Rec · Video ideas
PreFilm gets business owners more customers from YouTube. Its YouTube video idea generator finds the videos your buyers already watch and hands you ideas for what you sell, each with its proof.
The outlier · for an orthodontist
Braces vs. Aligners (Invisalign): An Orthodontist's Honest Comparison
19.5×
Where it comes from
Alexandria Orthodontics
The evidence
19.5× that channel's normal of 200 views · 3,904 views when PreFilm found it
Where it sells
The pitch comes at 2:39, after the comparison: "If you're ready to start that conversation, our team is here to help." The description offers a complimentary consultation.
00:01How it works
Step 01
Paste your channel and say what you sell. The first look at your niche needs no card.
Step 02
It finds videos beating their channel's normal, then reads their comments and what your buyers search.
Step 03
Up to 18 ideas a run, each with its source video, its multiple and how often it's been done.
00:02Where the ideas come from
PreFilm reads all three for your niche, so you don't have to.
Outliers in and around your niche, compared to each channel's own normal.
What viewers ask for, argue about and still don't have an answer to. These three are real.
The exact phrases they search, with the monthly volume next to them.
00:03What a YouTube outlier is
An outlier is a video that got far more views than its channel normally gets. It tells you the idea did the work, not the size of the channel.
The Savvy Couple's 12 most recent videos. PreFilm looks for these across your whole niche, and shows how often each has been copied.
00:04Two kinds of winner
Beating their channel's normal, and nobody in your niche has copied them yet. These are the early ones.
Phrases small channels already rank for, so you know a channel your size can rank too.
00:05Ranked, with the receipt
Every idea shows where it came from, how far it beat that channel's normal, and how often it's been done. Here are the top outliers PreFilm found for an example client, a financial adviser.
Example client · a financial adviser · 1 · Top outlier
What Is a Financial Advisor?
What Is a Financial Advisor?
The evidence
29.4× its channel's normal · 103,943 views · published November 2023
The channel
Charles Schwab · 555,000 subscribers
Example client: a financial adviser.
00:06Who it's for
Run ideas for every client channel from what each client sells. Pro covers up to 10 channels.
Get the videos your future clients are already watching, with the reason each one works.
Turn the questions your buyers ask on calls into videos that bring them to you.
Find the videos your buyers already watch.
00:08Questions
You paste your channel and say what you sell. PreFilm finds the videos in and around your niche that beat their own channel's normal, reads the comments under them and checks what your buyers search, then ranks ideas for your offer, each with the video it came from and the evidence behind it.
A YouTube outlier is a video that got far more views than its channel normally gets. PreFilm divides a video's views by its channel's normal to get the multiple. The Savvy Couple's local SEO interview got 14,672 views, 14× its channel's normal, so the idea did the work.
Each run gives up to 18 ideas, each with the video it came from. The $1 trial for 7 days includes 400 credits, and a More ideas run is 250 credits whenever you want a fresh batch. Creator includes 2,000 credits a month and Pro 6,000, shared across your channels.
No, but it works best once you've published a few videos. Outliers are measured against each channel's own normal, so ideas come from channels of every size, and PreFilm looks for searches small channels already rank for. If you're brand new, start with the free tools and the blog.
Ask Studio, the AI assistant in YouTube Studio that's taking over from the Inspiration tab, helps you brainstorm ideas and read your own channel's numbers. PreFilm starts from what you sell and the buyers you want, shows the video behind every idea and how far it beat its channel's normal, and checks how often the format has been done.
The first look at your niche is free, with no card. The full ideas cost $1 for 7 days, which includes 400 credits, then a plan from $49 a month. Every idea comes with its evidence, so you can judge it before you spend a minute filming.
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Your first look is free. The ideas cost $1 for 7 days.
