30-Day YouTube Topic Plan With Content Pillars
Turn one paragraph about your channel into 3-4 content pillars and a checked 30-row topic grid with formats, angles and effort, balanced and fitted to your weekly hours. Channel Content Pillars & 30-Day Topic Grid turns one paragraph about a video channel (niche, audience, videos per week, formats, optionally your weekly hours) into 3-4 content pillars and a 30-row topic grid. It plans before you script; it does not write scripts, read your analytics or promise any result.
Example input
[HAND-WRITTEN FICTIONAL SAMPLE - invented for testing.] My channel is Balcony Beans, about eight months old: growing vegetables and herbs on small rented apartment balconies, for city beginners who can't dig soil or change the building. I post 2 videos a week, solo, and have about 6 hours a week for everything from idea to upload. I make 8-12 minute tutorials, Shorts under a minute, and an occasional 20-minute Q&A. I'm planning the next 15 weeks, starting in early spring.
Example output
Channel: Balcony Beans - renting beginner balcony growers in apartments - 2 videos per week - tutorials, Shorts and Q&A - 4 pillars - 30 rows - capacity stated (6 hours per week). ## Essentials - Niche and audience: growing vegetables and herbs on small rented apartment balconies, for city beginners who cannot dig soil or change the building (given). - Videos per week V = 2 (given). Formats given: 8-12 minute tutorials, Shorts under a minute, an occasional 20-minute Q&A (given). - Capacity: solo creator, about 6 hours per week for everything from idea to upload (given). Planning window: the next 15 weeks, starting early spring (given). - Language: English (assumed, from the paragraph). Topics to avoid: none given. Channel age: about eight months, so older videos may overlap; nothing was provided about them (assumed: no overlap check possible). - Effort scale used: S = 2 h, M = 4 h, L = 8 h (working assumption, not a measurement). All essentials are present, so no questions were asked. ## Pillars | Pillar | Role | Serves | Why viewers return | Formats | Rows | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1 First Balcony Steps | Newcomer entry | Renters with a balcony and no growing experience, setting up their first pots | A numbered beginner path: each video is the next step, and the Starter Plan row lets them check where they are | Tutorial, Short | 9 | | 2 Plant Rescue | Reference for return viewers | Growers with a sick or odd-looking plant right now | A lookup library they come back to each time a new symptom appears; the Q&A row answers their own comments | Tutorial, Short, Q&A | 7 | | 3 Balcony Seasons | Return viewers | Followers who want to know what to do this month and see one real result | One tomato pot followed in three check-ins (rows 13, 22, 30) plus short seasonal task videos | Short | 7 | | 4 No-Drill Setups | Search entry for renters | Renters who cannot drill or alter the building and need a fix that is allowed | A lookup for the moment they add a pot, a shelf or shade; the setup Q&A row collects the follow-up questions | Tutorial, Short, Q&A | 7 | ## Topic grid Day = posting slot 01-30 in order. At 2 videos per week, Week = ceil(day / 2), so the 30 slots cover 15 weeks. | Day | Wk | Pillar | Working title | Format | Angle | Effort | Flags | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 01 | 1 | First Balcony Steps | How Much Sun Does My Balcony Get? 3 Phone Photos | Short | Take photos in the morning, at noon and late afternoon and count the sunny hours; no tools needed. | S | - | …
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