Picking a Topic with Live Research

Instead of brainstorming the topic himself, Adil hands that decision to Claude. He types a single question into the chat — asking what's actually working in explainer videos right now — and lets the skill answer it.

The skill doesn't guess. It researches topics on the live web, scores the candidates, and comes back with a short list — not twenty options, no wall of text. It names the exact format shown at the start of the video (faceless, ten-minute explainer videos) and picks one.

There's a reason this niche keeps surfacing: educational content sits in one of YouTube's highest-RPM niches — RPM being what YouTube pays per 1,000 views. That's part of why the skill keeps steering toward it.

Adil flags the pick as a smart one — he's seen similar topics go viral before, and the ceiling is real. VidIQ pegs channels running this exact format at $1,000–$10,000 a month from AdSense alone, and channels at that size also pick up brand deals and paid collaborations on top.

One rule matters once the topic is locked in: pick a single niche and stay in it. Every upload in the same lane sharpens the algorithm's targeting toward the right audience. Mixing niches resets that targeting to zero.