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The 8 Best YouTube Niches to Make Money Without Showing Your Face in 2026

0h 21m video Published Mar 15, 2026 Transcribed Aug 6, 2026 E Eric Alanis - YouTube
Beginner 5 min read For: Aspiring YouTubers and content creators looking to start faceless channels and generate passive income.
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"Delivers on the promise of eight niches with concrete examples and metrics, though some repetition and self-promotion pad the runtime."

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The video presents eight YouTube niches with high earning potential for 2026, emphasizing faceless channels that generate income through AdSense and donations. The creator shares his method for identifying promising niches based on metrics like RPM, subscriber-to-view ratio, and content simplicity, using AI tools for production.

[00:01]
Introduction to Niche Selection

The difference between a video nobody watches and a channel generating monthly income lies in niche selection. Most people waste time on random ideas or saturated niches.

[00:51]
Niche 1: Spirituality and Meditation

A channel with few subscribers but videos with thousands of views. RPM is crucial: same views can yield €200 or €2000. Videos are simple: image with voiceover. Production cost is low, using AI tools. Donations via Buy Me a Coffee work well in this niche.

[04:22]
Niche 2: Carl Jung and Psychology

A channel with 56,000 subscribers but videos with hundreds of thousands of views. The key is that subscribers are fewer than views, indicating market demand. Another channel in the same niche generates nearly 1 million views weekly, potentially earning over €20,000/month.

[08:29]
Niche 3: Motivation and Growth

Channel 'Discipline Doju' with 11,000 subscribers and videos recently gaining traction. Content is long and easy to make, using AI for voiceover and scripts. The focus is on creating a network of channels generating extra income.

[10:37]
Niche 4: Screen (Faceless) Content

A channel with 73,400 subscribers and half a million views on popular videos. It replicates a winning format consistently. RPM example: 10,000 views/day at €5 RPM = €50/day, potentially €10,000/month.

[12:40]
Niche 5: Trending News

Channel 'The Secret' with 344,000 subscribers. Trending channels upload many videos daily, focusing on being first to cover news. RPM is lower, but volume compensates. The creator emphasizes speed over production quality.

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Niche 6: Niche with Low Subscribers but High Views

A channel with only 700 subscribers but videos with 1 million views. The creator suggests making longer videos and replicating the format that worked. This niche is underutilized and has high potential.

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Niche 7: Replicating Successful Formats

A channel with 116,000 subscribers and videos with 2.4 million views. It consistently uses the same format, generating €3,000-€5,000/month. Videos are 20-30 minutes long and easy to produce with AI.

[18:37]
Niche 8: Criminal Core (Documentaries)

A channel with over 200,000 subscribers and viral videos from 2 years ago. Long-form documentaries (1-4 hours) have high RPM. A video with 5 million views could earn €5,000-€10,000. Production is more involved but still possible with AI.

The video emphasizes finding a niche with high RPM, low competition, and simple production. The key is to replicate successful formats and use AI tools to minimize costs. By following this method, viewers can build a network of channels generating substantial monthly income.

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What is RPM and why is it important in niche selection?

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RPM is what YouTube pays per 1,000 views. It can vary from €200 to €2000 for the same number of views, making it crucial for profitability.

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What is the key metric to identify a potential niche?

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A channel with fewer subscribers than views indicates market demand, as views come from search or suggested videos, not the channel's own audience.

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What is the recommended video length for most niches?

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Long videos, typically 20-30 minutes or more, are recommended because they have higher RPM and are easier to monetize.

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What is the main advantage of trending news channels?

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They can generate high income by being first to upload news, even with lower RPM, due to high volume of views.

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What is the 'winning format' concept?

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Finding a format (title, thumbnail, content style) that works and replicating it consistently until it burns out, then reinventing.

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What is the estimated monthly income for a channel with 300,000 views per month and €10 RPM?

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€3,000 per month (300,000 views / 1,000 * €10).

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Why is it important to have low production costs?

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To ensure that the income generated is not offset by high production expenses, maximizing profit.

08:54

What is the recommended approach for creating voiceovers?

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Use AI voiceover tools like ElevenLabs to minimize cost and effort.

04:09

What is the risk of copying a channel's exact format?

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YouTube may detect repetitive content, so it's better to modify scripts and add more images to avoid penalties.

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What is the potential income for a documentary video with 5 million views?

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Between €5,000 and €10,000, due to high RPM from long-form content.

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💡 Key Takeaways

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RPM Can Vary 10x

Same views can yield €200 or €2000, making RPM a critical factor in niche selection.

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Subscriber-View Ratio as Indicator

Fewer subscribers than views signals market demand, a key sign of a potential niche.

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Exploit Winning Formats

Replicating a successful format until it burns out is a core strategy for channel growth.

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Speed Over Quality in Trending

Being first to upload news is more important than production quality in trending channels.

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Long-Form Content Boosts RPM

Documentaries of 1-4 hours can generate €5,000-€10,000 per video due to high RPM.

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[00:01] is the difference between uploading a video that nobody watches and building a channel that generates income every month. [music] Most people waste months trying out random ideas, copying what is already saturated, or

[00:13] choosing niches that simply no longer work. I've spent years analyzing channels that [music] work and channels that fail, and there are clear patterns that repeat themselves time and time again. In this video I'm going to show you the eight YouTube niches with the

[00:25] most potential for 2026 [music], using the exact same method I use for my own channels, channels generating thousands of euros, as you can see on screen. You'll see exactly the channels, the metrics

[00:38] I track [music], and how I detect whether it 's a potential niche or not. I'm not just going to teach you the process so you can replicate it as many times as you want. Let's start with the first niche of all, and that niche is spirituality and

[00:51] meditation. And the channel I've found in this niche that's working is that, as you can see, has very few subscribers, and the videos, as you can see, have many thousands of views, and not only those thousands of views, but the quality

[01:05] of those views. Why do I say this? Because first of all, it must be understood that RPM can make a difference in a potential [music] niche or not. Because? Because by making exactly the same visits

[01:17] making exactly the same visits you can go from generating €200 to €2000 [music] per month. We're seeing that this channel uploads videos of 20 minutes, some of 10, uploading [music] videos of more than 30 minutes and we see that the pattern is

[01:32] clear, it's a type of format, a type of thumbnail, a title similar to all the ones that have worked for them and all the videos do quite well. It is true that this channel has taken a slight dip, but that's because, if we look at it, it's

[01:45] currently doing what doesn't work for it and not replicating what worked for it in the past. [music] And this is something common in people who start from scratch, who start doing things, it works for them,

[01:57] more than what works for them. [music] We see that the most popular videos have 270,000 views, more than 100,000, generally many thousands of views. And I repeat, it's not the volume, but the quality of those visits. This video,

[02:10] with 270,000 views, could have generated more than €2,000 or €3,000, and the best part is that the production cost of this video will have cost you practically nothing or just a few dollars to pay for the AI ​​tools.

[02:22] Inside we see that it's a simple video to make, and if you look closely, it does exactly the same thing throughout the entire video. It's an image with a voiceover in the background, and it

[02:34] tells a story about meditation. I personally do not recommend that you do exactly this. Because? Because there may be a danger that [music] will detect your channel as repetitive content. What I would do, and what I

[02:47] channels, is see what works, and in this case I would add more images because that won't make it work more or less. With the BQ tool, we also see that these videos are quite well positioned, and if

[03:02] we go to the channel, we can see that this channel is currently monetizing Google AdSense and also with this donation page called Buy Me a Coffee, which is basically a page where you

[03:17] can donate [music], and in these types of niches like meditation, spirituality, religion, etc., they work very well. Because? because they connect very well with audience, and it's much easier for

[03:30] those people to donate more money to you. I've named it as a potential niche because it's also something that nobody is doing in another market, in this case the Spanish one, which is generally the one we all replicate and the one we all go to.

[03:44] Be careful, because nobody is doing it, I mean nobody is replicating exactly the same format, the same packaging and the same type of scripts. [music] I'm not these ideas. In fact, I can confirm that they have done so, but

[03:57] that doesn't matter to us whether they made the videos or not. We care if they have used exactly the same ideas with the same formats, the same thumbnails that we have as a reference from this channel. If you're wondering how you could do the

[04:09] video process, the voiceover could be done with Elevabs or any other type of voiceover tool. We could use these videos as a reference for the script and modify them slightly so that YouTube can't find anything wrong with us. And

[04:22] you could make the thumbnails perfectly with [music] Chat GBT, you could also do it with Gemini or with any tool that suits you best. [music] is similar to the previous one, a little bit of meditation, a little bit of

[04:35] spirituality, but above all it focuses on this very important figure, Carl [music] Jun. The channel we use as a reference within this niche is this one here, which [music] has a little over 50,000

[04:47] subscribers; in this case, it has 56,000. [music] And something you have to keep in mind that I categorize, that that channel, that niche is potential, is that channels or the niche I showed you earlier, have far fewer

[05:02] subscribers than visits. Because? Because that's what they're showing that that niche, that channel, has the potential to be replicated, because all those video visits come from a market demand and those visits are not from the channel itself.

[05:16] We can see with the BaiQ tool that a channel that has generated about 70,000 visits in the last 7 days, which if we multiply that by the 4 weeks in the month, is generating close to 300,000 visits and I can

[05:28] guarantee that these types of channels have more RPM and I guarantee that I have by this? This channel could very well be generating between €3,000 [music] and €5,000 per month. It's a channel that, if we go to

[05:42] popular videos, has videos with 533,000 views, 200,000, many thousands of views. And so you can see that I don't just want to show you this channel within the niche, I want to show you another one that demonstrates that there is a great

[05:57] market demand. Because? because they are exactly the same ideas, but with a slightly different [musical] format. Notice that it's the same niche, it's a and it works the same for them, but they're doing something different. And that's what I mean when you

[06:13] look closely, he's replicating the exact same ideas or the exact same videos, but not in the same format. And that's what needs to be done. This channel is freaking crazy because [music] is generating

[06:27] close to 1 million views every week, which if we multiply that by four is generating 4,000 views per month, and with that 10 RPM, well, you can do say it generates more than €40,000 a month because I can't tell you that, I'd have to

[06:41] see it from the inside, but it's a channel that is perfectly generating more than $20,000 or €20,000 a month. This channel has recently been doing well for them either. And it's the same as I explained to you before. People

[06:55] make the mistake of not doing something again once it works for them. It type of channel, especially in the duplicate, whether it be the Spanish, French, Polish, it would not be replicated, but this

[07:10] channel probably got a lot, a lot of competition, that's why it had to innovate at the format level , I mean title and thumbnail. We see that these are channels that make long videos, for example, videos of 43

[07:22] long videos, for example, videos of 43 minutes, 41, 40, 40 and the other one the same, minutes, 41, 40, 40 and the other one the same, 26, 32 the same, right? And that means . We see that it is very, very easy content to create.

[07:35] The title appears here in Spanish, but it doesn't mean it was made in Spanish; it simply means it was using YouTube's [music] function . But in terms of generating the video, in terms of what it costs to generate the video, it's very easy to do.

[07:48] doing is putting in some stock clip or, above all, 99% of this video [music] is stock images, images that you can take from anywhere or with artificial intelligence [music]. So the processes for making the video

[08:03] mentioned earlier. [music] Voice, any artificial intelligence, I recommend Labs, which is the most general. [music] You can make the scripts with GPT chat or with Cloue and those images for the thumbnails and for the

[08:16] video you can make them with GPT chat, Gemini or whichever you want. I want to tell you these potential niches and to find the niches that I always teach that generate thousands of euros a month for me. It 's

[08:29] a tool for finding ideas and potential niches. Let's move on to the third niche, and that niche would be motivation, growth, and this channel, Discipline Doju, is a channel that represents it [music] very well. I want you to

[08:41] see a pattern that keeps repeating itself, and that is that I am showing you videos that are long and easy to make. Because? Because that's exactly what I focus on. It's no use to me to generate a million

[08:54] views or €1,000, €2,000 with a video if producing that content cost me the same as what I generated. We see that the automatic translation from YouTube has been done here, but it's a channel that's being done in English, and I've seen it in

[09:06] Spanish one, that are also doing it, but when it comes to finding potential niche just because it's in Spanish, it does n't mean that it's no longer valid. any other market. I want you to see that in terms of format, it's doing the

[09:20] same thing all the time, I mean the title and thumbnail, the recently become popular. Why do I say this? Because the most popular videos are from 3 months ago, and that's very, very interesting. We also see that it is

[09:33] a long piece of content, as I mentioned before, and in terms of quality, [music] in terms of content creation, it is easy to do. I'm not saying that with this channel you're going to generate 3,000, 4,000, 5,000 a month, but

[09:45] you can generate extra income, which is what it's all about: creating a network of channels where all the channels generate income for you every month. In do it, as I mentioned before, with exactly the

[09:57] same AI [music]. And for editing this video you could use Capcut. to automatic. It's important that you understand that it's exactly what I told you at the beginning of the video. What I want to show you is why this is a

[10:11] potential niche. I don't want you to keep the channel and [music] that's it. This is a a format that's already validated and already working. All the videos have several thousand views, and above all, it's a very small channel, just over

[10:25] 10,000 subscribers, exactly 11,000, and the videos have only recently started performing. And what makes it truly potential is that creating this type of content is very simple, and not only simple, but also inexpensive.

[10:37] you want us to personally help you scale your own YouTube channel and generate more than €2,000, €3,000, or even more than €10,000 per month, we've included a form in the first link of the description to see if

[10:50] guide you step-by-step to generate that income. Let's move on to the fourth niche and it's screen. This channel is a peculiar channel that, if you notice, is doing exactly the same thing all the time, and if we go to recent videos, it

[11:05] continues doing the same thing. This channel is generating around 60,000 views each week and [music] I repeat, people might think that with 60,000 views you can be generating €60 or €50 a week, but the reality is that you don't.

[11:19] Because? Because it's generating 60,000 [music] visits every week, but by that? If you generate 10,000 views a day with a channel that has five RPM, where RPM is what YouTube pays you for every 1,000

[11:32] views, you can be generating €50 every day and you can have a channel that generates more than €1,000 or more than €10,000 a month. It's a channel where the most €10,000 a month. It's a channel where the most viral videos are 20 or 25 minutes long, and some are

[11:44] less than 20 minutes long, but generally they are all 20-minute videos. And if you exactly the same thing in terms of packaging, title, and thumbnail. Notice that he has found this winning miniature, this format, and he

[11:58] is replicating the same thing all the time. And that, I repeat, is what it's all about: finding a winning format and exploiting that format, and when that format gradually burns out, reinventing yourself in another one. This channel

[12:12] has fewer than 100,000 subscribers, exactly 73,400, half a million views. So, what do I mean by this? This validates that it is a real potential niche. I repeat, if you

[12:25] copy and paste to see if [music] is being made in Spanish or not, if it is being made, don't think that it ceases to be a potential niche. Because? Because it doesn't have to open have to be [music] in Spanish. Let's move on to the fifth niche, and

[12:40] this niche is different from all the ones we 've seen previously. I wanted to show you one so you can see that you don't always need to make evergreen videos, long videos, but that with trending channels uploading videos of what

[12:52] happening on a daily basis, you can also generate many thousands of euros. called The Secret. It is true that it is the biggest channel we have seen. Because? Because it has more than 300,000 [music] subscribers.

[13:05] Exactly 344,000. But if we look at popular videos, it's also the channel with the most views. Because? Because we see that he uploaded videos 4 months ago that have 3,000 views, 10 months ago 3,000 views, 9 months ago

[13:18] also 3,000 views. And it's a channel that recently, if you look at it you might think it's generating few views, but the point is that it's uploading many videos a day, and a trending channel isn't about

[13:31] uploading a high volume of videos a day and having one of them blow up . It is true that these types of channels have a lower RPM than those we have seen previously, also because in a trending channel, in a

[13:44] trending niche, you cannot make videos of one or two hours. Because? Because what people are interested in is the news, not so much how you develop the video. People want to find out [about the music] what happened with that

[13:56] particular thing. We see that this channel [music] has 1 million views in the last 7 days and Vidac tells us that it is generating between 19,000 and 58,000 per month. This is a lie, but it's a channel that could very well be generating

[14:10] more than $10,000 a month [from music]. To be trending, it's a channel that's uploading fairly long videos, between 20 and [music] 30 minutes, and the format that has worked for them is clear. A striking image of a person or the person

[14:24] impactful text that grabs attention so that the YouTube audience gets involved in the [music] video. The same applies to the most popular videos, and this type of content doesn't require you to develop the

[14:38] script so much or focus so much on putting the best images; on trending channels, what matters is who uploads the news that has experience because I've had trending channels and I've generated several thousand

[14:51] euros with trending [music] channels and what worked for me was uploading the video first. He wasn't the best at voice-over, nor was he the best at writing the script. Instead, I focused on being

[15:04] the first channel in the market to upload that news [music] to capture everyone's attention . In terms of content creation, we can look inside the video and see that they are very, very easy videos to make. The same as I

[15:17] mentioned before, voice with i or you could [music] catch a person, but it will cost you more. Script with what happened at that moment. You can go to any news story in that niche and develop the script based on the

[15:30] can do it in a moment. And it's important that on trending channels you represent the images with what has happened at that moment and on that day. [music] I wanted to show you this channel, I wanted to show you this niche so

[15:43] you can see that trending channels can also generate many thousands of euros a month. I want to emphasize that I don't mean to imply that this is normal. A channel that generates more than €10,000 a month is not normal, but some people have done it.

[15:56] I've also generated several thousand euros a month with trending channels. You can do it too if you know how to find that potential niche and focus on not trying to capture the entire audience. Let's move on to the sixth

[16:09] completely different from all the others so you can see that you can generate income with any type of channel. I want you to see this, and it's really good, and it took me a lot of work to find this potential niche for you, which is a channel with

[16:23] less than 10,000 subscribers. Exactly. It has 700 [music] subscribers and has videos with 1 million views, 500,000 views, it has many thousands of views. It's a channel that has n't been doing very well recently,

[16:36] but that's because it's not focusing on doing what has worked for it before. What has worked for him in the past is capturing those images, like telling people that images of dinosaurs have been captured and not

[16:49] replicating that. In fact, if you look closely, his most popular video is about that, and all his other videos are similar. What I would personally do is make these types of videos a little longer and do

[17:02] more of the format that has worked for him because he hasn't repeated it [music] anymore. the video, for those who have arrived here, that whoever takes advantage of this niche will be able to generate a lot of income in the coming months. Let's move on to the seventh

[17:16] niche, and I wanted to connect this niche with this channel here. Because? Because it's a channel that's replicating the format that has worked for it and is generating many thousands of euros a month, many thousands of visits, and it's a channel

[17:29] that, as I've shown you before, doesn't earn income from the quantity of visits, but from the quality of those visits. It's a channel with just over 100,000 subscribers, 116 exactly, and it has videos with 2.4

[17:42] million views, 500,000 views, 400,000 views, in general, many thousands of views on all the videos. And if you notice, this channel [music] is using the same format all the time, and that's what I mean

[17:56] by what I want you to do: once something works for you, repeat that exact same thing over and over again. We see that it is a channel that has recently continued doing what has worked for it and is a channel that may be generating

[18:09] between €3,000, €4,000 or €5,000 per month. Also, if we look at the length of the videos, they all last between 20 and 30 minutes. And making these kinds of videos would be very simple, as I mentioned

[18:23] could make this whole video with artificial intelligence. Let's move on to the last niche, saved it for last so that only people who have reached this point can benefit from it, and this niche is called

[18:37] Criminal Core. It's a channel whose most popular, most viral videos are from 2 years ago, and I know you're thinking, but Eric, you just told me that it's recent. Okay, I want to show you this channel because recently it's a channel

[18:51] that, if you look, uploads videos from 22 hours ago, 13, uh, 5 days, 9 days ago. And views. Obviously not all videos generate 3 million views, but that's not normal either. I want you to

[19:05] notice that he's using the exact same format he's always used. person to the left or right of the thumbnail, uh, striking image next to the story you're going to tell within the [music] video. It's a channel

[19:19] that uploads fairly long content. It is true that he hasn't been doing it recently, and that's also because it's working worse for him. But if we look at all the long videos, if we go to the popular ones here, all

[19:32] the most popular ones last an hour, 2 hours, even 4 hours. What do I mean by that? This video with 5,000,000 views could have generated more than €10,000, but it's perfectly possible it was between € 5,000 and €10,000. Why? Because it's

[19:47] due to the RPM thanks to the long content. In terms of generating these videos, it is nowadays you would need a team of people, but that's because it's a very long video that has to be very well edited, because in the end it's a

[20:01] anything that's documentary. No, I'm not saying it's more complicated to do it with AI, but you do have to be more involved because the documentaries much more entertaining. In other words, you can't just put a picture of a person and make it the

[20:15] whole documentary. You won't have to put up stock videos of what we have, of what happened, [music] uh, of that story and stock images. over 200,000 subscribers, but with the millions of [music] views it's

[20:28] getting every month, it compensates for those subscribers with the views it this point in the video, it's because you're interested in scaling your own YouTube channel, generating €2,000, €3,000 or more than €10,000 per month, as we've already done with

[20:43] hundreds and hundreds of success stories. If you'd like us to get in touch to see if we can help you scale to over €2,000, € per month, we've included a form in the first link of the description

[20:56] to see if we can truly help you. So if YouTube channel with our help, go to the first link in the description. Yeah.

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