# Video Idea Generator > Paste up to three YouTube videos or Shorts and get ideas for your next video. - Page title: Video Idea Generator for YouTube and Shorts | Spytrend - Page description: Free video idea generator: paste up to three YouTube videos or Shorts and get up to five ideas, each with a title and a hook. Your first run is free. - Tool: https://spytrend.com/video-idea-generator - Embeddable version: https://spytrend.com/video-idea-generator/embed - All free tools: https://spytrend.com/tools - The product behind it: https://spytrend.com/creator/?utm_source=tools&utm_medium=free_tool&utm_campaign=video-idea-generator To get video ideas, paste links to one, two or three YouTube videos or Shorts, say what your channel is about if you like, and press Generate ideas. The generator reads the title, length and captions of each video and suggests up to five new ideas, each with a title, a hook for the first seconds, a format, an angle and a line on why it fits. A video idea here is a starting point for your next video: a working title, the hook for its first seconds and the angle it takes. This page writes a few of them from videos you already know. ## Up to five video ideas from the videos you link You paste links to up to three YouTube videos or Shorts — your own, or ones you would like to learn from. The generator reads the title, the length and the start of the captions of each, works out what they are about and how they are built, and suggests new ideas in the same vein. Say what your channel is about, and the ideas lean towards your topic. What comes out: - **Up to five ideas.** Each with a working title and a hook: the line for the first seconds of the video. - **A format and an angle.** Short or long video, and the take each idea builds on, so you see at a glance how the ideas differ. - **Why it fits.** One line on what the idea takes from the videos you linked: the topic, a technique or the structure. - **One-click copy.** Copy one idea or all of them, ready for your content plan. Ideas are suggestions, not forecasts. The generator reads what the videos say, not how they did: it shows no view counts and no scores, and it does not predict how a new video will perform. A video without captions is read by its title and length only, and the result tells you which ones those were. ## How to generate video ideas: three steps 1. **Paste your links** Paste a link to a YouTube video or Short. Add up to two more for a wider mix: your own recent videos, or ones you would like to learn from. 2. **Say what your channel is about** Optional: a few words such as “budget travel in Europe” point the ideas at your topic. Press Generate ideas. 3. **Pick the ideas you like** Read the ideas, copy the ones that suit your channel and rework the title and the hook in your own words. Your first run is free, no sign-up; after that, your email lets you keep going. Different links or a different channel description give a new set. ## Free version limits Your first run is free, no sign-up. Leave your email to keep going, then create a free Spytrend account: it opens Content AI. A free account searches Instagram Reels by topic, with a daily limit, and lets you try a video breakdown; TikTok and YouTube results, full breakdowns and scripts come with a subscription. One run reads up to three videos and writes up to five ideas, in English. For a long video it reads the start of the captions, where the hook and the set-up sit. Running the same links and the same channel description again soon after returns the same ideas, so change a link or the description for a different set. A video that cannot be read, such as a private or removed one, is skipped; if none of them can be read, the run is not counted. ## A list of ideas to start from — not a blank page before every video The hardest part of posting every week is often deciding what the next video is about. Starting from videos that already exist, yours or someone else’s, is faster than starting from nothing. A creator planning next month pastes their latest videos and gets ideas that stay close to what the channel already does. A producer or a video studio starting a channel for a client pastes videos they would like to learn from and adds the client’s topic, so the ideas lean towards it. A business owner who films their own Shorts pastes a few videos from their field and gets ideas to plan the next weeks around. Ideas from a few videos you already know are a start. To see what is taking off across your niche, not only in those videos, Spytrend has Content AI. ## Beyond the ideas: what is taking off in your niche This tool suggests ideas from a few videos you link. What to shoot next in your niche is a bigger question. Spytrend is an ad intelligence platform for Facebook and TikTok advertising: ads AI-classified into 33 business categories, with every advertiser assembled into a single card — all ads, pages, domains and countries in one place. For creators, Spytrend has Content AI. Search Reels, TikTok and YouTube videos in your niche: describe what you are looking for in words, and it finds videos by meaning, hook and scenario. Open any video to see its hook, structure and a ready-to-shoot script, and see which sounds are taking off in Reels. A free account searches Instagram Reels by topic, with a daily limit, and lets you try a video breakdown; TikTok and YouTube results, full breakdowns and scripts come with a subscription. ### Two jobs where a list of ideas is not enough - **Finding videos you did not know about.** Search your topic in words and see which videos in your niche are taking off, including ones you would never have linked here. - **Writing the first seconds.** Open a video that took off to see its hook and structure, and get a ready-to-shoot script for your own channel. ### What you can see next to a video - **The breakdown.** The video broken down by hook, scenario and retention. - **A ready-to-shoot script.** A script for your own channel, built from the video’s format and structure. - **The sounds.** Which sounds are taking off in Reels, to choose the audio for a Short or a Reel. ### From a video idea to what is taking off in your niche, in three steps 1. **Search your topic.** Type what your channel is about, the way you described it here, or describe the video you want to make. 2. **Open the videos that took off.** Look for videos that beat their creator’s usual views: the idea worked, not just the size of the channel. 3. **Plan your own version.** Note the hook, the format and the pacing, and hold the ideas from this page up against them. ### Why the niche, not only your links The videos you link show what those videos do. Checking a niche channel by channel does not scale, so Content AI searches your niche for you and puts the videos that took off side by side. ### How to start [Create a free account](https://spytrend.com/register?source=tools&returnTo=%2Fcontent%2Fsearch&utm_source=tools&utm_medium=free_tool&utm_campaign=video-idea-generator) and search what your channel is about. A free account searches Instagram Reels by topic, with a daily limit, and lets you try a video breakdown; TikTok and YouTube results, full breakdowns and scripts come with a subscription. ## FAQ - **What does the video idea generator do?** It reads up to three YouTube videos or Shorts that you link — their titles, lengths and captions — and suggests up to five new video ideas, each with a title, a hook, a format, an angle and a line on why it fits. - **Is the video idea generator free?** Yes, to start. Your first run is free, no sign-up, and your email lets you keep going. After that, create a free Spytrend account to open Content AI. A free account searches Instagram Reels by topic, with a daily limit, and lets you try a video breakdown; TikTok and YouTube results, full breakdowns and scripts come with a subscription. - **Which links does it accept?** Links to single YouTube videos and Shorts, such as youtube.com/watch, youtu.be and youtube.com/shorts addresses. A link to a channel or a playlist does not work: paste the videos one by one, up to three per run. - **What if a video has no captions?** Its ideas come from the title and the length only, and the result marks that video. A video that cannot be opened at all, such as a private or removed one, is skipped. - **Does it tell me how a video will perform?** No. It reads what the videos say, not how they did: there are no view counts, scores or forecasts here. Treat every idea as a suggestion to test, not a promise. - **Can I use the ideas as they are?** Treat them as drafts. Rework the title and the hook in your own words, and make sure the new video does not repeat what the videos you linked say. ## Start from an idea. See what is taking off in your niche. A few ideas give you a next video. Content AI shows what is taking off in your niche, so you know what to shoot after that. [Open Content AI](https://spytrend.com/register?source=tools&returnTo=%2Fcontent%2Fsearch&utm_source=tools&utm_medium=free_tool&utm_campaign=video-idea-generator) ## Related tools - Top viral videos (coming soon): The most-viewed Instagram Reels of the last 7 days that beat their creator’s usual views. - [Trending Reels sounds](https://spytrend.com/trending-reels-sounds): See the sounds the most Instagram creators used this week in any country and language, plus the ones breaking out. - [YouTube Shorts title checker](https://spytrend.com/youtube-shorts-title-checker): Count a Shorts title against YouTube’s 100-character limit and run a short checklist as you type. - [YouTube transcript](https://spytrend.com/youtube-transcript): Paste a YouTube link and get the video’s transcript with timestamps. Copy it or download TXT and SRT. - [Hashtag generator](https://spytrend.com/hashtag-generator): Describe your post and get hashtags for Instagram, TikTok or YouTube, grouped from broad to specific. - [Instagram caption generator](https://spytrend.com/instagram-caption-generator): Describe your post and get up to five captions for it, each with its hashtags. [All free tools](https://spytrend.com/tools) ## Embed this tool on your site Add the video idea generator to your own page. Paste the code below into your HTML; it works on any site and needs no account. Embedded copies run the same free limits as this page. ```html ``` Video ideas are written by a language model from the videos you link. Rework each one in your own words before you film it.