**Youtube Changed Its ALGORITHM AGAIN! BEST WAY TO RUN CHANNEL - EDUCATION CHANNEL-JULY 2026 UPDATE — Transcript & Summary | SozAI**
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A YouTuber explains YouTube's 2026 policy update on AI avatars and unoriginal content, then shows how to build monetizable A2-level English-learning AI story videos.

## Key Takeaways

- YouTube's update targets template-based, repetitive, and emotionally manipulative AI content, which can lead to demonetization.
- Educational value is a key factor for monetization; AI-generated English-learning stories are presented as a viable niche.
- Choosing original, non-template AI tools is important to avoid being flagged as repetitive content.
- AI personas offering sensitive advice (medical, legal) are viewed as high-risk under current policy.

## What the video covers

- The video opens by discussing a new YouTube policy update targeting AI avatar content and unsatisfying, off-putting, or generic/repetitive content.
- The creator warns that content made from identical templates, transitions, or effects in SaaS AI tools may be flagged as repetitive or interchangeable.
- He recommends the VidRush tool as one he considers original and trustworthy for AI video creation.
- The policy is discussed in terms of monetization: content that adds educational value is presented as eligible to be monetized.
- The creator identifies a niche of A2-level English learning through AI-generated stories with simple dialogue aimed at kids and beginners.
- He cites examples of channels in this niche gaining 100,000 to 600,000 views per video, and argues the audience is large.
- He notes that some AI story channels are still monetized, citing a creator earning an estimated 30-40k per month.
- He flags AI personas giving sensitive advice (doctors, legal advice, podcasts) as a red flag under the new policy.
- A demonstration walks through a workflow: generating a script with an AI model, creating characters and scenes with tools like Magic Light, and animating images in Google Flow.
- The creator says cost-efficient options for storyboarding include Plot and Magic Light, and that he has tested several paid AI tools he considers a waste of money.

## Chapters

1. 00:00 Introduction: YouTube's new policy update
2. 01:10 Monetization and recommended AI tools
3. 02:18 Finding a niche: A2-level English AI stories
4. 03:06 Channel examples and audience size
5. 04:09 Analyzing a successful video
6. 05:10 Building the video: script and tools
7. 07:10 Generating scenes and characters
8. 10:00 Storyboarding and Google Flow workflow

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## Questions about this video

What types of content does the video say YouTube's new policy targets?

The creator says the update targets AI avatar content, unsatisfying or off-putting content, and generic or repetitive content, especially videos built from the same templates, transitions, and effects. Content designed to shock or manipulate viewers for views is also covered.

Why does the creator recommend the A2-level English learning niche?

He argues that educational content is favored for monetization and that A2-level English stories for kids and beginners have a large audience. He cites channels getting 100,000 or more views per video as evidence.

Which AI tools does the creator recommend for making these videos?

He recommends VidRush as an original tool he trusts, and points to Magic Light and Plot as cost-efficient options for generating storyboards and scenes. He says several paid tools he tested were a waste of time.

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00:00

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Unless you are living under a rock, you've probably seen the new YouTube update. And I'm not joking, guys. That's crazy, right? So, first thing foremost, AI avatars, it's over. Right? As you can see, some people are already getting hit. But you know what amazed me the most? It's not only about, you know, AI avatar getting hit.

00:11

Speaker A

Right? As you can see, some people are already getting hit. But, you know what amazed me the most? It's not only about, you know, AI avatar getting getting hit.

00:20

Speaker A

What about unsatisfying or off-putting content? Generic or repetitive content. So, we are starting to include content that looks like it's made with a template. Okay? So, basically, if you are using an AI tool that just uses the same transition, the same way of applying effects on images like templates, then there's a problem, right? Right? So, make sure if you are running some videos with a SaaS, make sure to trust the tool that you are using. I mean, the only tool that I know that has probably come to a level where it's actually original, I'd say it's VidRush. I would vouch for it. I've got a lot of people asking me to share the tool that they've already created, but I'm like, "Okay." [music] I'll just say go for VidRush, right? So, I'm not going to talk about all of the policy, but why I did talk about this policy specifically is that this is allowed to be monetized. For example, if you add educational value to your video, your videos might be monetized, right? It's going to be monetized for sure. Right? So, that's where I found this niche. It's basically about learning English using AI stories, right? So, it's basically A2 level English. For example, for the people that want to learn English, they know A2 level, it's basically English for kids, right? With simple dialogue and something that is really easy to understand [music] right? So, that's why I did start some channels in this niche, and I'll actually show you how to make the videos, right?

00:40

Speaker A

uh applying effects on images like templates, then there's a problem, right? Right? So, make sure if you are running uh some videos with a SaaS, make sure to trust like uh the tool that you are using. I mean, the only tool

00:57

Speaker A

"Unsatisfying or off-putting content refers to content that relies heavily on emotionally manipulative formulas, right? Mimics existing formats or stories to a degree that the videos feel interchangeable or appear designed to shock or surprise the viewers for the sole purpose of getting views."

01:10

Speaker A

like "Okay." [music] Like, I'll say just go for VidRush, right? So, I'm not going to talk about all of the policy, but why I did talk about this policy specifically is that this is allowed to be monetized. For

01:24

Speaker A

I mean, we want views, bro. We want to make money from YouTube, right? We want views.

01:40

Speaker A

English. For example, for the people that want to learn English, they know A2 level, it's basically the English for kids, right? With simple dialogue and uh something that is really easy to understand [music] right? So, that's why I did start some

01:55

Speaker A

It's kind of dumb to create this because it's by far the one that I don't really understand. I mean, for the people that make AI stories, you want to make a real good AI story video, and then you just made it so good that people think you've manipulated them, and then YouTube just demonetizes you, right? So, that's what I understood from this. It's basically best YouTube remove this policy. It doesn't really make sense, right? At this point, I think what YouTube wants is educational content, right? And I mean, I've seen it. Like, I've seen some channels making 100,000 views every single day, right? Or maybe more.

02:00

Speaker A

"Unsatisfying or off-putting content refers to content that relies heavily on emotionally manipulative formulas, right? Mimics existing formats or story to a degree that the videos feel interchangeable or appear designed to shock or surprise the viewers for the sole purpose of getting views."

02:18

Speaker A

And some people making AI stories that still didn't get demonetized, right? For example, this guy. This guy is literally the GOAT.

02:24

Speaker A

It's kind of dumb to create this because it's by far the one that I don't really understand. I mean, for the people that make AI stories, you want to make a real good AI story video, and then you just

02:35

Speaker A

Uh, he's been a coach in the school community, and he's literally making 30, 40k each month without getting demonetized, right? Because he knows what he's doing.

02:49

Speaker A

educational content, right? And I mean, I've seen it. Like, I've seen some channel making 100,000 view every single day, right? Or maybe more.

02:59

Speaker A

Obviously, I think the future of YouTube might be toward educational AI content, right? So, lastly, AI personas related to sensitive topics, AI doctors, AI podcasts, AI personas giving legal advice or interpreting laws. So, basically, it's a red flag for the people that are using HeyGen or maybe they are doing AI avatar videos.

03:06

Speaker A

Uh he's been a coach on the school community, and he's literally making 30, 40k each month without getting demonetized, right? Because he know what he's doing.

03:15

Speaker A

We've made a lot of money from it. It's time to move forward, and then start making real content, right? So, I think we can get started. This is the niche I was talking about, and first things first, before we say anything, this is great. Right, this is great. We are in the holidays, people are trying to learn English, the kids for sure. And I think there's a huge potential to earn. For example, this channel is literally making 100,000 views, 400,000 views, 600,000 views. Every video actually gets 100,000 views minimum. Right? So, the same goes with, for example, this channel.

03:34

Speaker A

red flag for the people that are using HeyGen or maybe they are doing AI avatar videos.

03:40

Speaker A

Uh, this one is doing the same stuff. 186,000 views, 200,000 views. And you know what's funny? People think that it's a small niche. No, it's not. Look at all of this. Look at all of this. 67,000 views, okay, for 1K subs. That's crazy.

03:52

Speaker A

anything, this is great. Right, this is great. We are in the holidays, people are trying to learn English, the kids for sure. And I think there's a huge potential to earn. For example, this channel is literally making 100,000 view, 400,000 view,

04:09

Speaker A

That's a huge audience market. And if I click on my home page, I'll literally see everything that is related to kid content, right?

04:19

Speaker A

Uh this this doing the same stuff. 186,000 view, 200,000 view. And you know what's funny? People think that it's a small niche. No, it's not. Look at all of this. Look at all of this. 67,000 view, okay, for 1K sub. That's crazy.

04:35

Speaker A

While some people are literally focused on making videos for old people, I mean, some of the people are making videos for kids, right? Okay, now the most important part of the video, how are these videos being made? Right?

04:44

Speaker A

While some people are literally focused on making videos for old people, I mean, some of the people are making videos for kids, right? Okay, now the most important part of the video, how are these videos being made? Right?

04:59

Speaker A

So, looking at the video, if I click on one of the videos, for example, I would choose this channel, Family Life English.

05:05

Speaker A

So, this video made 500K view 18 hours ago. That's crazy. And you know that there's a huge market, right? So, I'll click on the video and then you will see.

05:14

Speaker A

So, this video made 500K views 18 hours ago. That's crazy. And you know that there's a huge market, right? So, I'll click on the video and then you will see.

05:33

Speaker A

[music] I am taking these sausages. I am eating them all tonight. The video got a lot of comments. This should be recommended to all A2 learners, right? YouTube definitely like this and is going to push it. So, as you

05:48

Speaker A

Everyone [music] is sleeping. I am having my secret snack time now. Huh, wow. I am looking at all this beautiful food.

06:00

Speaker A

Because I've personally tested a lot and some of the AI tools that I've paid for literally is a waste of time, right? I did try specifically probably three to four tools. I will I will review all of them because I did spend my own money to

06:14

Speaker A

[music] I am taking these sausages. I am eating them all tonight. The video got a lot of comments. This should be recommended to all A2 learners, right? YouTube definitely likes this and is going to push it. So, as you can see there's a Gemini logo. We'll try to generate the images and some scenes with Gemini and we will also try some other AI tools so that you can know which is the perfect one for you, right?

06:25

Speaker A

coming in and if you want to join a YouTube community where people are sharing and helping each other, the link is in the description and I hope that you will get all of your question answered inside, right? So, let's get

06:37

Speaker A

Because I've personally tested a lot and some of the AI tools that I've paid for literally are a waste of time, right? I did try specifically probably three to four tools. I will review all of them because I did spend my own money to try them and most of them are expensive, right? And if you're new here, make sure to leave a like and make sure to tell me in the comments what your goals for YouTube are in the next couple of months because Q4 is coming in, and if you want to join a YouTube community where people are sharing and helping each other, the link is in the description and I hope that you will get all of your questions answered inside, right? So, let's get started. So, I won't be wasting your time. I'll start straight to the point, right? So, we have a channel here. What I did is super simple. I just took a screenshot of the channel because this video was interesting to me. 800,000 views. Uh, what I did later was just add the title of the video that got a lot of views.

06:50

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view. Uh what I did uh later was I just added the title of the video that made a lot of view.

06:58

Speaker A

I've added the script of that video and I've added the screenshot of that channel specifically, right? And the prompt goes on like this. This is the story that made 800,000 views on the channel and this is definitely the outlier. We'll try to open this [music]. And then we'll try to make a similar script or dialogue which is really detailed, and I'll use High-Quality AI to generate the scenes, right? So, before we start, you need to know how to set up the High-Quality MCP inside of Plot, right? So, if you do that, Plot will literally generate the images and the scenes, the videos, the dialogues, everything for you. So, I mean, that's basically the fastest way. But soon you'll realize that this is not the best way to do it because there's also another tool I'll share later. Right, so I'll click on send.

07:10

Speaker A

outlier. We'll try to open this [music] And then we'll try to make similar script or dialogue which is really detailed and I'll use High-Quality AI to generate the scenes, right? So, before we start, you need to know how to

07:24

Speaker A

[music] As you can see, we just got the dialogues, and for each scene we should have one image at least. So, that's what's going to be the next prompt.

07:40

Speaker A

you'll realize that this is not the best way to do it because there's also another tool I'll share later. Right, so I'll click on send.

07:48

Speaker A

So, I'll just send another prompt, which is to generate the videos with HeyGen AI.

07:58

Speaker A

So, I'll just send another prompt which is to generate the videos with HeyGen AI.

08:03

Speaker A

So, as you can see, it's literally generating the images. I will later send another prompt and I told it, after generating the images, just make sure to generate those videos in MP4 format. Right. So, as you can see, Claude is literally generating the scenes and the videos for you. Right. [music] And this is the first video that it has generated. Let's see.

08:17

Speaker A

see, Claude is literally generating the scene and the videos for you. Right. [music] And this is the first video that it has generated. Let's see.

08:26

Speaker A

[snorts] Leo, be very, very quiet. So, yeah, basically you can notice that there are some dialogues on those videos. That's what

08:40

Speaker A

Mom. So, here's the last steps. It's basically asking Claude to assemble all of the clips so that we can get one final video. So, this is basically one of the best use of Claude and HeyGen AI.

08:53

Speaker A

this is the last prompt. I'll tell him to stitch everything together and assemble it so that we can have our whole story animated. Right. So, all of the 12 clips have been generated. Now, he's [music] trying to assemble them and then I'll

09:08

Speaker A

have one single video. Hmm. Hmm. Leo, be very, very quiet. Uh-huh. Mom. Dad, come quickly.

09:32

Speaker A

[crying] Right this way, please. Shh. So as you can see those stories are just probably 4-minute 3-minute videos. Cloud can't go far than that because it will consume a lot of credit. I mean I'm still not satisfied. I could have

09:53

Speaker A

added more scenes. Obviously the goal is to get the 5-minute story. I could have added more scenes and then get that 5-minute story, right? But in term of automated task, I will still go with Magic Light, right?

10:06

Speaker A

So as you can see it's not that hard. I just connected High School MCP with Cloud AI, right? And here inside of the school community there is a video that shows you exactly how to connect any MCP with Cloud, right? Now we are going to

10:20

Speaker A

the second tool. The second tool is basically one of the best I've tested because you can choose the duration of the story you want to make, right? So the tool itself is called Magic Light and we will review it right now.

10:33

Speaker A

So here we go. We are just in Magic Light and as you can see it kind of have a lot of options, but we will just try all of them together, right? So the first thing you are going

10:44

Speaker A

to do is once you are on the platform just click on story to video, right? So click on create and and it will literally ask you to generate your video based on the single prompt, right? So what I'm going to do here is simple.

11:00

Speaker A

I'll first choose the duration of the story. Uh the story is going to be 5 minutes because as you can see most of the stories that I've watched are basically a lot of stories inside one single video, right? So I'll start with the

11:13

Speaker A

first story. I'll choose 5 minutes and you have to also verify that the video is on the correct video format, right?

11:21

Speaker A

16.9. Uh this is also the type of character you want. Uh we are going to choose the cartoon characters obviously.

11:30

Speaker A

[music] And once you have all of those set up, you'll just pass your prompt here. So, how do we get the prompt?

11:41

Speaker A

I'll just go to my video, for example. This is the video I want to recreate. Uh [music] I'll just copy the link.

11:49

Speaker A

And I'll go to the transcript tool, right? So, I'll copy. And if I copy the scripts, I'll just go back to Claude. I'll just copy the script and I'll ask for Claude to give me the prompt that I'll use to

12:05

Speaker A

generate the story, right? So, after that, I'll just copy the prompt that I got from Claude and I'll pass it in our AI tool. So, I'll just pass it right here, control V, and I'll click on next.

12:30

Speaker A

So, it will analyze the story and from there, it will literally generate me the characters that will be needing for our videos.

12:40

Speaker A

So, this is basically the dialogues. I'll click on next. And here, as you can see, we have the characters.

12:49

Speaker A

I'll click on next again and it will literally generate all of the images needed for uh our video, right? So, this is basically the fastest way to get your story animated. So, this is the crazy part. It will literally generate all of

13:02

Speaker A

the images in [music] one single click, right? So, as you can see, some of the images are still getting generated, but you quite got the point, right? So, now that it has generated all of the images, we have two options. I can literally

13:16

Speaker A

click on animate and click on animate all and it will literally select all of the clips and then it will generate it for me. But, if it's your first time using this tool, it might be better, you know, to just uh try all of the models

13:31

Speaker A

at first [music] and then choose the cheapest one and then later you will click on animate all, right? You need [music] to test and choose which model you have to go with, right? So, there's Google VRO 3, there's

13:42

Speaker A

C Dance. So, it just depends on what you want to use, right? So, we will try first with C Dance and I will click on confirm.

13:51

Speaker A

So, right now you have two options. You can click on animate all and then it will literally animate everything for you or just choose each scene one by one. It just depends on you, right? So, you are pretty much free to do what you

14:03

Speaker A

wish with this tool. So, for example, in this case, we will click on animate all and we will wait for the result. So, after a couple of seconds of waiting, we finally got some of the videos generated, right? So, at this point, you

14:18

Speaker A

just need to review them and then if you're done, you will need to export the video together.

14:23

Speaker A

So, always make sure to toggle on the sound effect option and remove the subtitles, right? So, the subtitles, if you don't remove them, at the end of the video, you will get a voice over on your videos, right? So, after having all of

14:39

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the settings done, you will just need to click on next. They will ask you if you want some subtitles. Obviously, you will choose no. You will add it yourself.

14:51

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Uh the background music, you will click on none as well and then you will click on one because sometime they will add the background music for you.

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Speaker A

You will click on generate and and this is the right video format. You will click on okay. So, you will get your video exported with all of the footages.

15:09

Speaker A

So, this is basically the result. Look at my muscles. I'm the strongest man IN THE WORLD.

15:21

Speaker A

WHAT WAS THAT? LOOK AT MIA. I'm flying. Leo, stop. You're going to fall. So, right now you don't have any excuses. Obviously, there are also some other way to make those AI stories, such as creating the stories from a

15:37

Speaker A

storyboard. Uh for example, with ChatGPT, you can create a storyboard. That's also possible. But, out of all of the solution I've just presented to you, the only solution that are cost-efficient are basically using Plot or basically using Magic Light. If you

15:54

Speaker A

go with another tool, sometimes it's messy. Also, if you came here at the end of the video, there is a bonus for you.

16:01

Speaker A

If you, for example, run out out of credit on Magic Light, you can do something simple. You can go back to your video project, click on back, click on the confirm.

16:12

Speaker A

And from here, you'll click again on back, right? You'll go back to the storyboard.

16:17

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[music] And as you can see here, I have an image that didn't get animated because my credit are over. I can download the image.

16:27

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And then the go to Google Flow. So, if I go to Google Flow, I'll click on new project. And from here, I can literally upload the image that I've got from Magic Light.

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Click on import. Right. And I'll just copy the prompt. And if you go back to Magic Light, you will see the prompt on the right. So, I'll just copy that.

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And I'll just click on pass. So, make sure to click on animate and then add the prompt later and then click on send.

17:05

Speaker A

So, yeah, that was basically my way of creating those AI stories. So, it just depends on you and which tool you just feel more comfortable using. You are also free to use other tool. If If have another alternative, make sure to tell

17:17

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me in the comments and and yeah, I'll try to review it as well. If you want to join us, the link is in the description and I hope that I will see you in the next video.

Topics: YouTube algorithm update YouTube monetization policy AI avatars learn English A2 English AI story videos VidRush Magic Light Google Flow faceless YouTube channel

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