# the weird call of duty strategy I used to get rich with AI

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- **Канал:** Liam Ottley
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YldXzPRWDrg
- **Дата:** 24.07.2025
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- **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/11918

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In this video, I reveal the unlikely gaming strategy — “spawn trapping” from Call of Duty — that has helped me earn 6x more in 2.5 years than I did in the 4 years before.

You'll learn how this concept perfectly mirrors the way to spot and capitalize on opportunities in AI, especially when new models and tools launch. I share personal examples, monetization strategies, and exactly how to ride these waves to build influence, revenue, and momentum — even if 

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### What Call of Duty has to do with AI success []

I've made about six times more money in the past two and a half years of my entrepreneurial career compared to the first four on my journey uh using this weird strategy and it's partly due to getting into AI and it's partly to do with weird stuff like Call of Duty. — Huh? And so in this video, I'm going to explain uh how I've used this weird Call of Duty strat that I learned in high school when I was playing Call of Duty with my friends and how I've taken that exact strategy to move into the AI space and repeatedly used this and applied this strategy to get a lot richer than I ever thought I'd be able to be. So, uh I don't like saying those words rich and this sort of stuff, but I mean it's got your attention now, hasn't it? So, stick with me because this has seriously been a game changer in my career and I know all of you this is really like the easiest way for anyone to get into AI, start an AI business is using the strategy here. So stick with me. It might seem a bit weird to begin with, but I promise you it's going to make complete sense. And this is really the strategy that I've used. Basically, everyone that I've seen who's doing well in the AI space has used this in some way. And I'm going to give you example after example. And at the end of this video, I'm going to be giving you a super clear shot of how you can apply it right now or how I would if I was starting again uh to get into AI and also build a business and get rich or whatever you want to do with your life in this space. So it's going to start off with firstly a bit of a weird

### The sniper clip that taught me everything [1:11]

clip. This is I never thought I'd be pulling these things off on YouTube, but here is one of my all-time greatest COD clips uh from back in 20 something. — Oh, did I hit Ready? I hit this. Ready? All right. So, that's clip one. That was all right. What do you think? Now, if you look carefully, there is a pattern that emerges when we look at the second clip. All right. You may be wondering, how did a guy who's that cool and that proficient at sniping end up making business advice YouTube videos? And sometimes I asked myself that, too. Um, but spawn trapping is a technique used in Call of Duty to basically get a lot of kills quickly, to get those quad feeds and get a lot of kills. So, you can make clips out of it. Used to be a whole thing. And so, here's the map of New Town, that last clip that we just played. And basically, you'll see how this ties into business in a second and I promise you it is worth the wait. So, at the back of the map here, New Town, this is New Town is a good example because it's quite a small map, but you have these spawn areas where if you die somewhere in the middle, uh the game is going to respawn you back in the corner of this map somewhere. So, usually you'll be like kind of behind this little wall. In this case of that clip you just saw, I was standing in this garage here and I was shooting down to uh this part of the map here. So, people spawn in here and run around. But the thing is, if you stand too close to the spawn, so if I'm standing here, then it will flip the spawns and they'll start spawning behind me. So the art of spawn trapping is getting yourself in a position where as they are running out of the map and they're all spawning in, you are far enough away that you're not going to trip the spawn and it's going to force it to move somewhere else uh due to your proximity. But equally important is that you have a clear line of sight of where those people when they spawn in are going to run. So as you saw in the first clip, they were coming around that corner and I was shooting off the roof. And in that Newuke Town clip you just saw, I was camping in the garage, shooting as I ran out of the

### How “spawn trapping” applies to AI business [3:03]

spawn there. So, how does this spawn trapping and Call of Duty stuff apply to business, particularly AI business, and getting into the space? And how have I and others used it to make a lot of money? Well, I'm glad you asked because the thing with the AI space is that there are so many new technologies and new breakthroughs coming out all of the time. And essentially, each one of those breakthroughs represents a new person spawning in, a new breakthrough, a new development has spawned into the space. And it's a new opportunity for you to go and take advantage of and in the case of the game kill it. But your career and journey in AI space and business, it's a new opportunity that has arrived. And this entire strategy that I'm teaching in this video is about spawn trapping or camping the opportunities as they come out of the AI space. So say OpenAI makes a new release, they put out a new model, or there's a there's new technology that comes out, uh, for example, V3. You might have seen some of the Bigfoot and Yeti clips and all of this AI generated video stuff. That was a big advancement. And in one moment there was a sort of step change in the technology and that basically revealed a whole bunch of new use cases that could have businesses built around them. The best way to envision this is uh with what like a step change graph. So say here with the image generation or video generation is a good one cuz most you probably seen those uh those yeti clips. So video generation with an AI was kind of down here for a while in terms of the feasibility. So at some point there is like a dotted line of the level that a technology needs to be at in order for certain business types or business opportunities to become possible with that technology. Video generation up until the V3 release was down here just putting along. It was kind of like on the edge, not really super accessible or easy. There wasn't good consistent character creation. A lot of problems with it. So people were only really using it for a few different use cases. We knew where it could be, but we didn't it wasn't good enough at that time to be able to do a lot of the things that people knew they'd be able to do at a later date. And when this new model came out, suddenly the uh how good it was, we'll just put that there. It jumped up massively. And this is called a step change. That's a tech dude term. So instead of being a kind of gradual increase where like it just gets better over time, this is where it's kind of been going up for a bit and then just a big jump up. So that's a step change. And in this case with the V3 image generation model, um, we had a step change and we've had them over and over again. And what that presented is what I call the fertile planes. And so it's this area here. Oh, this is going to look nice. That as soon as this new technology is released, it presents this enormous opportunity where it's just like waiting for people to build businesses and to get good at it. And so I use the fertile planes analogy because it's like imagine you've just come over to America and you're looking westwards in America over to the sort of frontier and where all of these fertile planes and sort of untapped resources are. That's how it is every time a new thing comes out. And so V3 is an example of a new technology creating a step change where suddenly all of these businesses that were not feasible um down here it's passed this threshold for practicality. It's basically jumped up past this threshold of practicality or feasibility for a lot of the use cases and suddenly there's all of these new ways that you can build businesses around it. Like you can have these AI filmmaker studios or you can be creating courses on it. And I'm going to go into all of the different ways you can monetize it in a bit. But essentially each time there's so much new stuff coming out in the AI space. If you

### How to track AI breakthroughs like a pro [6:29]

follow any of those freaking Instagram pages, you're going to know it's like this week was crazy in AI. Here's 10 things that happened. like if you just follow those pages on Instagram and keep tabs on what comes out and that's how you can keep tabs on the space and apply this the spawn trapping strategy uh to your career and in order to start a business in the AI space. So just to summarize all of this before we move on because I'm going to share how I've done this over and over again and just sort of jump my career up each time I've done it and how a bunch of other people that I know and that you guys can go and research yourself have also done it. But we have this uh on the axis here is like the ability capabilities or practicality of a technology. I think the power or practicality is probably the best way to put it. But in the case of the video generation opportunity, AI video generation V3, the Google model created a step change when it came out that just immediately flew over the top of all of the previous ones that we had access to. And that crossed this threshold of practicality that made many many use cases or potential business opportunities possible because it could now do sound with it or it could do consistent character generation. And you are going to see an explosion on this fertile plane of businesses as we're already seeing of people taking this technology and moving on it. And so the idea of the spawn trapping strategy is that just like me standing here in the garage waiting for it, you can be very smart and monitor the AI space if you're looking to get in for an entry point that is basically going to reset things to zero. That is really the key thing about this that when there is a big jump like this and new technology either like an entirely new type of AI stuff comes out uh V3 is an improvement in the uh video generation. The GPT40 image generation model was likewise a step change in the capabilities of image generation but sometimes you also just get kind of an entirely new technology that comes out like uh AI voice agents did uh over a year ago and they sort of burst onto the scene and they were this new thing and so that's kind of the two types of different opportunities that Ein Spawn can have. either just entirely new spaces that pop up uh like AI voice agents were at the time or these step changes in technology where a new model or a new release from one of the big providers in most cases creates a step change that creates a fertile plane for people to innovate on. And the next thing that you want to know now is how can you actually make money or take advantage of a fertile plane which is the next part of this video. So, the thing that makes the spawn trapping strategy so powerful for anyone trying to get into AI, not if you want to have not if you have like a PhD in AI or but just anyone who wants to get in it literally if you just have a brain and a work ethic, anyone can do this stuff. And I've seen it happen over and over again as I'm going to cover in the next bit of this video. But what you have to understand about pretty much all of the AI stuff coming out right now, it is not only the field of the technical people. It's not the developers and the super like nerdy guys who are the only ones able to make the most of this. All of this stuff is accessible through no code tools, which we're going to get into in a bit. But basically, if you have a brain and if you're willing to work, when these new things come out, it resets the expert bar basically to zero and everyone has to relearn on the new technology on those all of the new opportunities that come out of uh say the improved model. So when V3 comes out, say we had a graph here of all of the people in the world and their capabilities with video generation. So that's probably not the best, but basically here's like the 0. 1% of people who are really good with the earlier prev3 image generation or video generation, sorry. And then the majority of people obviously are going to be down here and have basically no skills or very minimal. And so there's very few people here. And so these guys will have got really good at using kind of hacking together uh the existing video generation tools like Sora and Runway and others. And they would have got really good at using them in that current form. But when we have a step change or a massive jump forward like we did with V3, that graph basically gets reset to zero. It's pretty much flat. The benefit and edge that these people had here gets chopped down and the it's pretty much a level playing field. And so you suddenly have an opportunity to become an expert, a relative expert because within 3 6 months this is going to move to something that looks a bit more like this, right? And so you have a chance to join in here at the bottom with everyone else. and very rapidly climb up to the top and within 3 to 6 months you are at the tippy top basically in the 0. 1% again. That is really the key thing that I want you to take away from this is that every time there's new stuff coming out, it's pretty much reset. Just like the whole AI space as a whole, like all of these PhDs and AI, sure, they might have had a an understanding of pre-Cat GBT AI. But the reason people like myself and many of you watching this as well have been able to come in and become experts in their field. And for me, it's been how AI can help businesses, it's because it reset the the playing field to zero. this generative AI stuff was so new and it was so uh natural language based that there was no real technical barrier to it and it was so different to every other form of AI we had before that it it created a level playing field and I went all in and that's how I've been able to have my success and that was the first kind of fertile plane that I gone on just post chat GPT release but this thing happens over and over again but it resets the bar to zero there's new technology and it's those who can move fast learn the tech and be able to turn it into products and services and really share with the world what they can do with it that can make a lot of money and build a lot of influence fast. So, how do you actually

### How to apply this strategy [11:25]

do this? get into a new thing like say V3 and how do you end up being here? Well, it's a pretty simple process. One, you're just going

### Step 1: Be a sponge. Soak up all info [11:32]

to wait for new stuff. Like I said, if you follow some of those Instagram pages that is like 10 new AI things that came out yesterday, uh a lot of it is going to be hype and rubbish just cuz these guys like to make a lot of content. But if you're just monitoring it, you will start to pick up on what the trends are. Okay, video generation is picking up. This is a new big model from Google. I'm going to do a little bit of exploration on it. So that is part of the strategy of finding the

### Step 2: Tinker and develop your method [11:54]

new thing. And so two once you have uh found something that you think is worthwhile in this case using VO3 for video generation, you become a sponge and you just go and soak up every bit of information that is out there on this right now. All of the like niche YouTube videos of people just making videos on it. All of the new stuff, figuring out what it is, you try to get access to it and play around with it as much as you can. You start to think of how you can use it for different usually business use cases at best. anything related to how businesses can use new AI tech is is where the money is going to be. So you just become a sponge and you soak it all in and you apply it to your own problems. You tinker around with it and that is how you very rapidly can become one of the leading maybe not experts at this point but definitely one of the leading users or people who are most familiar with this and what it's capable

### Step 3: Make content with zero competition [12:36]

of. And so in this third phase of tinkering, you're essentially going to figure out how to use that tech for various different use cases and basically come up with your own methodology on how to use it. So it might be, oh man, I figured out you could prompt it here and then you could like reprompt it with this and then you can use this feature to get this and you are basically building uh a methodology or a special technique around this new technology that is unknown to others. you are able to get more out of it than others and that in itself is valuable that you could start selling as information which is basically what you're going to do in order to kick off your career or movement into the space. So step four is to then create a ton of content around that thing. So how I'm how I used VO3 to do XYZ like how I used it to make a full movie, how I use it to make Yeti and Bigfoot videos. When you are actually at the forefront of exploring what this new tech can do, you are essentially discovering things and creating videos around them that there is zero competition for. I've done this over and over again, which I'm going to show you in a second. But when you're at that cutting edge and you've jumped on something quick, there's no competition for that stuff or at least if you are actually innovating and showing how you can stretch it, there's no one else doing that. And that's how I've got had some massive videos as soon as new stuff comes out just absolutely ripped and got a huge amount of views and grew all my businesses rapidly and my personal brand. And so you go between this tinkering and content sort of seesaw back and forth and back and forth. Learn more stuff, share it. And then if you're any good, you'll be getting views and

### Monetize: consulting, courses, or agency [14:03]

you can then monetize those views. How can you monetize it? Well, you can do consulting calls. This is going to be a phone and get paid for them. So, I started off doing consulting calls when I got on YouTube and I was basically doing the same strategy. Uh, and I started off charging $300 for 45 minutes and I started getting booked out on those and so I jacked it up to $500. I kept getting booked out on those and eventually put it up to $997 for 45 minutes. I'll put the screenshot up on screen so you know I'm not bullshitting. People were paying me $1,000. A guy on YouTube with about 5 10,000 subscribers at that point. They were paying me that much to talk to me for 45 minutes about this niche kind of way of using chat GPT to talk to your own data uh in a business setting. The other way to monetize it is going to be through a course. I don't know how you draw a course. Maybe we do one of these. So, we're going to monetize it through a course. Uh, and you can say what you want about courses. If you are just trying to sort of get things off the ground and you've got a lot of buzz in the space you're doing, make it a little like $97 course on how to make Bigfoot videos or something. I've seen people doing that on Instagram. If you have the traffic and people want it, it makes sense to make a better educational product. Um, my approach has been to do services first. So, that's kind of the final one that I'd mention here is that you can uh get to you can get to kind of building things and charging probably a lot more than courses or consulting. But these can actually all lead into it. And the thing is a course or consulting course, well, in my case, my consulting course ended

### Full monetization roadmap [15:29]

up leading to starting my agency, Morningside. Uh but educational material like this as well, it can all kind of lead into an agency that you build. uh an AI automation agency is what I started off with the model that I created and that's what everyone is using to get started in the AI space with implementation of AI within businesses or what you probably know as development. And while the thought of development or implementation might sound scary to you if you're non nontechnical, this myth that you need to have development skills in order to build things with AI has been really lifted. I've done a lot of clarification over the past few years about how the low code and no code technology that's out there what's typically called no code AI automation is something that you could take in this case the V3 image generation model and with some basic AI automation skills which I'll share how you can I've got a full free course that I just released on that um recently but you can take those skills and then use it to tinker with this technology and in this tinkering phase you're using those no code AI automation skills to experiment and push this further can I make automations that can sort of crank out heaps and heaps of YouTube shorts or build even long form YouTube videos. And the tinkering if you know a bit of AI automation can actually lead nicely into being able to take that take those same skills and build things in businesses. So the monetization through consulting calls or like a little course to help people know how to use it as well. And sort of that methodology that you picked up in this phase, you can sell that to people who as long as you've got the traffic coming in through the content. And then there's of course the development opportunity of helping people to build things which is going to be a lot higher ticket uh than either of these. And so quickly just to

### My YouTube case study: growing from scratch [16:50]

kind of drive this point home that I'm I'm actually know what I'm talking about here and I've used this over and over again. If we go to my channel, let's go all the way back down to the very start. Um where is it? Right. So I started my channel off and I just started making anything that would stick. Uh anything that I was interested in, I would nerd out on. I started making videos on like fine-tuning GPT and people were really interested in that. I was like, "Okay. " Um, and then I looked into sort of these more tutorial-based videos, some challenge videos, and then I hit onto this vein of these uh custom knowledge chat GBTs. Now, you'd kind of know them as an agent with a knowledge base, but I figured out that these kind of videos for this topic was really interesting. So, this was a fertile plane that I identified and I just started hammering out tons and tons of videos on it. How to build a custom mod chat GBT, how to train chat GPT on your data and chat via Slack, how to create local chat bots, create your own chat GPT with PDF data in 5 minutes, lang training tutorial, um hybrid chat bots, private GPT. I just started hammering on the same point and that really took my channel off from sort of 5 to 10 to 15 to 20,000 uh subscribers and I was able to get Morning Side AI, my agency off the ground based off the leads that came from those videos. We were just making these custom old chat bots with people as I was already doing in the video. And then a second fertile plane that I jumped on was the AI business and AI automation opportunity that I spotted. Gave it a name and I just rode that to the point where OpenAI released their GPTs. And this was a very big deal. It sort of pulled all those custom knowledge chatbot things in. Took out hundreds of startups in one go. But basically they released this new platform called GPTs which you may be familiar with. And when those came out I just went all in. I was cranking out like three four videos a week. Uh this one 100k views, 500k views, 200k views. Uh, and I just kept hammering that same thing and it grew the channel rapidly and I got to 100,000 or more subs off the back of this. Then I made a whole video around it and got a million views. So I did that again and then we came to voice agents and they came out. Here we have 100,000 views. Here we have 60,000 70,000 views. So I just jumped on the back of these trends as they came along and rode them. And I was camping the fertile planes and we would get leads through my agency. I would get massive growth in my channel. So I was actively applying this the spawn trapping method. So, as soon as something new came out that I knew was going to be big, I was all over it. And so, this video, for example, 432,000 views, I just figured out I was tinkering and I was sort of at the edge of knowledge for what these GPTs could do. And I figured out how to put a GPT on a website. And it was this like super rinky dink like replet method, but I was the first person to connect that. And I was just following my own curiosity. I was like, how could man, I know there's going to be a lot of interest here. How could I put it on a website? I know that's just going to be a big use case. And so, I figured it out. And so, I made this video. It was very timely. I made it 15 minutes, nice short one, good thumbnail, and it just absolutely ripped. It was like 200,000 views in the space of a few days. And then because that worked, I doubled down and I made an advanced tutorial and I went even deeper and figured out stuff that no one was doing with it. So this is the formula and I can show you other people.

### More examples: Yanis Moore and Nate Hook [19:35]

people. So we have my friend here Jiannis Moore and you guys may know him for Voice AI. Basically, he started getting into voice AI as that sort of new fertile plane opened up and he just went ham on these Vappy videos. And so, he was able to get a really good run in here with these 39K views, 7K views, 10K views, and he was able to steamroll his agency from there to hiring a bunch of devs under him to doing 60K in a single month through AI, custom AI development services. And now worldwide, he'd be one of the smartest people when it comes to voice AI because he's rode that. He's made a lot of content about it and he's really established himself in that space now. So, I can give you example after example of people who have done this. Another one, Nate Hook. Um, both Yiannis and Nate were members of my accelerator and they have taken the same strategy that I've used and in this case you can see Nate has just gone all in on the NA10 trend and he's been absolutely ripping it and dropping really good content and just riding that trend super hard and he's become the NA10 guy. So, this thing works. It I'm not I really want you guys

### Free resources + closing thoughts [20:28]

to just pay attention to this. If you can just wait for a new thing to come out, you jump on it as soon as it gets there. All the experts get basically reset to zero. You just go all in on being a sponge for that, tinkering around with it, seeing what you can do with it, make content around the cool stuff you do with it, and you can become a category leader or category king for that new type technology. And you might not want to stay there forever. You might just jump into something else like I did over and over again. But that is the way to rapidly get views and attention to learn a ton about it to start to get consulting calls or sell a course or to start offering implementation with an AI automation agency. That is a strategy. And that is why to my mom, I hope you now understand why I played all that Call of Duty because I was just prepping for my later career as an entrepreneur and YouTuber, I guess. So yeah, that ended up being a bit longer than I thought if I'm honest. But um hope you got some value out of that. If you want to subscribe to me for more unorthodox AI business advice and how to get into it, if you want to learn more about my businesses and work with my agency for your AI transformation for your business or you want to join my free school community and sort of watch my free course and how to start an AI business and all that sort of jazz, it's all in the description below. Yeah, that's all the video guys. Thank you so much for watching and um I hope to see some new spawn trappers uh getting on the stuff on YouTube and getting a lot of success with it. So, I'll see you in the next one.