there is a new strategy emerging on YouTube that small channels heck brand new channels are taking advantage of to get views like this so in this video we're going to show you what it is and how to apply it to your own channel if you need more proof here's a Channel with less than 2,000 subscribers and a video with 120,000 views or this Channel with under 800 subscribers and a video with over 15,000 views and the best part is you've already seen this strategy in action in the first 30 seconds of this video it is
literally slapping you in the face you don't know what it is do you when you start a new channel you're immediately faced with a challenge that the YouTube algorithm doesn't know you and to be quite honest doesn't really care about you yet anyway this is because YouTube is an open platform with no barriers to entry so you're immediately competing with millions of channels some of which have millions of views and millions of subscribers so the majority of the time the algorithm is going to favor their videos over your videos because those channels have data YouTube
can use and more importantly history with viewers all of this makes it extremely competitive and difficult for you to stand out so how are you supposed to compete with these colossal channels operating in your Niche well a lot of creators will attempt to do stuff like editing their videos at a faster Pace making outrageous titles and thumbnails that turn into clickbait or trying to upload more videos more frequently now don't get me wrong some of these strategies are branches to channel growth but they don't really get to the root of great content and that's the
video idea if the idea does click with your audience provides value they want and satisfies their needs nothing else really matters and it is the number one reason why these for menion channels grew so fast and to find these winning ideas they used that strategy that's still here pointing and laughing at you because you don't know what it is all right all right enough with a suspense it's all to do with this number and it's what's known as a video outlier now maybe you've heard this term being thrown around recently especially if you're a regular
here if not welcome to vid IQ your go-to resource for YouTube tools and education I'm Rob you'll get used to these glasses and if you're not familiar with the term outlier video why is it so important we'll go back to the analogy of the YouTube algorithm not knowing or caring about you meaning your videos get a couple of hundred views before fizzing out but then seemingly out of nowhere you you drop a video that explodes like a supernova racking up views and engagement like never before that my friend is an outlier video for example let's
say I started a brand new channel and my first four videos averaged 100 views each but then my fifth video gets 10,000 views this is what we would call an outlier it's performed a 100 times better you see that number than your previous videos and is certainly for your brand new channel a viral moment now it's highly likely that some version of this has already happened to you albe it on on a much smaller scale you've had a video that's performed a 2x 5x or 10x better than normal but you don't know why it happened
or how to replicate it so once you do know how to find these outlier videos and recreate them for yourself it's going to be like strapping a rocket booster to your channel and let me give you a real world example this channel made a video about transitioning from using a controller to using a keyboard and mouse in fortnite the video almost a year later has almost a million views and this is for a Channel with less than 15,000 subscribers which is awesome but what we also know is that this video performed 29 times better than
a Channel's average views so a small Channel had a viral hit with an outlier video that has to be worth investigating right yes this channel using the same video idea got 130,000 views with an near 6X outlier and this Channel with less than 2,000 subscribers followed the same idea and got 120,000 views another big outlier video this video idea has now spawned an entire sub niche in The fortnite Gaming Community and channels are enjoying tremendous outlier success and brand new channels are using this same powerful strategy Chris takes off hit 400,000 views on his first
travel video and if we do a quick search for the title it is likely that he modeled these two videos to make sure it was a hit now obviously the packaging of this video is of a very high standard and the video itself is a stellar piece of work but without that original viral video idea first it wouldn't have been performed anywhere near as well all of which leaves a big question how can you find those outlier videos yourself to boost the growth of your own channel up until now you would have had to spend
hours manually scrolling YouTube clicking into channels and trying to figure out which videos might be an outlier or not so we decided to automate all of his grunt work into one incredibly simple and one incredibly powerful way first the simple way install the vid IQ browser extension it's free and to be honest in 2024 it's pretty much a Creator crime not to have it this will enhance your YouTube Creator experience in many glorious ways including this simple multiplier number this is the outlier score for any video obviously the higher the number the better and it's
an instant indicator to you that this video for this channel crushed it on YouTube but what if you want to invest some dedicated time into discovering outliers for your Niche and your channel size I'm glad you asked now you have V VI Q browser extension and created an account with us head on over to app. viid iq.com and then go down to the outlier section and without doing anything else because you've already authenticated your Channel with us this tool will show you outlier videos based on your channel niche in this example we're seeing outliers all
about YouTube growth and education because it's linked to the vid IQ YouTube channel and this top result is certainly worthy of more research 20,000 views on a video from a Channel with 4,000 subscribers with quite a controversial title so I can click into the outlier to find out more information and maybe watch the video itself on YouTube but the research doesn't have to end there because with this tool you can search for anything you want we'll start with a keyword but also add a filter to really refine the search outlier videos based on online business
published in the last month on YouTube as you can see the tool finds plenty of results instantly and this video looks like a pretty decent outlier that might be of interest to someone researching a topic of online business the video's performed 21 times better than the channels average making this format worth testing if you had a side hustle or make money YouTube channel but given that you might be a small Channel what if these 29,000 subscribers put you off we can fix that too the filters allow you to set a ceiling on subscriber size so
you can find channels producing outlier videos who are the same size as you if not smaller and so if channels like this are cranking out content that gets tens of thousands of views it proves that small channels can and do get discovered on YouTube and you may have just found a video idea that will produce a viral moment for your channel you know what this tool is it's a shortcut solution to finding out what your audience really cares about it pushes you towards the topics your viewers are interested in that haven't been covered enough yet
on the platform it's like a viral video detector scanning tens of millions of videos and saving you hours and hours of research time and it can be yours for just $1 if you use a link in the description and with that $1 not only will you get the outlier tool but everything else vid IQ has to offer from a keyword research tool to a thumbnail generator and now that you know what video outliers are you're ultimately left with two choices you can either continue to try and come up with your own video ideas and risk
spending hours on a video that never had a chance of performing in the first place or you can see what already clicks with your audience and is proven to work from videos already on the platform and all it takes is a number like this which to be honest is a bit blurred I'll fix that lovely
