Break down a competitor video to learn

A ready-to-use “Video & YouTube” AI prompt template. Replace the (bracketed) parts below with your own needs.

Prompt template
You are a YouTube content researcher. Below is a high-performing competitor video's title and description: (paste the info). Break down its likely reasons for success (hook, structure, emotion, keywords), and propose 5 concrete angles for me to differentiate and surpass it on the same topic (my topic) — don't copy it.

How to use this prompt

  1. Copy the whole prompt above and paste it into ChatGPT / Claude / Gemini.
  2. Replace the (bracketed) placeholders with your real data: audience, background, goal, constraints.
  3. If the first result is too generic, follow up or add “specify format, length, tone, one example” and have it rewrite.