Staring at a blank notes app, wondering what to film next, is one of those things nobody warns you about when you start a channel. Here are six methods worth keeping in your back pocket. None of them requires waiting for inspiration. 1. YouTube autocomplete: start typing your topic into the search bar and let the suggestions do the work. Those are real searches happening right now. Turn the best ones into titles. 2. Comment sections on bigger channels in your niche: look for questions, frustrations, or "I wish someone would explain this" moments. Those are video ideas sitting there unaddressed. 3. Communities and forums: Reddit, Facebook groups, wherever your audience spends time. What are people debating or struggling with? Go answer it on camera. 4. Your own analytics: sort by watch time or views over the last 28 to 90 days and look for patterns in your top performers. Make more of what's already working. 5. AI: give it a specific prompt about your niche and your audience. The more detail you add, the more useful the output. 6. Winning titles in your niche: find high-performers and try a new angle, a fresher hook, or an updated version of the same topic. Most of these will give you three to five ideas in a single sitting. The goal is to batch them so you always have a backlog and never make decisions from a blank page. Which one do you tend to skip or forget about? Des

Hey friends — as many of you know I used to create articles like this to share research and video breakdowns. It's been a while, and I want to acknowledge that I've missed doing so. Life has a way of pulling us in different directions — and in the winter with snow and taxes, it's harder to keep up. When I watched this video though, I felt I had to share it. The video is by Chris Do of The Futur, released March 24, 2026. It's called **"The Content Strategy Nobody Is Talking About (But Should Be)"** 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaDK_zVy1Cc --- **🤔 The Central Question** Chris starts with a central question: *"If anyone can go viral... should you?"* He then makes a compelling case that virality is actually a trap. **If you DO go viral:** You enter the **Validation Loop** — looking outside yourself for proof you're doing something worthwhile, constantly needing to repeat it. **If you DON'T go viral again:** Motivation tanks, self-worth takes a hit, burnout follows, and eventually you quit. --- **🚨 The Four Problems With Chasing Virality** **1️⃣ The Seduction** — Platforms never tell you how to go viral. It's intentionally opaque. So we hand our emotional well-being over to algorithms and gurus who are also just guessing. **2️⃣ The Addiction** — The platform hooks you like a dealer with a sample. The cruel twist: *the day before your post went viral, you were happy making progress.* After going viral, normal progress never feels good enough again. **3️⃣ The Prison** — Go viral doing something specific and that thing becomes your cage. People expect it every time. When you try to return to something more authentic, the audience punishes you: *"This isn't what we followed you for."* **4️⃣ The Awakening** — Followers don't equal community. VidCon invited major TikTokers with millions of followers to speak. Rooms built for 500–800 people had 20–30 seats filled. One creator with 1.3 million followers held a meet-and-greet. Nobody came.

I have 4 playlists already, none of them are real watch time drivers, but none of my content to this point has been watch time drivers either. This is not where I am focusing currently. I did make two additional playlists for videos I am making moving forward, Rebuilding faith and Lessons learned from my story. I am leaning more into my testimony on overcoming .... in a conversational manner with tons of b-roll on the videos I am currently making. We will see if this shift will drive the numbers! Time will tell. @Dr. Saundra Stancil @Jenny Sharratt @Cat PInegar @Eddi Pinegar @Adam Tinkoff @Ricardo Solomons @Dajana K.@Monika Astara Murphy