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title: 'How to Make Money on YouTube Without Making Videos Yourself — For Free!'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=s4lKPUsajIA'
video_id: 's4lKPUsajIA'
date: 2026-07-31
duration_sec: 848
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# How to Make Money on YouTube Without Making Videos Yourself — For Free!

> Source: [How to Make Money on YouTube Without Making Videos Yourself — For Free!](https://youtube.com/watch?v=s4lKPUsajIA)

## Summary

This video demonstrates a method for earning money on YouTube without creating original videos or showing your face. It relies on anonymous channels built around relaxing music, free stock footage, royalty-free audio, and tools like Pexels, OpenShot, and Canva. The tutorial walks through the entire workflow from niche selection and keyword research to editing, uploading, and meeting monetization thresholds.

### Key Points

- **Anonymous YouTube money method** [00:02] — You can make money on YouTube without filming your own videos or showing your face by building anonymous channels in niches like relaxing music.
- **Example channels and earnings estimation** [01:44] — Channels like Yellow Brick Cinema upload music videos with images and earn revenue. Socialblade can estimate daily views and earnings.
- **Earnings potential math** [02:40] — With around 500,000 daily views and a $1 CPM, a channel can earn roughly $500 per day minimum.
- **Creative Commons monetization is allowed** [03:08] — YouTube permits monetizing royalty-free or Creative Commons content when the license grants commercial-use rights, sometimes requiring credit to the creator.
- **Pexels stock footage** [03:34] — Pexels offers free stock photos and videos, often under the CC0 license, which allows use in monetized YouTube videos.
- **Create a niche YouTube channel** [04:43] — Start by creating a YouTube channel around a niche such as relaxing/meditation music, using YouTube's official help tutorial for setup.
- **Keyword research with Google Keyword Planner** [06:21] — Google and YouTube searches overlap. Keywords like 'relaxing music', 'sleep music', and 'spa music' reveal high demand and inspire video titles.
- **Editing with OpenShot** [07:44] — Import stock clips and royalty-free ambient music into OpenShot. Clips can be reused because viewers mostly listen rather than watch the screen.
- **Title research and optimization** [09:45] — Study competitor titles for your target keyword, then combine the strongest keywords into a title of roughly 70–80 characters.
- **Monetization requirements** [13:33] — To enable monetization, you need 4,000 watch hours and 1,000 subscribers on your channel.

### Conclusion

Using free tools like Pexels, OpenShot, the YouTube Audio Library, and Canva, anyone can create a faceless YouTube channel in a high-demand niche. Success comes from consistent keyword research and building enough watch time and subscribers to unlock monetization.

## Transcript

that they will be doing an average of over 200 per day and what i'm going to do in this tutorial is show you exactly how these guys are making money on youtube what's going on guys welcome back to another video in this video i'm
going to show you how to make money online with youtube without actually going and filming your own videos and without showing your face so you can be completely anonymous with this particular method and what i'm going to
do in this video is show you everything step by step in a few simple steps so end so you don't miss any critical information but this is a very simple strategy and it's very easy to understand in this very simple
expect from this tutorial i'm going to show you a quick and easy guide showing you everything you need to know within the next 15 minutes we try to keep my videos as short as possible but fit all the information that you need inside
those videos because i know time is valuable now remember guys my videos are for educational purposes only i do these videos to show you what's working for others online and there's no guarantee that you'll receive the same results and
there is no course being sold in this video this is completely free information that you can go and watch right now and i bring out free videos that subscribe button let's jump into this tutorial and i'll show you how to
make money online with youtube without actually recording any videos yourself i'm going to do is i'm going to show you how this works then i'm going to show you how you can do this stuff yourself for free so if we put in relaxing music
right here you'll see that there's some videos with obviously relaxing music and if we click on some of these videos you'll see that these have really nice relaxing music and some of them have these videos and if we go back here this
one up here has i think images so you have these nice images panning across money and the reason i know this is because we can actually dig into the stats and see how much money they're making so for example this one is called
the yellow brick cinema and this is a massive channel that goes and does music and they get paid to do it now they use images and they use music and you can now what we can do is we actually go to a website called socialblade and we can
how many views they're getting per day and kind of how much money they're making now the money they're making varies so sometimes now this isn't lot more think of like two or three times more this based on my own stats
but as we can see they're making around about 170 140 300 a day minimum 180 minimum 125 minimum but i would say the average i'm making is probably between this amount probably even higher okay because these guys are getting a lot of
views if you actually take the lowest cpm so if you take like an average cpm which is cost per thousand impressions uh sorry earnings per thousand impressions let's just say five hundred thousand so we would go and do one times
five hundred that's five hundred dollars right that they're probably making minimum every single day so we know that these channels are how can i do that how can i make money doing this we can use something called
creative commons and we can use content that is not actually ours now a lot of people think you can't make money with creative commons but you can so if we go to youtube's own stat page you can monetize royalty free or creative
commons content when the license agreement grants you rights to use it commercially sometimes rights owners require you to credit the creator etc video is using a platform called pixels where you can actually get free royalty
free images and videos and i will show you an example of what i mean is we can go and put in something like waterfalls for example and it's gonna show us waterfall photos that we could use or we can actually click on videos over here
and we're going to get tons of waterfall videos that we can use now this refers to all sorts of things rainfall waves on beaches nature in general forests water you can click on these videos all the pictures and you can see if you can
actually use this on youtube to monetize so i've clicked on one right here and if we click here it says free to use cco so this license basically tells you that this particular content can be used with creative commons so it has a little
some of them do so just make sure it does and then you can actually go and use it for creative commons and if we go more info you can also get some more information about this particular video as well so now let's jump into how you
do that i just want to show you a smaller channel so you can see that this well because a lot of people always like oh the examples you show us long time that's why they're big but you need to remember that everybody starts
a small channel it takes time to build it up you can do this as well and potentially make money so how do you get started with this let me explain the create a youtube channel based around the niche in this niche we're talking
about relaxing meditation type of music there is a tutorial that you can go and find online on the youtube help section and it takes you through every single step you need to do to create a youtube channel so you can go and do that if you
your youtube channel you will have access to the youtube auto library and in this library you can use royalty free music that you can use in these videos so once you sign up you can go and find this you can google this if you like it
you're also going to need to download a video editing software this one is called open shot it's completely free you can go and get this just put an open shot video editor into google now we need to go and create some
content now what i'm going to do in this video is use this person's examples we go look at this one right here i'm going to turn it down because it's quite you can see they've used waterfall videos
and you can literally get these from this website okay this website okay and they've just put music um in there cool for six hours now you don't have to create a six hour video but
get more views because of watch time so now let's jump into how you can go and recommend you do is first of all before and get kind of like video ideas what you want to do is you want to go to
google keyword planner you can type it into google click on google keyword account and it's going to take you to this page and you can click you can put in things like relaxing and it's going to show you what's popular on google and
google and youtube essentially the same thing they're owned by the same company whatever people search on google they usually search on youtube as well and i here so if you go search partners actually it
youtube as well so let's go you can do like relaxing music meditation music breathing exercise sleep music calming music spa music smooth music so this just gives you ideas of what's getting heavily searched
on the google platforms right now so google youtube and other search partners zen music massage music music for sleeping music for stress so you can because all the music the video is going to be the same right it's waterfalls
with music but later on when you upload it you can use these ideas to create your title so now let's go ahead and get started what you want to do first is you want to go and download a bunch of these here and i'm going to do that right now
alright guys now remember you can use a free software called open shot video editor where you can actually edit the video now once you download the videos make sure you go and get yourself some royalty free music that you can use now
what i did is i put in the genre of ambient so nice ambient music at 432 hertz now there's lots of different ones that you can download so you've got the calm ones bright ones happy ones
to do but just go through and you can click on these like like this is a nice calm one got some birds in there things like that right just go and pick a nice
audio track that you can use that kind of matches your images or your videos is i've actually dragged in my videos so desktop right now you are going to need a lot of clips to get a long video or
you can just keep putting in the same clips over and over again because people usually aren't looking at the uh image or video when you're when it's actually playing they're usually just listening to the music so it doesn't entirely
most people are just going to be listening to it so if i click play you can see this waterfall right here there's no sound now keep in mind some of the clips will actually have sounds when you download when you download them
from that website so you you probably don't want to use those clips because audio from the audio library because you're going to get a big um big long clip so i'm going to drag in the audio here
and now look at this hopefully you can hear that now goes with the image it sounds good it looks good and essentially this is ready for me to upload to youtube depending on how long you actually have
it okay this is really really nice it works and then you can see it over here it changes but once you've actually done this create like a 10 minute clip minimum most people do like
hour like hours and hours and hours and you can easily create those by putting copy and pasting until you get to an hour if you like okay so now you want to upload it to youtube and i'll show you how to do that right now all right so
youtube but we need to do a little bit of research if we do that and that is to see what type of titles other people are doing for a specific keyword so what you want to do is you just want to go and put in a keyword like relaxing music
meditation music and just scroll down and see what type of titles other people because this is what's working for that particular keyword what you can do is you can also mix and match keywords from the google uh keyword planner as well
just like this guy does here so so you'll see that he puts in stuff like beautiful music relaxing music study music stress relief sleep music these are keywords that people are going to be searching okay so what you want to do is
your youtube channel and upload your content this isn't actually the video but we'll use this one anyway because we're not going to actually upload it to your title so i'm going to put in
because that's my main keyword and then i'm going to do something like um i'm going to put sleep music
so i'm going to go to here and basically take some ideas so deep sleep music random ones from here because that's what i do when i upload stuff so deep music breathing music
breathing music and then we'll do something like stress music people might be stressed and then we'll put in one more because i like to go to about 80 characters maybe 70 to 80.
calming music okay this should be enough perfect and sorry and calming music now you want to do a description so if we look inside this guy's video he has a description of all the keywords
because i'm trying to keep this video as short as possible so you know exactly what to do quick as possible and then you can go and try do this but you just want to go and do a description with your keywords in it as well now i'm not
going to go put the description like i said because i want to keep this video have a free youtube channel course where i take you about uploading and optimizing videos it's 48 minutes long i will leave a link
in the description it takes you through everything that you need to know about optimizing them so i'm not going to talk about optimizing the video right now but create a thumbnail what you want to do is you want to go to a website called
canva.com and go youtube thumbnails and then click on a random thumbnail okay you do i'm going to customize this template and what i can actually do is because it doesn't really matter to me right now and what i'm going to do is
videos just have like like you see here this is the thumbnail just has an image of a waterfall so go back to that website website pixels.com it's actually down for me right now but go to pixels.com
to drag the image onto here and it should load up for us and then we can spread it out and away we go we now have a thumbnail that we can upload and i can go and download this right now then once it's downloaded i can go to here and i
can use it as a thumbnail now the reason you want to try and do a thumbnail um and change the colors if you like or you could just use a thumbnail from the video if you like it's really up to you but i would recommend you do one like i
customize the colors and customize it however you like now once you've done that all you need to do is click next and you need to go through the steps to upload the video now you won't be able to monetize it straight away you need i
think four thousand watch time and a thousands of subscribers but it doesn't actually take long to get that done once you start to get traction you just go next and you just keep going along and you won't have the monetize option yet
and then you go and upload your video but remember guys i will leave a free course below on how to go and upload youtube videos and optimize them so can make money with youtube by uploading these youtube videos and uploading
content that you don't actually have to create don't forget to subscribe smash bell and i'll see on one of the videos on the right and the free course is on the right and the free course is below