3 Niche AI Video Ideas Worth Stealing This Week

May 19, 2025

TRENDING
What’s Blowing Up This Week

These 3 viral videos show exactly what works in the current AI-content landscape and how simple ideas, executed well, still win big.

Niche: Famous Character Parody

What’s Going On:

Robin Williams and Matt Damon are reimagined in a fake, AI-generated baby.
The dialogue feels like a real outtake funny, emotional, nostalgic.

📈 1.3M views in 6 days

Why It Works:

  • AI-generated character likeness is uncanny and emotionally resonant

  • Nostalgia + humor = major shareability

  • Feels like something “real” you weren’t supposed to see

Tools to make this:

  • ChatGPT for scene scripting

  • Hedra for character video creation

  • ElevenLabs for AI voiceovers

Niche: Baby Podcasts

What’s Going On:

A toddler in a podcast setup delivers “life advice” with a serious tone and studio-level setup. Audio synced perfectly. Viewers can’t decide if it’s hilarious or profound.

📈 This niche is exploding—baby podcast clips are getting picked up by meme pages, and people are even running paid ads to grow theme pages with them.

Why It Works:

  • Contrast between deep audio and innocent visuals = instant hook

  • Format mimics top podcast clips, but with an unexpected twist

  • Can be created quickly using existing podcast clips + baby voiceovers

Tools to make this:

  • ChatGPT for character creation

  • CapCut or Opus AI for editing & captions

  • ElevenLabs for baby-style voice cloning

  • Heygen for lipsync

Niche: Surrealism / Artistic

What’s Going On:

A haunting black-and-white scene where a woman appears to slow dance—or duel—with a creature shaped like a floating head.

Why It Works:

  • Feels like modern art disguised as film

  • Engages both emotion and curiosity—viewers comment with interpretations

  • Visually stunning, minimal, and atmospheric

Tools to make this:

  • Dzine for AI image + video generation

  • Runway for texture control and animation layers

  • Poppy for stylized scripting and idea generation

These are just a few examples, Vidbuzz surfaces hundreds of trending AI videos every week across every niche.
It’s our go-to tool for spotting what’s working before everyone starts copying it.
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NEWS & UPDATES
News & Updates

Here’s what’s been making waves in the AI creator space this week:

1. Runway Gets Even Smarter

You can now use image references to guide shots—like combining a spaceship sketch with a retro UI idea and letting it reimagine the scene. You can even doodle a layout and get a cinematic version back. I’ve seen it used for pre-visualizing sci-fi concepts, and it’s honestly getting scary good at placing stuff in a scene just based on visual cues.

2. Luma Dream Machine Adds Reframing

This one’s clutch if you’re repurposing horizontal content for shorts. It lets you drag a subject from left to right in the frame or switch from 16:9 to 9:16 with clean results. Great for adapting longform without needing to reshoot.

3. HeyGen Avatar 4 update is wild

Best lip sync I’ve seen so far, even on non-human characters (like, someone made a yeti talk). It handles non-frontal face angles too, which opens up a bunch of creative possibilities.

4. AI-dubbed film hit theaters

Flawless AI helped release Watch the Skies, the first theatrical movie where the dubbing and lip sync were fully AI. Wild to think about where this is headed.

Here’s Handy AI Tools We Found This Week:

  • Pippit by CapCut (See here)
    If you're making product videos, this one's kind of wild. Drop in a product link and it auto-generates everything. Script, voiceover, avatar, captions. You get different formats too—meme style, highlights, overlays—and it's available in 28 languages. No editing needed.

  • Diffrhythm (See here)
    China released another free AI tool that turns lyrics into full tracks. You can upload a reference song and it’ll match the vibe. Full control over timing for every line. No watermark, no paywall. You can also run it locally using Pinocchio.

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TOOL OF THE WEEK
Heygen Avatar 4

Heygen just rolled out a new update and it’s noticeably better.
Lip sync is sharper, head motion feels more natural, and it finally works well from non-frontal angles. You can even run animated or non-human faces without it breaking.

We’ve been using it inside the Creator Secrets Skool community, and it was a core part of the stack that helped us grow our main Instagram past 10k followers in just about 100 days. All AI-driven. No filming.

Heygen handled the visuals
ElevenLabs did the voices
Repurpose.io helped us schedule and automate everything

If you're trying to scale content without burning out, this combo works.

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