Heyoo, it's Braden.

If your entire content strategy is built around finding what works and copying it, you're already behind.

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Before you model your next video off an outlier, try to find 3 points of validation.

Use 3 of the 8 validation points in this guide here»

To summarize, you need as many reference points telling you “This is a good idea” rather than relying on one video that performed well.

This significantly increases the odds of your videos performing well.

Social media has been around long enough that most people have heard the same piece of advice for growing an audience.

Find what works.

Replicate it.

Then put your own spin on it.

And for a while, it worked.

But in 2026, we have a content landscape full of people running around stealing each other's posts and slapping a minor twist on them to make it feel original.

This has created a massive problem.

When everyone follows the same playbook, the playbook stops working.

That YouTube video you just "made your own"?

It's been remade 10 times already.

The angle is saturated.

The hook is familiar.

So the viewer feels like they’ve seen it before, and they scroll.

I'd be lying if I said we never look at outliers.

We do.

But it's one input in a broader process.

Here's what actually goes into building a content strategy for a client.

Before we commit to a video idea, we check whether there's genuine demand for it across platforms.

Has this topic performed well on Instagram, LinkedIn, or Twitter?

If it's already worked well on there, the YouTube version has more potential to work.

Is it a search-driven topic?

We'll check whether Reddit forums rank on page one for it.

If they do, that tells us there's real intent behind the question.

This is just finding demand before we invest time in an idea.

Simple, but most people skip it entirely.

If the client already has videos posted, their channel is one of the best research tools we have.

We go through their top performing videos, not just overall, but per month, and try to understand why they worked.

Was it the title structure? The topic? The thumbnail concept? Something in the intro?

Most channels have a handful of videos that quietly outperform everything else.

Those videos are telling you something.

The problem is that most creators never stop to listen.

This is the one that actually separates content from the outlier slop.

Every business has something nobody else can replicate.

It might be a specific client result or a recognizable client name.

It might be the total revenue they've generated, the number of calls they've booked, the amount of time they personally spend on each video, or how much budget they put behind production.

Whatever it is, when you build content around those specifics, it's impossible to copy.

Because nobody else has your numbers, your clients, or your story.

That's the difference between a channel that blends in and one that actually builds authority.

Not a better spin on someone else's outlier video.

Content that could only come from you.

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Appreciate you,
Braden