How Average People Are Blowing Up On Youtube In 2026 transcript

These are normal people who went from nothing to 10 to50 plus,000 per month inside a year or two doing something that anybody could do. Honestly, it seems like YouTube is kind of broken right now if you just copy this method and follow these steps. To start off, YouTube has made a change in the past year or two that seems very different. It's gone from the style of superedited retention editing to something that is very real and raw, but also has lowered the barrier to entry where you can come in and have success almost right away without knowing how to edit, without knowing a ton of skills, just by kind of copying what is clearly working right now.

Generally, there's a couple strategies when you are starting. I think the step one with this is finding out what you want to talk about, even though it's okay to take some time discovering that and just going through it. Usually when people talk about making money on YouTube, they're talking about courses or affiliate deals or things like that, which are all great. I do all of those things. I have a cohort that I've ran and helped 250 plus people grow on YouTube.

There's nothing wrong with that. But this strategy is so, so much easier. And so I just want to show you some examples and how you can do this same thing. I want to start with somebody named Connor Woodman. You might have seen a video of his go kind of viral recently. It's called You've Consumed Enough God Wants You to Create. If you haven't checked it out, it's really good. And you can see he doesn't actually have that many videos that have a lot of views.

They haven't gone super viral. If you watch his videos, it is something that you could easily do. He is standing in front of a camera in the woods, probably wearing his work clothes, almost no edits, no B-roll, no music, nothing. He's talking to the camera. I think you can do that. He's not even cutting out the pauses or things like that. But if we look at his channel, he is doing some things that a bunch of other people are doing.

And I pretty much know how much money he's making from doing this. So, first of all, he's posting every single day. 1 day, 2day, 3day, 9 day. Okay, not every day, but most days. And I'm also going to break down some strategies of how to do this without it taking over your life. But he's just posting an insane amount of stuff and a lot of them aren't going viral. This one's got 309 views, 460 views, 3,000 views. That's great.

And then he's got that 200,000 view one and then nothing, nothing, nothing. And this is all coming back from being off YouTube for 3 months. He came back recently and now over the past 30 days, he's made about $9,000. This is just based off a rough estimate. If he's making like a $10 CPM, could be a little bit less, but I'm just going to guess how much these people are making based on like a $10 one. On about a million views, he might be making about $9,000 anywhere from 7 to 9 somewhere in there for making these videos every single day.

I want to show you a couple other examples. This guy's name is Noah. He's posting these shorter videos, but they are again every single day, 3 minute videos, and some of them go viral, some of them don't. But in the past 30 days at 92,000 subscribers, he has about 3 million views. So I don't know how much like 3 minute videos pay, but I'm guessing that's anywhere from $8,000 to $20,000 a month in ad revenue. Little bit more proof.

This right here is Estelle. She's posting pretty much daily as well, sometimes three times a week. And in the past 30 days, she's got about 1.4 million views. So I'm guessing that's around from 8 to $10,000, something like that. And so before I get to some of the more crazy examples that are definitely making 50K a month plus, I want to break down what these kind of smaller creators are doing. So let's look at Connor real quick.

He's obviously batch making these. He's going in the woods and he's talking to a camera and doing a bunch at the same time. Like it's quite possible that all of these videos were shot at the same time. And yes, some of them didn't work, but some of them do. And generally there's this rule with YouTube where you're going to have about one out of 10 go really well. You're going to have about four do average and five are going to kind of underperform.

That's just generally a rule. Sometimes it comes in spurts if you get like a bunch do good at once, sometimes it doesn't. But that's just kind of the general rule. And you see like he had a bunch do really bad here and then when this one did well, whatever he posted next was going to do well and then it kind of died down. And then he happened to have another one do well again. And then it's kind of like gone up and down since then.

But he has posted 224 videos. And for most people when they start YouTube, it takes them forever to post 224 videos. is it could take, you know, if you're doing one video a week, that could be 4 years worth of content. And he's been doing this for about a year. And his videos didn't start doing great. They were obviously kind of a similar thing where he's just trying different things, experimenting. New beef day, Friday sea swim, who's going to watch that?

But eventually, because he got so many reps in so quickly, he was able to find what worked for him. And that's the first step here is just to put in a bunch of reps so that you can find what you want to talk about. You can find your niche as opposed to some people who might have their niche figured out right at the get- go and that is a different strategy to do this which is totally fine. You might have to find your niche and you find your niche by experimenting.

You talk about all the things that you're interested in and then eventually one of them is going to stick and he found what stuck. How to listen to God's voice clearly. You've consumed enough. God wants you to create and God can make up for lost time. Don't worry. And it's a similar thing to what Estelle ended up finding where if we look back to 9 months ago when she started 9 months 175,000 subscribers, she was trying something.

She had these thumbnails which are just I think they're pretty bad. But she was posting and posting and posting and none of these were having great success and she was experimenting with different things and eventually her thumbnails. You can see less and less stuff show up on the thumbnails. And if we look to her latest ones that are doing a lot better, it's literally just a screenshot of her. And that's the I guess next point here is that you don't have to be great at anything in order to go with this strategy.

You don't have to know how to make a thumbnail. These are all screenshots. Sometimes they're a picture. You don't have to know how to edit. This right here is one continuous shot with her walking with probably this DJI camera right here which has a little gimbal. It also has the same little microphone that she has is a couple hundred bucks. It selfstabilizes. You got a cool mic. It's great. Or you can put a mic like that on your iPhone and get a gimbal for your iPhone or a little tripod for your iPhone.

And you can see this is all unedited. She's just walking in the snow talking about things that she's interested in. She's not looking at notes unless she has something on her phone. There's a little bit of cutting, but not really. She's just going out and talking about how new age is a scam. It's just topics that her audience are interested in. And while none of it's amazing, YouTube is shifting, this is kind of like where the algorithm shifts come in, to being like hyperedited to being this slow conversational style of YouTube where a lot of people they just want a friend.

They just want somebody to talk to, to listen to, and then eventually even to get their information from. So this is somebody Michael right here, and this would be kind of like one of those higher paying ones, even though he only has 288,000 subscribers. You won't believe how much money he's making. This is all alleged, by the way. But five years ago, he was experimenting, trying with different style stuff, just making a bunch of videos on random things.

You can see these thumbnails are absolutely horrible, which is why those screenshots of real people are way better than these thumbnails. These had zero chance of success. They're just really bad. I'm not hating on him. If you go back and look at my old thumbnails, they're trash. But if we look at what he's doing now, he's doing the same thing as those other people. He's going for a walk with what looks like an iPhone on a gimbal if I'm seeing in his glasses correctly and he's just talking for 16 minutes about how social security is about to change in a big way without notes.

He's just talking about something. So this would be finding your area of expertise, whether it's YouTube, whether it's psychology, whether it's the Bible, whether it's real estate, just talking about it for 16 minutes every day when you're out for a walk with a little mic on your shirt and a tank top. No edits. And this is something that he's been hammering at after experimenting in the beginning like we saw where he didn't know what his niche was at the beginning.

He's doing hurricane ripple in Miami Beach. Okay. Five moving mistakes. Extra money with things you already own. Just trying random stuff. He found out that real raw real estate was his thing. And if any of these people are watching this and I'm correct on my numbers, let me know. But especially in the finance niece, I'm guessing he's making at least $10 per,000 views. So with 5.4 4 million views. My guess would be he'd making about $50,000 a month just from AdSense, not including any affiliates, any sponsorships, any products he might have.

See if he has a course. No, he just got my gear. So, could be higher than that. I know people who make more than that in the finance niche. I know people who make less than that, but anywhere from $30 to $60,000 a month in AdSense. I would almost guarantee that. And all he is doing is walking and talking about interesting things to people, trending topics for exactly his target audience, which is real estate. And he just kept doing it for a really long time.

He's got 1,200 videos. It could take people like 10 years to make that many videos. But he's just circumventing the process and just making making to get better at talking at camera. You can't talk for 12 minutes on camera right now. Make a thousand videos and I bet you can talk for 12 minutes on camera. Something that I struggle with. This text is just a screenshot with yellow and black text that he's definitely making in Canva.

I know because that's what it looks like when I try to make a thumbnail. And they're just very simple for the most part thumbnails with three words on it, more or less. Three to five words is generally the sweet spot. And that's just what he's doing right now. This is another example of someone named Azul, who was actually in one of my previous cohorts that I was teaching on how to grow on YouTube. And recently, he's been posting 3 hours ago, 21 hours ago, 1 day ago, 2 days, 2 days.

So, he's posting like once a day minimum. Minimum. and he has gotten 6.6 million views in the last 30 days, which again is probably around 60K, but anywhere from 30 to 75K would be the range in ad revenue with 212,000 subscribers. Again, 1300 videos. And these are mostly him just talking, not really doing anything, not much editing, not much B-roll. Anybody could make this video. Literally, anybody could make this video.

You can edit this yourself. You can hire out an editor. He's not really editing them. Again, either it is this type of thing where it's just a screenshot or it's a couple words, just very simple. I honestly think that the screenshots are better. If we look at some of his top videos, like this is one of his top videos with 1.3 million views. But you can also like get an editor and he knows his target audience. It is targeting people who are close to retirement and they're worried about it.

They're thinking about it. He has a lot of expertise in it. He was in that field for a while. So, he can just go out for a walk and talk about these subjects. And so that's going to be your thing is as you explore, you're trying to find that thing that you could just talk about every single day. And even like this right here, I thought about making this video maybe two hours ago when I saw a bunch of these channels just doing incredibly.

And I was like, I should just make a video about this. Well, it's not going to be as highly polished as a lot of my other videos. This is something that works. So, as you start growing, you can monetize a few different ways. You can create your own product. You can create your own community. So, these people might feel like they're a lot more friends with you. So, they might want to hang out with you. You can create your own community.

I have a community for creators. that's completely free to join. It also has some courses in there that are free as well. And that's just a place to hang out with the person that you're watching. And if you want to, you can monetize that. You can turn it into a course. You can do whatever you want to do. When you have this many videos going out, it's easy to get sponsors or affiliates. So, not only will you make money in AdSense, which is going to be the main strategy for a lot of these people, but there's so many other opportunities that will come as well.

And usually AdSense is the worst way to make money. So, as some of these people unlock how they can, you know, kind of go to the next level, which it seems like a lot of these haven't yet, they'll be able to double or triple how much they are making, once they figure out how to start getting more sponsors, how to start getting more affiliates, how to create their own product to sell. And that would take some of these, you know, larger creators to probably six figures a month, and some of these smaller ones to easily in the 10 to 30 range a month.

So, hopefully you guys enjoyed this video. If you want to learn more about how to create highquality videos, how to actually grow on YouTube and stuff like that, also have a free community you can join. It's pretty uh it's pretty dope. Talk to me. Send me a message. Here you go.