How I Created a $30,000/month Faceless YouTube Channel Using AI Tools — Transcript

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1. 0:00Before you think about starting a
2. 0:01YouTube automation, you should know the
3. 0:03unfiltered truth. Lately, I've noticed
4. 0:05lots of gurus talking about all the
5. 0:07money you'll make when you start a
6. 0:08faceless channel, but none of them are
7. 0:10warning you about the challenges you'll
8. 0:12face. You see, the dashboard you're
9. 0:13seeing on your screen is a channel that
10. 0:15I started about 5 months ago, and you
11. 0:17can see that I've made over $40 to
12. 0:19$47,000 without even having to show my
13. 0:22face. This is another one with over
14. 0:23$240,000,
15. 0:25and this is another one. This proves
16. 0:27that YouTube automation can be wildly
17. 0:29profitable, but it can also be a
18. 0:31complete waste of time if you're not
19. 0:32aware of secrets that I'll be sharing
20. 0:34with you today. And if you're curious
21. 0:36about my background on YouTube, I've
22. 0:38uploaded thousands of videos across
23. 0:39different channels and made pretty good
24. 0:41amount. In fact, I have more than 30
25. 0:43successful channels, but I also have
26. 0:45hundreds of total flop channels, and
27. 0:47I've learned every niche and piece of
28. 0:49content that I put up. You see, with all
29. 0:50the hype around this business model
30. 0:52lately, I started looking everywhere to
31. 0:54see if someone had already talked about
32. 0:56what I'm about to show you. But
33. 0:57honestly, I couldn't find anyone
34. 0:59explaining it I wanted to see it. So, I
35. 1:01decided to make this video and just
36. 1:03share my own experience with you. What I
37. 1:05did, what worked, and more importantly,
38. 1:07some of the mistakes I made along the
39. 1:08way, so you don't have to make the same
40. 1:10ones. And if you can actually manage to
41. 1:12focus and watch this video all the way
42. 1:14through, you'd have everything you need
43. 1:16to start your first successful channel.
44. 1:18I'm going to show you the easiest niche
45. 1:20anyone can start while watching this
46. 1:22video, but first, you need to understand
47. 1:24what people actually mean when they say
48. 1:26YouTube automation. See, when YouTube
49. 1:28first started, most channels were built
50. 1:30around a person. You'd see the creator
51. 1:32on camera talking directly to you. But
52. 1:34then, at some point, one lazy genius had
53. 1:37a different idea. He thought, "Why do I
54. 1:38need to be on camera?" So, instead, he
55. 1:40recorded his voiceover from the comfort
56. 1:42of his underwear, threw some stock
57. 1:44footage over it, and somehow, the video
58. 1:46started pulling in millions of views.
59. 1:48And just like that, people realized,
60. 1:49"Wait a minute, you don't actually have
61. 1:51to show your face to build a successful
62. 1:53YouTube channel." That's basically where
63. 1:54the whole faceless channel idea started.
64. 1:56So, now you need to understand what
65. 1:58happened to me so you can avoid the same
66. 2:00mistakes. You see, when I first heard
67. 2:01about the term YouTube automation, it
68. 2:04caught my attention because I love
69. 2:05YouTube and the term automation made me
70. 2:07think it is so simple because I saw
71. 2:10people getting crazy views and making
72. 2:12thousands of dollars. So, I decided to
73. 2:14test that for myself by starting my own
74. 2:16YouTube automation channel from scratch.
75. 2:18So, the first thing that I did was to
76. 2:19make a list of YouTube niches and within
77. 2:2112 hours I had my channel idea, which
78. 2:24was a mistake by the way. And but we'll
79. 2:25get to that later. You see, the plan was
80. 2:27simple. I decided to make a compilation
81. 2:29of funny moments that are trending on
82. 2:31the internet. I chose that because I
83. 2:33thought that it could be simple and
84. 2:34super easy to make videos. Since it's
85. 2:37already trending, I'd get views easily.
86. 2:39So, I started editing the first video
87. 2:41and after 48 hours got about 13 views.
88. 2:44So, I found a perfect system and I found
89. 2:46some viral videos that I took
90. 2:47inspiration from. And the second video
91. 2:50hit 1.7k views. And then, I got my big
92. 2:53break. The video went viral and hit over
93. 2:55800,000 views. And I thought I was on my
94. 2:57way to buy my first private jet until I
95. 3:00realized I was totally wrong. Like,
96. 3:02everything was on track. My channel hit
97. 3:044,000 watch hours and over 1,000 subs
98. 3:07within a month. So, I applied for
99. 3:08monetization and this is where I
100. 3:10realized my first mistake. Even though
101. 3:12my channel has grown to more than
102. 3:13100,000 subscribers and over 29 million
103. 3:16views, it was pretty much useless since
104. 3:19I couldn't monetize it. It turns out
105. 3:20compilation channels are so difficult to
106. 3:22monetize since you're just repurposing
107. 3:25other people's video. Luckily though, I
108. 3:27was still able to sell the channel for
109. 3:28six grand and start a new niche. But
110. 3:30this time, I took the process more
111. 3:32seriously. One of the things that I
112. 3:34learned was that since those videos I
113. 3:35was repurposing were already going
114. 3:37viral, that channel blew up easily. So,
115. 3:40I decided to pick a niche that's already
116. 3:42blowing up. I lined up some channel
117. 3:43ideas and this time, I landed on
118. 3:46history. But next, I needed to create
119. 3:48the channel and optimize it with the
120. 3:50right keywords so that people could
121. 3:51discover it faster. So, I first
122. 3:54generated the channel logo on Leonardo
123. 3:56AI at that time because there was no
124. 3:58Nano Banana and ChatGPT couldn't
125. 4:00generate images back then. And I went to
126. 4:02Canva and designed a simple channel
127. 4:04banner since it cost $0. I uploaded them
128. 4:07and I started searching for highly
129. 4:09searched keywords of my niche using
130. 4:11VidIQ. So, I clicked on research, then
131. 4:14entered the main keyword of my niche,
132. 4:16which is history. Now, I picked like 10
133. 4:19highly searched keywords from here, copy
134. 4:21it all, then head back to my channel.
135. 4:23Went to settings, clicked on channel,
136. 4:25then pasted the keywords here. Next, I
137. 4:27went to advanced settings and since I
138. 4:29was doing it to make money, I chose the
139. 4:30middle option so that my video will be
140. 4:32shown to the right audience. I finally
141. 4:34went to the feature eligibility settings
142. 4:36and verified my phone number and hit on
143. 4:38save.
144. 4:41But, with the channel now set up, I
145. 4:42needed to figure out the automation
146. 4:44part. So, I went to VidIQ again to find
147. 4:46some viral video ideas, then I took that
148. 4:48topic to ChatGPT and I asked it to write
149. 4:51the scripts for me. That was when I
150. 4:52realized things are starting to feel
151. 4:54like automation, but I needed to hire
152. 4:56someone to edit the videos and design
153. 4:58the thumbnails. So, I went to Fiverr to
154. 5:00find someone and pass the script to him.
155. 5:02He used it to create the video using an
156. 5:04AI voiceover and added the thumbnail as
157. 5:06well. That cost me about $83. So, next I
158. 5:09needed to make my first post and this is
159. 5:11where I needed to spend more time and
160. 5:13make sure I use the right keywords and
161. 5:15hashtags so that I could get views from
162. 5:17the right people. And once I was okay
163. 5:19with everything, I hit upload hoping to
164. 5:21get my first 100,000 views. The video
165. 5:24didn't go viral as I was expecting, but
166. 5:26I was thinking it'll get views in the
167. 5:27future because that's what my last
168. 5:29channel did. So, I prepared my next
169. 5:30video and uploaded it and it got around
170. 5:33400 views in the first week. But, after
171. 5:3530 days, the first video was still stuck
172. 5:37at 62 views. I uploaded the next video
173. 5:40and something [music] unexpected
174. 5:41happened. The video got 703 views, but
175. 5:44the first video was picked up out of
176. 5:46nowhere and over the next couple of
177. 5:47weeks, it got over 32,000 views, 619
178. 5:51watch hours, and 31 subscribers. This
179. 5:54actually got me to start using Pinterest
180. 5:55to find my dream house. But of course,
181. 5:57that's when everything fell apart again.
182. 5:59It has been 3 months already, spending
183. 6:01close to 500 bucks for six videos, and
184. 6:04only one of those videos blew up. I
185. 6:05didn't understand. So, I went back to
186. 6:07the drawing board and found out I didn't
187. 6:09give any reason for people who watched
188. 6:11the first video to come back for more.
189. 6:13Like, I didn't give any value to my
190. 6:15initial viewers. I realized it wasn't
191. 6:16the thumbnail or the editing, but the
192. 6:18script. Because the stats here says it
193. 6:20all. How can a 32,000 views give you
194. 6:23only 31 subscribers and not even up to
195. 6:25900 watch hours? The average duration
196. 6:27was low, and that should tell me it's
197. 6:29the script. You see, ChatGPT didn't
198. 6:31understand human emotions. Even now, it
199. 6:33still doesn't. So, if I just ask it to
200. 6:36generate me a YouTube script with my
201. 6:38topic, it's going to give me a generic
202. 6:40result. So, I started learning the right
203. 6:41way to prompt it, and after a couple of
204. 6:43days, I came up with another script
205. 6:45written by ChatGPT. I passed it to the
206. 6:47editor. He made the video ready after a
207. 6:49couple of days. Then when I published
208. 6:51it, it got only 13 views in the first 12
209. 6:53hours. In fact, I was about to give up
210. 6:55on that channel because I thought of
211. 6:57creating a new channel and uploading the
212. 6:59new videos on it since the old channel
213. 7:01isn't getting any views. But I opened my
214. 7:03laptop the next day, and the video had
215. 7:05around 5,000 views. And then after a
216. 7:07couple of weeks, it picked out of
217. 7:09nowhere. It got over 70,000 views with
218. 7:12over 3,000 of watch time and 763
219. 7:15subscribers. I repeated the same method,
220. 7:17and I finally got monetized. Now, this
221. 7:19channel has over 75 million views, and
222. 7:22I've made more than 400 grand, and the
223. 7:24channel is still active. But this time,
224. 7:26I use AI to do all the work instead of
225. 7:29paying people on Fiverr. I've even
226. 7:30discovered this tool which gives me a
227. 7:32realistic editing style, meaning the job
228. 7:35is easier now. Like, the tool's designed
229. 7:37in a way that I just have to give it my
230. 7:39video idea, and it'll do the research
231. 7:41and write the script you've hired a
232. 7:43professional script writer. And it also
233. 7:44edited them with real footage and
234. 7:47realistic motion graphics. Once it's
235. 7:49done with the video, it'll give you a
236. 7:50clickable title and thumbnails, then
237. 7:52generate an optimized video description.
238. 7:54So, all you need is to spend time on
239. 7:56finding a killer video idea. You know,
240. 7:58I've been using it for the past 3 months
241. 8:00now, and because of that, I started
242. 8:02another channel just 2 weeks ago. And as
243. 8:04you can see, with only four videos, I've
244. 8:07been able to monetize it. That's because
245. 8:09the history niche is the fastest way to
246. 8:11grow on YouTube. All you need is a good
247. 8:13editor. But since good editors are
248. 8:15charging not less than 50 bucks per
249. 8:17video, I recommend you use AI tool. Let
250. 8:19me show you something. If you go to
251. 8:21YouTube and search for history,
252. 8:23you'll realize almost every video you
253. 8:25see here has a good amount of views, and
254. 8:27it doesn't matter if the channel's
255. 8:29small. And according to vidIQ, the
256. 8:31history niche is getting more than 20
257. 8:33million views every hour. Although the
258. 8:35competition is high, but this niche has
259. 8:37lots of audience. That's why this
260. 8:39channel was monetized with only four
261. 8:41videos. And just look at the views. I
262. 8:43even hit 1.3 million in about 6 days or
263. 8:46so. And you can also do this, because
264. 8:48I'm not using any special tricks. All
265. 8:50right? Now that you already know how to
266. 8:51create and optimize your channel for
267. 8:53easy discovery. Next is how I find
268. 8:55trending ideas, then I'll go ahead and
269. 8:57show you the AI tool that I use. All
270. 8:59right, when it comes to finding a viral
271. 9:01video idea, most of you start everything
272. 9:04from scratch, and that's another
273. 9:05mistake. See, when you're starting a new
274. 9:07channel, you can't just ask ChatGPT or
275. 9:09Claude to give you ideas and expert
276. 9:12views. Your channel will die. You need
277. 9:14to follow these simple rules. First is
278. 9:16to find videos with an outlier score
279. 9:18above 20. But if you really want to grow
280. 9:19fast, then you have to do extra work by
281. 9:22finding the ones with outlier score
282. 9:23above 50. Let me show you. Head to vidIQ
283. 9:26and click on research.
284. 9:28Now, in the search bar, enter
285. 9:30documentary or, let's say, history.
286. 9:34Next, go to videos.
287. 9:36Now, if you check the videos, you'll
288. 9:37notice these red buttons on them. That's
289. 9:39the outlier score. Like this one is 10,
290. 9:42this has 14, this one has 39, and so on.
291. 9:45Once you get that, then you move on to
292. 9:47rule number two, which is the views per
293. 9:49hour, and that's the number next to the
294. 9:51outlier. You need to check if people are
295. 9:53still interested in that topic. And for
296. 9:55this, any number above 100 is fine if
297. 9:57the video is 3 months old and above. But
298. 9:59if the video is more than a year old,
299. 10:02then look for any number above 20. One
300. 10:04trick I use is to find videos that were
301. 10:06posted for like 3 or 4 years ago. Then
302. 10:09check if it's still getting above 20
303. 10:11views. Like this one, for instance. If
304. 10:14you click on it, you realize the video
305. 10:15was published 4 years ago, but with over
306. 10:1880 views per [music] hour, which is so
307. 10:20good, and it also has good engagement.
308. 10:22This is tell us people are really
309. 10:24interested in this topic. Here's the
310. 10:26truth. This is the most important part
311. 10:28of the entire process, because the AI
312. 10:30tool will handle the rest of the work.
313. 10:32So, take your time and find a better
314. 10:34idea. So, grab the idea.
315. 10:39Then head to Cutly.io. Click on start
316. 10:42generation,
317. 10:45and sign up for an account. You'll get a
318. 10:47dashboard like this. Now, what we're
319. 10:49going to do here is simple. You see, we
320. 10:51have two ways to create our video. The
321. 10:53first one is by giving it your idea, and
322. 10:55the second one is by using a voice over.
323. 10:57This way, if you want to use your own
324. 10:59voice, you can just record it and upload
325. 11:01it here. Sincerely, I don't do that. So,
326. 11:04head to the description, and you'll see
327. 11:05a link to this master prompt. Just grab
328. 11:07it from here,
329. 11:13and go back to Cutly.io. Then paste it
330. 11:16into this box.
331. 11:17>> [music]
332. 11:17>> You see, the reason for this prompt is
333. 11:19because we want the AI to understand
334. 11:21what we want. If you just give it the
335. 11:22idea without any instructions, it'd
336. 11:24generate the video for you, but might
337. 11:26not give you the result you want. You'll
338. 11:28then have to spend time editing or
339. 11:30regenerating it over again. All right,
340. 11:32let's replace these texts with the topic
341. 11:34we got. Now click here and set your
342. 11:36video length.
343. 11:38For this, you can go with the first
344. 11:39option, which is 8 to 10 minutes. But if
345. 11:42you want fast growth, you'll need more
346. 11:43watching hours. So for that, you can go
347. 11:45with the 20 to 22 minutes or 29 to 32.
348. 11:49That way, if viewers watch only 5
349. 11:51minutes of your videos, you'll need
350. 11:52about 50,000 views to hit 4,000 watch
351. 11:55hours. I know people will ask, "Hey
352. 11:57Calm, the watch hours have been
353. 11:59increased to 8,000." Well, that's
354. 12:01February 2027. So you don't need to
355. 12:03think about that. All right, go ahead
356. 12:06and pick a voice.
357. 12:08I'm not going to suggest any voice
358. 12:10because most of you will end up with
359. 12:11[music] the same voice. Now click on
360. 12:13style
361. 12:15and pick the one you like. For me, this
362. 12:17is the style that I use because it
363. 12:19matches the style that I was getting
364. 12:20from the editor I hired on Fiverr. For
365. 12:22the background music, YouTube is strict
366. 12:24on copyright, so I recommend finding a
367. 12:26cool background sound from the YouTube
368. 12:28audio library. Then upload it here.
369. 12:31That's what I personally do. Now you'll
370. 12:33need a thumbnail, so click here.
371. 12:37Pick the style you like.
372. 12:39Next, go ahead and choose the caption
373. 12:41style.
374. 12:45Now you can hit on generate. [music]
375. 12:50This is going to take some minutes
376. 12:52depending on the length of the video. So
377. 12:54while waiting, let me show you something
378. 12:55that I forgot to tell you. You see, this
379. 12:57is a paid tool and I'm not sponsored by
380. 12:59them anyway. But if you think about
381. 13:01hiring someone on Fiverr or Upwork or
382. 13:03let's say 30 bucks for a video, you can
383. 13:06use that 30 bucks for the starter plan
384. 13:08at 29 bucks. [music] That will give you
385. 13:10600 credits, meaning you can generate
386. 13:12nine videos. Meanwhile, that 30 you paid
387. 13:14to the guy you hired got you just one
388. 13:16video. But if you do the calculations,
389. 13:18you'll realize you're paying just three
390. 13:20bucks for a video. And the creator plan
391. 13:22gives you 31 videos for 99 bucks. So
392. 13:25while you'd be paying about one grand
393. 13:26for editors, you can just pay 99 bucks
394. 13:29for the same quality. And that's a fact.
395. 13:31You think about it, all right? The video
396. 13:33is ready. Let's check the result.
397. 13:35>> On the night of June 8th, 2018, a Utah
398. 13:38family ate dinner on screen while
399. 13:40audiences paid $10 to watch a
400. 13:4213-year-old girl lose her head.
401. 13:45On the telephone [music] pole that took
402. 13:46her head, a seal had been cut into the
403. 13:48wood. You have seen it. You did not know
404. 13:51it was 400 years old. They called the
405. 13:53[music] thing that wanted her brother
406. 13:55Paimon.
407. 13:56The film was Hereditary. It was the
408. 13:57first feature from a 27-year-old theater
409. 14:00kid [music] turned filmmaker.
410. 14:02It premiered at Sundance on January
411. 14:0321st, 2018. It cost $10 million.
412. 14:07It made $80 million. Think of that as
413. 14:10every seat in a multiplex sold.
414. 14:12>> That's simply amazing. Now, if you
415. 14:14scroll down, you'll see three
416. 14:15thumbnails. Then you can see how it will
417. 14:17look on the phone and PC.
418. 14:20It's also added a title, description,
419. 14:21and tags as well.
420. 14:24So, all we need to do now is to click
421. 14:26here to save the video.
422. 14:28Then upload it to our channel.
423. 14:34Now, since the title I got on vidIQ
424. 14:36works so well, I'll maintain that.
425. 14:39Next, I'll copy the description from
426. 14:41here.
427. 14:43Then paste it in the description box.
428. 14:45Now, I'll go ahead and download all the
429. 14:47three thumbnails.
430. 14:51Then upload the one I think it's
431. 14:53attention-grabbing.
432. 14:56You can do AB testing, but I don't do
433. 14:58that. I rather upload the first
434. 14:59thumbnail, wait to see how it goes
435. 15:01before deciding if I should change it.
436. 15:03If I get a low CTR, like one or let's 2%
437. 15:06in the 3 to 4 hours, I'll change it.
438. 15:08Now, let's copy the tags.
439. 15:12Then paste them here also. Once
440. 15:14everything is okay, I don't just publish
441. 15:16the video right away. I unlist the video
442. 15:18for it to be properly processed.
443. 15:22Let me show you something. If we click
444. 15:23on content,
445. 15:26then click the edit icon on the video we
446. 15:28uploaded,
447. 15:31then if we click on languages,
448. 15:34you can see that we can choose the
449. 15:36language of the video. Now, what this
450. 15:38does is that it's going to generate
451. 15:40automatic captions for the video and use
452. 15:43those captions to translate the audio of
453. 15:45the video into multiple languages, which
454. 15:47means our voiceover will now be
455. 15:49translated into Spanish, French, Hindi,
456. 15:52Dutch, and most of the popular languages
457. 15:54you know. And this will boost your reach
458. 15:56because people who would skip your video
459. 15:58because they don't understand the
460. 15:59language of your video can now see and
461. 16:01watch the video in their own language.
462. 16:03So, I recommend you unlist the video for
463. 16:05about 2 hours or wait for it to finish
464. 16:07processing before you make the video
465. 16:09public. If you're someone who's
466. 16:10interested in making money with YouTube
467. 16:12Shorts, then I recommend you watch this
468. 16:14video. It'll show you how I was able to
469. 16:16make $400,000 in just 3 months. Stay
470. 16:19safe and see you in the next one.