, and a fourth broke that mark because she wanted to prove she could. She chooses to build an original channel. The coach says that was the point: learn the fundamentals on a simple process, keep a cash-flow channel if you want, and make sure the edit adds commentary and storyline so it passes the reuse policy.
Atomic Insights
Lines worth screenshotting.
A first upload with 3,000 views and 82 percent average view duration is a near-perfect video waiting for a push, not a failure.
Pick the video with the most relatable subject, not the most views; a 10 million view Red Bull video beats a 21 million view beaker video for a cold audience.
Most beginner videos run hook, rising action, payoff, which is predictable; adding a conflict and a comeback in the middle is what keeps people to the end.
A hook that accurately describes the video answers the question for the viewer and removes the reason to watch.
Shorts need at least 80 percent of viewers staying past the first three seconds before they can go viral.
Do not upload the next Short until the current one drops below 5,000 views per hour for more than 24 hours; uploading early flatlines the running video.
The coach guessed through more than 50 channels before the first viral hit; the criteria exist so a beginner skips that stage.
Channel art took eight minutes on purpose because it has no effect on how many views you get.
YouTube takes several days to validate views toward the 3 million Shorts threshold, so the eligibility tab lags the real number.
Value-add editing means adding commentary and a storyline in the edit, and that is what passes the reused content review, not the voiceover alone.
A channel built on one creator's catalog dies the day that creator stops uploading.
Had the channel been monetized from day one, the first three uploads would have earned about 4,000 dollars.
Editing is the easy part when the ideation is done; the timeline is just the structure phases filled in left to right.
Two of four uploads flatlined at about 100,000 views, which on a re-edit channel is the floor, not the ceiling.
The right move for many beginners is running a cash-flow re-edit channel while building the original channel they actually care about.
Takeaway
Remove every decision a beginner gets wrong.
BEGINNER TO PARTNER
The channel grew because the footage, the structure, and the hook rule were fixed in advance, and because the coach read retention and hourly pushes instead of the view count.
02Selecting the niche
Turn your last failure into selection criteria; a channel that needed borrowed gear, a borrowed idea, and fought a daily uploader yields beginner-friendly, time-efficient, low competition.
Validate a re-edit niche by searching the source video's exact titles; if only the original comes up, nobody is competing for that footage yet.
03Channel creation in eight minutes
Spend minutes, not days, on channel art; the coach caps it at eight minutes because handle, avatar, and banner do not change how many views a Short gets.
04Video ideation: the three criteria
Choose source videos by relatability, not by their view count; a 10 million view Red Bull video beats a 21 million view beaker video for a broad audience.
Add a conflict and a comeback between the rising action and the payoff so the ending stops being predictable; look for a mistake and a retry in the source footage.
Rewrite any hook that states the result as a question the viewer can only answer by watching.
05Editing the first video in CapCut
Treat the timeline as the structure phases laid left to right and match visuals to the voiceover; editing gets easy once ideation is done.
Generate the voiceover line by line and trim dead space before touching graphics, sound effects, captions, or music.
06Upload settings and setting expectations
Title with a plain description of what happened, two shock emojis, and a credit to the original creator; skip every advanced upload setting.
Expect the first one to three uploads to look bad and decide in advance that you will keep uploading anyway.
07Day two: 3,000 views and the number that mattered
Read average percentage viewed before the view count; 82 percent on a first Short means the video works and the push has not arrived.
Give a slow Short 24 more hours before judging it, and use that day to start the next video instead of refreshing analytics.
08The pep talk and video two
The coach guessed through more than 50 clipping channels before his first viral hit; a beginner's second-day discouragement is the normal cost of skipping that stage.
Keep a discouraged beginner away from analytics during the next build; the second video went from a grind to 65 minutes once checking was off the table.
09Day three: 380,000 views and the Studio walkthrough
Read the hourly candles, not the total, to see when YouTube is pushing a Short and when the push has ended.
Shorts need at least 80 percent of viewers staying past three seconds; on a 61-second Short, 52 seconds of average view is strong.
Do not upload the next Short until hourly views stay under 5,000 for more than 24 hours, because an early upload has flatlined the running video before.
10Day four: 1.2 million and one 100,000-view hour
A rising swipe-through rate while views climb is the signal YouTube keeps pushing; a single 100,000-view hour arrived less than 48 hours after the 3,000-view day.
11Day six: 5 million, slowing, second upload goes live
A hard deadline can force a second upload before the first one has cooled; the coach uploaded at 40,000 views per hour knowing it was earlier than ideal.
Predict the next Short from the last one's first day, not its peak; the realistic first-day estimate here was 20,000, and the actual was 16,000.
13Day seven: the second video stalls, the monetization checklist
The Shorts monetization bar is 3 million views and three uploads in 90 days, and the eligibility tab lags because YouTube validates views over several days.
A second video that starts at a 66 percent swipe-through rate and climbs to 75 is improving, not failing; watch the direction before the level.
14Third video solo, then the AI swap
The goal of coaching a beginner is independence; the third video was cut without help and needed no notes.
Replacing about half of a re-edit's clips with AI-generated scenes is a monetization hedge, done by turning one script sentence into a prompt via ChatGPT.
15Day ten: verified, AdSense filed, waiting
AdSense review and channel review each carry multi-week estimates, but here AdSense cleared on day 18 and the Partner Program on day 19.
16Day nineteen: Partner Program and the pivot question
A channel whose entire supply is one other creator's catalog dies the day that creator stops; treat it as a training ground, not a business.
Monetized from day one, three uploads on this channel would have earned about 4,000 dollars, so the delay to day 19 has a real price.
17Final update and what the approach was for
On a re-edit channel, one upload can pass 10 million while the others flatline near 100,000; plan for the floor, not the outlier.
The simple process exists to teach fundamentals without the complexity that kills most beginners before their first win.
Run a cash-flow re-edit channel and build the original channel you care about at the same time, and make sure every re-edit adds commentary and storyline to pass the reuse policy.
Glossary
Terms worth knowing.
Value-add editing
Re-editing someone else's footage with your own commentary, voiceover, structure, and graphics so the result counts as transformed content under YouTube's reused content policy rather than a re-upload.
Looped arc
A five-part video structure of hook, rising action, conflict, comeback, and payoff. The conflict and comeback are the additions that make the ending less predictable than a plain hook-to-payoff build.
Open loop
A hook that plants a question in the viewer's mind without answering it, so the only way to close the loop is to finish the video.
Swipe-through rate
The coach's name for YouTube's 'how viewers engaged' metric on Shorts: the percentage of people who stayed past the first three seconds instead of swiping away.
Average percentage viewed
The share of a video's total length the average viewer watched. Above 80 percent on a Short is considered very strong.
Hourly candles
The bar-per-hour view of a video's views inside YouTube Studio analytics, used here to see when YouTube is actively pushing a Short and when it is slowing down.
RPM
Revenue per thousand views. It depends heavily on where the audience lives, which is why the audience demographics tab predicts earnings.
YouTube Partner Program
YouTube's monetization program. For Shorts the entry bar shown here is 3 million public Shorts views in 90 days plus at least three uploads, followed by AdSense approval and a manual channel review.
“A good hook doesn't answer what happens in the video. It usually plants a question.”
one-line rule, no setup needed→ TikTok hook↗ Tweet quote
13:10
“While you were complaining about 3,000 views, I was looking at this metric here of average percentage view. It is around 82 percent, which is very high for our first upload.”
the emotional turn of the whole video in one exchange→ IG reel cold open↗ Tweet quote
14:40
“How many times of just kind of guessing do you think it took me before I got my first viral video? Over 50.”
credibility and reassurance in one beat→ newsletter pull-quote↗ Tweet quote
18:40
“Once these drop below 5,000 views per hour for longer than 24 hours, that's when we should consider uploading.”
a specific number people can act on→ TikTok hook↗ Tweet quote
20:36
“Not even 48 hours ago this video only had 3,000 views and we were down bad. It goes to show you how much of a roller coaster YouTube can be.”
before-and-after in one sentence→ IG reel cold open↗ Tweet quote
30:05
“We're completely tied to Niall's channel. He is your entire supply. So if he decides to stop uploading overnight, your channel dies.”
the honest counter to the title→ newsletter pull-quote↗ Tweet quote
31:40
“The smart move is to continue running a channel like this that generates cash flow while you build an original channel that you actually care about.”
the closing thesis, standalone→ newsletter pull-quote↗ Tweet quote
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This is a beginner that has never made a YouTube video before, and I am going to change that. So in this video, I'm going to help us start a YouTube channel from scratch and make it go viral in just seven days. And the idea here is that you can follow the same process and get similar results.
But for this to happen, we need to start today. Selecting the niche. Earlier this year, we did create this channel here named Ayla and Jack.
Our first upload got over 150 ,000 views, which was a great first attempt. I got this channel idea from this one here named Jasmine and James. And on the surface, this channel looks quite simple.
But in fact, it makes over $250 ,000 per month. It's insane to me that a YouTube channel can make that much money. So it was pretty easy for Jack to convince me to get on board for this channel.
But today I want a channel. We will get into that, but looking back at our attempt of just one upload, there were some challenges.
And to that point, the channel was not beginner friendly. If you did not have me, you wouldn't have access to the filming equipment or even the idea to begin with. And as a third challenge, we did have high competition as we were technically competing with Jasmine and James, which is someone you do not want to compete with because they upload every 30 minutes.
Now, while all of these were challenges that did hold us back going forward, these will become our selection criteria for deciding what niche we are going to enter today. And what I think we can do is download existing viral videos on YouTube, then transform them by doing something called value add editing, which allows us to monetize the videos under YouTube's terms of service.
This approach here does satisfy our criteria of beginner friendly content. as we are using existing viral videos. And of course, it's extremely time efficient because we are not recording videos ourselves.
But we are left with one challenge. We need to decide what content we are going to download. So Isla, what content are you interested in creating?
i really don't mind what content we make i'm more just here for the results okay let's get stuck into some broad research then so there we went into a phase of niche research and we were looking for two different things number one being channels with high average view counts per video and two no one re -uploading their content and after 16 minutes of researching we found our channel so do you want to explain yourself what we found.
So we found this channel called Nile Blue and as Jack's helped me understand there's extremely high viewership per video. So we've taken the titles of these videos, put them into the search bar and as you can see it's just the original video meaning we've satisfied the last criteria of low competition. So this means our niche is locked in.
We download Nile Blue's videos, apply value ad editing and make Isla go viral on her own channel. Now this does look easy on paper but we need to remember that Isla is a complete beginner.
So we need to take this one step at a time. Channel creation. This is Isla's personal YouTube channel that she uses to watch videos on.
And today we will be uploading videos from it. But as you can see, it does need some changes. So Isla, press customize channel, scroll down slightly, and let's start with the channel handle.
Any ideas? No. Okay, let's open a new tab and go to ChatGPT and type out a channel description of the idea that we came up with.
Okay, now ask it to give you some channel name ideas. The results are in. Are there any that stick out to you?
I don't mind this one, tested improved. Okay, so let's copy that. Now let's go back over to YouTube and paste it as the channel handle.
Okay, so it is not available. That's usually the case with YouTube. Let's highlight and...
and just put an n cool so that is available now for the channel name let's just highlight that and paste in what we had which is tested improved we now need to do our channel assets. We began by opening Photoshop.
And for our profile picture, we decided to have our channel handle stacked vertically. And Isla decided to put a green tick at the bottom. And for the channel banner, it was the same design.
Once the channel assets were exported, they were uploaded to the channel. And after eight minutes, the channel was ready. So that is the channel now set up, ready to go.
Let me give you a quick look on how it looks like. We didn't spend too much time on this because it doesn't... actually affect how many views you get.
And the next step that we're moving on to is the most important yet. Video ideation. To create any successful video on YouTube, you always go through a phase called ideation.
And the beauty of our approach so far is that we are using existing viral videos. So most of the work is already done for us. Out of the videos on the channel though, which one do you think we should use for our first upload?
And as you're watching this back, try to decide for yourself too.
Is this a trick question? No. surely it's just the one with 21 million views right i would not say that would be the best choice for our first upload and to make things a bit more clearer with this ideation phase let's follow a three criteria approach starting off with criteria one which is universal relatability as you'd probably guess this means that the video concept requires no specific knowledge to understand it and right now if we were to pick your video and score it against this criteria it would score quite low because while your pick is the highest performer on this science -based channel if we did push it to a broader audience most people wouldn't know what a beaker is or care about it.
Same with the second video here. I have no idea what a bismuth knife is, do you? So we cannot expect other people to either.
So what we're going to do is take this Red Bull video as our video one, which currently has 10 million views, which does fulfill our first criteria because food is about as relatable it gets. And Red Bull is the most marketed drink of all time. Now, moving on to criteria two, it is called completion compulsion.
Most beginners, when they create a video, it usually looks like this, where there is a hook, a rising action, and then some type of payoff. off. But the issue with this approach is that it's very predictable.
To avoid this from happening, I like to use an approach called a looped arc, which adds both a conflict and a comeback to the original structure, which in turn makes the video less predictable and keeps people watching until the end. Now, I do know that was a lot of information to throw at you. Let's actually put this structure into action.
We began by watching back the Red Bull video and noted down any timestamps that could be applied to our structure. For example, halfway through the video, Niall miscalculated the weight of the Red Bull he was concentrating, which became our conflict. And him retrying to get the correct weight became our comeback.
Finally, he did end up trying the Red Bull and had a funny reaction, which was obviously going to be our payoff. After the watch through was completed, we moved into script writing. The looped arc and the timestamps acted as our structure.
We then just filled in the blanks by describing what happened in the video. And it was all straightforward. until we hit the hook this needs some work And it is actually our last criteria which is going to be called open loop.
Currently your hook would score quite low on this criteria and read it out for me.
It's currently accurate and clear but it answers the question for them. There's no reason for them to actually watch the video. A good hook doesn't answer what happens in the video.
It usually plants a question. So let's try this. what would happen if you compressed 100 cans of Red Bull into one drink.
Notice the difference? Yeah, you're basically asking a question instead of a statement. Exactly.
And that would mean that the third criteria is now fulfilled because you're putting them into an open loop. And the only way to close that loop is for them to actually finish watching the video. And this meant that the video ideation phase was completed, which took us 45 minutes to complete.
It is now time to bring our structure. And I'll script her life by creating our first video. Ever used the editing software before?
Nope. This is going to be a bit of a challenge then. Yep.
Okay. We began by opening CapCut, which is my editor of choice for beginners. And we downloaded the Red Bull video and dragged it into our timeline.
And I had Isla cut up the clips according to our timestamps. It was then onto the voiceover. We headed over to Eleven Labs and generated the voiceover line by line.
We then dragged the voiceover into CapCut and trimmed out any dead space. Now it was not as straightforward as it looks. Most of the process was me demonstrating an action and then getting Isla to attempt the same action.
And she was slow to pick things up, but that is the process to learn as a beginner. Regardless of this, to finish off the video, we added graphics to draw attention to key moments, then sound effects, captions, and music. And finally, we did watch it back two times to make some final adjustments.
And after 51 minutes, the video was completed. So that is Isla's first video completed. How did you find it?
It took a lot longer than I expected, but the structure. The loop dark? The loop dark.
Pretty much the blueprint, and then you just fill in the blanks. Yeah, so what she's referring to is that I told her to look at the timeline like this, where each section was a phase of the structure. And as we worked from left to right, we just matched the visuals to the voiceover.
Really, with editing, if you do have good ideation, it is the easy part. But let's actually put this video to the test now. Upload time.
It's now time to put the video to the test by uploading it to YouTube. Now, firstly, for the video titles, let's just describe what happened. So let's go with he, cut this out, compressed 100 Red Bulls into one drink.
So now what I typically like to do is add two emojis. So hop into another tab and just type out shock -faced emoji. Okay, awesome.
Now copy that, then go back to the title and just paste two. Now, what I'm going to do is just give some credit to the original creator by going his channel handle. Awesome.
Now, next step is the description. For this, again, we just like to describe what happened in the video, but a little bit more detail compared to the title. So go ahead and type out what you think.
slightly longer than we needed, but leave it. It's fine. Now I like to just give some random tags.
So let's just go with hashtag shorts and hashtag science. And then perhaps two that you can think of.
Experiment and viral. Because we want to go viral. That works.
Okay, so that's it for description and title. Let's scroll down. And we always want to select that this content is not made for kids.
Scroll down to show more. And we do not need to worry about really any of these settings. So ignore all of these.
Go back to the top and then press next. Next again. Next.
Then public. And then publish. Your first video is live.
How do you feel? Pretty good. Good.
Okay, so I just want to set an expectation here. Sometimes your results don't look the best for maybe your first or second upload or even your third. When we check the results tomorrow and the next days, keep your head down and we'll keep progressing.
Got it? Got it. Day two.
It's been just under 24 hours since we first uploaded the video and it is time to check out the results. Nervous. Nervous?
How do you feel like it's gone so far? What do you mean? The amount of views.
100 ,000 views. What? 100 ,000.
Yeah, I thought it was pretty good. What happened to those expectations? Anyway.
Let's hop into the channel and see how it's performed. 3 ,000. Where are you seeing that?
Under the thumbnail. That is so bad. That's why I laughed and that's why I set the expectations.
Anyway, let's come into the chart and get a better look. So it does seem we got pushed initially here to around 300 views in the first hour. Then we got another push to 1000 views just under the third hour.
And then we got this longer push here at around the seven hour mark all the way up to just under 3000. And since then it's been relatively flat. After seeing this, how do you feel now?
Let's just give up. Well, this is what I was talking about. This is pretty standard for a new YouTube channel.
And honestly, to me, this video is almost perfect and there's really not much else what we could have done. And this is already reflected in the initial results we have gotten back. While you were complaining about 3000 views, I was looking at this metric here of average percentage view, which represents on average how long someone watches a video for.
It is around 82%, which is very high for our first upload. So how do you feel now? I mean, it's 3 ,000 views.
Seriously though, this is what I expected for our first upload. What we should do from here is give it another 24 hours before we comment on this video anymore and we should get started with our second video. Another video.
Yes, we did get started on the second video. Because if our first video does not continue like we expect, we need to keep the channel moving. And this time around, we were summarising Nile Blue's video where he condensed 20 beers into one drink.
And this video had 6 million views. But the thing was, Isla was quite deflated. And getting her through a second round of ideation was a grind.
So, I had to stop her for a pep talk. So... I just want to say something.
What you're experiencing now is totally normal. But just remember, even before I had all this process of the loop dark, our three criterias, I was just guessing. And how many times of just kind of guessing do you think it took me before I got my first viral video?
Yes. over 50. I've started so many different channels that look like this, just kind of clipping content with no real structure.
And you can see even some of the views here, they're lower than what you've already gotten. So try and push through and let's keep going. Cause again, let's not forget to me, the first video is perfect.
So just try and keep going. Okay. Okay.
We'll get ready to ride out. But despite all of that motivational talk, she decided it was best to take a break for the evening. You're going to give up.
All right. Well, let's leave it there.
Early in the morning, we got straight back into creating video two. After we finished watching back the beer video and had our timestamps finalized, we then wrote the script just like before, filling in the blanks and then focusing on the hook. Isla was moving much faster this time after sleeping on the fact that we just need to give the channel some time.
But I did not let her check the analytics once throughout this entire second video creation phase because I did not want to discourage her again. And after the script was done, we got back into editing.
Finally, we did finish off by watching the video back a few times to notice any adjustments. And after a total of one hour and five minutes, the second video was completed. And it was not until the late evening that I got set up to check out the analytics.
Isla!
Come and have a look.
It's about your channel.
Are you filming? Yeah, just, it's all right. Don't put on the mic, just come.
Finally. It's your channel, have a look. Do you know what it look?
380 ,000. Oh my God. 300 ,000 views.
More importantly though, 186 comments, which is amazing. Have a seat. Let's look at the analytics.
Good. So, 300...
thousand views first video let's look at the chart now i know you're already looking at this large number here just ignore this for a second come over to the hourly candles here this represents how many views the video got over a 48 hour period all the way up until 12 a .m it was relatively flat we did get pushed to around 4 000 views but then we got pushed again to 6 000 things did slow down a little bit but we've got this massive push here to 17 000 views obviously these candles are representing what's happening in this view chart but we can actually look into these three different tabs now firstly for our reach tab there's not really much in here that we need to focus on coming up to the engagement tab there are two important metrics that we care about firstly this one here which says how viewers engaged.
That's a pretty boring name and I like to call it the swipe through rate. We did score 80%, meaning 80 % of the people who've seen this stayed beyond the first three seconds, which is relatively healthy. And I would say for any viral short, you need at least 80%.
Now there is another important metric. This one up here called average view duration. We did reach 52 seconds.
This is quite strong considering our video length is one minute and one second. Now coming into the audience tab, this does take a while to update. That's why it looks a bit weird.
But if we come down to the audience demographics here, we will refer to this in a few days to try and estimate how much your channel makes per thousand views, which is a metric called RPM. Let's get out of these nerdy stats and celebrate the fact that you got three hundred and. 80 000 views on your first upload not many beginners can say that all because of my help by the way so when will we upload the new video like surely while things are popular we'd want to upload and jump on it right we do want to wait how long that's anyone's guess what we can do is monitor when we do this so coming to our video analytics here these candles once these drops say below 5000 views per hour for longer than 24 hours that's when we should consider uploading because the short has slowed down in the past i have rushed to upload and what it's done is made the video flat line not only this it's only 48 hours deep let's consider how many views it might have in seven days it might have 50 million we don't know that hopefully it does but we could tap into those 50 million views if we just waited and got that leg up for our next upload we will update you with the next key decision day four
A quick check -in on the results and I would show you Isla's first reaction to them, but I have not been able to get her away from checking the analytics on her phone every 10 minutes. So guilty. The results are really addictive.
Yeah, and on the topic of results, you can see that the video has now broken over 1 .2 million views and the engagement across both the likes and comments has been very high. And as a very large milestone to you, you have almost broken 1000 subscribers which is something you should be very proud of so good oh and speaking of milestones pull up the chart there we go because i've been checking so often i've been keeping an eye on these candles and if you scroll through them some of these are crazy like look at that one 100 000 views in one hour i was looking at that and you don't know how impressive that is crazy and let's not gloss over the fact that not even 48 hours ago this video only had 3 000 views and were down bad it goes to show you how much of a roller coaster youtube can be and as for our engagement tab what is interesting is our swipe through rate has increased by over one percent which means that as youtube is continuing to push this video it is performing even better which is a very strong signal to the algorithm to keep pushing this video just like it is so now it begs the same question as before when will this video start to slow down so we can upload our next
video. Day 6 It's been two days since we last checked in and the video is now at 5 million views.
But more importantly, as you can see from our candles on the right hand side, things are starting to slow down. We were averaging around 120 ,000 views per hour last night, but since then things have started to slow down all the way down till 40 ,000 views per hour. Now, ideally that is not as low as I would like for our second upload, but we need to remember that we only have seven days here so we do need to keep it moving by uploading our next video.
Take control and let's get this second video uploaded. So the second video is now uploaded. I got Isla to do the upload settings just like before and as you can see it's been around 12 minutes and we are already getting views from the shorts feed.
Any predictions Isla for the first 24 hours of this video being live? 100 ,000 views.
What did I teach you? No, I'm joking. I actually don't know, but surely with the other video going so well, this one's gonna go well.
So I think with our first video at 5 million views and also considering our first video got 3 ,000 views in the first 24 hours, I think a realistic estimate for the first 24 hours is around 20 ,000 views. So let's see what is going to happen. Jack Craig coaching.
Now, obviously, Isla does have an advantage so far in this video. Live direct help from me. If you want that too, where I help you map out a channel strategy based on your skills and interests and then help you execute on that strategy to monetize your first YouTube channel, you can get access to all of that using my website that is linked down below.
Whether you've never created a video before or you are stuck with no growth on your channel, we can work through it together. And just like you've seen in this video so far, I am all about getting results. So on my website, you can get insight to some of the results that I have gotten from my existing members through both written and video testimonials.
Day seven. I have not had the chance to look at the results yet, but as per usual, Isla is checking them every 10 minutes on her phone and she's going to run us through what they look like. So latest video, we're at 16 ,000 views.
That's below what we expected. Yeah. But to be fair, if you come into the analytics, we've only really been pushed in the last two hours.
Coming to our candles, you can see in the last hour, we did get 6 ,000 views. Almost all the views within the last hour. Hopefully that does continue.
How is the video performing beyond just views like swipe through rate? Yeah, so if we go to our swipe through rate, we're sitting at about 72%. So not the best because you said about 80 % is good.
But to be fair, coming into the chart, we did start at 66%. So we are increasing. Now we're at about 75%.
Yeah, hopefully that continues to increase. So that's the second video, right? What about the first one?
Yeah, we're still getting pushed. Seven million. still so strong have you had a chance to look into the earn tab no not yet okay so where the earn tab is is down the bottom here and if i scroll down slightly you will see eligibility and this is for your channel to start earning revenue you can see that you've done two video uploads over the last 90 days which is correct but you can see for our views it's only showing 187 000 how many views does your first video have 7 million it usually takes a few days for youtube to validate them so it's really just a time thing until you satisfy this criteria of 3 million views now as for your video uploads we just need to make another upload and then after you've fulfilled the uploads it's then time to send off the channel to be approved for monetization now at that point it's in YouTube's hands potentially they might come back to us and say potentially but as to my knowledge and all the channels that I've run we are creating monetizable content because we're doing value add editing so we should
be fine yeah but it's out of our hands we'll see we just need to wait now cool yeah cool Isla got straight into creating a third video so she could meet the three upload criteria for monetization. And the elephant in the room is that we are beyond the initial seven days.
But in our defense, we did not touch the channel for two of those days. So please forgive us. Regardless of this though, Isla did complete the third video without me helping even once.
And when she showed me her final video, I had nothing to say. Pretty good. I don't think that needs any...
Changes. Which means my job so far has been successful. Isla is now independently operating without me.
Except I have decided it's now time to take this content to the next level. Because as you know, the issue with our approach so far is risk of not getting monetized. Which is why we're going to start using AI in our videos.
So go to Google, type in Peaks Field AI. Along the top, you can see that there's a few different options. But for us, we want videos.
So click. To create any AI video, we do need a prompt, which goes in that box there. And this is essentially directing the AI what we want to create.
So hop over to the script that you wrote. And I think from watching the video back, let's create an AI scene for the part when you're talking about the ingredients. So copy that sentence.
Then go over to trustee chat GPT and paste in the sentence. And then just ask it for a video prompt. Copy that.
Back over to Higgs field and paste it into the prompt box. And there we go. So there's a few other options we can do, but we don't need to worry about that.
Let's just click generate. And now the video has generated for us. What we want to do is download this clip and go to the ingredients part so we can replace the clip.
That was pretty straightforward, wasn't it? So we just spent the last 10 minutes going through the video and replacing most of the clips with AI. And as you can see from all the highlighted clips, those are all now AI.
It totals around 28 seconds, which is almost half our video's length. So if you do want to sign up to use Higgs Field to transform your content, you can sign up using my link in the description. But now, since the video is completed, we have exported it and got it ready to upload on YouTube.
And Isla is now going to upload her. first video completely independent of me. There we go.
Third video is now uploaded, which means if you go to our dashboard and then go down to your earn tab, you will see that we have three out of three videos uploaded and we are now reading 2 .5 million views, which means tomorrow is shaping up to be the most important day. Day 10. If I come into our earn tab, you will see things look quite different now.
That's because YouTube has verified our channel to hit the 3 million viewed criteria and we have uploaded three videos. We have already completed the first two steps of reviewing YouTube's base terms and signing Isla up for an AdSense account. Obviously for these two steps, we did need Isla's personal details, so we did not show this on camera.
And now we are just waiting for YouTube to review her personal details, which can take several days and in some cases two to three weeks and then finally the channel will be reviewed for monetization which can take up to one month but in my experience YouTube moves much faster than the timeframe they estimate but as for a wider channel update you can see that the channel is about to crack 10 million views and more importantly we now have an estimated revenue tab which means the money is coming You're weird.
And as for our first three uploads, this is where they are sitting individually. But now everything is in the hands of YouTube. Firstly, AdSense approval and then monetization review.
The days went by one by one, checking the results of the channel and waiting for AdSense approval. It wasn't until day 18 that Isla's AdSense account was finally approved and the channel entered review for monetization. And day 19 would be the day that it all came together.
I was just doing a routine check of all my channels on YouTube and after a long wait, we finally have a decision. Ready to take a look?
Congrats, you're a YouTube partner. Yep. So this means the channel is now monetized and we did everything correct.
That is so good. So what happens now? Well...
you have a decision to make coming into our computer you can see that your channel is in a very strong position almost 7 000 subscribers your most recent video is pushing over 100 000 views of course the youtube partner program notification and finally almost 11 million views across your first three uploads where are you going with this well it's either you continue producing this content or we pivot pivot like change everything i know you don't want to hear that but your niche has one major drawback we're completely tied to niles channel he is your entire supply so if he decides to stop uploading overnight your channel dies and to be clear i'm not saying that you can't continue on this channel and start earning and to put it into perspective if you were monetized from day one you would have earned approximately 4 000 usd based on your demographics which is quite impressive considering this is your first real channel so i'm leaving this choice with you this niche works but with the skills that you have now probably time to spread your wings do i decide now you don't have to we can give you some time yeah i need time okay so i guess we'll update you when ayla has made a choice final update
It's been a few weeks since we last checked in and this is where Isla's channel currently sits. Her first upload broke over 10 million views and her other two uploads did flatline at just over 100 ,000 views. But as for this fourth upload here, do you want to explain what happened?
Pretty much I was just getting frustrated that I couldn't break that 100 ,000 view mark. So to prove it to myself that I could, I've gone ahead and uploaded this fourth video and I did break it. With only one upload in the last few weeks, what does that mean?
I've come to my decision. I really want to build a channel with content that I'm actually interested in and at the end of the day I don't want to have to rely on Niall's channel or anyone else's channel for my content.
It's good that you've come to that conclusion and that is the exact point of our approach. You learn the fundamentals of content creation without a complex process that most beginners would fail at before they get their first success and for a lot of people the smart move is to continue running a channel like this that generates cash flow while you build an original channel that you actually care about.
If you are going to follow a similar approach just make sure you are fulfilling the value add editing part of it because you need to pass YouTube's reuse content policy and we pass it because we are adding commentary and storyline through the editing which is another reason behind our loop dark structure and the editing process.
And finally if you do want the same help that Isla got in this video you can get access to my private coaching using the link below.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
The title promises seven days and the video quietly admits it took nineteen, but the honesty is the point. A coach sits a real beginner down, picks a niche where the footage already exists, and films every check of the analytics, including the day the first upload has 3,000 views and she wants to quit.
Frameworks
Named ideas worth stealing.
01:15list
Niche selection criteria
Beginner friendly
Time efficient
Low competition
Derived from the failures of an earlier channel that needed the coach's gear and idea and competed with a channel uploading every 30 minutes. Applied here it points to re-editing existing viral videos from a channel with high average views and nobody re-uploading it.
Steal forany first-channel decision, or auditing why a current channel is stalling
04:50list
Three-criteria video ideation
Universal relatability
Completion compulsion
Open loop
Every candidate video is scored on whether it needs zero specialist knowledge, whether its structure keeps people to the end, and whether the hook plants a question. Shown as a radar chart that fills in one axis at a time.
Steal forscoring video ideas before any editing starts
06:25model
Looped arc
Hook
Rising action
Conflict
Comeback
Payoff
The standard hook, rising action, payoff shape is predictable. Inserting a conflict and a comeback mid-video makes the ending harder to guess. In the Red Bull re-edit the conflict is a miscalculated weight and the comeback is the retry.
Steal forscripting any short where the source footage has a mistake and a recovery
18:30concept
Upload timing rule
Do not upload the next Short while the current one is being pushed. Wait until hourly views stay under 5,000 for more than 24 hours. Uploading early has flatlined the running video in the past, and a video still climbing may reach 50 million and lift the next upload.
Steal forscheduling any Shorts channel
24:00list
Shorts monetization checklist
3 million Shorts views in 90 days
Three uploads
Accept terms and open AdSense
AdSense review
Channel review for reused content
The eligibility tab lags because views are validated over days. AdSense review took until day 18 here and the channel was accepted on day 19, faster than YouTube's stated timelines.
Steal forplanning a realistic monetization timeline
CTA Breakdown
How they asked for the click.
VERBAL ASK
22:26product
“If you want that too, where I help you map out a channel strategy based on your skills and interests and then help you execute on that strategy to monetize your first YouTube channel, you can get access to all of that using my website that is linked down below.”
One 45-second coaching pitch dropped right after the second upload cliffhanger, framed as the advantage the beginner had on camera. A Higgsfield affiliate link is worked into the AI-clip chapter as a natural tool step, and the closing line repeats the coaching link. No mid-roll subscribe asks.
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A 27-minute case-study essay that reverse-engineers a 250M-view AI food channel into a 6-phase formula, ships one AI-generated dog-salon Short under a fake 24-hour clock, and routes the proof into a coaching pitch.
A 31-minute, one-take talking-head where a six-year YouTuber reads ten fundamentals off his phone notes and argues that the unscripted, unedited version of you is the whole strategy.
Two YouTube coaches use their own four channels, plus three overnight-success strangers, to argue that getting monetized takes about 20 deliberately made videos, not a hundred.
A creator who nearly quit during a six-month subscriber slide explains the two habits that saved his channel: judging the process instead of the outcome, and monetizing years earlier than he thought he was allowed to.
A YouTuber who says he pulled $73,000 from his channel in two weeks breaks down the six-step system he uses to keep an idea bank stocked so he never faces a blank page.
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