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An essential tactic for growing your channel involves actively subscribing to other creators in your niche. This serves two purposes: it allows you to monitor trends and competitors, and it helps in idea farming.
Idea farming is a systematic method for discovering content opportunities. Begin by subscribing to both large and small accounts, then spend a week documenting interesting video ideas by noting high-performing videos from competitors.
Focus particularly on “outliers”—videos that have garnered significantly more views than the channel’s subscriber count. For example, if a channel with 30,000 subscribers has a video achieving over 200,000 views, that piece is a prime example to emulate.