How To Beat The NEW YouTube Algorithm in 2026 (For Faceless Channels) — Transcript

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1. 0:00On May 22nd, YouTube announced the
2. 0:02biggest update ever. And what this
3. 0:04update did is that it made YouTube fair
4. 0:06for everybody. Going forward,
5. 0:08subscribers don't matter. The history of
6. 0:10your YouTube channel doesn't matter. And
7. 0:12the age of your YouTube channel no
8. 0:13longer matters. So, if you've been
9. 0:15thinking of starting a YouTube channel,
10. 0:17it's time to stop being a [ __ ]
11. 0:19It's now or never, bro. I mean, your
12. 0:21your odds have never been better than
13. 0:22they are today. And again, it's all
14. 0:24thanks to this update. So, in this
15. 0:26video, I'm going to tell you what these
16. 0:27updates were and how you as a small
17. 0:29YouTuber or a beginner can take full
18. 0:31advantage of it. But first, if you don't
19. 0:32know who I am, my name is Romero. I've
20. 0:34been running faceless YouTube channels
21. 0:36since 2018. Since then, I've gotten
22. 0:38hundreds of millions of views and I've
23. 0:39generated over $2 million in just
24. 0:42YouTube ad revenue. I'm also the first
25. 0:44person to discover this [music] and to
26. 0:45publicly announce the new YouTube
27. 0:47algorithm update. And I announced this 6
28. 0:50months ago. Keep in mind, YouTube
29. 0:52publicly said it a few days ago.
30. 0:55But Google is now heavily leaning
31. 0:57towards YouTube videos as sources for
32. 1:00these AI overviews. And this is Google's
33. 1:03objective, right? They want to make
34. 1:04[music] YouTube the go-to source for
35. 1:07everything on the internet.
36. 1:08>> We're also bringing this conversational
37. 1:09AI to two more products. First, Ask
38. 1:12YouTube. People come to YouTube every
39. 1:14day to ask a lot of questions.
40. 1:17>> And together, they created something
41. 1:19called C2PA. And the purpose of this
42. 1:21stamp is that it tells platforms what
43. 1:24edits have been made to your video. For
44. 1:25example, hey, this video was created
45. 1:28with a Sony camera. And hey, this video
46. 1:30contains images created with Midjourney.
47. 1:33>> We are now going a step further and
48. 1:35adding content credentials verification
49. 1:37across products. This will show you if
50. 1:40the origin of the content was AI or a
51. 1:43camera and if it's been edited with
52. 1:45generative AI tools.
53. 1:47>> Because in my opinion, what Google is
54. 1:49trying to do is that they're trying to
55. 1:51go from a search engine to an answer
56. 1:53engine. And they're using Gemini to do
57. 1:55that.
58. 1:56>> Bringing AI overviews and AI mode into
59. 1:58one seamless AI search experience. So,
60. 2:00you can flow effortlessly from your
61. 2:02question to your response on the main
62. 2:04search results page.
63. 2:07>> So, what's this AI detector that YouTube
64. 2:09is using? Well, I mentioned it a few
65. 2:11months ago in one of my YouTube videos.
66. 2:12It's called Synth ID. And what Synth ID
67. 2:15is is a watermark. A watermark that is
68. 2:17so small that it's invisible to the
69. 2:19human eye.
70. 2:20>> 3 years ago, we launched Synth ID, our
71. 2:22watermark that is invisible to the naked
72. 2:24eye.
73. 2:24>> So, since ElevenLabs, for example, that
74. 2:27doesn't have Synth ID, it's not a Google
75. 2:29product, Synth ID, they're going to be
76. 2:31selling it. All of the new companies
77. 2:32that are coming in the future, if they
78. 2:34want to make media with AI, they're
79. 2:36going to have to have Synth ID.
80. 2:37>> And today, I'm thrilled to announce that
81. 2:39OpenAI, Kakao, and ElevenLabs are
82. 2:42adopting Synth ID, too.
83. 2:45>> Synth ID is going to become I don't know
84. 2:47if this is the correct phrase, but
85. 2:48legally binding. The quote-unquote
86. 2:50correct way, meaning that from here,
87. 2:52YouTube can demonetize channels that
88. 2:55create AI-generated content, but don't
89. 2:57use Google products. Because again,
90. 2:59Synth ID is only going to be for Google
91. 3:02products like
92. 3:02>> Great to see the cross-industry
93. 3:04collaboration. We are looking forward to
94. 3:06expanding to more partners and setting
95. 3:09the standard of transparency for the AI
96. 3:11era.
97. 3:11>> And no, I am not a Google employee. I do
98. 3:13not work for YouTube. I just do this
99. 3:15[ __ ] for a living.
100. 3:17Anyways, here are the four things you
101. 3:19have to do going forward. Fix number
102. 3:21one.
103. 3:22You have to start marking your videos as
104. 3:24altered content. Now, let me explain
105. 3:26this. If you're like me and you use
106. 3:28ElevenLabs to voice commentate your
107. 3:30videos, now you have to tell YouTube.
108. 3:32And that's because on May 19th, Google
109. 3:34confirmed that ElevenLabs was now going
110. 3:36to start embedding Synth ID to every
111. 3:39[music] audio generated. Now, for those
112. 3:40of you that don't know, Synth ID is
113. 3:42Google's invisible watermark. Not only
114. 3:45does it work for AI-generated images,
115. 3:47but now it works for audio files.
116. 3:49Meaning that every audio file you create
117. 3:51with 11:Labs now carries a Synth ID
118. 3:54watermark. And no, you cannot fool
119. 3:56YouTube by changing the pitch of the
120. 3:59voiceover, okay? They're going to know.
121. 4:01The watermark cannot be removed. And if
122. 4:03you fail to disclose that your voice is
123. 4:05AI-generated, your YouTube channel will
124. 4:07be demonetized. If you're not monetized,
125. 4:10and you never disclose that you use an
126. 4:11AI voice, when the time comes for you to
127. 4:13appeal to the YouTube Partner Program,
128. 4:15they're going to deny your ask. So, very
129. 4:17quickly, I'm going to show you the
130. 4:18correct way to tell YouTube that you're
131. 4:20using an AI voice. So, when the video is
132. 4:22being posted, you want to scroll down
133. 4:25until you see this section called
134. 4:27altered content. It says, "Do any of the
135. 4:29following describe your content? Makes a
136. 4:31real person appear to say or do
137. 4:33something that they didn't say or do.
138. 4:34Alters footage of a real event, or
139. 4:36generates a realistic-looking scene that
140. 4:39didn't actually occur." Now, I know that
141. 4:41none of those really apply to our
142. 4:42channel, but we're going to click yes,
143. 4:45because the voiceover is done with
144. 4:4611:Labs. After you do that, you can
145. 4:49start posting the video as normal, and
146. 4:50just do everything like you normally do.
147. 4:52Now, there is an exception for this. If
148. 4:54you cloned your voice using 11:Labs, you
149. 4:57don't have to disclose it to YouTube.
150. 4:59From my understanding, you do not have
151. 5:00to disclose that. Stock voices or
152. 5:03third-party clones, you have to disclose
153. 5:05those. Anyways, moving on to number two.
154. 5:08Write your video scripts for the AI
155. 5:11overviews. Now, a few days ago, YouTube
156. 5:13launched their conversational search,
157. 5:16powered by Gemini Omni. And how this
158. 5:18works is that when you type your
159. 5:20question on Google or YouTube, you're
160. 5:22going to get an answer generated by AI.
161. 5:24And usually, these AI overviews uses
162. 5:28YouTube videos as a source. So, this
163. 5:30kind of means tags are useless. It seems
164. 5:32like we're now in the days where
165. 5:34technology has advanced so much that SEO
166. 5:37and traditional SEO is no longer the new
167. 5:40way to do it, which is which is crazy.
168. 5:42Because the new algorithm now favors two
169. 5:45things: topical authority and
170. 5:47citation-friendly structure. You know,
171. 5:50adding these things is going to be the
172. 5:51fastest way to get your video show to
173. 5:53millions of people. [music] So, to do
174. 5:55this, you need to answer at least one
175. 5:57question related to your topic within
176. 5:59the first 30 seconds of your video. For
177. 6:01example, if the topic of your video is
178. 6:04"Why did this company go broke?", your
179. 6:07video script needs to give the actual
180. 6:09answer within the first 60 seconds. And
181. 6:11that's because these new YouTube AI
182. 6:13overviews prioritize and read the early
183. 6:16stages of your script. Now, another
184. 6:18thing you want to do for this is to add
185. 6:20specific names, dates, [music] and
186. 6:22places. For example, instead of saying
187. 6:25"A lot of people lost money", you want
188. 6:26to say "47,000 employees lost their jobs
189. 6:30in Q3 of 2026." It's a huge difference,
190. 6:33right? Now, it might sound weird in your
191. 6:35video, but to the AI overview and the
192. 6:38new algorithm, that's the type of [ __ ]
193. 6:40they want to hear. Because whenever you
194. 6:41give specifics to Google or to YouTube,
195. 6:44they're going to reward you because you
196. 6:45made their job easier, and you gave them
197. 6:47actually something to cite to people,
198. 6:49which is exactly what they want. It's
199. 6:51like I told you a few months ago, Google
200. 6:52and YouTube are trying to become answer
201. 6:54engines instead of search engines.
202. 6:56Moving on to number three, and that is
203. 6:59building authority. The next thing that
204. 7:01YouTube added is something called
205. 7:02likeness detection. So, essentially, if
206. 7:05you're over the age of 18 and you upload
207. 7:08a picture of your ID with a little
208. 7:10selfie scan of your face to YouTube,
209. 7:12that's going to allow them to hunt down
210. 7:14unauthorized use of your face with AI
211. 7:17and your voice. Now, for complete
212. 7:18beginners, that doesn't sound that bad.
213. 7:20Personally, I think this is good, but
214. 7:23Google just told us how important a
215. 7:25verified identity is, aka authority. And
216. 7:29the most effective way to become an
217. 7:30authority in any platform is to have
218. 7:33off-platform presence. Just think about
219. 7:35it. For faceless YouTube channels like
220. 7:37the ones I have, there is no personality
221. 7:40behind it. So, technically, it would be
222. 7:42considered a content farm. But,
223. 7:45verified entities are considered media
224. 7:49brands. Now, the best way to not look
225. 7:50like a content farm in the eyes of
226. 7:52YouTube is to create multiple social
227. 7:54medias with the same name as your
228. 7:56YouTube channel. Now, because I'm the
229. 7:58absolute goat,
230. 7:59I'm going to tell you the three social
231. 8:01medias that you 100% need to create
232. 8:03today. But, before I do that, I want to
233. 8:06remind you that everything you're
234. 8:07learning right now, I have been teaching
235. 8:09it to members of my community for the
236. 8:11last 6 months. And that's because since
237. 8:13I've been doing YouTube since 2018, and
238. 8:16I have bills,
239. 8:17I've always needed to keep up with the
240. 8:19algorithm. Now, I don't just do research
241. 8:21on YouTube. Okay? I also do it on
242. 8:23Google. And what I noticed is that we're
243. 8:25in the beginning of the biggest
244. 8:27algorithm update that not only Google,
245. 8:29but YouTube has ever seen. And that's
246. 8:31because of AI. Now, in the past, it was
247. 8:34a little bit complicated for a beginner
248. 8:36to, you know, hop into a niche that's
249. 8:37already dominated by multiple other
250. 8:39YouTubers and succeed. But, Google has
251. 8:41released so many papers, so many new
252. 8:44things that when I applied to multiple
253. 8:46YouTube channels, it worked as proof of
254. 8:48concept multiple times. Now, what I'm
255. 8:50covering in this video, it is important
256. 8:52[ __ ] It's things that you need from
257. 8:54here on to the future. But, there are
258. 8:55some things that I cannot cover on
259. 8:57YouTube publicly. And that's because the
260. 8:59information is so valuable. It is so
261. 9:01new, and I'm going to be completely
262. 9:02[ __ ] honest here, that I don't want
263. 9:04other YouTube coaches to take credit for
264. 9:07it. Because that's what they've been
265. 9:08doing. For example, if I go on Gemini
266. 9:11and I ask, "Who is the first YouTube
267. 9:13growth expert that introduced net
268. 9:15information gain on YouTube?" Gemini is
269. 9:17going to tell you that John Scott was
270. 9:19the first one. Which by the way, John
271. 9:21Scott is a pretty cool dude, all right?
272. 9:23So, I don't mind that he's number one.
273. 9:25Now, John Scott first spoke about net
274. 9:27information gain on February 24th. If I
275. 9:30tell Gemini, "Wasn't it not Romero?"
276. 9:32it's going to say, "Yes, you are
277. 9:33completely right." Romero spoke about it
278. 9:35in February of 2026, February 3rd.
279. 9:38Credit where credit is due, Romero was
280. 9:39the one who did the actual heavy lifting
281. 9:41and research on those patents to
282. 9:43introduce the concept to creators, which
283. 9:45ended up being right, by the way. In
284. 9:46February, if you asked Gemini about net
285. 9:49information gain, it would say that it
286. 9:50has nothing to do with the YouTube
287. 9:52algorithm. Now, it admits it, but it
288. 9:54doesn't credit me. So, that wasn't very
289. 9:56cool.
290. 9:57If you want to learn the real deep [ __ ]
291. 9:59the real advanced things that I found in
292. 10:01my research, you can click the link in
293. 10:02my description or in the pinned comment
294. 10:04that's going to take you to my school
295. 10:05community. There is where you're going
296. 10:07to find multiple video tutorials where I
297. 10:09explain to you exactly how this all
298. 10:11works. Number one is Pinterest. For some
299. 10:13odd reason, Google and YouTube see
300. 10:15Pinterest as a search engine for images.
301. 10:19So, reposting your thumbnails on
302. 10:20Pinterest with the link of whatever
303. 10:22YouTube video that thumbnail was for
304. 10:24will naturally rank them in Google
305. 10:26images, giving them more external
306. 10:27impressions, which lead to more views.
307. 10:30Now, moving on to the second social
308. 10:31media, that is Medium. So, go ahead and
309. 10:34screenshot the prompt you see on the
310. 10:35screen, then go to ChatGPT or Claude,
311. 10:38paste it on there with the transcript of
312. 10:40your video, and click enter. Once you do
313. 10:42that, what it should do is give you back
314. 10:45a professional SEO-rich article, which
315. 10:48you're going to post on Medium with the
316. 10:51link of your YouTube video embedded. So,
317. 10:52what this does is that it makes your
318. 10:54content appear under Google's article
319. 10:57and news section. This obviously creates
320. 10:59a completely new pathway for people to
321. 11:01find your content, but what it also does
322. 11:04is that it makes your YouTube channel
323. 11:05and your brand more noticeable to Google
324. 11:08search and to YouTube's AI overview bot,
325. 11:11which again, within time, this is going
326. 11:12to send a signal to Google and YouTube
327. 11:14that your YouTube channel is not just a
328. 11:17faceless YouTube channel, okay? It is a
329. 11:18brand with real presence across the web.
330. 11:22So, yes, you can have faceless YouTube
331. 11:24channels. Just don't have anonymous
332. 11:26ones, if that makes sense. Same means
333. 11:28the same [ __ ] That sounded cooler in my
334. 11:29head.
335. 11:31God damn it, just make your channel a
336. 11:32brand. That's what I'm saying. And
337. 11:33speaking of number three, the third
338. 11:36social media you want is going to be
339. 11:37Facebook, Instagram, and X. I put these
340. 11:41together as one cuz it's it's pretty
341. 11:42obvious, right? These are
342. 11:44non-negotiables. So, once you create all
343. 11:46of these things, you want to make sure
344. 11:48that in the bio of your medium account,
345. 11:50of your Pinterest, of your Facebook, of
346. 11:52your Instagram, you need to make sure
347. 11:53that you have the link of your YouTube
348. 11:55channel in the bio of each one. And you
349. 11:57also want to do the same thing on
350. 11:58YouTube. If you don't have them
351. 12:00connected and both linking to each
352. 12:02other, it is useless. So, to do this,
353. 12:04you want to go to youtube.com, then you
354. 12:07want to click on your profile picture on
355. 12:08the top right, then you want to click on
356. 12:10view your channel.
357. 12:12Once you do that, you're going to click
358. 12:14on customize channel here at the bottom
359. 12:16of your app. That's going to take you
360. 12:18here. From here, you're going to scroll
361. 12:20down until you see links.
362. 12:23This is where you're going to add
363. 12:24everything. So, you're going to click
364. 12:25add link, you're going to enter a title
365. 12:28like Pinterest.
366. 12:31You're going to drop the URL here.
367. 12:33Once you do that, you're going to click
368. 12:34add link again, then you're going to do
369. 12:35Facebook, then you're going to click add
370. 12:37link again, then you're going to do your
371. 12:38Instagram. And you're going to do this
372. 12:40for every single social media you
373. 12:41create. And boom, you're done. Now,
374. 12:43moving on to number four, and that is
375. 12:46sell something. Now, this is part of my
376. 12:48more advanced research that I don't plan
377. 12:50on sharing on YouTube yet. Again, that's
378. 12:53only going to be for my community, but
379. 12:54I'm going to give you the basics. It
380. 12:56doesn't matter if you actually sell
381. 12:58anything. You're not doing it for the
382. 12:59revenue, but make sure that you have a
383. 13:00store linked to your YouTube channel. If
384. 13:02you don't know how to create one of
385. 13:03these stores, go ahead and ask Claude.
386. 13:06Again, this is not for monetary
387. 13:07purposes. Your goal here is not
388. 13:09affiliates or drop shipping, but just
389. 13:12add one. By the way, people pay $50,000
390. 13:14a year hiring consultants to to just
391. 13:16teach you what I just taught you. So,
392. 13:18I'd appreciate if you liked and
393. 13:19subscribed to the channel. Which by the
394. 13:21way, members of my community have
395. 13:23already been doing this for the last 3
396. 13:24months. And that's because yes, I told
397. 13:27them that this was going to happen. Now,
398. 13:28if you're someone that wants to take
399. 13:29YouTube serious, you can go ahead and
400. 13:30click the link in the description of
401. 13:32this video or in the pin comment, and
402. 13:34that's going to take you to my school
403. 13:35community. And what you get when you
404. 13:36join my school community is 156 video
405. 13:39tutorials where I take you step-by-step
406. 13:41on how I managed to build a $2 million
407. 13:44empire on YouTube. In the tutorial
408. 13:45vault, you're going to find all kinds of
409. 13:47advanced tutorials, things that you will
410. 13:49not find on YouTube for free. For
411. 13:51example, the best way to optimize
412. 13:52emails, creating channel trailers in
413. 13:54order to boost trust score, channel
414. 13:56settings to avoid demonetization for
415. 13:58inauthentic content, correctly creating
416. 14:00your YouTube channel into a brand
417. 14:01account, the entire process of warming
418. 14:03up brand new YouTube channels, and 10
419. 14:06videos dedicated to helping you pick a
420. 14:08niche. Same thing with finding video
421. 14:09ideas, same thing with writing scripts
422. 14:11manually or with AI, same thing with
423. 14:13creating audios and voice-overs with AI
424. 14:16and manually, how to edit videos, how to
425. 14:18create thumbnails, the best way to
426. 14:20optimize and upload your videos, full
427. 14:21explanation of how the algorithm works,
428. 14:24and a few case studies. But, that's not
429. 14:26it, because there's also a module titled
430. 14:28the 2026 updates, and this is where
431. 14:30you're going to find all of the updates
432. 14:31that I post every single month in the
433. 14:33community. Not only that, but you also
434. 14:34get a list of daily niches, where every
435. 14:36single day you get to see very
436. 14:39interesting YouTube channels that we we
437. 14:41found for you. But, the best part is
438. 14:42that I go live every single week. This
439. 14:44is where I speak with you guys directly,
440. 14:45answer any questions, review channels,
441. 14:47all that good stuff. If you join now,
442. 14:49you'll still be able to see all of the
443. 14:51live calls because they're recorded in
444. 14:52this little module here. And just to
445. 14:54show you some of the wins of the
446. 14:55community, Arturo Chavez posted this
447. 14:57here showing that he got monetized with
448. 14:59only 30 videos. Koa Tran here posted
449. 15:02this as small win, 144,000 views with
450. 15:05$584 in ad revenue generated with his
451. 15:08fifth YouTube channel and only five
452. 15:10videos. Oh, look, and he attached the
453. 15:11screenshot here to prove it, which is
454. 15:12pretty crazy. We have members like Maho
455. 15:14here that made 15,000 in a single month
456. 15:16with two YouTube channels, then attached
457. 15:19these screenshots for you to see.
458. 15:20Abdullah Sarumi posted this, monetized
459. 15:23in 2 weeks. Wow, one single video got
460. 15:261.1 million views. That is crazy. Riley
461. 15:29here almost made $30,000 in his first
462. 15:31month ever monetized. He shared the
463. 15:33screenshot here just to prove it. Hum
464. 15:35Ali here made $122,000
465. 15:37in just 5 months, shared the screenshot,
466. 15:4021 million views, 78,000 subscribers,
467. 15:43and $122,763.
468. 15:47Again, if you want to check it out, you
469. 15:49can go ahead and click link in the
470. 15:50description of this video or in the
471. 15:52pinned comment. And if you do, I'll see
472. 15:53you on one of the live calls. All right,
473. 15:55that's it for this video. It's It's
474. 15:57currently 5:00 a.m. If you enjoyed the
475. 15:58video, like and subscribe. If you want
476. 16:00to get a little bit more advanced, you
477. 16:02know what to do. Y'all have a good
478. 16:03night, good morning, all that.