How To Start a Faceless YouTube Channel That Makes Money in 2026 (Beginner Tutorial)

0:00In this video, I'm going to walk you through exactly how to start a faceless YouTube channel this year that can potentially start making money. This will be a complete beginner tutorial. We'll walk through the entire process from setting up your channel, coming up with a name and a niche for your channel, and creating the videos using free tools. I want to show you how to get started with this with as little upfront cost as possible while still maintaining high quality. And of course, we'll also talk about how to create titles and thumbnails that actually get clicks. And on top of all of this, I'm even going to be creating my own

0:34faceless channel in this video. And I'm going to walk you through everything just so that you can see exactly how to get started with this for yourself. And toward the end of the video, we'll talk about all of the different strategies to start monetizing and potentially start making money on YouTube. My promise to you is that by the end of this video, you'll be able to have all of the knowledge, tools, and confidence that you need to finally go out there and start your own faceless channel this year. So, about a year ago, I started a Faceless channel as kind of an experiment just to prove that it was

1:09possible. And that channel actually did pretty well given how short of a time I made videos on it. I had some videos do much better than others and I even made some money with it. And so I'll be referencing that channel occasionally throughout this video because there's a lot that I learned from running that experiment. Now this video will be broken down into a few steps. The first step to starting your faceless YouTube channel though is you need to decide on your niche. I think this might be the one step where most people get stuck because you're trying to kind of figure out the perfect niche to make videos in

1:45and yeah, it can get really overwhelming really quickly, especially once you start to realize how many different angles you can take your channel. But here's the framework that I want you to use that'll help you with this. Okay, basically I want you to ask yourself these three questions about whatever niche you might be trying to decide on. Question number one, can I make 100 videos in this niche without ever showing my face? Number two, are there people already watching this type of content like on YouTube? Um, and number three, is there a clear path to money later? When I started my experiment channel, I could answer all three of

2:24those questions easily. Right on that channel, I made faceless product review videos. This is definitely a very popular niche on YouTube and so people definitely were already watching this type of content and I knew that I could make money through affiliate marketing with every video that I posted, which like I said, I did end up making a little bit of money. And then of course eventually uh once that channel got monetized, I'd be able to make money through YouTube AdSense as well. But yeah, as long as you can successfully answer yes to all of these questions, you'll be good to go. Now, I do understand that part of the problem uh

3:00with choosing a niche is kind of knowing what options are even available. And so, I really quickly just want to rapidfire through several different popular niches that you might consider. All of these niches are already proven to work. They already have huge viewership and they definitely can make money. And I'll show you some examples of channels within each niche that are already making faceless content successfully. All right, so first up are niche storytelling faceless channels. This is definitely a very broad niche because storytelling can be in any number of genres, right? It could be like scary stories, kids stories, uh murder mystery stories, documentary kind of stories,

3:41like you're telling a true story about a major event in history or things like that. I mean, really, there are no limits to this genre here, but let me go ahead and show you some examples of this niche in action. All right, so first up are like scary story videos. Okay, from what I've seen, these videos will typically include about like three stories within one video. Each story being about, you know, 7 to 8 minutes long. And really all it is, and I've gone through several different channels within this niche, they all do the same thing. They're all just showing images that they probably generated with AI. Uh

4:16they're just showing images that kind of like match with whatever words are being spoken in the video. So, like if we just scroll through this video here, you'll see that all they're doing is just showing images. Sometimes the images have like grain effects on them, sometimes they don't. Like with that image right there, there's nothing happening. It's just the image. And so everything from the script itself to the actual visuals can be created within AI, which is crazy. Another example are kids storytelling videos. So this one's called The Big Silly Crocodile. Um, it's got 18 million views, which is wild. So you can see right here, it's a pretty

4:50simple animation like kind of like a a paper cutout animation. Something like this can easily be created within a tool like Higsfield or even within like Google VO or something like that. Um or you could just even go the route of having just still images. Let me show you another example here of a channel that you know this video right here has 1.5 million views and all it's doing is it's just reading from a book. So, it's got a book right here, and all it's doing is just kind of slowly panning across the pages, right? And the narrator is reading the book, literally just reading the book as is, right? And

5:25it's just showing the pages of the book. I mean, you can't really get much more simple than that. And the cool part about this, which we'll talk about this more later, is I I can guarantee you that the link to this book is in the description. Yeah. Right there. And so if you were to click on this link right here, it would bring you to her Amazon store where you could buy this book. So that's another route you could go with kids storytelling if you just wanted to keep it even more simple than having to do like actual animations and stuff. But even with these animations, you could

5:52create something like this uh using AI. Another example of storytelling are these documentary style videos. So this one has 1.3 million views from 8 months ago. How did people sleep in medieval castles without freezing to death? I want to show you something interesting. So, at the top here, it says altered or synthetic content. That literally means

6:10that they created this video with AI. When you upload the video, there's a box that you have to check that says that you use AI to create the video, and you're required to do that. Okay? And so, we know for a fact that this channel is using AI to create these images. For the video that I'm going to make on my channel, I'll probably end up doing something similar to this or even something like this. This is another example of something that was definitely created with AI. And you can create this kind of stuff, like I said, within Hakesfield or Google VO or even a tool

6:39like Midjourney can create moving images that look really, really good. So yeah, this is another example though right here. This one has 133K views from 2 months ago. So that's the storytelling niche. As you can see, it's pretty straightforward. Most of these videos you'll be able to use AI to create the visuals, and we'll talk more about that a little bit later, but let's go ahead and move on to the next niche, which is compilation style videos. And so compilation style videos are things like top 10s, uh, explainers, things like that. The experiment channel that I started was a top five product listical video, which is a compilation style

7:15video. So if I just type in best things ever into YouTube right here, it should bring up my channel. Yeah, there it is. So there's my channel right there. This is an example of a compilation style video. So you can see right here that from a year ago, my highest viewed video was 11K. Let's go and click on that one. And literally the entire video is just showing images, right? I used AI to write the script. I used AI for the voiceover. The only work I had to do was just going out and finding the images that match the products that I that I was talking about. Here's another

7:48example. Top 10 dangerous objects found during um archaeological excavations. And so it's just showing all these different videos and things. They probably got these videos from like YouTube videos or some type of like Creative Commons website where they can use these types of images for free. So, if we just scroll through here, you'll see it's just literally a compilation of different videos. They probably use AI to write the script and then all they had to do was just go through and find different related images or things that pertained to whatever objects that they're talking about, which they probably just found those images on Google images or like I said, this looks

8:24like stock footage right here. And then of course like probably other YouTube videos. Now another popular niche are what I call screen recordings. And so that's basically where you make tutorial style videos where you never show your face but you make tutorial videos about software, AI tools, video games, things like that. So let me show you some examples here of what that might look like. This one is a video of somebody

8:46restoring some type of vehicle, maybe. Yeah, a vehicle. So you can see they never actually show their face. The whole video is just them restoring the vehicle. Another example is something like this. It's this whole entire channel is about locks. The lockpicking lawyer. Okay, this has 2.8 million views from uh 3 years ago. And it's just 3 minutes of him talking about a lock,

9:07testing it out. He never shows his face. He's just got a camera on a tripod and he's testing out the lock. That's it. Another example is something like this where the entire video is you never see the person's face at all. Not even in the intro of the video. and it's just them talking about how to use Photoshop for beginners. And this this same exact format can be used for literally any type of software, any type of website tool, anything like that. And so, yeah, these are all examples of what I call the screen recording uh niche. But yeah, you kind of get the point. Um, there are

9:40so many different like angles and different options for starting a faceless channel. You just have to go with whatever you think might be most interesting to you. Okay? Ask yourself, can I make 100 videos in this niche without getting bored? Okay? If you can answer yes to that question and it also passes all of the questions from earlier, then start there with that niche. For the channel that I'm creating in this video, I'll be going with an ancient business mogul documentary channel. This should be quite fun to do actually, and I'm excited to make the first video with you. Now, I've put together a comprehensive list of

10:16hundreds of different uh niche ideas for faceless channels. You can download this list completely free using the link below to help give you kind of a jump start for your brainstorming process. Anyways, the next step that we'll talk about is coming up with a name for your channel and then creating the channel. This is probably the easiest part of the entire process because we're literally just going to use chatbt to help us create a name and then create your YouTube channel, which takes like 2 minutes. So within chatbt just type something in like I'm creating a faceless YouTube channel around whatever you know topic whatever your niche is

10:50about. My niche is ancient business mogul documentaries. Uh can you give me a list of channel names that will work for this? And chat GBT will start generating a big list of names. So you can see it's given us a ton of names here and it's kind of like categorized the names by different like genres or whatever. So you got ancient power and wealth. These feel premium and Netflix style. So you got like, you know, Empire of Gold. That's pretty cool. Lords of Trade, The Wealth of Empires. These are all pretty cool names. I'm just going to scroll down here. We got business, trade, and strategy focused. Ancient

11:24Commerce. Ooh, I really like this one right here, the original billionaires. That one is for sure my favorite of all of these. So, I'm going to go ahead and copy that name because we'll use this later when we actually create the YouTube channel. So, with that name, I'm going to go ahead and open up a uh new

11:39tab in my browser. Go to youtube.com. And for this, I am going to create a brand new Google account specifically for this new channel. I personally like doing this because it keeps everything separate, right? The YouTube channel, the emails, future brand deals, any affiliate accounts, all of that stuff can live under one clean account instead of being mixed in with my personal Gmail and stuff like that, right? And I would

12:05recommend that you just do the same. Once my new Gmail account is created though, I'll head back to YouTube, click on create new channel, and then use the name that we just picked, which is the original billionaires. And once the account is created, we now need to create a profile picture and a banner. We can't just leave these blank. We have

12:23to give some branding to the channel. But the good news though is that we can also use chatbt to create these images. So, first I'm going to click into the channel customization section. And this is where we can change things like the profile picture, the banner image, our handle, all that stuff. Now, I don't want you to overthink this part too much, okay? A lot of people will spend like 3 weeks trying to come up with a perfect banner image um before they ever even upload a single video. And honestly, this stuff matters way, way less than you probably think. The content is what matters the most. And

12:59you can always improve your branding later. So for now, I just want something that's clean and good enough to make the channel look legitimate. And so the first thing I'm going to do is create a new profile picture. So I'm going to head back over to Chat TBT and just type something like create a simple cinematic logo for a YouTube channel called the original billionaires about ancient

13:21business mogul and historical wealth. And we'll see what it comes up with. Okay, it looks like it's finishing up here and it's loading. Let's see. So far, this is Ooh, that looks really, really good. I mean, this it did a phenomenal job creating this profile picture. This looks so so good. Now, I'll be honest with you, okay? It's not always going to work and be this good on the first try. Sometimes you have to prompt it again to kind of like change a few things up, but sometimes it just nails it on the very first try, which it definitely did for me. So, I'm going to

13:53go ahead and download this right here because we will definitely be using this for the YouTube channel. So, I'll download it, head back to our channel, and upload it to the profile picture. Next, I'm going to create the banner image for the top of the channel page. And again, this does not need to be some crazy masterpiece, okay? Most people are barely, you know, even going to look at your channel banner. Anyways, like I said, the videos themselves are way more important, but I still want it to look somewhat professional. So, I'll come back into Chat GBT and say, "This looks amazing. Uh, can you give me a channel

14:28banner that complements this avatar that you just gave me because I love it? And we'll give this a second to get created. And, you know, uh, AI isn't always going to be perfect. You can see that it pretty much just generated a different version of our profile picture, which I definitely don't like that. So, I'll say I like this a lot, but I don't want it to just be a clone of the avatar. I want to keep the same style but have it be something unique. And we'll see what it comes up with after that. Okay, so this looks a million times better. I I love

15:04how this looks. It definitely still fits the branding uh with the profile picture, but it's still a unique image. So, I love this. And I'll definitely be using this for the banner image. All right, so the channel is now set up. And with that done, the next step is to actually make the faceless videos. Now, these faceless videos are broken down into a simple five-step process, and we're going to go over each step in detail. You've got idea, scripting, voice over, what I call asset collection, and final assembly. Now, this sounds like a lot, but honestly, four out of five of these steps can actually be streamlined with AI. Now, it

15:43is still going to be important that you guide the overall creative direction of your videos just to make sure that the content is unique and valuable. The last thing you want to do is just create some AI slop. Uh these videos are still going to be high quality. Okay? But AI will definitely be able to help us, you know, create the videos more efficiently. And so, let's start with the first step,

16:05which is idea, which we can do with AI. So, all we're going to do here is open up chatbt again. And I'm just going to ask it, can you give me a list of 10 to 15 video ideas for my faceless YouTube channel about ancient business mogul documentaries? And you can do this for really any faceless niche that you want on YouTube. Like when I started my experiment channel that I showed you earlier, I simply asked ChattBT what were the most like trending products for that current year and then I made review videos around those products. But anyways, with these ideas, I'm just going to select one to make a video

16:42about and then we'll start working on the script. So, a lot of really, really good ideas here. I think the one that stands out most to me is King Solomon, the richest man in the ancient world. It said that King Solomon was the richest man to ever exist. He had like a net worth of $2 trillion. And so, I think that could be a really interesting story. And so, I'm going to go ahead and copy that because that's the idea that we're going to use to begin working on our script. Now, when it comes to the script for the video, absolutely

17:10ChattPpt can help develop this for you. But what you don't want to do is just simply say something like, "Okay, now create a script for this video." Because what's going to happen is it's going to give you a script that's like 2 minutes long. Okay? And obviously, we want the videos to be longer than that. And so what I have discovered is that the best way to get Chat toBT to write a script for you is to have it first start off with giving you a breakdown like an actual outline for the video and then you work on each part of the outline separate. And so I'm going to say let's

17:41create a video about and then paste in the video title there. I need help creating the script. I want it to be about 15 minutes long. Let's first start off by giving me the breakdown of the video. then will work on each section separately. Okay. So, I'll say that to it, hit enter, and it's going to begin now working on the outline for the video for me. So, with that outline now finished, I'm just going to say to it, let's start with the open hook. And when I say that, it's going to begin developing the open hook for us, which you know, you can see it does a really,

18:13really good job. And then once the open hook is done, we would then after that say, okay, let's move on to the next section, right? and then hit enter. And it's going to begin working on section number two for us. And then once it finishes section number two, you would say, "Let's work on the next section." And it's going to begin working on section number three. And so forth,

18:34right? You would just keep doing this. And you know, you could feel free to edit any of the script if you want to or have it make some updates for you, whatever you think is necessary. But usually the AI does a really good job of developing the script for you. All right. So that is basically scripting in a nutshell. Next is the voice over. My number one recommendation here is just to use your own voice. Okay, I know that it can feel a little bit intimidating at first, but for a faceless channel, your voice is what's going to make the content unique and authentic. Plus, if

19:05you're on a tight budget, then you don't even really need a professional studio. Like, you can buy a super affordable mic on Amazon. Or if you're really just starting out and you don't want to spend any money, you can honestly just use the voice memo phone on your app. All you have to do is just record in a quiet space like a closet full of clothes to dampen the echo. And you'd be surprised that it actually sounds surprisingly professional. But using your own voice is 100% free. It keeps your channel safe from the loweffort content flags and it helps to build a real connection with your audience. Now, if you really really

19:43don't want to have to use your own voice, you can use a tool like 11 Labs. They have some of the best natural sounding voices that I've heard. Now, this video is not sponsored by them. I don't have any affiliate links or anything like that. Um, it's just one of the better tools that I've used for AI voiceovers. And so, if I was actually starting a faceless channel and taking it seriously, I would without a doubt be using my own voice. But for the sake of this video and for my example Faceless Channel, I'm just going to use an AI voice over from 11 Labs as the voice of

20:16my video. And using it is very simple. All you have to do is just take your script, paste it into the tool, and it'll develop the voiceover recording for you based on that script. And you can like change different voices and things like that. It's a super simple tool. But once your voice over is recorded, the next step of the video

20:34making process is asset collection. Basically, with this step, all you're doing is collecting the images and videos that you'll be using in your video. Now, depending on the niche that you selected will sort of change how you approach this step. So, for example, for my niche, which is ancient business mogul documentaries, it's a storytelling niche. I'm going to be relying heavily on AI creation tools. And so I'll be using tools like chat GBT or Midjourney to create images that I can then add, you know, subtle movement to to sort of bring to life or maybe I'll be able to find some stuff on Google images or like

21:12other YouTube videos. But for the most part, I'll just be using AI tools. And the good news is that Chat GBT is free. Um, Midjourney is the only tool that is going to cost some money, but the basic plan only costs $10 per month. And you don't even have to use MidJourney. you can just use chat tbt for free. But if you're creating something like listical videos, for example, similar to what I did with my other faceless channel that I started as an experiment, then you'll be relying heavily on places like Google images or product review videos on YouTube to get all of your visual assets. If you are creating, you know,

21:49travel listical videos, same thing. you'll be relying a lot on stock footage and using clips from other YouTube videos or Google images, things like that. So, depending on your niche will change your process for creating your videos. For my channel though, I'll be using mostly AI. So, essentially with this step, all you're going to be doing, I've already pasted my script here from ChattBT into a Google doc. So essentially what you're going to be doing is you're just referencing the script and then finding the appropriate

22:21images or videos based on the script. And so for example, the first line of my script is what if I told you that thousands of years ago there was a man so wealthy that silver was considered worthless in his kingdom. That's the first line there. Okay. And then I'm going to head over into MidJourney, for example. And I'm literally just going to paste that line of text into the prompt box right here. And then hit enter. And it's going to generate an image that is fitting based on that line of text. And so you can see it did a really really good job creating this this image of

22:55King Solomon. Now, I don't know what King Solomon actually looked like. I have no idea. But I think that this is a good representation of what he could have potentially looked like. And something really cool about Midjourney as well is that you can actually add small movement to your image. And so if I click right here on animate image, you can see that it creates these new moving images for me. I mean, this looks insanely good, right? And we could we could create the whole video like this where we've just got these different like moving images that really really help to bring the story to life. You

23:27don't have to, of course. You could just keep on using still images and those would still work just as good. But I just think it's a cool option to be able to animate the images a little bit and just add that much more personality to your videos. But then what I like to do is once I've finished finding the asset for that specific line of text, I'll just highlight the lines of text within the script black just so that I know I'm done with that part of the script and I can move on. So then once that part of the script's done, I would move on to

23:56the next part. So then the next line of text in my script is um at the height of his power, gold floated to his kingdom from across Asia or Africa, Asia and the ancient worlds, etc., etc. I'm going to try to go to Google images for this one and just type in King Solomon and then go to images. And you can see there's tons of different images here that we can choose from. Um I could use some of these or I could just keep on using AI

24:21tools to create like original images. And I think I'll do that. So, I'm actually going to head into Chat DBT now. And same thing, I'm just going to paste in this line of text right here into Chat DBT and ask it to create a image for my documentary about King Solomon. And then hit enter and we'll see what it creates for us. So, I think that this looks phenomenal. I think it looks really, really good. And I'm I'm actually probably just going to use Chat GBT for the rest of the video to develop my assets. And so all I'm going to do is just go line by line and just find

24:54assets for that line of text. Okay? Depending on how long your script is, this could take you a couple of hours or it could take you even less than that depending on what your script is about. All right. So once you've got all your assets collected, it's time for the final assembly. So basically with the final assembly, all you're doing is you're first you have to choose an editing software to actually compile all this stuff together. So, for me, I'm going to use Final Cut Pro. If you have a Mac computer, you can use iMovie for free. If you are on a Windows PC, you can use a tool like Da Vinci Resolve,

25:29which is free. Or you could use some type of online video editing software. Like, I know Canva, for example, has some free video editing software that you can use. Or you could just go into Google and type in free editing software, and you can see what pops up. So, for example, Cap Cut is a good option. But you can see if you just scroll through here, there's tons of other options as well. Even Adobe has Adobe Express which again is free video editing software. So it doesn't really matter what you use because the process is going to be the exact same. So basically with the final assembly what

25:59you're going to do is first drop in your voice over. Okay? So if you recorded your own voice over you would drop that in. In my case I used 11 Labs to do an AI voice over. So I'm just going to drop that into my timeline here. And then I'm just going to start dropping in all of my assets one by one into the timeline uh to match with whatever is being said on on the voice over. Does that make sense? So, for example, for this first part right here about King Solomon, I know that we decided to go with this image here. So, I'm just going to drop

26:31that in right there. And you would just do that same thing for each part of the video. Now, realistically, this should be the fastest part of the process because you've already got all your assets. All you have to do is just figure out where they go within the video based on what's being said in the voice over. And then if you want to, you can add things like slow zoomins. You can add like different effects and things like that, which most of these editing tools will have that kind of stuff built in. You can just add that stuff on top of the images to kind of

26:59bring it to life and add more more character. And so, for example, for my video, I'm going to add in these dust particles over these clips. um and maybe some other effects just to kind of make it more interesting to look at. But yeah, you can spend some time here just kind of being creative and doing whatever you want to make it interesting. But you saw for yourself in

27:17the example videos I showed you earlier. Most of the time there's not a whole lot going on with these videos, right? Some light effects, some light movement. You don't have to spend hours and hours, definitely not days making a video. just do enough to add some level of human effort and to make it more interesting than just a still image not doing anything. Right? Even a small bit of movement will add a lot in terms of making it more interesting. So, I'm going to spend like the next 30 minutes going through here and just adding all of my clips on top of my voice over. And

27:52after all that, the video is almost done. We still have to add one more important element, which is music. Okay, we have to add music to our video. Especially for my type of video, like storytelling videos, the music is going to be almost more important than the visuals itself because the music is going to drive the mood of the video. And there are a few different approaches that you can take here to find your music, right? I would either go with a free music website such as YouTube's official music library or you could use a premium music website like Epidemic Sound. Now, I promise you this is not a

28:30promotion for Epidemic. They are not sponsoring this video, but I do use them for my videos for both music and sound effects. And in my opinion, they have one of the best music libraries out there. So, I will leave a link to Epidemic Sound down below. If you use that link, it'll give you a free 30-day trial. Again, I'm not trying to sell you on them. You don't have to use them, but if you want something more premium with a lot more song options, then definitely grab that free 30-day trial. using the link down below. Otherwise, just stick to free music resources like YouTube's official music library. But anyways, I'm

29:06just going to go ahead and spend the next like maybe 30 minutes scanning through songs on Epidemic Sound to find some stuff that will work for my video. I'm not really going to show that process because it's pretty self-explanatory. But after that, I'll export my video and then I'll share the final video with you guys. And, you know, let me know in the comments what you think about it. Tonight, imagine yourself standing at the edge of the ancient world. The air is warm, dry, and faintly perfumed with incense, drifting in from somewhere unseen. Dust settles slowly after each footstep, hanging in the light like smoke. In the distance,

29:41stone meets stone as a massive gate begins to open, its weight announced by a deep, grinding echo that carries across the valley. You are approaching Jerusalem at the height of its power. The city doesn't shout its importance. It doesn't need to. It glows quietly in the fading light, confident and unhurried. Torches flicker along the walls, reflecting off polished stone and metal. The rhythm of life inside feels steady, practiced, like a system that knows exactly what it is doing. This is the Kingdom of Solomon. Before we go any further, take a moment to settle in. Let your breathing slow. Let the outside world recede. These stories weren't

30:23meant to be rushed. They unfold the way the ancient world itself did. Patiently, deliberately. Now, picture the streets beneath your feet. They're worn smooth by centuries of movement. Okay, so the last step now is we need to upload the video to our channel and create a title and thumbnail. So, this part of the process I think scares a lot of people and for good reason. Everybody is always talking about how important the title and the thumbnail is. And don't get me wrong, it definitely is, right? Those things are important, but I don't think we need to overthink it. Basically, all you're going to do is look at channels

31:01within your niche that are doing well, that are getting good views and stuff, and just sort of model your thumbnails off theirs, right? I'm not saying you should copy them exactly, but just model them, draw inspiration from them. And you would do the same thing for the titles as well. So let me show you what this actually looks like in practice. So for example, I'm on YouTube here and I'm just going to type in like history documentary or something, right? And because this is kind of what my niche is. I'm talking about historical things and it's a documentary video. So if I just scroll through here, you can see

31:35that the first video it, you know, it's just an image with some text on it. If I keep scrolling through here, you'll see it's kind of the same thing. Like an image that's related to the documentary with like a piece of text on it. It's very, very simple. Most of these thumbnails are super simple. Right? Here's one from a year ago from the

31:52History Channel. 2.4 million views. Europe in the wake of the fall of Rome. It just shows an image of the coliseum kind of being burnt to the ground with some text that says survival in the dark ages. And all of these thumbnails within this niche are kind of doing the same exact thing. Okay? And so I would model my thumbnail the same exact way. So creating the thumbnail is actually very very simple. Okay? All you're going to do is go into a free tool like Canva. Uh and I'm going to click right here on create. Just type in YouTube thumbnail and it pops up right there. So we'll

32:26just click right there on YouTube thumbnail. And then you're just going to go to your your video and you're just going to grab an image from the video that is compelling looking, that looks interesting, right? So for my video, I think that this image right here of King Solomon looks very interesting. So I'll drag and drop the image into Canva right here. Make sure that it fits the entire screen. And then I'll just add some text on top of it that says something like richest man ever. And I'll just make sure that it's white so that it uh contrasts with the actual image itself so that people can read it. And just

33:01like that, we've basically got our thumbnail. Like you really don't have to overthink this process at all. Okay? And the same thing is true with the title. We're simply looking at how you know popular channels within our niche are structuring their titles and we're just doing the same thing for our channel. We're just going to title our stuff the same exact way. Okay. Now remember, I want to reiterate this. We're not just copying verbatim what other channels are

33:24doing. You don't want to do that, okay? You want to make sure that you are being original, but we can model our thumbnails and titles. We can draw inspiration from other channels because there's no reason to reinvent the wheel, right? If something's already working for a different channel, we can take what's working and apply it to what we're doing so that we can potentially get similar results. All right. So, once I've got my thumbnail uh ready, I'm going to go ahead and upload my video to my YouTube channel. And then I'll add my title and then add my thumbnail that we just created within Canva for free. And

33:59because we are using generative AI for our visuals, we have to make sure that we select this box right here that says altered content. Okay, this is required if you used AI within your video. It's a simple step that keeps your channel transparent and in good standing uh with YouTube's community guidelines. But once all that is done, we can go ahead and post it. And I'm going to leave a link to this channel down below in the description so that you can watch the full video for yourself that you just

34:28watched me create from start to finish. Now, before this video ends, I do want to briefly talk about the money side of faceless YouTube channels because obviously that's the main reason a lot of people are interested in doing this in the first place. Now, the first thing that I want to say is that this is not a get-richqu scheme, okay? Like, starting a YouTube channel and getting to a point where you're able to make income from it is going to require a considerable amount of work. Make no mistake about it. But if you are willing to put in the work, there are several ways that you

35:02can make money from this. Okay? And the first and most obvious way to make money through YouTube is through YouTube AdSense. Once your channel reaches YouTube's monetization requirements, YouTube will start placing ads on your videos and paying you based on things like views, watch time, your audience type, the niche that you're in, things like that. And depending on how many views you're getting, this can potentially become a pretty significant uh source of income for your YouTube channel. But AdSense is honestly just one small piece of the puzzle. So for example, my experiment faceliftless channel that I talked about earlier, I was making money with that channel using

35:41affiliate marketing. And affiliate marketing is actually very simple. Basically, all you're doing is just recommending a product or service within your video. And if somebody buys the product or service through your special link, you'll earn a commission. So, for example, if you are reviewing uh products or gadgets or books or tools or cameras or really anything that people can buy online, you can sign up for affiliate programs and start putting those links in your description. Now, one of the easiest places to start is the Amazon Associates program, which is

36:14Amazon's free affiliate program. basically create a free account, grab your custom product links, and then you would add those links to your video description. And then if somebody buys through one of your links, you'll earn a percentage of the final sale. And the cool thing about affiliate marketing is that you don't even have to have a

36:32monetized channel to start doing this. You can technically make affiliate income before you ever qualify for AdSense. Right? with my experiment channel. I didn't upload a single video on my channel before I went ahead and created my Amazon Associates account and started collecting affiliate links to place in future videos. And so with affiliate marketing, typically you can start doing that immediately. Now, even beyond affiliate marketing, you can also eventually sell your own products. And so that could be things like digital products like ebooks or templates or perhaps some type of paid community or coaching or consulting, maybe even your own software. Perhaps you could create a

37:14kids book using AI, which I've actually got a video for on my channel, which I'll link down below. And then you can get that kids book listed for sale on Amazon. And then you can create a YouTube channel. And then you can create a faceless YouTube video um similar to the one I showed you earlier where it's literally just you showing pages of the book and you're just reading the book, right? You're not even showing your face. It's just the pages of the book with some maybe some subtle movement and you are simply reading the book and that is the entire video. And then you can

37:45have a link to that book in the description of that video for people to buy. But there are so so many different ways that you can go about this. And this is why I think learning YouTube is such a valuable skill right now because even if your channel never becomes massive, right? You're still learning about content creation and storytelling and audience building. You're learning different marketing skills and all that stuff is incredibly valuable. Now, here's the truth about this, okay? Most people who start this are going to quit way too early. They'll upload a few videos. Those videos probably won't get many views. And because of that, they'll

38:24assume it doesn't work and they'll quit. But YouTube is usually way slower in the beginning than most people expect. Even with my experiment channel, some videos barely did anything and then other videos started getting traction like months later after I posted the video, right? That's just kind of how YouTube works sometimes. But that's why consistency is so incredibly important because one single video can completely change the trajectory of a channel. So hopefully this video gave you a realistic understanding of how this process actually works and hopefully it gave you some confidence to finally go and start your own faceless YouTube channel. I'll leave links to all of the

39:07tools and resources that I mentioned throughout this video down in the description below. Don't forget to like this video and subscribe for more content like this. Thank you so much for watching the video. I appreciate you being here and as always, I will see you again in the next video. Take care.