00:0030 days ago, I started three brand new YouTube short channels to see if I can get any views while only using AI

00:04During this challenge, I had three main questions

00:08First of all, what is the best niche to create shorts in? Second, how hard is it to make videos with AI? And lastly, is posting shorts dumb luck, or do you actually need some skill for this? So after doing some research in my previous video, I decided to go with these three niches: basketball, gaming, and celebrities

00:29On the first day of this challenge, I did a ton of research

00:30I basically looked up any video that I could find that I would say would make a funny clip, then What I did is I took that clip and I put it into Opus Clip, and I prompted it to find the best moment, and this saved me so much time because I didn't have to watch any of these videos

00:46I just prompted it to find the most viral moments, and it automatically gives me the clips, which I can then edit in OBS Clip and then post on my YouTube channel

00:54Now here's the short example of what I made

00:56For example, here I say, "Find me the viral moments of this interview," and then I choose this clip right there

01:02I added in a voiceover, which you can do in Opus Clip, and then you get something like this

01:07This is what Millie Bobby Brown did for her 20th

01:12Birthday for my 20th birthday, I was like, so yes, it does everything from adding in the voice over to adding in captions to finding the best moment

01:20Now, I use this method to make all of my shorts in all of these channels, so I gathered all the videos and I started posting them, and then every time something happened, I recorded an update for you guys, and unfortunately, I didn't record much in the first two weeks simply because I was busy, but now I got this update for you

01:38So basically, what I've been doing over the past, yeah, so I just noticed I'm wearing the same sweater, this is a complete coincidence, and in before I get any comments

01:48About this, just take a look at my hair, take a look at the setup, it's completely different now

01:53Let's continue with the video

01:55Like, few weeks, let's say like two weeks, I've been putting all types of video in Opus Clip, into Clip Anything, and basically trying to find the best, like, or most fun clips in there

02:10So here, I've asked it to find the viral moments, and I've gone through it, and I've downloaded all of them, and then I've basically edited them, and I've uploaded on YouTube, and this is what we have so far

02:22So on the first channel, this is the Epic Streamer Moment Channel, I noticed that a lot of the videos were doing

02:30Pretty well, so first of all, we have our first video, that one just died off pretty quickly

02:36Then we have this one, this one got 16k, and it's sporadically still getting views

02:42If we take a look at like the swipe rate, so we get a 71% view rate, which is okay, but it's not enough to go viral

02:52Then I've been noticing the same type of thing going on later into the video

02:58So occasionally, we have videos that don't do well, then we have one that's doing like around, let's say 10K, or maybe one that's doing like 14k

03:08The comments, by the way, are pretty good on this also

03:11So this one's still getting some views right here, but yeah, this

03:16One got 15K, and if we take a look at the swipe rate, we got 75% that viewed it, so yeah, that's what we have been getting so far

03:25So basically, we haven't hit past the 20K mark on this channel

03:31We have done around 107K in views, and we've done around 93 in subscribers, which is all right, given the fact that I've literally started my first video right here, and then I started being consistent for about 14 days right now

03:49So in 14 days, I got 100K views on the first channel, then on the second channel, I don't have that much good news

03:57Basically, this channel, it just isn't working

04:01I've been doing something wrong, I'm thinking it has

04:03To do with the content type, because no matter how much I edit it, I occasionally still get videos that get this notification of the Shorts policy, so it has been getting some kind of claim by the NBA, and I can't do much about it because I don't own the rights to this

04:24So I would suggest, if you're trying this out, don't do it with the NBA

04:29I've looked up some Reddit forums, and I saw people doing the same thing, but they were using a surf video, so basically there is like a surf league, and that isn't really that copyright strict, but the NBA really is, and that went really, really good, so if you want to do this with sports, choose

04:53Sports that aren't that big, but at the same time, you want to have big sports, because otherwise, how are you going to get the attention? So I think like serving is kind of like a big sport, also everyone still wants to watch serving, so that might be a good alternative to this one, but basically what we're going to try here is we're going to try something different

05:12So instead of doing all of these basketball highlights, I'm going to try this

05:17So I've scheduled this out, and this is literally a clip of Kobe

05:20Kobe versus Jordan, who is the real goat? Do you remember what you told me one day in the form? So this is basically like an Interview, I'm going to try something like this

05:32This is a bit different, and I think this might, might work, because I'm not getting any restrictions so far

05:37And yeah, honestly, it must be doing better than those 500 views

05:43Like, if we take a look at the analytics, 5K VI, so that's, that's pretty bad, that's really, really bad

05:51We just got like one subscriber on that

05:53Now lastly, we have the channel Laughing Legends, and this one quite surprised me

05:57I thought this one would be doing worse than it is

05:59So, so far we got 110k views, which is really good considering the fact that I'm only doing this for like 14 days, so I definitely

06:10Think if you just continue this, or if you just either increase the upload rate, you could get even more

06:14But yeah, let me just show you how it has done

06:17So if we go to shorts, we can see that we've been getting consistently views on this channel

06:24So each short right here, apart from like these ones, have been doing like 10K, 10K, 10K, 10K, and I don't know why, but I just can't seem to break that barrier

06:35That's the only issue I have with this channel

06:37So if we take a look at this one, it's doing all right, swipe rate of 79%, that has feuded, which is way better than the last channel, and yeah, it's, it's doing really good, but I just can't get Past that 10K, so I'm going to keep consistent at this, and I'm going to update you guys if I have some better results with this, or if I'm going to change it up slightly

07:01Okay, so it's day 16, and it's time for another update

07:03So it's about 8:30 p.m

07:05right now, I'm still in the office, and I just wanted to update you guys because right now we got our best video, our second best video on this channel

07:15So we got a two out of 10, and it's right below this video of Jenna Ortega, and we got 12K views, which is pretty good

07:23Now, if you take a look at our analytics, then we can see that this was our best day so far, and I know it's not viral, it's not any Like, really big numbers, but if you take a look at our last few days, I appreciate these amount of views

07:38Now, also, I want to address the elephant in the room here, because our channel, Hoop Loop, has not been doing great

07:45So far, we managed to get seven subscribers, and our best video is this one of Kobe versus Jordan, which has 477 views

07:54And if we take a look at our analytics, then you can see it's not great either

07:59So here's what I'm thinking, let's pull the plug out of this channel and focus all our attention on our main channel, Laughing Legends, and our other channel, Epic Streamer Moments, because the basketball channel just

08:11Isn't working for me, I just can't fix it

08:13If we take a look at the Shorts policy, I'm getting issues with that as well, and I don't have that with this type of content

08:22So what I'm thinking, on these two channels, I'm posting twice a day instead of once, and let's see what we can get, let's see if we can get that firewall, what I'm looking for

08:32So let's stay tuned for the next update

08:34Today is day 26, and oh boy, we had a rough couple of days

08:41Honestly, I thought of quitting, and I didn't do that before because we were doing okay, I guess, but literally what happened over these last few days was awful

08:51So here's what happened on our Channel epic streamer moment, the one that I had the most fade in, we pretty much didn't get any views

08:58Like, take a look at this graph

09:01On this day, we got 500 views, which is a bad short

09:04Then we got 17 views, we got 23 views, we got 15 views, and this just continued over and over again day in day out

09:14Now, our other channel, which was doing great, we got like 17K views over here

09:19Also, all of the sudden, at the exact same date, didn't get any views anymore, so we had like 17 views, 21 views, 23 views

09:28Honestly, this continued and continued, and at that point, I thought I could do one of two things: first, I could quit and just color the day

09:40Color, the fill, or I can go all in, and I try my best to make the most out of this challenge, so that's exactly what we did

09:48So first of all, I changed it to uploading twice a day instead of doing one

09:53Let's double the effort, let's put everything we got into these last couple of days and try to see, we can get a viral banger

09:59Now what I did also is, I looked closely what the competitors were doing, and then one day I was scrolling through YouTube shorts and I came across this video right here, let me just show you a small part of it

10:13Keanu Reeves broke the interviewer with his poem

10:16I love this poem, do you mind if I read it? It's called An O to happiness

10:21So yeah, that video, heavily edited, done great, it got 214k likes

10:27I'm not sure how many views it got, but probably a lot

10:29I was like, if he can do that, then what prevents me from doing the same? So let's steal like an artist

10:37And what I did is, I found the interview that he was using

10:42This is an interview that's four years old

10:43So what I did is, I took that video, I put it into Opus Clip, I asked it to find that quote where they were talking about the O to happiness, and on video number two, we got that exact same video

10:53Now I want to go all in for this channel, so instead of me editing it myself, I asked one of my editors to put in

11:03Everything they got into, these type of videos, so now on this channel, we finally are getting some views again, like it seems like maybe a shadow ban, I don't know what to call it, but it seems like we're doing better with this now

11:18We got 15K views just today, and as you can see, in the last 48 hours, we have 27k views, and right now, as we're talking about this, we're still getting a lot of views

11:29Now, what happened is these three videos got views

11:32This one is doing pretty good

11:35We can see we got a huge boost right here, and then right now, it's pretty much dying

11:41Then this other video about Kiana Reeves, this one is steadily growing

11:47It's doing very, very well

11:49If we take a look at the swipe rate, we can see it's about 80%

11:51Preferably, I would like this to be closer to 100%, because that's the only way you get a viral

12:00Now, our other video is still getting views, so this one we just uploaded

12:05This one is doing really good at the moment

12:08You see, 60 minutes ago and it's getting 1,800 views

12:12It's being pushed after like 5 hours, so that's the strange thing with shorts

12:16If you quit once you're getting zero views, then yeah, you will continue to get zero views

12:22There's no point in trying if you quit early

12:24Now, if you stay consistent with this, I'm certain Your channel will succeed, so that's what I'm going to do for the next few days

12:32I'm going to stay consistent by posting twice a day, and I will go all in on the editing, because I believe if I download this video from like Opus Clip and export it as an XML, I can make the best video possible instead of just using Opus Clip's editor

12:47Now, let's see where this brings us, and I will check back again with you in a couple of days

12:52We're officially done with this challenge

12:54It's a little bit over 30 days

12:56I let the last few shorts marinate for a little bit before I give you the results, but now let me dive into the results of each

13:03channel to see if we've successfully made it, or if we failed

13:08Now, starting off with Hoop Loop, unfortunately, this channel just didn't work

13:12As you can see, we didn't get any subscribers, we got barely any views, and I also stopped uploading on this channel because I didn't see any potential in it

13:22If we take a look at the content, then we can see we ran into some issues with the Shorts policy

13:26It says the channel is not affected and visibility is also not affected, but yeah, this channel, the most views it got per video is like 500, so basketball niche isn't worth it to me unless you heavily edit your videos

13:38Next up, we have Epic streamer moment, and this one looked so promising to me

13:43I actually placed a bet on this, that this will be our best performing channel

13:51Unfortunately, it didn't quite do it

13:58So, with this channel, we have 150k views, we have 126 subscribers in 30 days, and honestly, I think this one still has potential if you continue to post, if you stay consistent, and maybe if you apply some more editing on your video

14:05If we take a look at the analytics, then we can see that we started off pretty strong here

14:11I got like high hopes that I thought it was doing well, but unfortunately, after like September 23rd, then it just died

14:18Continued to post like even twice a day, but it never recovered from that

14:23I'm not sure what was happening during that time, because I got a ton of notifications underneath my video that more people were getting no views at all while they were trying the same thing

14:34The same thing happened on my other channel, Laughing Legends, at the exact same time

14:38So here on September 23rd, we didn't get any views for quite some time after that

14:43This channel recovered quite good, we got 41k, but unfortunately, we didn't have any like massive viral video

14:49In conclusion, this is what I've learned from this challenge

14:54First of all, I Need you to stay consistent if you're trying shorts

14:56It can happen that you don't get any shorts for a long period of time during your posting, but if you stay consistent, you eventually will get more shorts

15:05Second, I would use shorts to grow your channel, for example, 200 subscribers

15:10It might not seem like a lot, but if you continue this for a few months, you will have 1,000 subscribers, and then if you focus on long form, you can monetize your channel

15:22AI tools like Opus Clip will make your life a lot easier, especially if you use it for original content, like your own content, then you can easily monetize it, so I would

15:31Suggest you try out Opus Clip if you want to use AI for your videos, and lastly, I don't think posting Shorts is done

15:37Look, I think you actually need to have good videos that will perform, because your swipe rate, as well as your engagement, is very important on Shorts

15:46Now, the better your video is, the more chances your video will go viral

15:50However, I think if you post more, your chances of going viral are bigger, because if you only post like once a week, you only have like one video that can go viral

15:59Let's say you post four times a day, that means you have 28 chances of going viral in that week, but all in all, make sure you Post some good content

16:08Now, I'm curious to know if you want me to try more challenges with YouTube Shorts in the future

16:11If so, let me know what you want me to do in the comments down below, and I will do it

16:17Thanks so much for watching this

16:17I had a ton of fun creating this, and I will see you in the next one.