YouTube Automation: Build a Channel Business
Plan, produce and grow a YouTube channel as a business — with or without showing your face — using smart systems, freelancers and AI the way YouTube allows, then get monetised.
What you'll learn
- Choose a niche and channel format that can earn, with or without showing your face
- Follow YouTube's monetisation, inauthentic content and reused content rules so your channel stays monetised
- Come up with video ideas, titles and thumbnails people want to click
- Write scripts and hooks that keep viewers watching
- Use AI tools and freelancers responsibly to produce videos consistently
- Read YouTube Analytics (CTR, retention) and improve every video
- Launch a channel with a 30-day content plan
Course content
Part 1. Start here: what YouTube automation really is3 lessons
Part 2. YouTube's rules: get monetised and stay monetised8 lessons
- YouTube Partner Program: how to make money on YouTube (official)by YouTube Creators4 min
- Updates to the YouTube Partner Program (official)by YouTube Creators4 min
- Shorts in the Partner Program: eligibility and revenue sharing (official)by YouTube Creators4 min
- YouTube's inauthentic content policy, explained (Creator Insider)by Creator Insider10 min
- YouTube's reused content policy, explained (Creator Insider)by Creator Insider4 min
- Demonetised channels: the inauthentic content trap (vidIQ)by vidIQ13 min
- YouTube channel monetisation policies
- Quiz: YouTube's rules
Part 3. Niche, ideas and packaging15 lessons
- MrBeast's YouTube consultant on ideas and packaging (Paddy Galloway)by Jon Youshaei20 min
- Paddy Galloway's playbook: Meet Paddy Gallowayby Colin and Samir5 min
- Paddy Galloway's playbook: The Playbook for Growing a YouTube Channel in 2025by Colin and Samir5 min
- Paddy Galloway's playbook: Title Thumbnail Frameworks Top Creators Useby Colin and Samir6 min
- Paddy Galloway's playbook: Finding the Sweet Spot Between Art & Algorithmby Colin and Samir4 min
- Paddy Galloway's playbook: Red Bull Case Studyby Colin and Samir6 min
- Paddy Galloway's playbook: Title Thumbnail Frameworks Top Creators Use (Cont'd)by Colin and Samir9 min
- Paddy Galloway's playbook: Dealing with Competitionby Colin and Samir6 min
- Paddy Galloway's playbook: YouTube’s Algorithm & What Success Really Looks Likeby Colin and Samir5 min
- Paddy Galloway's playbook: The Importance of Feedbackby Colin and Samir4 min
- Paddy Galloway's playbook: Why Brand Need to Think Like Creatorsby Colin and Samir1 min
- Thumbnail hacks YouTubers use to hook you (Film Booth)by Film Booth16 min
- YouTube click-through rate explained (Nick Nimmin)by Nick Nimmin8 min
- Choosing a niche that can pay
- Practice: niche and 30 video ideas
Part 4. Scripts, hooks and retention5 lessons
- How to write scripts better than 99% of YouTubers (Film Booth)by Film Booth1h 0m
- Tricks YouTubers use to hook you in the first seconds (Film Booth)by Film Booth10 min
- The silent hook: visuals that keep people watching (Film Booth)by Film Booth8 min
- How to improve audience retention (Film Booth)by Film Booth13 min
- Quiz: scripts and retention
Part 5. Production systems: editing, AI and freelancers5 lessons
- Editing hacks YouTubers use to hold attention (Film Booth)by Film Booth11 min
- How to make AI voiceovers that sound human (ElevenLabs)by ElevenLabs8 min
- How to find and hire video editors within your budgetby Content Creators14 min
- Build your production system
- Practice: write a brief and produce your first video
Part 6. SEO, analytics and growth4 lessons
Part 7. Final project1 lesson
Capstone project: Capstone: launch your channel with a 30-day plan. You finish by building something real; a mentor reviews it before your certificate is issued.
About this course
"YouTube automation" means running a channel like a small media company: you choose a profitable niche, plan ideas and packaging, and use systems, freelancers and tools to produce videos consistently — so the channel can grow even when you can't do everything yourself. Many people sell it as easy money from mass-produced AI videos. That version gets channels demonetised. This course teaches the version that lasts: YouTube's own Partner Program rules and its inauthentic and reused content policies (straight from YouTube), ideas and titles that people click, thumbnails, hooks, scripts and retention from Film Booth, SEO and analytics with vidIQ, the playbook of Paddy Galloway (consultant to MrBeast), AI voiceovers used responsibly, and how to hire and manage editors. You'll finish by launching your channel with a 30-day publishing plan. Works from a phone; a computer helps for editing. About 6 hours of video.
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