🎬YouTube Script Machine

30 prompts for hooks, scripts & thumbnails that get clicks

Full video scripts, title formulas, thumbnail copy, end screens, and channel growth playbooks — built for YouTube creators.

What this guide covers

30 prompts engineered specifically for YouTube. Each prompt outputs a complete, ready-to-record script with timestamps, b-roll notes, and editing cues. Script Types (12 prompts — tutorial how-to, product review, reaction video, story-time vlog, mini-documentary, talking head educational, listicle countdown, challenge video, collaboration intro, channel trailer, subscriber milestone, Q&A compilation), Hook Engineering (5 prompts — pattern interrupt, curiosity gap, controversy, promise, and story hooks — each with 3 alternative openings), Title & Thumbnail (6 prompts — title generator 10 variants, thumbnail headline, A/B title tester, thumbnail concept brief, title SEO optimizer), Channel Growth (7 prompts — channel description, about page, playlist description, community post, Shorts repurpose from long-form, YouTube Shorts native script, end screen CTA copy). Optimized for audience retention with re-engagement hooks at 30%, 50%, and 70% marks.

How to use these prompts

Every prompt in this collection is written to be pasted into a chat with a large language model and adapted to your situation. You do not need any special tools — just an AI assistant and the placeholders filled in with your own details. Work through them one at a time:

• 1.Replace every [BRACKETED] placeholder with your own specifics — the more concrete the input, the sharper the output.
• 2.Give the model a role and an audience first ("You are a senior copywriter writing for busy founders"), then the task.
• 3.Ask for 3 variations, pick the strongest, then request one refinement pass. Two rounds beats one long prompt.
• 4.Paste real context — your product, tone samples, or data — so the answer is grounded, not generic.
• 5.Keep a short "house style" note you prepend to every prompt for a consistent voice across outputs.

Example prompt from this guide

Here is one of the 30 prompts, shown exactly as you would use it:

Prompt #1 — Tutorial / How-To Video Script:

You are a YouTube scriptwriter for channels with 1M+ subscribers. Write a complete video script for a tutorial on [TOPIC].

[HOOK 0:00-0:30]: Show end result immediately + 'In this video I'll show you exactly how to [OUTCOME] in [TIMEFRAME]'
[INTRO 0:30-1:00]: Credibility + what they'll have by end
[MAIN CONTENT]: Step-by-step with b-roll notes in [BRACKETS]
[RETENTION HOOK at 50%]: Tease the best part
[CTA final 60s]: Subscribe pitch + suggest next video

Works with your favourite AI

These prompts are model-agnostic — they produce great results across the major assistants. Tested with:

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