How to hack YouTube so that whatever video you upload will rank in the first page of specific search terms?

Jump 3 times and say yellow

If you even have to ask here on YA, you probably don't have the skills to do so, sorry.

Can it be done? Yes.
Can it be done by the likes of you? No.

Ask them this same question over the phone. They're very nice and supportive.

That's the million dollar question - literally.

The 'formula' that YouTube uses has grown and changed over time. The professional companies on YouTube hire specialists called "Search Engine Marketing" to tell them how to make their videos show up higher in the search results. The companies that do this get a lot more traffic and make a lot more money.

We DO know that things like regular upload schedule, number of copyright strikes, number of thumbs up/down/comments on previous videos ("engagement score"), etc., all factor in.

So while you can't 'hack' the data, you can try to reverse-engineer the formula that YouTube uses to make your videos rise in the search results.

Basically - study Search Engine Marketing/Search Engine Optimization.

Add uniqe content, tag, keyword and backlink to your video to rank.
But not guaranteed rank. Because have 100 up factor.

Oh BTW: The top ranked in the search engines are PAID ads. After them come the meta tag etc.Listings.