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0:00This YouTube channel generates $5,000
0:02per month, and I want that. So, for the
0:04next 30 days, I'm copying that exact
0:06style of content to get the same
0:08results. But for this to work, we need
0:11to start today. Selecting the niche. The
0:15YouTube channel that we are taking
0:16inspiration from creates these Minecraft
0:18animations. And just filtering by recent
0:21shorts, you can see they are
0:22consistently getting millions of views.
0:24But I don't think entering this
0:25Minecraft niche would be a good idea
0:27though because from my research I have
0:29found that it's being dominated by
0:31established channels all uploading
0:33similar content. What I think we can do
0:35here though is take the existing viral
0:36video topics from the Minecraft channels
0:39and then apply them to the most popular
0:40topic in the world which is football.
0:42But there is one big issue governing
0:44this entire process. I don't know how to
0:46animate. But this is where my boy NSR
0:49comes in. He is my animator and we have
0:52formed a partnership and this entire
0:54plan should allow the channel to go
0:56viral. Opening the channel. The YouTube
1:00channel that we are using is an account
1:01that was made in 2017. You don't need
1:04one this old, but one of the keys that
1:06you need to follow if you want to get
1:08views on your first upload is that you
1:10must use an account that you have been
1:11active on for at least 1 week. So, since
1:14our channel is old, we need to give it
1:15an update. Firstly, the channel name.
1:18I'm going to come over to ChattyPT
1:20because I have no idea what to call this
1:22one. And I'm just going to give it a
1:23simple description of our channel now.
1:25Okay. I do like this one here, which is
1:27foot motion because it's a blend of
1:29football and animation. And as you would
1:31expect with YouTube, it is not
1:33available. What I like to do if it's not
1:35available is just add a real at the end.
1:37And yeah, it's available. So, let's roll
1:39with that. Okay. Now, the next step is
1:41channel assets, which is our profile
1:43picture and banner. Let me pull up
1:44Photoshop and we will get it done. All I
1:47did was type out the channel name for
1:49the profile picture and wrote subscribe
1:51on the banner. I only spent 5 minutes
1:53creating these because neither of these
1:55impact your channel's performance. So, I
1:57just finished the final step, which was
2:00to upload the profile picture and banner
2:02to the channel. One of the things I also
2:04wanted to show you was the channel
2:05dashboard where it reads zero
2:07subscribers. That is definitely a scary
2:10site, but let's keep moving. Short
2:13creation. We need to create a short to
2:16upload and from my end it's just going
2:18to be creation of the video topic and
2:20then some basic editing after the
2:22animation is complete. So let's get into
2:24it. I went to established channels and
2:26got inspiration to create a story board
2:28that my animator could follow. Within
2:30the story board, I gave a general scene
2:32design and then made a retentionbased
2:35story based on the examples I found. And
2:37in the early stages of creating the
2:39storyboard, I found out this
2:41information. So, I just found three
2:43animated football channels that we are
2:45going into competition with, but not
2:47really. One of them is no longer active
2:49in the football niche, but at one stage,
2:51they were going viral. Then, we have
2:54this channel here. They are uploading
2:55way too frequently, and it's to the
2:57point that it's hurting the channel's
2:59performance. And really, as you can see,
3:01their quality isn't the best either. And
3:03finally, we have Skippers. They are
3:05uploading once a week. Their quality is
3:07great, and they are very creative with
3:09their video topics. Even though I could
3:11only find these three channels, we are
3:14only really competing with skippers
3:15here. And I wouldn't say he's dominating
3:17this niche either. So there is still
3:19room for us to perform well. And as a
3:21side note to this, this type of
3:23competitor analysis should have been
3:25done even before we decided on football
3:27animations. Okay, so all the research
3:29into the niche and then creating the
3:31storyboard took me just under 25 minutes
3:35to complete. I kept the storyboard quite
3:37basic because your first short is always
3:40just a test for the algorithm. There is
3:42no point spending a lot of time making
3:44your first short. Your first upload is
3:47always a test for YouTube to initially
3:49find the audience that engages best with
3:51your content. It's always by the second,
3:53third, or fourth upload that you
3:55actually start going viral. Okay, but to
3:58finish up today, I have just sent off
4:00the storyboard to the animator and I
4:02will update you when it's complete.
4:06Day two. Okay, so the animator did get
4:09back to me with the first animation
4:11already and I am very surprised at how
4:14fast that was. And the thing is I do not
4:16know how good this animator is at this
4:18point yet. We did meet through my
4:20private coaching because he did want me
4:22to review his channel which was creating
4:24shorts like this. And I'll press play
4:26for you now. And you probably do
4:28recognize this style of short because he
4:30did pick inspiration from a very popular
4:32channel. But as you could imagine,
4:34because the niche is so saturated, he
4:36did get terrible results. Once again,
4:38competitive research is very important.
4:41Anyway though, let's have a look at what
4:43he sent me
4:48together. Okay, I'm not going to lie. I
4:51want to pause that there. I'm already
4:54very impressed with the quality. Let me
4:55pull this up onto my computer now, and
4:57I'll get started doing my part. It was
5:00now my turn to put in some work. I first
5:02started off by opening Premiere Pro,
5:04which is my video editor. Then I dragged
5:06in the animation from my animator. I
5:08then got on to adding sound effects
5:09throughout the short. Then finally, a
5:11music track. And this took me just over
5:1315 minutes of editing time. Overall, the
5:16animator nailed my storyboard and
5:18brought all my ideas to life. At this
5:20point, I've never done anything like
5:21this with YouTube automation, and it
5:23does feel amazing not having to do every
5:25single component by myself.
5:30Okay, so the short is exported to my
5:32desktop from Premiere Pro and I'm going
5:34to drag it up to YouTube now and upload
5:36it. For titles, you always want to name
5:38it something related to your short. So
5:40I'm going to call this help Ronaldo save
5:44messy. And then I'm going to come up to
5:45Google here and get to emojis. There we
5:48go. Now for descriptions, I just like to
5:50rename the title and then add a hashtag
5:52shorts. And you always want to select
5:54that this content is not made for kids
5:56so you don't end up on YouTube kids.
5:58Now, for tags, these are especially
6:00important if it's your first upload. So,
6:02I'm just going to come down now and just
6:04add a couple that are relevant to my
6:05niche, which is football. Okay, that's
6:07it. You really don't need to worry about
6:09optimizing any of these upload settings.
6:11Everything basic just like this is
6:13perfect. Okay, now finally, let's press
6:15upload and let's see how this
6:17goes. Day three. It's been just under 24
6:21hours since uploading our first short
6:23and I have some results to show you. We
6:25got 2500 views and 75 subscribers. These
6:28are not the best results yet, but we are
6:30starting to get our second big push. So,
6:32as long as we don't flatline anytime
6:34soon, we will be okay. I'm about to hop
6:36on a call with the animator and I will
6:38let you know how that goes. We discussed
6:40the performance of the short and how I
6:42think we can approach the next short
6:43differently because looking back to the
6:45first day, I was lazy.
6:49I just took exactly what worked for an
6:51old competitor without putting in any of
6:53my creativity. And the entire plan was
6:56to take inspiration from the Minecraft
6:58channels, not our competitors. So, this
7:00time I went into detail with my animator
7:03about how we're going to use this
7:04Minecraft short where characters are
7:06trying to lift up Thor's hammer. We are
7:08going to recreate this short by
7:10replacing the characters with football
7:12players, replacing any relevant objects,
7:14and finally changing the scene to a
7:16football stadium. I just finished the
7:18call and that did take 30 minutes. The
7:20main theme of that call was that YouTube
7:22shorts is completely broken. This new
7:24short that we are taking inspiration
7:26from reached 80 million views, which
7:29means there was something inherently
7:31viral about this short. Whether it was
7:33the hook, the editing, the pacing, the
7:35payoff, there was something that clicked
7:37with viewers at a mass scale. This is
7:39why taking the core components of a
7:41viral short and taking it to a different
7:43niche is a failproof way to go viral.
7:46Well, at least it should work.
7:47Theoretically, we're going to find this
7:49out. Regardless of this though, I will
7:51be monitoring the first shorts
7:52performance over the coming days, and I
7:54will update you when the animator gets
7:57back to me with the second
7:59animation. Day six. I just received the
8:03second animation for our second short,
8:05and I have been monitoring the first
8:06short's performance. It's now sitting at
8:0915,000 views since we got this push
8:11after the first 24 hours. Overall, this
8:14performance so far does help validate
8:16that our niche is one worth pursuing.
8:18Because if our shorts performance over
8:19the last few days look like this, we
8:22would know that either our niche is just
8:24too saturated or there's just no
8:25audience on YouTube interested in our
8:27content. Coming back to look over the
8:29second short now, and it looks great.
8:31Once again, he really perfected exactly
8:33what I told him to do with this short.
8:35And it is now a perfect time to finish
8:37this short with sound effects and upload
8:39it. Because even though our first short
8:41got 15,000 views, it has now flatlined,
8:44which means uploading this new short
8:46won't affect its performance. This time
8:48around, I just downloaded the sound from
8:50the example we followed because we are
8:52taking the exact same pacing from the
8:54Minecraft short. And I also added a few
8:56more sound effects throughout where I
8:57thought it was lacking. To finish off, I
8:59exported the short in the best possible
9:01settings and went to upload it. Once
9:03again, I named the short something
9:05relevant, rewarded the title for the
9:07description, did basic tags, and that
9:09was it. It was uploaded. Okay, so I just
9:13got a burst of excitement because the
9:16short is now uploaded. And I am very
9:18excited to see how this one is going to
9:20perform because we are following a much
9:22more systematic approach to the video
9:24topic this time and the views should
9:27reflect this. Anyway though, I will
9:29update you once we start to get traction
9:31on the
9:32short. Day eight. It's been 2 days since
9:36uploading our second short, and it has
9:38been pushed to over 23,000 views, and so
9:40far we have gained 283 subscribers from
9:43this short. You can see on the right
9:44here, we are getting anywhere from 500
9:46to 200 views per hour. Coming over to
9:49our comments now, you can see we are
9:51starting to receive them, which means
9:52that we are engaging with the right
9:54audience. And overall, seeing our
9:56channel's growth between the two uploads
9:58is a very positive sign. And at this
10:00stage, our second short could still
10:02break out and go viral. And I am
10:04monitoring that by referring to the
10:06hourly candles on the right hand side.
10:08If they start going up every hour
10:10consecutively, that is a sign that we
10:12will go viral. But if we start to see
10:14sustained flat candles or decreasing
10:17candles, that is when we will upload our
10:19next short. And we have started working
10:21towards our third short because we did
10:23have a call 1 hour ago where we
10:25discussed our next step forward.
10:27Essentially, we are repeating the same
10:29process as before where we take
10:30inspiration directly from the Minecraft
10:33channel. The short that we are using
10:34this time though has reached 46 million
10:36views and it's a very simple concept.
10:38It's just characters tapping the other
10:40person in front of them and doing a
10:42dance to a song. And the payoff at the
10:43end is this last character getting
10:45revenge on the person before them. Just
10:47like last time, we will be doing
10:49relevant changes to football, but at a
10:50fundamental level, it's going to be the
10:52same short. Anyway though, I'm going to
10:54continue to monitor this short, and I
10:56will update you when the third short is
11:00complete. It's day 10 now, and I have
11:03some unfortunate news. The second short
11:06has now flatlined at 25,000 views. On
11:09the positive side though, I have gotten
11:11the third shot back, and we are about to
11:13upload it. Watching it back right now,
11:14it is very addictive. It might look a
11:17bit boring to you because I can't play
11:19it back with the sound, otherwise I will
11:21get copyrighted on the video that you're
11:22watching right now, but take my word for
11:24it. The sound completes this. But one
11:26thing that sticks out to me as a
11:28potential negative is its length. It's
11:30currently 26 seconds, and comparing that
11:33to my two other shorts, it's going to be
11:35by far the shortest. If you did not
11:37know, creating longer short form content
11:38does give you an advantage because you
11:40can get higher watch time, which is the
11:42most important metric across every
11:44single platform. But even though I've
11:46been concerned about this, I have been
11:47constantly reminding myself here that we
11:49are taking inspiration from a short that
11:51has 46 million views. So if their short
11:54could get 46 million views with 26
11:56seconds, that is good enough for me.
11:58Anyway though, I have gone ahead and
12:00done all the upload settings for this
12:02short using the exact same process that
12:03I followed for the first two shorts. And
12:05finally, let's press upload and hope
12:07this one does
12:09well. Day 11. Our latest short is
12:12sitting at 14,000 views. One thing I
12:15want to show you though is by looking at
12:17our second short. It reached 4,800 views
12:19in the first 24 hours. And remember this
12:22number because when I come back to our
12:24most recent short, you will see we are
12:26already at 14,000 views. And the first
12:2824 hours isn't even complete yet. And
12:30this is relevant because the short that
12:32got 4,800 views in the first 24 hours is
12:35now at 26,000 views. which means our
12:38most recent short is outperforming our
12:40highs viewed significantly. And the best
12:42part is it doesn't look like it's
12:43slowing down. Even though these hourly
12:45candles look pretty flat, we are still
12:47being pushed every hour into the shorts
12:49feed. And I do expect these hourly
12:50candles to start picking up once again.
12:52And to wrap up today's update, the
12:54channel is now sitting at just under
12:561,000 subscribers, which is our first
12:58big milestone for reaching monetization.
13:01So, we are finally making steps towards
13:02that $5,000 per month mark.
13:06Day 13. So, I've just been chilling out
13:08today until I just checked our
13:10analytics. I'm not sure how well you can
13:12see that, but we are starting to go
13:13viral. We are just under 80,000 views on
13:16our most recent short. And even though
13:18this growth to 80,000 views is already
13:20insane, if I come into our real-time
13:21chart, you can see how things are just
13:23going crazy. This is the type of
13:25exponential growth that I was telling
13:26you about. And it's almost at a point
13:28now where it's almost 10,000 views per
13:30hour. At this point, it just looks bad
13:32in videos like this when results come
13:34this easy. And if you have created
13:36shorts before, chances are you didn't
13:38get results this fast. One of the keys
13:40that you need to master is what niche
13:42you're entering and what video topics
13:44you are creating. That is why at the
13:45start of the videos, you see me spending
13:47so much time on formulating my niche.
13:49Because it's one of the main ways that
13:51you can guarantee success without having
13:53to upload over 30 shorts. It's been 3
13:56hours since we spoke last and the short
13:58has officially broken 100,000 views. And
14:00coming over to our alley candles now,
14:02you can see that we're continuing that
14:04exponential pattern and we actually
14:06broke more than 10,000 views per hour.
14:08And the best part is it does not look
14:10like it's slowing down anytime soon. And
14:12finally, we have doubled our subscriber
14:15count. Day 14. Our latest short is now
14:19sitting at 300,000 views. Let me just
14:22come into our chart now so you can get a
14:24detailed look. And you can see that last
14:26night we got one big push, but now
14:27things are starting to slow down. This
14:29is because when your content starts to
14:31get as many views as this, your channel
14:33starts to become sensitive to what time
14:34of day it is. Where I live, typically at
14:37night, I get more views. Like last
14:38night, the short got 27,000 views in
14:41just 1 hour. But now, the hour is 11:00
14:44a.m., which means it's starting to slow
14:45down. But most importantly, we aren't
14:47flatlining here. Even though the short
14:49so far has exceeded my expectations, we
14:52need to continue this momentum and start
14:54creating our next short. During the
14:55evening, I got on a call with the
14:57animator to discuss our next short. I
14:59did some more research into the
15:00Minecraft niche, and I found this short
15:02that has over 128 million views. This
15:05short is much more complex than all of
15:07our previous shorts, and it has a story
15:09line behind it. Essentially, it's just
15:11multiple characters drawing an object,
15:13which is the rising action, and then the
15:15short reaches a climax where this
15:17character performs poorly, and the final
15:19resolution is this last character
15:20transforming and getting revenge. So,
15:23this short has everything needed to go
15:25viral except for the hook, but I'll let
15:27you judge that for
15:29yourself. Finally, on the call, we
15:32touched on the shorts performance, and
15:33we could not be more happier because
15:35it's now just under half a million
15:37views. And as we discussed on the call,
15:39the best part is we are only three
15:41shorts into this. Jack Craig coaching.
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15:47start your own YouTube shorts channel
15:49and gain 10 million views and start
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15:57I get results. Take Carlos, a 9 to-ive
16:00office worker who joined my coaching
16:02with zero experience. And after 45 days
16:04in my program, he began generating over
16:061 million views per day. And his channel
16:09is now generating more money than his
16:11day job. Or take Aaron for example. He
16:13is 13 years old and when he joined my
16:15coaching, his channel was struggling to
16:17even hit 10,000 views. Fast forward to
16:19the end of my 90 days of coaching and he
16:21is now making over £3,000 per month.
16:24That is over £4,000 USD at 13 years of
16:27age. Results like these are achievable
16:29with my coaching because you get access
16:31to weekly calls with myself where I will
16:33sit down with you and give you personal
16:35content strategies, editing audits,
16:37channel audits, and give you the answers
16:39to make your channel go viral. And in
16:41between these weekly calls, you will get
16:43access to a private chat where you can
16:45ask me any questions around the clock.
16:47This is just the start of what's
16:48included in my coaching. Like for
16:50example, you get access to my proven
16:52unreleased niche guides that are
16:54completely untapped. And I always test
16:56the niches myself or give you real data
16:58to prove why they will work. Because as
17:00you've probably realized from watching
17:01this video, going viral fast comes down
17:04to one main thing, positioning your
17:06channel in the right niche. Now, besides
17:08Aaron's and Carlos results, there are
17:10also numerous more listed on my website
17:12from students who have completed my
17:14coaching. Each student testimonial is
17:16backed by their real dashboards because,
17:18as you've probably seen from this video
17:19so far, I am all about getting results.
17:22On my website linked below, you'll get a
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17:33there. Day 15. Let me give you a quick
17:36update on how the channel is doing.
17:38Firstly, the channel has reached 8,000
17:40subscribers. Our short is sitting at
17:42just under 700,000 views, and we are
17:44still getting very strong pushes into
17:46the shorts feed, as shown by the hourly
17:48candles. And for our two other shorts,
17:50they are going okay, but nothing
17:52amazing. The highlight between the two
17:54is obviously our second short, which is
17:56at 34,000 views. And to be honest,
17:58looking at this chart now, it is much
18:00more positive than I thought. But coming
18:02back to the channel now, it's now time
18:04to upload our new short that we began
18:06creating yesterday. We had a very quick
18:08turnaround on this because we are both
18:10extremely motivated to continue our
18:12momentum. Once again, there is no
18:13secrets with uploading and we don't need
18:15to use any fancy tools. And one habit
18:18that I want you to start doing is
18:19watching your short back in this little
18:21player. I cannot tell you how many times
18:22I've watched my short back and there's
18:24been an error that I found. Anyway, I
18:26think everything looks good here. Let's
18:28upload it and I will update you on the
18:30short when we start to get some
18:32results. Day 16. I cannot make this up.
18:36The short has received 121 views in the
18:39last 16 hours. What is going on here?
18:42What is concerning about this is our
18:44real-time views here. We have only
18:46gotten 12% of our views from the shorts
18:48feed. Whereas it should be our highest
18:50viewed traffic source. It should not be
18:52channel pages. We are getting this
18:54traffic from our channel pages because
18:56our highest viewed short is now just
18:58under 900,000 views. And really, this
19:01has me puzzled for now as to the exact
19:03reason why this short is at 121 views.
19:07Our last short is almost at a million
19:09views. It should not be like this. I've
19:11spent the last 30 minutes trying to wrap
19:13my head around what is going on. And
19:15despite these bad results, I know this
19:17short can go viral. Because don't
19:19forget, we are using the exact same
19:20process that worked for our previous
19:22short that is now sitting at just under
19:25900,000 views. But why did this short
19:27get 121 views? Well, I have broken it
19:31down into three possible different
19:33reasons. The first being inappropriate
19:35scenes. You can see at this part of the
19:37short, Mbappe is using his waist to
19:39draw, which could be deemed as
19:41inappropriate from YouTube's censorship
19:43AI. But considering that the original
19:45short had the same movement, this
19:46probably isn't one of the reasons. The
19:48second reason, sound effects. Towards
19:50the end of the short on the soundtrack,
19:52there are sound effects which were taken
19:53from a popular movie. And YouTube is
19:55very strict about anything being taken
19:57from TV shows or movies as written in
19:59their shorts policy. But again, we took
20:01this soundtrack straight from the
20:03example short, so there should be no
20:04issues here. The third reason, YouTube
20:06is only prioritizing our viral short and
20:08not giving any attention to our new
20:10uploads. If you have watched my videos
20:11before, you know I tell you to give your
20:13shorts time to perform so you don't push
20:15them off the shorts feed. And looking
20:17back, we may have gotten ahead of
20:18ourselves and tried to rush things. And
20:20based on these reasons, I am deleting
20:22this short. But do not get me wrong
20:24here. I am not giving up on this short
20:26yet because I know the potential we have
20:29with it. If you are ever deleting shorts
20:30though, you need to be careful. You
20:32cannot re-upload your short without any
20:34changes. Otherwise, you will shadowban
20:36your account. and I'm going to make
20:38changes to our short to address the
20:39first two issues behind why our short is
20:42getting no views. Firstly, it was just
20:44removing the two parts that had sound
20:45effects from the movie and then sending
20:47a recording to my animator asking him to
20:50change the scene where Mbappe was
20:51drawing with his waist. He was online
20:53and fixed it straight away. So, I have
20:55fixed the first two issues and I am
20:57deciding to now go ahead and re-upload
20:59the short. Re-uploading the short now
21:01will allow us to isolate our issue to
21:03just YouTube not pushing our short. So,
21:05let's go ahead and press upload. And
21:07let's hope now that we can get pushed
21:08into the shorts
21:10feed. Day 17. It's been just over 24
21:14hours since re-uploading that short and
21:16I have not checked the results yet
21:18because to be honest with you, I have
21:20been scared to check. Anyway, let's have
21:22a look at this for the first time
21:24together. I'll come up and press shorts
21:26and we'll have a look.
21:29Now, I don't want to look.
21:35189 views. I mean, yeah, 189 views is
21:38slightly better than our last result,
21:40but as you can imagine, this still means
21:42we did not get pushed into the shorts
21:44feed. At least on the bright side here,
21:46our third short has surpassed 1 million
21:48views, which is obviously a great
21:50result. But seriously though, how can we
21:51get 1 million views and not even 1,000
21:54views on our fourth short? But at least
21:56now we have a better idea of exactly why
21:58this short is not getting views.
22:00Originally, we came up with those three
22:01possible reasons, and we solved the
22:03first two. Meaning that now we believe
22:05it's just because YouTube is
22:07prioritizing our viral short. Well, at
22:09least we think so. There could be some
22:11issue with the channel that we don't
22:12know about yet, but at this point, I
22:14really doubt this. What I'm going to do
22:16next is delete the short once again. And
22:18I'm going to wait this time until our
22:20viral short starts to slow down by
22:22monitoring the real-time view
22:25candles. Day 18. The short is finally
22:29starting to slow down where last night
22:31we did not get our usual push to 10,000
22:33views per hour. So, it is now a good
22:36time to upload. And that is what I'm
22:38going to do right now. Something that I
22:40have not spoken to you about yet is this
22:42new short here. My animator and I did
22:44decide to create this new short last
22:46night because we just want to be certain
22:48that there is no issues with our
22:49channel. This new short is very basic
22:51though. It's essentially football
22:53players singing and they get a reward
22:55based on their score from this bar.
22:56Eventually, this last player comes up,
22:58but he does not perform well. And then
23:00there's a call to action, and then he
23:02finally beats everyone. And this short
23:03that we got inspiration from has 13
23:06million views. As I mentioned though,
23:08this short is very basic. And I don't
23:10think this short will perform
23:11particularly well, but that is not the
23:13goal here. It's to see if our channel is
23:15broken. I have completed the upload
23:17settings now. And let's see if we do get
23:19some pushes into the short speed. Have a
23:21look at this. Ready? The short we just
23:22uploaded 2 hours ago is now at 200
23:25views, which means we did get pushed
23:28into the shorts feed, which is what we
23:30have been struggling to get. And we were
23:31correct in saying that YouTube was just
23:33busy with pushing our viral short. So,
23:35as you can tell, I am very relieved now.
23:38And I'm also very excited because we now
23:40have the opportunity to push our short
23:43that we think has
23:45potential. Day 20. We have now flatlined
23:48at 15,000 views and the short did gain
23:51us 200 subscribers. As you can see,
23:53these are not the best results, but I do
23:56not care. All that matters here is that
23:58we got pushed into the shorts feed. What
24:00we really care about is this short here,
24:02which we are going to upload today. I am
24:04planning to completely redo the
24:06soundtrack. And this isn't because I
24:08think there's something wrong with it.
24:09We just need to make some change to it
24:11so YouTube does not think we are
24:13re-uploading the same short and
24:14potentially shadowban us. That evening,
24:17I worked on recreating the sound effects
24:19throughout the short and added a
24:20different soundtrack. And all of that
24:22editing did take me just over 10
24:24minutes. After making those changes, it
24:26is now time to upload the short. And
24:29even though I have been very confident
24:31about this short, I am nervous to upload
24:33it because it's day 20 of the challenge
24:35and I do not want to get to the end of
24:37the 30 days and only have one viral
24:39short. I want you to see that firsthand.
24:41YouTube shorts and really any type of
24:43content can be approached with a
24:45methodical mindset where you are not
24:47throwing ideas against a wall until they
24:49stick. Anyway, let's press upload now
24:52and let's hope that YouTube actually
24:53gives this short a chance because once
24:55again, I know the potential we have with
24:57this one. At least I think I
24:59do. Day 21, 5,000 views on our latest
25:04short. I know that this is not many
25:06views yet, but I am excited because
25:08YouTube is finally pushing this short.
25:10So, be excited with me. Anyway, coming
25:13back to the overall analytics, it is
25:15performing a 2 out of five and it's only
25:17just behind our viral short, which is
25:20now at 1.2 million views. Only time is
25:23going to tell now. So, let's see what is
25:25going to happen. It's been just over 12
25:28hours since we spoke last, and we are
25:29currently at 14,000 views. And if I come
25:32into the chart, you will see how
25:34positive it is looking. Our views did
25:36start to flatten out after the last
25:38update I gave you. But now we are
25:40starting to get a big push coming out of
25:42the first 24 hours. I will keep you
25:44updated on how this short goes over the
25:46coming
25:47days. Day 23, 35,000 views. I told you
25:52that it would work. It's the best
25:54feeling when you know something is going
25:56to work based on your experience and it
25:58actually pays off. And based on my
26:00experience, when shorts start to perform
26:02like this after the first 48 hours,
26:05there is only one place where your
26:06shorts end up, which is getting millions
26:09of views. So, I am so excited to see
26:11where this short is going to end up over
26:13the coming days. So, the view chart is
26:15now a straight line just going up.
26:18Something that's very interesting I want
26:19to show you is by coming to the current
26:21time. It is just after 6:30 and our
26:24views per hour is already at 4,000
26:26views, which means this short could
26:28already be at 10,000 views per hour. And
26:31this goes to show that you should
26:32believe in yourself and not doubt
26:34yourself. And even though it may not
26:36have looked like it, I was extremely
26:37discouraged after seeing the second
26:39upload with no pushes into the shorts
26:41feed. But if I originally stuck to my
26:43principle of giving shorts time to
26:45breathe, we wouldn't have had this issue
26:47to begin with. So, to conclude here, try
26:49not to let your emotions get to you when
26:51things are going well and not so
26:55well. It's the last day of the 30-day
26:58period, so it's time to reveal where we
27:00got the channel to. Over the last 30
27:01days, we gained 37,000 subscribers and
27:04reached 3.4 million views. I am proud of
27:07how we performed here, but there is an
27:09elephant in the room. We failed to meet
27:11our goal of earning at least $5,000 by
27:13copying the Minecraft channel. With that
27:15said, I still consider this channel a
27:17success because it's clearly on the path
27:19to reaching that target. We've already
27:21hit the first stage of monetization and
27:23with more effort and perhaps a more
27:25realistic time frame, hitting $10,000
27:27per month with this channel is very
27:29achievable. Looking a bit deeper now,
27:30our latest short, the one we've been
27:32tracking, has now hit 1.6 million views.
27:36What's especially promising with this
27:37short is that it's bringing in a large
27:39number of new viewers, as shown by this
27:41blue line here. It's an important sign
27:43of healthy growth because it means the
27:45channel isn't just relying upon our
27:47first viral short, which is currently at
27:491.7 million views. I do expect our newer
27:52viral short to surpass the first one in
27:54the coming days because you need to
27:56remember it has a 10day head start. You
27:58wouldn't have seen this top short here.
27:59I published it a few days ago and I
28:02didn't update you about it because at
28:03the time it was day 26 and I felt that
28:06the challenge was already over at that
28:08point. So, I didn't think much of it.
28:10But as you can see, it's starting to
28:11gain a decent amount of views. And I
28:13think with a bit more time, this short
28:15has potential to perform really well.
28:17Something that has been reinforced to me
28:19while running this channel is that in
28:20the early days of running a shorts
28:22channel, it's an incredibly passive
28:23process. We're uploading frequently if
28:25you're not giving your shorts time to
28:27breathe does in fact hurt your shorts
28:29performance. Obviously, this channel
28:30would not have been possible without my
28:32animator, but don't use this as an
28:34excuse as to why you aren't seeing
28:36results or why you cannot get started
28:38creating content today. And you don't
28:40need a complex niche like mine that
28:42requires an animator to start. Every
28:44single channel that I have blown up in
28:46the past has been with no animators, no
28:48outsourcing, just myself putting in the
28:50work. And in my last video, you saw
28:52this. I took a channel from zero views
28:54to over 250,000 views in just 7 days
28:57with two uploads. And before that, I got
28:5910 million views on the second short I
29:01uploaded to a brand new channel. I
29:03monetized that channel in just 22 days.
29:05And before long, I was earning thousands
29:07of dollars per month. At the end of the
29:09day, you can keep making excuses or keep
29:11following advice from people who haven't
29:13actually done it themselves
29:14consistently. But as you've seen,
29:16everything I create gets results.
29:18Literally millions of views. I'm here to
29:21teach you. If you're ready, no matter
29:22your niche, whether you're doing
29:24faceless content or not, or whatever
29:26platform you are posting from, if you
29:28want some proof, go to my website. You
29:29can see all the results I get for anyone
29:31who joins my coaching. I put in the
29:33work, so you don't need to guess. You
29:35just follow the steps and get results.

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