How to be the GOAT on YouTube in under a year

It’s January 2026

You’ve now quit your job and are doing YouTube full-time

Making more on YouTube than you were in your six-figure gig

Sounds too good to be true, right?

Think again…

Last month, I had the pleasure of having the owner of the channel GOAT on a call with the Tube Academy community

In this call, he broke down his entire thumbnail design strategy

The major brands that he’s been working with (that blew my mind!)

And how to craft compelling scripts that allow him to generate 100,000s per video

Now, I can’t share all of his strategies in this email but I can give you a peek at one of his most powerful tips

This tip is what led to his channel exploding in a year’s time

Allowing him to leave his job and make six-figures on YouTube…

The strategy that allowed his channel to take off was topic modelling

This involves modelling after winning topics on YouTube

And deploying them in an unsaturated market

Take his most popular videos for example

The topic variant “player vs player was X” lead to the breaking out of his channel

But this wasn’t a fluke

He borrowed this outlier topic from another niche

Applied it to the NBA

The result?

A full-time income on YouTube…

Notice how I didn’t say “he just randomly uploaded”

YouTube is not about luck

It’s about strategy, testing and improvement

And GOAT tests all the time too

Take the “did the impossible topic”

It only got 83k views…

Great, now we know that’s not a winner and we can focus elsewhere

This is how the greatest minds on YouTube operate

And once you start following this page out of their playbook

Your channel will take off too

One student I talked to said this one call with GOAT was worth joining Tube Academy

That’s how powerful learning from people ahead of you truly is…

Until tomorrow,

Adam

P.S. I am getting a lot of people asking for Tube Academy details early. If you want to get your hands on it before I open on Monday, reply “details” and I’ll send them over.