I had zero views on YouTube 132 days ago, after I deleted all my channels in 2025 — after being a full-time YouTuber since 2011 — because I got burned out. Now I've gotten 543,000 organic views across six channels in just 132 days, and it's an utterly simple strategy that anyone can do. I also have what I think is the best YouTube coaching offer anywhere: join the Jerry Banfield Family, post your channel, and I'll take a look at your videos and give you personal feedback.
The utterly simple strategy: 573 videos in 132 days
Here's the utterly simple strategy I've done: I've published 573 videos across six different channels in 132 days. That's four-plus videos a day. You don't have to do hardly anything with your titles and thumbnails — literally just grind out videos. It is literally that easy. Almost everybody complicates almost everything for you, because then it's easier to sell you a bunch of high-ticket crap you don't need. But it's simple: 573 videos in 132 days. On one channel, 122 videos. The next one, 102. 84 videos on my Jerry Banfield channel. 80 videos on this YouTube coach channel. 75 on my dating channel, 74 on the gaming channel. And I intend to step up the number of videos I'm doing.
My idea is to make videos as fast as possible with an acceptable level of quality. I have AI generate the thumbnail, and then I just go through on OBS with screen capture and talk my way through my videos. Proof of human — being a real human on YouTube today — is becoming a premium. The YouTube algorithm seems to be trying to figure out which channels are real humans and which ones aren't, because viewers have seen so many AI slop garbage channels. If you can just show up and be a real human, you have so much potential.
The money: a few thousand dollars a month from zero
Across all these channels — and these views are mostly long form; it's even easier to get views with short form — I'm making a few thousand dollars a month from zero. My long form videos earn hundreds of dollars a month in ad revenue on this channel and on my Crypto Reviews channel. On every one of these channels — my ICP, Crypto Reviews, YouTube coach, my vlogs, my games channel, and my dating channel — I send people to my website and into my community. They all send people to a membership. The bottom four channels are not even monetized yet, and when I get those monetized and continue putting videos on all of them, I'll probably be up to five-plus thousand dollars a month by the end of the year, hopefully more.
Why quantity wins: look at the top channels
You might ask: why would you do six channels? Why would you do 573 videos? Because I've looked at the top YouTube channels, and believe it or not, MrBeast is not the top YouTube channel when it comes to quantity of views. Look on Social Blade — I did a video before going over them. The top channels on YouTube are all quantity channels. Think news media outlets, music video channels. All they do is grind out videos. What matters is: are you creating content for an audience that YouTube thinks will enjoy it? If you do that, boom, you can get these kinds of views.
I've been able to get so many views on my ICP channel because there's only a handful of creators making videos every day about ICP, and there are tens of thousands of people a day interested in watching them. YouTube knows there are relatively few videos for that audience, which makes it very easy. I've got 3,000 subs on that one channel, and I just put out a video most every day. I missed 10 days on that channel because I was traveling and testing different strategies — and technically I did some shorts and double-posted some days.
Long form is the foundation — shorts are a test
The ideal strategy, if you're looking to crank out videos, is to test out some shorts, but make long videos your base — think a 10-to-15-minute-ish video. That's the sweet spot for deeper conversions, for getting people who really watch your videos. My foundation is long form content — 5, 10, 15, 20-minute videos — because if you want people to pay you, if you want people to become a super fan and start watching your videos every day, you need depth. Shorts can be good to get people's attention, but shorts are often bad for creating depth.
I am testing shorts — maybe 50 or 100 of my videos are shorts — and some channels do better with them. This YouTube coach channel has actually gotten a good number of views on shorts, so I'm going to test doing more shorts here, and I test the different channels to see which ones work best with shorts. But on almost every channel, longs work better. Am I more likely to convert you into my community from a short where you watched a minute or two, or from a video where you watched 10 or 15 minutes? If you want to do YouTube professionally, you need to think monetization from day one, before you've even got ad revenue. The easiest way is with calls — have people pay to talk to you using something like Acuity Scheduling or Calendly. I had calls set up from day one and started monetizing all these channels from day one. If you don't have a website, you can just use a Skool link or a Calendly link and monetize from day one.
This is my job — and maybe I know something you don't
I've been able to do 573 videos because I don't have another job. This is my job. This is what I do, and I've been trying to figure out if there's anything better I could do. My conclusion is that there's not. I know how to do YouTube — I've got 15 years of experience. And clearly, most people are not going to start with zero views and get a half million views in 132 days. So maybe I know something you don't.
If you want to grow on YouTube, come in, post your YouTube channel, and ask for feedback — I'm in there, there are other YouTubers in there, plus people from all my other channels, so you can really get into the whole Jerry Banfield world. If you enjoy it, you can upgrade your membership and schedule a call — I've coached people to build huge YouTube channels, and all they did was sit down with me on Zoom once a month, or once a week for the ones who wanted to go fastest.
Use AI to speed up every part of your workflow
If you want to grow on YouTube, it's simple: grind out videos as fast as possible. And in order to do that, learn how to use AI. I use AI to speed up every single part of my process. Right now, Claude just finished processing the last video I did. I have Gemini researching what's trending on YouTube. I have ChatGPT knocking out all my thumbnails and helping with video ideas. And if you have a huge YouTube content archive, I've got all of mine in a custom GPT: every video I publish gets added to a reference file that goes into it, so when I ask ChatGPT for video ideas, it already knows the videos I've made and can pull from that data so I don't repeat myself. You can see how this whole system plays out video by video on my YouTube Coaching playlist.
The number one thing I see limiting content creators is taking too long to produce your videos. It should go from idea to published on YouTube as fast as possible. That's the number one most important thing, which is why I do not edit my videos — and I see so many content creators wasting so much time editing. You don't need to edit. Did I edit this? No, and I'm still getting views. I'll still get thousands of impressions — even if a video turns into like 50 views, that's probably at least 500, if not 2,000 impressions. So if you want to do YouTube: grind out videos as fast as possible, try to help people, and make sure you're having fun.