Faceless AI Shorts: How One Channel Made $40K in 90 Days

0:00Over the last 3 months, this faceless YouTube channel has made almost $40,000 using AI, and that's from YouTube shorts alone. There's no long- form content, and the person behind it never even shows their face in a single short. And today, I'm going to show you exactly how to replicate the same model, explain why this is one of the biggest opportunities on the internet right now, and give you everything you need to get started. So, on the screen right now are three faceless YouTube shorts channels that I've been tracking. And according to Vid IQ, in the last 90 days, the first one generated an estimated $40,000 from $250

0:39million views. The second made almost 25,000 and the third clocked in at around $33,000. And to add to that, over the last 365 days, just one of them has done two billion views and over 170K in estimated revenue. And we're seeing this across three completely different channels. So clearly, this isn't just one random success story. And honestly, you don't need a team or a complicated production setup to do it. The whole thing runs on just three tools. Claude, Chachi PT, and one other tool that I'm going to show you guys a little bit later. So, why is

1:17right now such a good time to start? Three reasons. First, despite everybody saying that faceless YouTube is getting more and more saturated, the data actually shows something pretty interesting. Now, if we look at Google Trends, searches for YouTube automation and faceless YouTube have dropped massively from their peaks in 2023 and 2024. And right now, search interest is actually sitting almost at its lowest point in 5 years. So, while everyone out there keeps saying that people are jumping into faceless YouTube, the search trend is actually moving in the opposite direction. Second, shorts can generate real money at scale. Now, Air Media Tech analyzed 274 real channels using data directly from the YouTube

2:01analytics API. And according to what they saw, shorts RPM in most niches ranged from 7 to 20 cents per thousand views, while US heavy audiences were actually reaching around 33 cents per thousand views. Now, you might hear 33 cents and say, well, that sounds tiny. But it's only tiny until you actually scale it. Now, at that RPM, 100 million

2:24views is worth roughly $33,000. And keep in mind, one of the channels that we just looked at did 250 million views in only 90 days. Now, the third reason is probably the biggest one of all. Now, just a year or two ago, actually running one of these channels meant doing almost everything manually. But today, AI can handle almost the entire workflow. Just look at this. Chat GPT handles the channel itself, your name, your description, profile picture, banner. Claude will handle the content, analyzing competitors, finding out what's working, coming up with ideas, doing the research, and ultimately writing the actual scripts. And the last tool takes those scripts and turns them

3:08into finished shorts with voice over footage, captions, and everything else in one timeline. So, instead of talking about it, let me show you exactly how this whole system works. I'm going to start with Claude and show you how to automate the actual content side of the channel. Then we're going to jump back to ChachiBT and we'll use it to set up everything else. The branding, the description, profile picture, banner, essentially all of the things that you need before you can actually start posting. But first, let's figure out what kind of videos we're actually going to be making. Now, picking the right niche is obviously one of the most

3:44important parts of this. So, instead of giving you 50 different options, I'm just going to show you one that's working super well right now. And that's interesting facts videos. They're basically 30 second mini documentaries built around one interesting story, person, event, or fact. And channels that are doing this right now are getting ridiculous views. So, here's one with around 180,000 subscribers that makes interesting facts videos about weird moments in history. Now, you can see some of these getting 2, 4, even 7 million views, and a few of them were posted just weeks ago. But you don't have to make history videos. Here's another channel with over 320,000

4:27subscribers doing basically the same exact thing, except their videos are all about science and space. And here's a third, which is focused on strange facts, true stories, and unexplained events. Now you see over and over it's the same format but completely different topics. You can see videos like this getting hundreds of thousands or even millions of views. And that's the cool thing about this niche. You can basically adapt it to whatever you're interested in. History, space, animals, tech, mystery, geography, literally anything. It becomes less about the specific content and more about the quality and the tooling of the workflow that I'm about to teach you. And the

5:09best thing about this format is that AI can do almost all of the heavy lifting for you. So, the first thing we're going to do is find a few competitors and give them to Claude. Now, you really only need three to five good channels. And we're not trying to copy them. We just want to figure out what's actually working. We're asking questions around what topics are getting the most views, what are they doing in the first few seconds, how long are the videos, and what kind of stories are going viral over and over again. And finding these channels, honestly, is actually really easy. Just watch shorts in the niche

5:44that you're interested in. Like a few of them, subscribe to the channels that are doing particularly well, maybe leave a couple of comments, and you'll notice pretty quickly your entire shorts feed basically becomes a research tool. Now, YouTube is just going to keep showing you more and more channels and viral videos in the exact niche that you're interested in. So once we've got a few good competitors, we're going to give all of them to Claude and let it do the actual analysis for us. Now that we have a few competitors, step two is using Claude to actually analyze them and find the best video ideas for us. So what I'm

6:19going to do is I'll pick one of the channels that we just found. Open up Claude. And the first thing we have to do is to connect to VidIQ. So you just need to search for the Vid IQ Chrome extension right here and install it. It's completely free. Now, once that's installed, I'm going to go back to Claude. I'll refresh the page, and you should see Vid IQ pop up right about here. I'm going to click the dropown, hit connect YouTube insights, and it'll take us straight to the connectors page where we can connect it to Claude. And once that's done, you can now see Vid IQ

6:54is active. So now I'm going to click the little plus right here. Go to connectors, select Vid IQ for Claude, and I'll choose competitor breakdown. Now it's asking us for the channel ID. So I'm going to go back to the competitor that we found earlier. Click more, then share channel, and I'll copy the channel ID right here. Jumping back into Claude. Paste it in. Click add prompt. And you can see it's automatically going to add the whole prompt for us. That all that's left for me is just to click send. And right away, Claude is going to start analyzing the entire channel. It's pulling their shorts, looking at which videos perform

7:37best, and basically figuring out what's working for them. Now, this can take a minute, especially if the channel has a lot of videos. And Claude might ask for permission a few times while it's doing its research. Make sure to just hit always allow so that it can keep going and save you some hassle. And there we go. You can see that Claude just gave me a full breakdown of the channel and it

8:00analyzed their best performing videos. And the coolest thing is that this is all sitting inside of a normal Claude chat. So, I can literally ask it about anything in the channel. So, I'm going to go ahead and I'll ask give me their best five performing video topics, include the original video links, and give me a full summary of each one. Now, hit send. Give it a second. And we got it. Now, I have five video ideas based on topics that have already gotten millions of views on this channel. It's a proven success formula. So instead of sitting here trying to guess what might work, we already have five ideas that we

8:40know people are interested in. For example, we've got one about why airplane windows have tiny holes in them. Another about what happens if an elevator cable snaps, a third explaining why Formula 1 tires are completely smooth. These are exactly the kind of topics that work for the interesting facts format that we're going to be making. So now we have the ideas. Next, we need to turn one of those into an actual video. Now, I'm going to pick one of the topics that Claude just found for us, and I'll open up a fresh Claude chat. What I'll do in there is I'll paste in this prompt right here. I'm

9:17making sure to leave it on the screen for a little bit so you can screenshot it if you want to reuse it yourself. Now, I'm going to jump back to our competitor analysis, grab the summary of the topic that I want to use, I'll copy it, and I'll paste it right underneath the prompt. For this example, I'm going to be going over the one about why airplane windows have those tiny holes in them. And basically, what I'm asking Claude to do is to take that proven topic and turn it into a completely new 30-second YouTube short script for our channel. So, I'm going to hit send. And

9:50there we go. Claude just wrote the entire script for us, and it's already structured to fit into around 30 seconds. But now, we need the actual visuals. So, I'm going to paste in one more prompt. Again, I'll leave this on the screen for a second so that you guys can screenshot it. And what this does is it's actually really simple. It takes the script that we made, breaks it down into individual scenes, and then it tells us exactly what should be happening on screen for every single part of the voiceover. So, instead of having one giant block of text, we now have an entire video mapped out scene by

10:27scene with a voice over. what visuals we need and then timestamps for when they should appear. And honestly, don't worry about creating any of the visuals yet because that's the next step. And this is where the third AI tool I mentioned comes into the picture. Now, we have the script and we have every visual mapped out. So, what's left is to actually build the video. And for that, we're going to be using a tool called Rank Reel. Essentially, what it does is it gives us everything we need to create the entire video in one place. So, to that end, I'm going to open up Rank Real

11:01right here. And the first thing we need to do is generate our voice over. So, I'll jump back to Claude and I'll grab the original script that we generated. Now, keep in mind, it's not the visual breakdown. It's just the full word for word script. You'll copy that, jump back to Rank Real, and paste the entire thing right here. Now, we just need to choose a voice. Rank Real gives you a bunch of different AI voices to choose from. So, I'm going to click select voice, and

11:29I'll just be using this one right here. Obviously, you can take some more time and pick whichever fits your channel best. But for the interesting facts videos, I want something that feels pretty natural and is a bit more fastpaced. So, I'm going to select it, hit generate, and there we go. Rank Real just generated the entire voice over and it automatically dropped it onto our timeline. So, let's go ahead and listen to the first few seconds. Ever notice the tiny hole at the bottom of your

11:59airplane window? That's not damage. That's the only thing keeping you comfortable at 38,000 ft. Perfect. So, now we have the script and we have the full voice over. Next, we need to create everything that's going to play on screen. Now, obviously, we still need the actual footage and the captions. So, that's what we're going to be focusing on next. I'm going to go back to Claude and I'll open the visual breakdown that we generated earlier. And you can see that for every part of this clip, Claude has already told us exactly what should be happening on screen and how long each clip should be. So, I'm going to go

12:34ahead and start with the first one. I'll copy the clip description right here. And now, we've got two options. We can either find a real clip that matches it or just generate one with AI. Now, for this clip, let's see if we can find something real. I'm going to search for exactly what Claude described. And you can see none of these clips quite really fit what I'm looking for. So, instead of wasting my time trying to find the perfect one, I'm just going to go ahead and generate it. I'll jump back to Rankre, click media, go to AI generation, and select video. Then I'm literally just going to paste in the

13:12description that Cloud gave us. I'm going to go ahead and set the aspect ratio to 9 by6 since we're making a YouTube short. I'll hit generate and then give it a second. And it generated exactly the shot that we needed. So I'm just going to click add to timeline. And now our first clip is already in the video. It also generated audio with the clip, which we obviously don't need

13:37because we already have our voice over. So I'm just going to go ahead and mute that. And now we have this. Perfect. Now we just move on to the second clip. I'm going to go back to Claude, copy the next visual description, and this time let's see if we can find a really good clip for it. Yeah, this looks much better. I'm going to grab this one right here. I'll copy the link, go back to Rank Real, click import, paste the link, and hit download. And there we go. I'll

14:08set the preview ratio to 9x6. Add it to the timeline. And now I just need the exact part of the clip that matches our script. So I'll go ahead and scrub through here. Right there. I'm going to split it at the beginning, delete everything that we don't need, and then do the same thing at the end. And remember, Claude already gave us the timestamps, so really I don't need to do any guessing for how long any of these clips should be. I'll go ahead and line this one up with the voice over. And now

14:40we've got this. And from here, you literally just repeat the same exact process for the rest of the video. Go through Claude's visual breakdown one by one. If you find a good clip, use it. If you can't, generate exactly what you need with AI. And after just a few minutes, you should have the

14:58entire voice over covered with visuals. Now, there's only one thing missing, captions. And this part is super easy. I'm just going to go to subtitles and click generate captions. Give it a second and Rank Real will automatically generate captions for the entire voice over. Obviously, they don't look the best by default, so I'm going to need to

15:21go into style and quickly clean them up. I'll choose a caption preset, maybe make the text a little bit bigger, and then you can play around with a font, shadows, colors, or honestly whatever else fits your channel's needs. And that's basically it. We started with nothing but a competitor channel. Use Claude to find the idea, write the script, plan every single visual, and now we have a finished YouTube short ready to post. All that's left is to hit render, export the video, and that's our first short done. Ever notice the tiny hole at the bottom of your airplane window? That's not damage. That's the only thing keeping you comfortable at

16:0138,000 ft. Every window is actually three panes. Now you know exactly how to make these faceless YouTube shorts. But before we start posting, we need to actually set up the channel and make sure that everything is properly optimized. So before you create anything, the first thing I want you to do is go ahead and check if you already have an aged YouTube channel. And when I say aged, I literally just mean a channel that you've had for a few years now. A lot of people have had one without ever even realizing it. If you have ever commented on videos, subscribed to channels, or honestly just used YouTube normally. there's a pretty

16:38good chance that you've created a channel a couple of years ago or maybe even longer and then completely forgot about it. So, go ahead and check your account. If you find an old channel that you're not using anymore, you can just repurpose that for your new faceless channel. Now, the reason that I prefer doing this is that an older account already has some history with YouTube rather than being something completely fresh created 5 minutes ago. But if you don't have one, don't worry. you can just go ahead and create that brand new channel. The only difference is going to be is that with a new account, I like to

17:13spend a little bit of time warming it up before I start posting. And honestly, the warm-up is super simple. You're basically just going to go ahead and use YouTube like a normal person. So, on day one, I'm going to open the Shorts feed and I'll spend around 30 minutes just scrolling through videos. And while I'm doing that, I'll make sure to interact

17:33with some of the content naturally. Watch some of the videos, leave a few likes, maybe post a couple of comments, and subscribe to the channels that I'm actually enjoying. That's literally it. And then on day two, I'm going to do the same thing again for a little bit. Watch some shorts, interact with a few videos, subscribe to a few channels, but this time, we're going to start setting up the actual channel. So, I'll go ahead and open up YouTube Studio. Go down to settings, click channel, and then I'll go to feature eligibility. The first thing that you want to check is standard features. Now, for most channels, these

18:11should already be enabled by default, as long as there aren't any community guideline restrictions on your account. Now, you can see mine are green here, so we're good to go. Then, we're going to move down to intermediate features. for this. YouTube is going to ask you to verify a phone number. So, I'm just going to go ahead and click right here

18:31and go through the verification process. And there we go. Now, intermediate features are enabled as well. Next, you'll also see advanced features underneath this. Now, we typically don't really need these for what we're doing right now, so you can either leave them alone or come back and unlock them later. And that's pretty much everything that we need on the technical side. Now, what's left is to make this look like a real channel. The name, the profile picture, the banner, a description, all that good stuff. And instead of doing any of that ourselves, we're actually going to let Chad Chapiti handle the entire branding process for us. So,

19:11let's start with the name. I'm just going to type give me short one-word channel name ideas for a YouTube channel about interesting facts. I'll hit send. And you can see we've already got a bunch of options. And honestly, don't overthink this part. If you don't like any of these, just ask chat chip t for more. But you definitely don't need to spend hours trying to find the perfect name. I'm going to scroll through these and let's go with curio for this example. Sounds cool. So now we've got the name. We need a profile picture. So for that, I'm going to paste in this prompt right here. I'll leave it on

19:47screen for a few seconds so that you can go ahead and screenshot it as well. All that you need to do is replace this part with whatever channel name you choose. So, I'll type in Curio right here. Hit send and I'll give it a second. All right, this actually looks pretty good. It's simple. The icon is easy to recognize. And most importantly, it'll still be readable when it's super small on the shorts feed. And that's exactly what you want. Now, if you look at some of the other channels out there, they're doing the same exact thing. One simple character, symbol, or logo, nothing too complicated. And if you don't like the

20:26first option that Chat GT gives you, you can always just regenerate it. You really don't need to overthink your logo either. Now, I'm happy with this one, so I'm going to go ahead and I'll save it. So, now we have the name and the profile picture. The next thing we need is the channel banner that goes right up here. And if you look at other channels in this niche, you'll see that people do this in a bunch of different ways. Some just put the channel name, some have a little tagline, and some add a bunch of graphics. But honestly, I've always felt like the simpler ones look the best and

20:59cleanest. So, I'm going to keep ours clean, same colors, and overall the same style as the profile picture, just with one short line of text in the middle. And again, I'll be using Chat PT to make this whole thing for us. Basically, what I'm asking you to do is to create a YouTube banner that matches the exact colors and the style of the profile picture that we just made. And for the text, you can literally put whatever you want. I'm going to keep it simple and I'll say subscribe for random facts. So then let's hit send. And honestly, again, this looks pretty good. It matches the profile picture. The colors

21:38are consistent and everything feels like it's in line with the same channel. Now, for my taste, the text is a little too small. So, I'll go ahead and tell Chachi BT make the text roughly 50% bigger. Hit send. And yeah, that's looking way better. So, now we've got the name, the profile picture, and the banner. There's just one thing that we need left, and that's the channel description. And if you haven't guessed, I'm not going to be writing this one manually either. I'm gonna go in one last time into chat GPT right here. And I'll paste this prompt once more. I'll leave it on the screen

22:16for a few seconds so that you guys can screenshot it if you want. And basically what this tells Chat GPT is to give us a short tagline, explain what the channel is about, and make sure that people know what kind of videos they can expect. So I'll hit send. Uh once it generates, I'm going to go ahead and quickly read through it. I'll make sure everything looks good. Copy the whole thing and I'll paste it straight into our YouTube channel description. And that's it. Our channel is officially ready. Now, if you think about the big picture, we basically just built an entire system from scratch. We use Chat PT to create

22:53the channel, Claude to find proven ideas, do the research, write the scripts, and plan every visual. And lastly, rank real to turn all of that into an actual finished short. And from here, you just repeat that same process over and over again. Now, at a high level, what you're going to do is find what's already working, make your own version, post it, see what gets views, and then use that same exact system to repeat more of what works. That's literally the whole idea behind this model. You're not out here trying to create one viral video. You're creating a system and a process that can keep producing them. And that's how you can

23:33run an entire faceless YouTube shorts channel with AI doing almost all of the work. So, everything that I showed you throughout this video is actually linked below if you want to try it out for yourself. As always, thank you so much for watching and I'll see you guys in the next one.