Viewers' Unanswered Questions Reveal Video Ideas in Your Niche

The article argues that the top comments under popular videos in a niche often contain questions the videos left unanswered, signaling what viewers want to learn next. It recommends selecting roughly 10 to 20 of the most-viewed videos on a topic, ideally including beginner-focused and competitor uploads, so the patterns come from varied creators. Using YouTube scraping tools, the author suggests sorting by view count, filtering out videos with few comments, and collecting top-level comments in relevance order while excluding replies. Questions are identified by sentence-ending question marks or question-word openers, with very short reactions discarded. The process then groups questions by their most common topic word and counts distinct commenters to rank which questions recur most.