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10 Worst Niches for a YouTube Channel

0h 14m video Published Jul 18, 2024 Transcribed Jul 16, 2026 V VOLGIN You
Beginner 7 min read For: Aspiring YouTube creators, especially those interested in faceless channels, looking to avoid common pitfalls.

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This video analyzes ten of the worst niches for faceless YouTube channels, explaining why they are difficult to monetize, prone to copyright strikes, or require excessive effort. The speaker shares personal experience from 2013 onwards, highlighting pitfalls like reused content policies, low CPM, and high competition.

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Hours-long sleep videos

Require real filming with expensive equipment and hard drives to prove originality. Monetization can be removed for reused content, but the audience (sleeping viewers) is highly valued for watching all ads.

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Compilations and collections

Using others' videos risks copyright strikes and monetization removal. The speaker's own compilation channel with 100k subscribers was deleted by YouTube.

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Travel channels without a face

Soulless slideshows or Google Maps panoramas fail to engage viewers. Successful travel content requires real travel, filming, and personal narration.

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Children's content

Low CPM (~$1 per 1k views), restricted recommendations, no comments or end screens, and only cheap impersonal ads due to privacy laws.

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Cooking channels

Highly competitive and resource-intensive: need props, skill, studio, and time. If you're doing it faceless, you might as well show your face.

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Humorous content

Often uses gray topics that advertisers avoid. Standard ad packages exclude such channels. Humor is a calling, and faceless humor requires animation and scriptwriting.

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AI impersonation of real people

Using neural networks to mimic celebrities risks channel takedown for identity theft. YouTube's rules are strict against such content.

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Music videos

Non-original or AI-generated music videos get no monetization. Even posting lyrics can lead to strikes. Example: AI cover of Milad Vira was removed for copyright.

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Medical channels

YouTube favors verified doctors. Viewers prefer real experts over slides or AI content. Strict rules on health advice.

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Gaming channels without commentary

Gameplay without voiceover is secondary and easily replicated. YouTube can identify games by gameplay, leading to automatic bans (e.g., GTA).

Faceless YouTube channels in these niches face significant challenges including low CPM, copyright issues, and high competition. The speaker advises creating original content that offers unique value to viewers.

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What is the main challenge for hours-long sleep video niches?

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They require real filming with expensive equipment and hard drives to prove originality, otherwise monetization can be removed for reused content.

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Why are sleeping viewers valuable to YouTube?

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They watch videos from beginning to end, do not skip ads, and watch all embedded ads during a single session.

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What happened to the speaker's compilation channel?

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It reached 100,000 subscribers and was successfully deleted by YouTube.

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What is the CPM for children's content compared to gaming content?

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Children's content has about $1 per 1,000 views, while gaming content has about $3 per 1,000 views.

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Why are children not shown targeted ads?

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Due to privacy laws, children are not tracked by advertising trackers, so they are shown the cheapest, impersonal ads not tied to personal data.

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What is the risk of using AI to impersonate a famous person?

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The famous person may contact YouTube and have the channel taken down for identity or voice theft.

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What happened to the AI cover of Milad Vira's song?

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It was found by copyright holders and removed for copyright reasons.

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Why are medical channels difficult for faceless creators?

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YouTube favors verified doctors, and viewers prefer real experts over slides or AI content.

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What problem did GTA gameplay videos face on YouTube?

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They were automatically banned because YouTube can identify games by gameplay, not just frames.

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💡 Key Takeaways

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Sleep video niche requires real filming

Highlights the hidden effort behind seemingly simple content and the risk of monetization removal.

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Sleeping viewers are most valuable

Explains a key YouTube audience behavior that drives ad revenue.

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Compilation channel deleted at 100k subs

Personal example illustrating the fragility of faceless compilation channels.

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Children's content low CPM and restrictions

Quantifies the financial downside and platform limitations of this niche.

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YouTube identifies games by gameplay

Reveals a technical aspect of YouTube's content ID that affects gaming channels.

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Why Sleep Videos Are a Trap

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Reveals the hidden challenge of creating 10-hour sleep videos, including expensive equipment and the risk of losing monetization, which is surprising and relatable to aspiring creators.

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The Sleeping Viewer Goldmine

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Explains the lucrative but risky niche of compilations that target sleeping viewers who watch ads passively, appealing to those seeking easy YouTube income.

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Why Travel Channels Fail Without a Face

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Highlights the common mistake of using stock footage for travel videos, contrasting it with authentic content, which sparks debate among faceless channel creators.

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Children's Content: Low Pay, No Recommendations

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Exposes the downsides of children's content, including low CPM and strict YouTube policies, which is eye-opening for those considering this niche.

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Gaming Without Commentary Is Doomed

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Warns against faceless gaming channels due to copyright issues and lack of originality, a controversial take that challenges common beginner advice.

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[00:02] American tube, is the best thing you can think of for making money. Most channels without a face are distinguished by the ease of creating content and independence. That is, you can sell or buy such a channel without losing views, hire

[00:15] someone to create videos and always earn in dollars. All you need to implement this plan is to find the right niche, but here lies a big problem that few people will tell you about. Because there are niches in which you

[00:30] can invest a lot of time, money, and effort and waste it all. I know what I'm talking about since 2013. I've been working with American YouTube channels without a face, selections of gaming content, children's content, and I have something to tell. The number

[00:46] one niche is hours-long videos for sleep. You've probably come across videos where a fire burns for 10 hours in a row, the forest rustles, or the waves splash, but you can't go to Stock, buy videos there, loop them for 10 hours, and post them on YouTube and

[01:01] make big money. No, you need to film all this in reality. A lot of equipment, a lot of expensive equipment, cameras, microphones, tripods. Try to find a campfire or an ocean to film it all. You'll need another 10 hours. You'll need a

[01:17] lot of hard drives with a terabyte of data, not to record videos, but to save evidence that this is your content. Because when the time comes, I didn't say

[01:32] when, not if. The time will come and your monetization for reused content will be removed because your faceless video is similar to thousands of other videos on thousands of other channels, and you 'll send an appeal. You'll need all this

[01:47] evidence on your hard drives, otherwise you won't see any re-monetization. But this is unexpected. This niche has a strong advantage. It's specific, the most beloved by YouTube and advertisers audiences. More on this later.

[02:03] Niche number two is compilations and collections. Don't confuse them with your own compilations and collections. That is, when you take a number of your videos, combine them, add a little editing, cut out something unnecessary, and post them on your

[02:16] channel, for example, in the travel niche. If you've been to India and They filmed several episodes about this. You can combine all these videos into one big video and, roughly speaking, re-upload it to your channel. Or, for example, I can take all the videos I

[02:29] combine them and make some kind of big video guide about YouTube shs and about everything in the world. The thing is that it's not useless. With such long collections, you're

[02:41] catching the most valuable audience on YouTube, which is sleeping viewers. What are sleeping viewers? Sleeping viewers are people who watch long videos on YouTube, and what's valuable about a sleeping viewer? He doesn't

[02:56] skip ads, he watches videos from beginning to end, and during this single session, he watches all the ads embedded in the video. Accordingly, a ten-hour video with burning fires. They combine into

[03:10] one huge cluster. A person watches one video in a dream, then the next ten-hour video from this channel or from another channel turns on, and a huge funnel of ten-hour, three-hour,

[03:24] hour-long videos is created. It all depends on the niche. Getting into this funnel, a person falls into a rabbit hole. This is another Rolich nara on YouTube a person wakes up and the next time he goes on YouTube, his recommendations are all in ten

[03:36] hour-long videos and he has no choice, he just turns on the next long video, the next long video, sleeping viewers are the most loyal, the most adequate, the most favorite viewers on YouTube in a video by timing suitable to the

[03:50] video to which people fall asleep. You practically guarantee yourself successful slip you into similar ones, but if you clean up from other people's videos, there will be nothing original in this, nothing yours.

[04:05] For example, my first American channel on an American YouTube with collections of accidents reached 100,000 subscribers and was successfully deleted by YouTube. What was an American channel without a face with collections of accidents? Over the course of a week, I

[04:20] collected the best materials from various sources, then cut it all up, combined it, added some on top, maybe even effects, put a watermark with the name of my channel, but in the end, every morning when I woke up,

[04:34] some kind of surprise awaited me, either it was a strike against rights or something for cruelty or 18+ or they took away monetization because on YouTube they simply buy all sorts of viral videos and if you use

[04:49] this viral video in your collection, monetization is simply taken from this collection, this is a business. In general, a lot of time and effort was spent and a lot of ner was spent on digesting all this is called

[05:02] reusable content. Do you want to have a channel that you can lose at any moment or one that has millions of views and 100 dollars in earnings? The third niche is travel. Let me give you a simple example:

[05:17] country or city and you open this video and see There is a set of slideshows or some panoramas from Google Maps, at best with voiceover. Will you stay to watch this video about travel or go and

[05:33] find a video of a person who actually went there, really filmed everything, really made interesting high-quality content with a breakdown into blocks by

[05:51] inflated almost like cooking. But about this gold tube a little later That's why they mostly watch not some soulless channels without a face, but channels with a face. Well, or channels without a face, but channels with a face. Well, or at least with a voice, with an author, with emotions, with

[06:06] impressions, with energy. And for this you need to really go, really film, really voice, really write scripts, and so on, in general, fully engage with a very complex channel. And if you do this without a face, that

[06:21] is, exposing yourself to reused content, then is the game worth the candle in the sense of the effort expended on the fact that someday your monetization will be removed simply because you showed Thailand once again, but at the same time did

[06:34] not voice, did not show yourself. Niche fourth - This is children's content. Well, here I can immediately say this is a low price for 1,000 views compared to other Niches. Roughly speaking, in children's content there will be one dollar for 1,000 views, and next to it

[06:47] in gaming content it will be 3 dollars for 1,000 views. For the USA, for example, further, there is a restriction on recommendations: children's content is not recommended. If only it can be in the children's tube YouTube Kids, this is necessary in order to minimize the penetration of

[07:01] bad content to Children's audiences, and we also have restrictions on comments and end screens. In general, children's privacy on the Internet is completely screwed. Thanks to this law, children are seemingly protected in everything; they are not

[07:16] tracked by any advertising trackers. And by the way, this relates to a very common question: Why show children ads? After all, they can't buy anything themselves, believe me, they can through influencing their parents, so children are

[07:30] not shown targeted ads; they are shown the cheapest, impersonal ads not tied to personal data. But if you upload some kind of borderline content that can apply to children,

[07:44] teenagers, and adults, for example, a game, then there is no need to rush and mark it as intended for children. If the game is really intended for children, only three-year-olds watch it, then as soon as good

[07:57] views come in, YouTube will automatically leave this mark, but it won't delete the video or leave this mark, but it won't delete the video or throw decent money. Niche Fifth - these are cooking channels, a very overheated niche

[08:12] with a lot of competition, and they are doing very well, just great. Look at how This is beauty. And to create videos in it, beauty. And to create videos in it, you need to spend a lot of effort, time, money,

[08:26] because for cooking channels, you need products, that is, props, you need skill and products, that is, props, you need skill and experience, you need an interesting idea, you need a studio, a kitchen, you need a lot of time to make a conditional minute short about pilaf.

[08:41] You need to spend the whole day to go to the market to buy products, arrange it all, set up the equipment, film, and at the same time, they manage to cook, then edit, and voice over. I can imagine that

[08:56] someone does this alone without a team, well, this is just my respect, so this niche requires a really big passion and fanaticism. And if this is so, why do you need a channel without a face? Become its face. Not a sixth - this is humorous content and

[09:11] sixth - this is humorous content and there are usually a lot of bad words and gray topics because the jokes are usually not about butterflies and flowers, but about all that kind of stuff. Advertisers have a choice: a standard package, which includes all the white fluffy channels

[09:24] without controversial topics, and an extended package, so to speak, where you can buy advertising on channels where they talk about ass and so on. Usually, brands and good advertisers choose the standard package. But in humor, everything is non-standard. And although YouTube is

[09:39] monetization information is not taken into account when making recommendations. There are still some doubts, perhaps, also humor is a very complex, specific topic in

[09:51] principle. For example, I do not undertake to give consultations or take on comedians for support. But if you are not a comedian, write everything in the pinned comment. The advertising worked. However, it all comes down to this: a great comedian

[10:05] is a calling. And also, humorous content without a face is always a cool story and cool animation. Do you like to work out scripts, make animations to release videos once a month, and in the end, find out that you have neither

[10:19] end, find out that you have neither views nor a sense of humor? It is doubtful. views nor a sense of humor? It is doubtful. Well, the Seventh niche is not to be bent on real people. Let's immediately agree that networks can be used separately,

[10:31] for example, for dubbing original content or re-dubbing it into other languages. But using neural networks to look or sound like a famous person. Yes, that's also possible if you have

[10:43] humorous content or parodies. However, in all these cases, without exception, if you are eager to impersonate Elon Musk and all in his mouth some Memes as quotes, no one excludes the possibility that Elon Musk himself

[10:56] will contact YouTube and have your channel taken down. Identity or voice theft in itself sounds somehow not very good, and YouTube's official rules allow for big problems for such content. The same applies to channels that are

[11:10] extremely similar to official celebrity channels but do not indicate anywhere that they are fan-based. Niche 8 is music videos. Many people used to break into this niche. I even made a separate video on the FI niche with all

[11:25] the examples of pros and cons. If you want, watch this video here. However, now such channels are doomed to failure and they will definitely not receive any monetization, since this is either non-original content generated by a neural network, or

[11:39] original content but useless with zero views, or parasitism on celebrities. But the most interesting thing is that you can get a strike if you post even just the lyrics to a song on your YouTube channel. Another interesting

[11:53] example is the AI ​​Guitarist channel, where a Neuro cover of the song by Milad Vira was made, which was Neuro cover of the song by Milad Vira was made, which was played with a guitar and sung by the neural network Yegor Letov. So, This cover was found by the copyright holders and removed for

[12:07] copyright reasons. Niche Nine is a channel on a medical topic. The fact is that, firstly, YouTube has been very strict lately about advice on life and health, including psychological or mental health.

[12:19] Secondly, preference is increasingly given to doctors with an officially confirmed license; they are given more recommendations. And they have a special mark that this is a verified source. Thirdly, the viewers themselves, when it

[12:33] comes to health, would prefer to watch a real person with real experience and a real story rather than a set of slides and neural network mumbo-jumbo. Niche Ten is a channel on a gaming topic. The whole problem is that gameplay content

[12:49] without voice acting or Let's Plays in the style without commentary is all super secondary. That is, imagine that you upload a video to YouTube that contains cutscenes from the game and thousands of

[13:04] channels do the same thing at the same time because the cutscenes are written within the game and they are the same for all players. Thousands of channels upload the same thing, then music. If you do not turn off the music, you will have a copyright problem. And the same problem as with the cat

[13:20] scenes. But the most interesting thing is that YouTube can identify a game not by identical frames, but by the gameplay itself. For example, when GTA was destroyed and people started posting gameplay videos on YouTube, they were

[13:33] all automatically banned. And when problems with children's content began, in particular with GTA 5 and Spider-Man in it, YouTube also automatically negatively affected them, although technically, in the picture, they are all different, different actions

[13:48] take place there. Therefore, if you make content without a face in the gaming niche, then content without a face in the gaming niche, then consider that you have in your hand a piece of

[14:00] is on thousands of other channels. Not only can any fool reproduce this on their channel, leaving you without a competitive advantage, but also in the eyes of the tube, you just re-upload, don't want to be one. Make original

[14:14] content. Give viewers what others can't give. And also, watch my video about the most profitable niches in American YouTube, broken down by price. Remember the dollar crunch while you can. Live freely while L

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