[0:00] In this video, I'm going to walk you
[0:01] through exactly how to start a faceless
[0:03] YouTube channel this year that can
[0:05] potentially start making money. This
[0:07] will be a complete beginner tutorial.
[0:09] We'll walk through the entire process
[0:11] from setting up your channel, coming up
[0:13] with a name and a niche for your
[0:16] channel, and creating the videos using
[0:19] free tools. I want to show you how to
[0:20] get started with this with as little
[0:22] upfront cost as possible while still
[0:25] maintaining high quality. And of course,
[0:27] we'll also talk about how to create
[0:29] titles and thumbnails that actually get
[0:31] clicks. And on top of all of this, I'm
[0:33] even going to be creating my own
[0:34] faceless channel in this video. And I'm
[0:37] going to walk you through everything
[0:38] just so that you can see exactly how to
[0:40] get started with this for yourself. And
[0:42] toward the end of the video, we'll talk
[0:44] about all of the different strategies to
[0:47] start monetizing and potentially start
[0:49] making money on YouTube. My promise to
[0:52] you is that by the end of this video,
[0:54] you'll be able to have all of the
[0:56] knowledge, tools, and confidence that
[0:58] you need to finally go out there and
[1:00] start your own faceless channel this
[1:03] year. So, about a year ago, I started a
[1:05] Faceless channel as kind of an
[1:07] experiment just to prove that it was
[1:09] possible. And that channel actually did
[1:12] pretty well given how short of a time I
[1:15] made videos on it. I had some videos do
[1:17] much better than others and I even made
[1:20] some money with it. And so I'll be
[1:22] referencing that channel occasionally
[1:23] throughout this video because there's a
[1:25] lot that I learned from running that
[1:27] experiment. Now this video will be
[1:29] broken down into a few steps. The first
[1:32] step to starting your faceless YouTube
[1:34] channel though is you need to decide on
[1:36] your niche. I think this might be the
[1:38] one step where most people get stuck
[1:41] because you're trying to kind of figure
[1:42] out the perfect niche to make videos in
[1:45] and yeah, it can get really overwhelming
[1:48] really quickly, especially once you
[1:50] start to realize how many different
[1:52] angles you can take your channel. But
[1:54] here's the framework that I want you to
[1:56] use that'll help you with this. Okay,
[1:57] basically I want you to ask yourself
[1:59] these three questions about whatever
[2:01] niche you might be trying to decide on.
[2:04] Question number one, can I make 100
[2:07] videos in this niche without ever
[2:10] showing my face? Number two, are there
[2:12] people already watching this type of
[2:14] content like on YouTube? Um, and number
[2:16] three, is there a clear path to money
[2:19] later? When I started my experiment
[2:21] channel, I could answer all three of
[2:24] those questions easily. Right on that
[2:26] channel, I made faceless product review
[2:28] videos. This is definitely a very
[2:30] popular niche on YouTube and so people
[2:32] definitely were already watching this
[2:34] type of content and I knew that I could
[2:37] make money through affiliate marketing
[2:39] with every video that I posted, which
[2:41] like I said, I did end up making a
[2:43] little bit of money. And then of course
[2:45] eventually uh once that channel got
[2:47] monetized, I'd be able to make money
[2:49] through YouTube AdSense as well. But
[2:51] yeah, as long as you can successfully
[2:53] answer yes to all of these questions,
[2:56] you'll be good to go. Now, I do
[2:57] understand that part of the problem uh
[3:00] with choosing a niche is kind of knowing
[3:02] what options are even available. And so,
[3:05] I really quickly just want to rapidfire
[3:07] through several different popular niches
[3:09] that you might consider. All of these
[3:11] niches are already proven to work. They
[3:14] already have huge viewership and they
[3:17] definitely can make money. And I'll show
[3:19] you some examples of channels within
[3:21] each niche that are already making
[3:22] faceless content successfully. All
[3:24] right, so first up are niche
[3:26] storytelling faceless channels. This is
[3:29] definitely a very broad niche because
[3:32] storytelling can be in any number of
[3:34] genres, right? It could be like scary
[3:36] stories, kids stories, uh murder mystery
[3:39] stories, documentary kind of stories,
[3:41] like you're telling a true story about a
[3:44] major event in history or things like
[3:46] that. I mean, really, there are no
[3:47] limits to this genre here, but let me go
[3:50] ahead and show you some examples of this
[3:52] niche in action. All right, so first up
[3:54] are like scary story videos. Okay, from
[3:57] what I've seen, these videos will
[3:58] typically include about like three
[4:00] stories within one video. Each story
[4:03] being about, you know, 7 to 8 minutes
[4:05] long. And really all it is, and I've
[4:08] gone through several different channels
[4:09] within this niche, they all do the same
[4:11] thing. They're all just showing images
[4:13] that they probably generated with AI. Uh
[4:16] they're just showing images that kind of
[4:18] like match with whatever words are being
[4:20] spoken in the video. So, like if we just
[4:22] scroll through this video here, you'll
[4:24] see that all they're doing is just
[4:25] showing images. Sometimes the images
[4:28] have like grain effects on them,
[4:30] sometimes they don't. Like with that
[4:31] image right there, there's nothing
[4:32] happening. It's just the image. And so
[4:34] everything from the script itself to the
[4:36] actual visuals can be created within AI,
[4:39] which is crazy. Another example are kids
[4:41] storytelling videos. So this one's
[4:43] called The Big Silly Crocodile. Um, it's
[4:45] got 18 million views, which is wild. So
[4:49] you can see right here, it's a pretty
[4:50] simple animation like kind of like a a
[4:52] paper cutout animation. Something like
[4:54] this can easily be created within a tool
[4:56] like Higsfield or even within like
[4:58] Google VO or something like that. Um or
[5:01] you could just even go the route of
[5:03] having just still images. Let me show
[5:04] you another example here of a channel
[5:06] that you know this video right here has
[5:07] 1.5 million views and all it's doing is
[5:11] it's just reading from a book. So, it's
[5:13] got a book right here, and all it's
[5:15] doing is just kind of slowly panning
[5:19] across the pages, right? And the
[5:21] narrator is reading the book, literally
[5:23] just reading the book as is, right? And
[5:25] it's just showing the pages of the book.
[5:27] I mean, you can't really get much more
[5:29] simple than that. And the cool part
[5:31] about this, which we'll talk about this
[5:32] more later, is I I can guarantee you
[5:35] that the link to this book is in the
[5:37] description. Yeah. Right there. And so
[5:38] if you were to click on this link right
[5:40] here, it would bring you to her Amazon
[5:42] store where you could buy this book. So
[5:44] that's another route you could go with
[5:45] kids storytelling if you just wanted to
[5:47] keep it even more simple than having to
[5:49] do like actual animations and stuff. But
[5:51] even with these animations, you could
[5:52] create something like this uh using AI.
[5:54] Another example of storytelling are
[5:57] these documentary style videos. So this
[5:59] one has 1.3 million views from 8 months
[6:01] ago. How did people sleep in medieval
[6:03] castles without freezing to death? I
[6:05] want to show you something interesting.
[6:06] So, at the top here, it says altered or
[6:08] synthetic content. That literally means
[6:10] that they created this video with AI.
[6:13] When you upload the video, there's a box
[6:14] that you have to check that says that
[6:16] you use AI to create the video, and
[6:18] you're required to do that. Okay? And
[6:19] so, we know for a fact that this channel
[6:21] is using AI to create these images. For
[6:24] the video that I'm going to make on my
[6:25] channel, I'll probably end up doing
[6:26] something similar to this or even
[6:29] something like this. This is another
[6:31] example of something that was definitely
[6:33] created with AI. And you can create this
[6:35] kind of stuff, like I said, within
[6:36] Hakesfield or Google VO or even a tool
[6:39] like Midjourney can create moving images
[6:41] that look really, really good. So yeah,
[6:44] this is another example though right
[6:45] here. This one has 133K views from 2
[6:47] months ago. So that's the storytelling
[6:49] niche. As you can see, it's pretty
[6:51] straightforward. Most of these videos
[6:53] you'll be able to use AI to create the
[6:55] visuals, and we'll talk more about that
[6:57] a little bit later, but let's go ahead
[6:58] and move on to the next niche, which is
[7:00] compilation style videos. And so
[7:03] compilation style videos are things like
[7:05] top 10s, uh, explainers, things like
[7:08] that. The experiment channel that I
[7:09] started was a top five product listical
[7:13] video, which is a compilation style
[7:15] video. So if I just type in best things
[7:17] ever into YouTube right here, it should
[7:19] bring up my channel. Yeah, there it is.
[7:21] So there's my channel right there. This
[7:22] is an example of a compilation style
[7:25] video. So you can see right here that
[7:27] from a year ago, my highest viewed video
[7:29] was 11K. Let's go and click on that one.
[7:32] And literally the entire video is just
[7:35] showing images, right? I used AI to
[7:39] write the script. I used AI for the
[7:41] voiceover. The only work I had to do was
[7:43] just going out and finding the images
[7:45] that match the products that I that I
[7:47] was talking about. Here's another
[7:48] example. Top 10 dangerous objects found
[7:50] during um archaeological excavations.
[7:53] And so it's just showing all these
[7:54] different videos and things. They
[7:56] probably got these videos from like
[7:58] YouTube videos or some type of like
[8:00] Creative Commons website where they can
[8:02] use these types of images for free. So,
[8:04] if we just scroll through here, you'll
[8:05] see it's just literally a compilation of
[8:08] different videos. They probably use AI
[8:10] to write the script and then all they
[8:12] had to do was just go through and find
[8:14] different related images or things that
[8:16] pertained to whatever objects that
[8:19] they're talking about, which they
[8:20] probably just found those images on
[8:22] Google images or like I said, this looks
[8:24] like stock footage right here. And then
[8:26] of course like probably other YouTube
[8:27] videos. Now another popular niche are
[8:29] what I call screen recordings. And so
[8:32] that's basically where you make tutorial
[8:34] style videos where you never show your
[8:36] face but you make tutorial videos about
[8:38] software, AI tools, video games, things
[8:41] like that. So let me show you some
[8:42] examples here of what that might look
[8:44] like. This one is a video of somebody
[8:46] restoring some type of vehicle, maybe.
[8:50] Yeah, a vehicle. So you can see they
[8:51] never actually show their face. The
[8:53] whole video is just them restoring the
[8:55] vehicle. Another example is something
[8:57] like this. It's this whole entire
[8:58] channel is about locks. The lockpicking
[9:01] lawyer. Okay, this has 2.8 million views
[9:03] from uh 3 years ago. And it's just 3
[9:05] minutes of him talking about a lock,
[9:07] testing it out. He never shows his face.
[9:10] He's just got a camera on a tripod and
[9:12] he's testing out the lock. That's it.
[9:14] Another example is something like this
[9:16] where the entire video is you never see
[9:18] the person's face at all. Not even in
[9:20] the intro of the video. and it's just
[9:22] them talking about how to use Photoshop
[9:25] for beginners. And this this same exact
[9:27] format can be used for literally any
[9:30] type of software, any type of website
[9:32] tool, anything like that. And so, yeah,
[9:34] these are all examples of what I call
[9:36] the screen recording uh niche. But yeah,
[9:39] you kind of get the point. Um, there are
[9:40] so many different like angles and
[9:42] different options for starting a
[9:44] faceless channel. You just have to go
[9:45] with whatever you think might be most
[9:47] interesting to you. Okay? Ask yourself,
[9:50] can I make 100 videos in this niche
[9:53] without getting bored? Okay? If you can
[9:56] answer yes to that question and it also
[9:58] passes all of the questions from
[10:00] earlier, then start there with that
[10:03] niche. For the channel that I'm creating
[10:05] in this video, I'll be going with an
[10:06] ancient business mogul documentary
[10:09] channel. This should be quite fun to do
[10:10] actually, and I'm excited to make the
[10:12] first video with you. Now, I've put
[10:14] together a comprehensive list of
[10:16] hundreds of different uh niche ideas for
[10:18] faceless channels. You can download this
[10:20] list completely free using the link
[10:22] below to help give you kind of a jump
[10:24] start for your brainstorming process.
[10:26] Anyways, the next step that we'll talk
[10:28] about is coming up with a name for your
[10:30] channel and then creating the channel.
[10:32] This is probably the easiest part of the
[10:34] entire process because we're literally
[10:35] just going to use chatbt to help us
[10:37] create a name and then create your
[10:40] YouTube channel, which takes like 2
[10:41] minutes. So within chatbt just type
[10:43] something in like I'm creating a
[10:46] faceless YouTube channel around whatever
[10:48] you know topic whatever your niche is
[10:50] about. My niche is ancient business
[10:52] mogul documentaries. Uh can you give me
[10:55] a list of channel names that will work
[10:57] for this? And chat GBT will start
[10:59] generating a big list of names. So you
[11:02] can see it's given us a ton of names
[11:03] here and it's kind of like categorized
[11:05] the names by different like genres or
[11:07] whatever. So you got ancient power and
[11:09] wealth. These feel premium and Netflix
[11:12] style. So you got like, you know, Empire
[11:14] of Gold. That's pretty cool. Lords of
[11:17] Trade, The Wealth of Empires. These are
[11:19] all pretty cool names. I'm just going to
[11:21] scroll down here. We got business,
[11:22] trade, and strategy focused. Ancient
[11:24] Commerce. Ooh, I really like this one
[11:27] right here, the original billionaires.
[11:29] That one is for sure my favorite of all
[11:31] of these. So, I'm going to go ahead and
[11:32] copy that name because we'll use this
[11:34] later when we actually create the
[11:36] YouTube channel. So, with that name, I'm
[11:37] going to go ahead and open up a uh new
[11:39] tab in my browser. Go to youtube.com.
[11:41] And for this, I am going to create a
[11:43] brand new Google account specifically
[11:45] for this new channel. I personally like
[11:48] doing this because it keeps everything
[11:50] separate, right? The YouTube channel,
[11:53] the emails, future brand deals, any
[11:55] affiliate accounts, all of that stuff
[11:57] can live under one clean account instead
[12:00] of being mixed in with my personal Gmail
[12:03] and stuff like that, right? And I would
[12:05] recommend that you just do the same.
[12:06] Once my new Gmail account is created
[12:08] though, I'll head back to YouTube, click
[12:10] on create new channel, and then use the
[12:12] name that we just picked, which is the
[12:14] original billionaires. And once the
[12:16] account is created, we now need to
[12:18] create a profile picture and a banner.
[12:21] We can't just leave these blank. We have
[12:23] to give some branding to the channel.
[12:25] But the good news though is that we can
[12:27] also use chatbt to create these images.
[12:30] So, first I'm going to click into the
[12:32] channel customization section. And this
[12:34] is where we can change things like the
[12:36] profile picture, the banner image, our
[12:39] handle, all that stuff. Now, I don't
[12:41] want you to overthink this part too
[12:43] much, okay? A lot of people will spend
[12:45] like 3 weeks trying to come up with a
[12:48] perfect banner image um before they ever
[12:50] even upload a single video. And
[12:52] honestly, this stuff matters way, way
[12:55] less than you probably think. The
[12:57] content is what matters the most. And
[12:59] you can always improve your branding
[13:01] later. So for now, I just want something
[13:03] that's clean and good enough to make the
[13:06] channel look legitimate. And so the
[13:07] first thing I'm going to do is create a
[13:09] new profile picture. So I'm going to
[13:10] head back over to Chat TBT and just type
[13:13] something like create a simple cinematic
[13:16] logo for a YouTube channel called the
[13:19] original billionaires about ancient
[13:21] business mogul and historical wealth.
[13:24] And we'll see what it comes up with.
[13:26] Okay, it looks like it's finishing up
[13:27] here and it's loading. Let's see. So
[13:29] far, this is Ooh, that looks really,
[13:32] really good. I mean, this it did a
[13:34] phenomenal job creating this profile
[13:37] picture. This looks so so good. Now,
[13:39] I'll be honest with you, okay? It's not
[13:41] always going to work and be this good on
[13:43] the first try. Sometimes you have to
[13:45] prompt it again to kind of like change a
[13:47] few things up, but sometimes it just
[13:49] nails it on the very first try, which it
[13:51] definitely did for me. So, I'm going to
[13:53] go ahead and download this right here
[13:54] because we will definitely be using this
[13:56] for the YouTube channel. So, I'll
[13:58] download it, head back to our channel,
[14:00] and upload it to the profile picture.
[14:02] Next, I'm going to create the banner
[14:04] image for the top of the channel page.
[14:06] And again, this does not need to be some
[14:08] crazy masterpiece, okay? Most people are
[14:11] barely, you know, even going to look at
[14:12] your channel banner. Anyways, like I
[14:14] said, the videos themselves are way more
[14:17] important, but I still want it to look
[14:19] somewhat professional. So, I'll come
[14:21] back into Chat GBT and say, "This looks
[14:25] amazing. Uh, can you give me a channel
[14:28] banner that complements this avatar that
[14:31] you just gave me because I love it? And
[14:33] we'll give this a second to get created.
[14:36] And, you know, uh, AI isn't always going
[14:39] to be perfect. You can see that it
[14:41] pretty much just generated a different
[14:43] version of our profile picture, which I
[14:45] definitely don't like that. So, I'll say
[14:49] I like this a lot, but I don't want it
[14:52] to just be a clone of the avatar. I want
[14:54] to keep the same style but have it be
[14:57] something unique. And we'll see what it
[14:59] comes up with after that. Okay, so this
[15:01] looks a million times better. I I love
[15:04] how this looks. It definitely still fits
[15:05] the branding uh with the profile
[15:07] picture, but it's still a unique image.
[15:09] So, I love this. And I'll definitely be
[15:11] using this for the banner image. All
[15:13] right, so the channel is now set up. And
[15:16] with that done, the next step is to
[15:18] actually make the faceless videos. Now,
[15:21] these faceless videos are broken down
[15:23] into a simple five-step process, and
[15:26] we're going to go over each step in
[15:27] detail. You've got idea, scripting,
[15:30] voice over, what I call asset
[15:33] collection, and final assembly. Now,
[15:36] this sounds like a lot, but honestly,
[15:38] four out of five of these steps can
[15:40] actually be streamlined with AI. Now, it
[15:43] is still going to be important that you
[15:45] guide the overall creative direction of
[15:47] your videos just to make sure that the
[15:49] content is unique and valuable. The last
[15:52] thing you want to do is just create some
[15:54] AI slop. Uh these videos are still going
[15:57] to be high quality. Okay? But AI will
[15:59] definitely be able to help us, you know,
[16:01] create the videos more efficiently. And
[16:03] so, let's start with the first step,
[16:05] which is idea, which we can do with AI.
[16:08] So, all we're going to do here is open
[16:09] up chatbt again. And I'm just going to
[16:11] ask it, can you give me a list of 10 to
[16:14] 15 video ideas for my faceless YouTube
[16:17] channel about ancient business mogul
[16:20] documentaries? And you can do this for
[16:22] really any faceless niche that you want
[16:24] on YouTube. Like when I started my
[16:26] experiment channel that I showed you
[16:27] earlier, I simply asked ChattBT what
[16:30] were the most like trending products for
[16:33] that current year and then I made review
[16:35] videos around those products. But
[16:38] anyways, with these ideas, I'm just
[16:40] going to select one to make a video
[16:42] about and then we'll start working on
[16:44] the script. So, a lot of really, really
[16:46] good ideas here. I think the one that
[16:48] stands out most to me is King Solomon,
[16:50] the richest man in the ancient world. It
[16:53] said that King Solomon was the richest
[16:55] man to ever exist. He had like a net
[16:57] worth of $2 trillion. And so, I think
[16:59] that could be a really interesting
[17:01] story. And so, I'm going to go ahead and
[17:02] copy that because that's the idea that
[17:04] we're going to use to begin working on
[17:06] our script. Now, when it comes to the
[17:08] script for the video, absolutely
[17:10] ChattPpt can help develop this for you.
[17:12] But what you don't want to do is just
[17:14] simply say something like, "Okay, now
[17:16] create a script for this video." Because
[17:19] what's going to happen is it's going to
[17:20] give you a script that's like 2 minutes
[17:22] long. Okay? And obviously, we want the
[17:24] videos to be longer than that. And so
[17:25] what I have discovered is that the best
[17:27] way to get Chat toBT to write a script
[17:30] for you is to have it first start off
[17:32] with giving you a breakdown like an
[17:34] actual outline for the video and then
[17:37] you work on each part of the outline
[17:39] separate. And so I'm going to say let's
[17:41] create a video about and then paste in
[17:43] the video title there. I need help
[17:45] creating the script. I want it to be
[17:47] about 15 minutes long. Let's first start
[17:49] off by giving me the breakdown of the
[17:52] video. then will work on each section
[17:55] separately. Okay. So, I'll say that to
[17:57] it, hit enter, and it's going to begin
[17:59] now working on the outline for the video
[18:01] for me. So, with that outline now
[18:04] finished, I'm just going to say to it,
[18:05] let's start with the open hook. And when
[18:08] I say that, it's going to begin
[18:09] developing the open hook for us, which
[18:11] you know, you can see it does a really,
[18:13] really good job. And then once the open
[18:15] hook is done, we would then after that
[18:17] say, okay, let's move on to the next
[18:20] section, right? and then hit enter. And
[18:23] it's going to begin working on section
[18:24] number two for us. And then once it
[18:27] finishes section number two, you would
[18:28] say, "Let's work on the next section."
[18:30] And it's going to begin working on
[18:31] section number three. And so forth,
[18:34] right? You would just keep doing this.
[18:35] And you know, you could feel free to
[18:36] edit any of the script if you want to or
[18:38] have it make some updates for you,
[18:40] whatever you think is necessary. But
[18:42] usually the AI does a really good job of
[18:44] developing the script for you. All
[18:46] right. So that is basically scripting in
[18:48] a nutshell. Next is the voice over. My
[18:51] number one recommendation here is just
[18:53] to use your own voice. Okay, I know that
[18:56] it can feel a little bit intimidating at
[18:58] first, but for a faceless channel, your
[19:01] voice is what's going to make the
[19:03] content unique and authentic. Plus, if
[19:05] you're on a tight budget, then you don't
[19:07] even really need a professional studio.
[19:09] Like, you can buy a super affordable mic
[19:12] on Amazon. Or if you're really just
[19:14] starting out and you don't want to spend
[19:16] any money, you can honestly just use the
[19:18] voice memo phone on your app. All you
[19:21] have to do is just record in a quiet
[19:22] space like a closet full of clothes to
[19:25] dampen the echo. And you'd be surprised
[19:28] that it actually sounds surprisingly
[19:30] professional. But using your own voice
[19:32] is 100% free. It keeps your channel safe
[19:35] from the loweffort content flags and it
[19:38] helps to build a real connection with
[19:40] your audience. Now, if you really really
[19:43] don't want to have to use your own
[19:44] voice, you can use a tool like 11 Labs.
[19:48] They have some of the best natural
[19:49] sounding voices that I've heard. Now,
[19:51] this video is not sponsored by them. I
[19:53] don't have any affiliate links or
[19:54] anything like that. Um, it's just one of
[19:56] the better tools that I've used for AI
[19:59] voiceovers. And so, if I was actually
[20:01] starting a faceless channel and taking
[20:03] it seriously, I would without a doubt be
[20:06] using my own voice. But for the sake of
[20:08] this video and for my example Faceless
[20:11] Channel, I'm just going to use an AI
[20:13] voice over from 11 Labs as the voice of
[20:16] my video. And using it is very simple.
[20:19] All you have to do is just take your
[20:20] script, paste it into the tool, and
[20:22] it'll develop the voiceover recording
[20:24] for you based on that script. And you
[20:27] can like change different voices and
[20:28] things like that. It's a super simple
[20:30] tool. But once your voice over is
[20:31] recorded, the next step of the video
[20:34] making process is asset collection.
[20:36] Basically, with this step, all you're
[20:38] doing is collecting the images and
[20:40] videos that you'll be using in your
[20:42] video. Now, depending on the niche that
[20:45] you selected will sort of change how you
[20:47] approach this step. So, for example, for
[20:51] my niche, which is ancient business
[20:53] mogul documentaries, it's a storytelling
[20:55] niche. I'm going to be relying heavily
[20:57] on AI creation tools. And so I'll be
[21:00] using tools like chat GBT or Midjourney
[21:02] to create images that I can then add,
[21:05] you know, subtle movement to to sort of
[21:07] bring to life or maybe I'll be able to
[21:09] find some stuff on Google images or like
[21:12] other YouTube videos. But for the most
[21:14] part, I'll just be using AI tools. And
[21:16] the good news is that Chat GBT is free.
[21:20] Um, Midjourney is the only tool that is
[21:22] going to cost some money, but the basic
[21:24] plan only costs $10 per month. And you
[21:27] don't even have to use MidJourney. you
[21:28] can just use chat tbt for free. But if
[21:31] you're creating something like listical
[21:33] videos, for example, similar to what I
[21:36] did with my other faceless channel that
[21:38] I started as an experiment, then you'll
[21:40] be relying heavily on places like Google
[21:42] images or product review videos on
[21:45] YouTube to get all of your visual
[21:47] assets. If you are creating, you know,
[21:49] travel listical videos, same thing.
[21:52] you'll be relying a lot on stock footage
[21:54] and using clips from other YouTube
[21:56] videos or Google images, things like
[21:59] that. So, depending on your niche will
[22:02] change your process for creating your
[22:04] videos. For my channel though, I'll be
[22:07] using mostly AI. So, essentially with
[22:09] this step, all you're going to be doing,
[22:11] I've already pasted my script here from
[22:13] ChattBT into a Google doc. So
[22:16] essentially what you're going to be
[22:17] doing is you're just referencing the
[22:19] script and then finding the appropriate
[22:21] images or videos based on the script.
[22:24] And so for example, the first line of my
[22:26] script is what if I told you that
[22:28] thousands of years ago there was a man
[22:30] so wealthy that silver was considered
[22:33] worthless in his kingdom. That's the
[22:35] first line there. Okay. And then I'm
[22:36] going to head over into MidJourney, for
[22:38] example. And I'm literally just going to
[22:40] paste that line of text into the prompt
[22:44] box right here. And then hit enter. And
[22:46] it's going to generate an image that is
[22:48] fitting based on that line of text. And
[22:50] so you can see it did a really really
[22:52] good job creating this this image of
[22:55] King Solomon. Now, I don't know what
[22:57] King Solomon actually looked like. I
[22:59] have no idea. But I think that this is a
[23:01] good representation of what he could
[23:03] have potentially looked like. And
[23:04] something really cool about Midjourney
[23:06] as well is that you can actually add
[23:08] small movement to your image. And so if
[23:10] I click right here on animate image, you
[23:12] can see that it creates these new moving
[23:15] images for me. I mean, this looks
[23:17] insanely good, right? And we could we
[23:20] could create the whole video like this
[23:21] where we've just got these different
[23:23] like moving images that really really
[23:25] help to bring the story to life. You
[23:27] don't have to, of course. You could just
[23:29] keep on using still images and those
[23:31] would still work just as good. But I
[23:33] just think it's a cool option to be able
[23:35] to animate the images a little bit and
[23:37] just add that much more personality to
[23:39] your videos. But then what I like to do
[23:41] is once I've finished finding the asset
[23:44] for that specific line of text, I'll
[23:46] just highlight the lines of text within
[23:48] the script black just so that I know I'm
[23:51] done with that part of the script and I
[23:53] can move on. So then once that part of
[23:54] the script's done, I would move on to
[23:56] the next part. So then the next line of
[23:57] text in my script is um at the height of
[24:00] his power, gold floated to his kingdom
[24:02] from across Asia or Africa, Asia and the
[24:05] ancient worlds, etc., etc. I'm going to
[24:07] try to go to Google images for this one
[24:09] and just type in King Solomon and then
[24:11] go to images. And you can see there's
[24:14] tons of different images here that we
[24:15] can choose from. Um I could use some of
[24:18] these or I could just keep on using AI
[24:21] tools to create like original images.
[24:24] And I think I'll do that. So, I'm
[24:25] actually going to head into Chat DBT
[24:27] now. And same thing, I'm just going to
[24:30] paste in this line of text right here
[24:32] into Chat DBT and ask it to create a
[24:35] image for my documentary about King
[24:38] Solomon. And then hit enter and we'll
[24:40] see what it creates for us. So, I think
[24:42] that this looks phenomenal. I think it
[24:44] looks really, really good. And I'm I'm
[24:46] actually probably just going to use Chat
[24:48] GBT for the rest of the video to develop
[24:50] my assets. And so all I'm going to do is
[24:52] just go line by line and just find
[24:54] assets for that line of text. Okay?
[24:58] Depending on how long your script is,
[24:59] this could take you a couple of hours or
[25:02] it could take you even less than that
[25:04] depending on what your script is about.
[25:05] All right. So once you've got all your
[25:07] assets collected, it's time for the
[25:09] final assembly. So basically with the
[25:11] final assembly, all you're doing is
[25:14] you're first you have to choose an
[25:15] editing software to actually compile all
[25:18] this stuff together. So, for me, I'm
[25:20] going to use Final Cut Pro. If you have
[25:21] a Mac computer, you can use iMovie for
[25:24] free. If you are on a Windows PC, you
[25:27] can use a tool like Da Vinci Resolve,
[25:29] which is free. Or you could use some
[25:30] type of online video editing software.
[25:32] Like, I know Canva, for example, has
[25:34] some free video editing software that
[25:36] you can use. Or you could just go into
[25:38] Google and type in free editing
[25:40] software, and you can see what pops up.
[25:42] So, for example, Cap Cut is a good
[25:44] option. But you can see if you just
[25:45] scroll through here, there's tons of
[25:47] other options as well. Even Adobe has
[25:49] Adobe Express which again is free video
[25:52] editing software. So it doesn't really
[25:54] matter what you use because the process
[25:56] is going to be the exact same. So
[25:58] basically with the final assembly what
[25:59] you're going to do is first drop in your
[26:02] voice over. Okay? So if you recorded
[26:04] your own voice over you would drop that
[26:06] in. In my case I used 11 Labs to do an
[26:09] AI voice over. So I'm just going to drop
[26:11] that into my timeline here. And then I'm
[26:13] just going to start dropping in all of
[26:15] my assets one by one into the timeline
[26:18] uh to match with whatever is being said
[26:21] on on the voice over. Does that make
[26:23] sense? So, for example, for this first
[26:25] part right here about King Solomon, I
[26:28] know that we decided to go with this
[26:29] image here. So, I'm just going to drop
[26:31] that in right there. And you would just
[26:32] do that same thing for each part of the
[26:34] video. Now, realistically, this should
[26:37] be the fastest part of the process
[26:38] because you've already got all your
[26:40] assets. All you have to do is just
[26:41] figure out where they go within the
[26:43] video based on what's being said in the
[26:45] voice over. And then if you want to, you
[26:47] can add things like slow zoomins. You
[26:50] can add like different effects and
[26:51] things like that, which most of these
[26:53] editing tools will have that kind of
[26:55] stuff built in. You can just add that
[26:57] stuff on top of the images to kind of
[26:59] bring it to life and add more more
[27:01] character. And so, for example, for my
[27:02] video, I'm going to add in these dust
[27:04] particles over these clips. um and maybe
[27:07] some other effects just to kind of make
[27:09] it more interesting to look at. But
[27:11] yeah, you can spend some time here just
[27:12] kind of being creative and doing
[27:14] whatever you want to make it
[27:15] interesting. But you saw for yourself in
[27:17] the example videos I showed you earlier.
[27:20] Most of the time there's not a whole lot
[27:22] going on with these videos, right? Some
[27:25] light effects, some light movement. You
[27:27] don't have to spend hours and hours,
[27:30] definitely not days making a video. just
[27:32] do enough to add some level of human
[27:34] effort and to make it more interesting
[27:36] than just a still image not doing
[27:38] anything. Right? Even a small bit of
[27:41] movement will add a lot in terms of
[27:44] making it more interesting. So, I'm
[27:45] going to spend like the next 30 minutes
[27:47] going through here and just adding all
[27:49] of my clips on top of my voice over. And
[27:52] after all that, the video is almost
[27:54] done. We still have to add one more
[27:56] important element, which is music. Okay,
[27:59] we have to add music to our video.
[28:01] Especially for my type of video, like
[28:03] storytelling videos, the music is going
[28:06] to be almost more important than the
[28:08] visuals itself because the music is
[28:10] going to drive the mood of the video.
[28:13] And there are a few different approaches
[28:14] that you can take here to find your
[28:17] music, right? I would either go with a
[28:19] free music website such as YouTube's
[28:22] official music library or you could use
[28:25] a premium music website like Epidemic
[28:28] Sound. Now, I promise you this is not a
[28:30] promotion for Epidemic. They are not
[28:32] sponsoring this video, but I do use them
[28:34] for my videos for both music and sound
[28:37] effects. And in my opinion, they have
[28:39] one of the best music libraries out
[28:41] there. So, I will leave a link to
[28:42] Epidemic Sound down below. If you use
[28:44] that link, it'll give you a free 30-day
[28:47] trial. Again, I'm not trying to sell you
[28:49] on them. You don't have to use them, but
[28:51] if you want something more premium with
[28:53] a lot more song options, then definitely
[28:56] grab that free 30-day trial. using the
[28:58] link down below. Otherwise, just stick
[29:01] to free music resources like YouTube's
[29:04] official music library. But anyways, I'm
[29:06] just going to go ahead and spend the
[29:08] next like maybe 30 minutes scanning
[29:10] through songs on Epidemic Sound to find
[29:12] some stuff that will work for my video.
[29:14] I'm not really going to show that
[29:15] process because it's pretty
[29:16] self-explanatory. But after that, I'll
[29:19] export my video and then I'll share the
[29:21] final video with you guys. And, you
[29:23] know, let me know in the comments what
[29:24] you think about it. Tonight, imagine
[29:26] yourself standing at the edge of the
[29:28] ancient world. The air is warm, dry, and
[29:31] faintly perfumed with incense, drifting
[29:33] in from somewhere unseen. Dust settles
[29:36] slowly after each footstep, hanging in
[29:39] the light like smoke. In the distance,
[29:41] stone meets stone as a massive gate
[29:43] begins to open, its weight announced by
[29:46] a deep, grinding echo that carries
[29:48] across the valley. You are approaching
[29:50] Jerusalem at the height of its power.
[29:53] The city doesn't shout its importance.
[29:55] It doesn't need to. It glows quietly in
[29:58] the fading light, confident and
[30:00] unhurried. Torches flicker along the
[30:02] walls, reflecting off polished stone and
[30:05] metal. The rhythm of life inside feels
[30:08] steady, practiced, like a system that
[30:10] knows exactly what it is doing. This is
[30:13] the Kingdom of Solomon. Before we go any
[30:15] further, take a moment to settle in. Let
[30:18] your breathing slow. Let the outside
[30:21] world recede. These stories weren't
[30:23] meant to be rushed. They unfold the way
[30:26] the ancient world itself did. Patiently,
[30:28] deliberately. Now, picture the streets
[30:31] beneath your feet. They're worn smooth
[30:33] by centuries of movement. Okay, so the
[30:35] last step now is we need to upload the
[30:37] video to our channel and create a title
[30:40] and thumbnail. So, this part of the
[30:42] process I think scares a lot of people
[30:45] and for good reason. Everybody is always
[30:48] talking about how important the title
[30:50] and the thumbnail is. And don't get me
[30:52] wrong, it definitely is, right? Those
[30:54] things are important, but I don't think
[30:57] we need to overthink it. Basically, all
[30:59] you're going to do is look at channels
[31:01] within your niche that are doing well,
[31:04] that are getting good views and stuff,
[31:06] and just sort of model your thumbnails
[31:08] off theirs, right? I'm not saying you
[31:10] should copy them exactly, but just model
[31:13] them, draw inspiration from them. And
[31:15] you would do the same thing for the
[31:17] titles as well. So let me show you what
[31:19] this actually looks like in practice. So
[31:21] for example, I'm on YouTube here and I'm
[31:23] just going to type in like history
[31:25] documentary or something, right? And
[31:27] because this is kind of what my niche
[31:29] is. I'm talking about historical things
[31:31] and it's a documentary video. So if I
[31:33] just scroll through here, you can see
[31:35] that the first video it, you know, it's
[31:37] just an image with some text on it. If I
[31:39] keep scrolling through here, you'll see
[31:40] it's kind of the same thing. Like an
[31:42] image that's related to the documentary
[31:44] with like a piece of text on it. It's
[31:46] very, very simple. Most of these
[31:48] thumbnails are super simple. Right?
[31:50] Here's one from a year ago from the
[31:52] History Channel. 2.4 million views.
[31:54] Europe in the wake of the fall of Rome.
[31:56] It just shows an image of the coliseum
[31:59] kind of being burnt to the ground with
[32:01] some text that says survival in the dark
[32:03] ages. And all of these thumbnails within
[32:07] this niche are kind of doing the same
[32:09] exact thing. Okay? And so I would model
[32:11] my thumbnail the same exact way. So
[32:14] creating the thumbnail is actually very
[32:16] very simple. Okay? All you're going to
[32:18] do is go into a free tool like Canva. Uh
[32:20] and I'm going to click right here on
[32:21] create. Just type in YouTube thumbnail
[32:24] and it pops up right there. So we'll
[32:26] just click right there on YouTube
[32:27] thumbnail. And then you're just going to
[32:29] go to your your video and you're just
[32:31] going to grab an image from the video
[32:34] that is compelling looking, that looks
[32:36] interesting, right? So for my video, I
[32:39] think that this image right here of King
[32:40] Solomon looks very interesting. So I'll
[32:43] drag and drop the image into Canva right
[32:46] here. Make sure that it fits the entire
[32:47] screen. And then I'll just add some text
[32:50] on top of it that says something like
[32:52] richest man ever. And I'll just make
[32:55] sure that it's white so that it uh
[32:57] contrasts with the actual image itself
[32:59] so that people can read it. And just
[33:01] like that, we've basically got our
[33:03] thumbnail. Like you really don't have to
[33:04] overthink this process at all. Okay? And
[33:06] the same thing is true with the title.
[33:08] We're simply looking at how you know
[33:10] popular channels within our niche are
[33:12] structuring their titles and we're just
[33:15] doing the same thing for our channel.
[33:17] We're just going to title our stuff the
[33:18] same exact way. Okay. Now remember, I
[33:20] want to reiterate this. We're not just
[33:22] copying verbatim what other channels are
[33:24] doing. You don't want to do that, okay?
[33:26] You want to make sure that you are being
[33:27] original, but we can model our
[33:30] thumbnails and titles. We can draw
[33:32] inspiration from other channels because
[33:35] there's no reason to reinvent the wheel,
[33:37] right? If something's already working
[33:39] for a different channel, we can take
[33:41] what's working and apply it to what
[33:43] we're doing so that we can potentially
[33:45] get similar results. All right. So, once
[33:47] I've got my thumbnail uh ready, I'm
[33:49] going to go ahead and upload my video to
[33:52] my YouTube channel. And then I'll add my
[33:54] title and then add my thumbnail that we
[33:56] just created within Canva for free. And
[33:59] because we are using generative AI for
[34:02] our visuals, we have to make sure that
[34:04] we select this box right here that says
[34:07] altered content. Okay, this is required
[34:10] if you used AI within your video. It's a
[34:13] simple step that keeps your channel
[34:14] transparent and in good standing uh with
[34:17] YouTube's community guidelines. But once
[34:19] all that is done, we can go ahead and
[34:21] post it. And I'm going to leave a link
[34:23] to this channel down below in the
[34:24] description so that you can watch the
[34:26] full video for yourself that you just
[34:28] watched me create from start to finish.
[34:30] Now, before this video ends, I do want
[34:32] to briefly talk about the money side of
[34:35] faceless YouTube channels because
[34:37] obviously that's the main reason a lot
[34:39] of people are interested in doing this
[34:41] in the first place. Now, the first thing
[34:43] that I want to say is that this is not a
[34:46] get-richqu scheme, okay? Like, starting
[34:48] a YouTube channel and getting to a point
[34:50] where you're able to make income from it
[34:53] is going to require a considerable
[34:55] amount of work. Make no mistake about
[34:57] it. But if you are willing to put in the
[35:00] work, there are several ways that you
[35:02] can make money from this. Okay? And the
[35:04] first and most obvious way to make money
[35:06] through YouTube is through YouTube
[35:08] AdSense. Once your channel reaches
[35:10] YouTube's monetization requirements,
[35:12] YouTube will start placing ads on your
[35:15] videos and paying you based on things
[35:17] like views, watch time, your audience
[35:20] type, the niche that you're in, things
[35:22] like that. And depending on how many
[35:24] views you're getting, this can
[35:26] potentially become a pretty significant
[35:28] uh source of income for your YouTube
[35:31] channel. But AdSense is honestly just
[35:33] one small piece of the puzzle. So for
[35:35] example, my experiment faceliftless
[35:37] channel that I talked about earlier, I
[35:39] was making money with that channel using
[35:41] affiliate marketing. And affiliate
[35:43] marketing is actually very simple.
[35:45] Basically, all you're doing is just
[35:46] recommending a product or service within
[35:48] your video. And if somebody buys the
[35:51] product or service through your special
[35:53] link, you'll earn a commission. So, for
[35:55] example, if you are reviewing uh
[35:58] products or gadgets or books or tools or
[36:01] cameras or really anything that people
[36:03] can buy online, you can sign up for
[36:05] affiliate programs and start putting
[36:07] those links in your description. Now,
[36:10] one of the easiest places to start is
[36:12] the Amazon Associates program, which is
[36:14] Amazon's free affiliate program.
[36:17] basically create a free account, grab
[36:19] your custom product links, and then you
[36:21] would add those links to your video
[36:23] description. And then if somebody buys
[36:25] through one of your links, you'll earn a
[36:27] percentage of the final sale. And the
[36:29] cool thing about affiliate marketing is
[36:31] that you don't even have to have a
[36:32] monetized channel to start doing this.
[36:35] You can technically make affiliate
[36:36] income before you ever qualify for
[36:39] AdSense. Right? with my experiment
[36:41] channel. I didn't upload a single video
[36:44] on my channel before I went ahead and
[36:46] created my Amazon Associates account and
[36:48] started collecting affiliate links to
[36:51] place in future videos. And so with
[36:53] affiliate marketing, typically you can
[36:55] start doing that immediately. Now, even
[36:57] beyond affiliate marketing, you can also
[36:59] eventually sell your own products. And
[37:02] so that could be things like digital
[37:04] products like ebooks or templates or
[37:06] perhaps some type of paid community or
[37:09] coaching or consulting, maybe even your
[37:11] own software. Perhaps you could create a
[37:14] kids book using AI, which I've actually
[37:16] got a video for on my channel, which
[37:18] I'll link down below. And then you can
[37:20] get that kids book listed for sale on
[37:22] Amazon. And then you can create a
[37:25] YouTube channel. And then you can create
[37:26] a faceless YouTube video um similar to
[37:29] the one I showed you earlier where it's
[37:31] literally just you showing pages of the
[37:33] book and you're just reading the book,
[37:35] right? You're not even showing your
[37:36] face. It's just the pages of the book
[37:38] with some maybe some subtle movement and
[37:41] you are simply reading the book and that
[37:43] is the entire video. And then you can
[37:45] have a link to that book in the
[37:48] description of that video for people to
[37:50] buy. But there are so so many different
[37:52] ways that you can go about this. And
[37:55] this is why I think learning YouTube is
[37:57] such a valuable skill right now because
[37:59] even if your channel never becomes
[38:01] massive, right? You're still learning
[38:03] about content creation and storytelling
[38:06] and audience building. You're learning
[38:08] different marketing skills and all that
[38:10] stuff is incredibly valuable. Now,
[38:13] here's the truth about this, okay? Most
[38:15] people who start this are going to quit
[38:18] way too early. They'll upload a few
[38:20] videos. Those videos probably won't get
[38:22] many views. And because of that, they'll
[38:24] assume it doesn't work and they'll quit.
[38:26] But YouTube is usually way slower in the
[38:29] beginning than most people expect. Even
[38:31] with my experiment channel, some videos
[38:34] barely did anything and then other
[38:36] videos started getting traction like
[38:38] months later after I posted the video,
[38:40] right? That's just kind of how YouTube
[38:42] works sometimes. But that's why
[38:44] consistency is so incredibly important
[38:47] because one single video can completely
[38:50] change the trajectory of a channel. So
[38:53] hopefully this video gave you a
[38:55] realistic understanding of how this
[38:58] process actually works and hopefully it
[39:00] gave you some confidence to finally go
[39:02] and start your own faceless YouTube
[39:05] channel. I'll leave links to all of the
[39:07] tools and resources that I mentioned
[39:08] throughout this video down in the
[39:10] description below. Don't forget to like
[39:12] this video and subscribe for more
[39:14] content like this. Thank you so much for
[39:16] watching the video. I appreciate you
[39:18] being here and as always, I will see you
[39:20] again in the next video. Take care.