What if Claude could scan your niche for videos that are blowing up, figure out what everyone is saying, and then tell you the angle nobody has touched yet? 🤯 It can, and it only takes a few minutes to set up. Here's the workflow, step by step. Step 1: Connect vidIQ to Claude vidIQ is a YouTube research tool, and it can plug straight into Claude as a connector. That means Claude can pull real YouTube data instead of guessing. 1. In Claude, open Settings and go to Connectors 2. Search for vidIQ and click Connect 3. Sign in with your vidIQ account and approve access Don't have vidIQ yet? Here's my affiliate link 👉 https://vidiq.com/woody (Affiliate disclosure: that's an affiliate link, which means I may earn a commission if you sign up, at no extra cost to you. I only recommend tools I think can genuinely help you.) Step 2: Find outlier videos in your niche An outlier is a video that gets way more views than the channel normally earns. That tells us the topic or packaging struck a nerve, and it's one of the best ways to find validated ideas without copying anyone. Try a prompt like this: "Using vidIQ, find outlier videos from the last 90 days in my niche: [your niche]. Focus on channels similar in size to mine. Show me the titles, view counts, and what the videos have in common." The goal is to see patterns, not to clone videos. Pay attention to the topics, the title structures, and the promises being made. Step 3: Find the contrarian angle nobody is covering This is where it gets fun. Once Claude has the outliers, ask it to flip the question: "Based on these outliers, what is everyone saying? Now tell me what contrarian angle is NOT being talked about, and why it could resonate with my audience." Imagine you run a fitness channel for busy dads. Every outlier says "work out at home." The gap might be "why working out at home is actually the reason you're quitting." Same topic, fresh angle. That can be the difference between blending in and getting clicked, but keep in mind it’s important to take a stance only if you actually believe it. Don’t be contrarian for the sake of it if that’s not actually what you think… authenticity above all, my friends 😉