The $30K/Month Al Faceless Shorts Method Nobody's Talking About (Full Workflow) — Transcript
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- 0:00I'm going to show you how these channels
- 0:01make $30,000 a month posting faceless
- 0:03YouTube shorts using Claude to do 90% of
- 0:06the heavy lifting. Now, just take a look
- 0:08at this channel. If I pull up its stats
- 0:10with VidIQ, you can see it's getting
- 0:12millions of views, and VidIQ estimates
- 0:14that it's earning around 50K [music] a
- 0:16month. And this isn't some
- 0:18one-in-a-million lucky channel, it's an
- 0:20actual recreatable formula. Here's
- 0:23another channel, a completely different
- 0:24niche, but the same exact model. And
- 0:27it's pulling in hundreds of thousands of
- 0:28views and an estimated five figures in
- 0:30revenue every single month. And check
- 0:33out this third channel. Now, it was
- 0:35started just less than a year ago, but
- 0:37it's already on track to make six
- 0:38figures this year. And here's the best
- 0:41part. These are faceless channels,
- 0:43>> [music]
- 0:43>> which means no filming, no studio, no
- 0:45team, and basically zero expenses. It's
- 0:48almost purely profit. So, all that is to
- 0:51say that this business model is printing
- 0:53money right now. And in this video, I'm
- 0:55going to break down for you guys exactly
- 0:57how it works so that you can go out
- 0:59there and do the same exact thing. But
- 1:01first, I need to show you why right now,
- 1:03in this exact moment, is one [music] of
- 1:05the biggest opportunities to make money
- 1:07online, and literally nobody is talking
- 1:09about [music] it. Now, there's been a
- 1:11huge decline in the number of people who
- 1:12are starting YouTube automation, but
- 1:14fewer people starting means less
- 1:16competition for you when it comes to
- 1:18posting faceless videos. And I'm not
- 1:20just saying this randomly. There's
- 1:21actually real data out there to back it
- 1:23up. Now, this is the Google Trends graph
- 1:26for YouTube automation. It got really
- 1:27popular back in 2023, then peaked again
- 1:30in 2025, but since then, it's been in
- 1:33constant decline. Right now, search
- 1:35interest is at one of its lowest points
- 1:38since the end of 2022. That's to say
- 1:41that there are fewer people looking to
- 1:42start YouTube automation than at any
- 1:44[music] point in the last four years.
- 1:47So, when somebody out there tells you,
- 1:48"Oh, YouTube automation is
- 1:50oversaturated," the data actually says
- 1:52the exact opposite, which means it's
- 1:54actually easier to go viral right now.
- 1:57But at the same time, something
- 1:59interesting also happened. RPM for
- 2:01shorts, which essentially is how much
- 2:03YouTube pays per thousand views, has
- 2:05gone [music] way up. Now, let me show
- 2:07you what that means in practice.
- 2:09Remember the first channel we were
- 2:10looking at? Just look at this short. 14
- 2:13million views in about 2 weeks. Now, not
- 2:16every single view gets monetized.
- 2:18Realistically, around half of those
- 2:20count as qualified views. But US shorts
- 2:22RPM right now are hitting 40 plus cents.
- 2:25So, let's run the math. Roughly 7
- 2:28million qualified views at a 40 cent
- 2:30RPM. That's around $2,800
- 2:33from one short. And here's where the
- 2:35opportunity becomes really insane.
- 2:37Claude has made it stupidly easy to
- 2:40[music] automate the entire content
- 2:42creation process for faceless videos.
- 2:44Researching what's working, coming up
- 2:46with video ideas, you can now have
- 2:48unlimited amounts of that. Proven, go-to
- 2:51viral ideas on tap. And with a few other
- 2:54AI tools, editing YouTube shorts becomes
- 2:56just [music] as easy. So, you can go
- 2:58from research to idea to a fully edited,
- 3:01posted video. And the entire process
- 3:03takes around 10 minutes per short. So,
- 3:06with all that being said, let me get
- 3:07into how to actually do this and build
- 3:09your first profitable faceless YouTube
- 3:11channel and take advantage of this
- 3:13insane opportunity. Now, [music]
- 3:15everybody knows that the niche you pick
- 3:17for your channel is literally the most
- 3:19important part. If you pick a bad niche
- 3:21from day one, you're never going to get
- 3:23views. If you pick a good niche, you
- 3:25could potentially scale to hundreds of
- 3:27millions of views. And in this video,
- 3:29I'm not going to sit here and show you
- 3:3020 different niches and say, "You choose
- 3:32the best one." I'm just going to show
- 3:34you the one best niche [music] that I'm
- 3:36seeing new channels go viral with the
- 3:37fastest in 2026. This channel right here
- 3:40just started 3 months ago, and they're
- 3:42consistently getting millions of views
- 3:44on every single video. [music] Like,
- 3:46here's a video from a few days ago. 3.4
- 3:49million views. 2 weeks ago, 6.2 million
- 3:52views. And the niche that they're doing
- 3:54is literally just making [music] ranking
- 3:56videos. Everybody knows it. You
- 3:58basically make videos where you compile
- 4:00a bunch of clips from other platforms
- 4:02like Tik Tok and Instagram, [music] then
- 4:04you mash them together, and you rank
- 4:05them. So, add your opinion on which ones
- 4:08are the funniest or whatever you choose
- 4:10to rank them on. And channels in this
- 4:12niche have made hundreds of thousands of
- 4:14dollars with this exact format. So, I
- 4:16can tell you confidently, this is the
- 4:18niche I would start with today because
- 4:19channels running it are making thousands
- 4:21of dollars every single day right now.
- 4:24And you can verify that for yourself.
- 4:26Pull up vidIQ on this channel and just
- 4:27look at the estimated earnings. Here's
- 4:29another really good channel to look at
- 4:31for inspiration. They only posted just
- 4:33over 300 videos, and they already have
- 4:35almost 2 million subscribers and more
- 4:37than 3 billion views generated. Every
- 4:40video that they post gets millions of
- 4:42views. This one they posted just a few
- 4:44days ago has 9 million views already.
- 4:47Literally, just ranking the funniest
- 4:49[music]
- 4:50football moments. This is the easiest
- 4:51content you could be making right now.
- 4:53So, I'm going to show you exactly how to
- 4:55make these videos super quickly and how
- 4:57to use AI to do 99% of the work for you.
- 5:00First off, you need inspiration channels
- 5:02to take your ideas from. So, I've
- 5:04already given you one super good one,
- 5:06but [music] here's another really good
- 5:07one. And here's a third great channel to
- 5:10reference.
- 5:11>> [music]
- 5:11>> And you can look all of these up. And if
- 5:13you just go through their videos and you
- 5:15like and comment on a bunch of them,
- 5:17your whole feed will become ranking
- 5:19content almost right away. And then you
- 5:21can literally just scroll shorts, and
- 5:22it'll show you more and more new ranking
- 5:24channels. Now, once you've done your
- 5:26research and have a bunch of great
- 5:27ranking channels whose strategy you want
- 5:29to replicate, this is where we use
- 5:31Claude to do all the ideation and the
- 5:33research on which videos you should
- 5:34actually make. So, first, you're going
- 5:36to head over to Claude, but before you
- 5:38can actually use it for this, you need
- 5:40to add a little extension to it called
- 5:41[music] vidIQ. And don't worry, it's
- 5:44completely free. Just go on Google and
- 5:46look up VidIQ Chrome extension.
- 5:50It's going to look something like this,
- 5:51VidIQ extension for YouTube and
- 5:53Instagram. And again, it's completely
- 5:55free. Just install it onto your Chrome
- 5:58browser. Once you have VidIQ installed,
- 6:00go to Claude and create a free Claude
- 6:02account. And when you refresh your
- 6:04screen, you'll see that VidIQ appears
- 6:06just right there. The Chrome extension
- 6:08actually automatically adds itself to
- 6:10your Claude, but you do need to set it
- 6:13up. So, you're going to need to click
- 6:15the little VidIQ drop down and then go
- 6:17to connect YouTube insights. It's going
- 6:19to take you to a page like this, where
- 6:21all that you have to do is click
- 6:23authorize. [music]
- 6:24And literally just like that, with a
- 6:26single click, it's done. If I hit the
- 6:28little drop down now, it'll show as
- 6:30connected. So, this is where things
- 6:33really start to get insane. You're going
- 6:35to go to one of your inspiration
- 6:36channels that you found. Now, I'm going
- 6:38to use this one as an example because
- 6:39they're already getting hundreds of
- 6:41thousands, if not millions of views on
- 6:43every single video.
- 6:44>> [music]
- 6:45>> And they're kind of a newer channel, so
- 6:46I think it's a good one for you guys to
- 6:48get inspired. You're going to click more
- 6:50>> [music]
- 6:51>> and then this little pop-up's going to
- 6:52appear. Scroll to the bottom and click
- 6:55share channel. Then, all you have to do
- 6:57is click copy channel ID right down
- 6:59there. Then you're going to go back to
- 7:01Claude. You're going to click the little
- 7:02plus right here, click connectors, and
- 7:05then go to [music] add from VidIQ for
- 7:07Claude using that new extension we just
- 7:09add.
- 7:10Then, you're going to click where it
- 7:12says competitor breakdown. And it's
- 7:15going to ask you to paste in that
- 7:16channel ID. So, you just paste the ID
- 7:18that you copied and you click add
- 7:20[music] prompt. It'll add this little
- 7:22bubbly automatically for you and then
- 7:24you just hit send. And you can see that
- 7:26it's going to automatically start
- 7:27running. And as it goes, it's going to
- 7:29start asking you for some permissions.
- 7:31All that you need to do is click always
- 7:33allow on most of the things that it
- 7:34asks. Then, just let it run. It's going
- 7:37to take about 5 minutes to do a full
- 7:39research breakdown for you. And there
- 7:41you go, it's done. You can see that it
- 7:43gave me this insane report with charts
- 7:45and analytics. It shows me all of the
- 7:47top videos from that channel, and it
- 7:49shows me their growth over time. So, I
- 7:51get a full chart with all of their
- 7:53metrics. And now, I can actually chat
- 7:55with Claude about this channel.
- 7:57And the way that you use this data is
- 7:58simple. You use it to get the best video
- 8:01ideas for your ranking videos. Because
- 8:03we all know ideas are what make the
- 8:05ranking videos go viral. Look at the
- 8:07biggest channels in this niche. They get
- 8:09millions of views on every single post.
- 8:12Now, this one from last week, 15 million
- 8:15views. And it's because their video
- 8:16ideas are better than other people's.
- 8:18They're creative and they're unique. So,
- 8:20in the same Claude chat, I'm just going
- 8:22to ask it to give me a list of viral
- 8:24ranking video topics based on what's
- 8:25already worked best for this exact
- 8:27channel.
- 8:28>> [music]
- 8:28>> And just like that, it gives me the
- 8:30exact proven winning video topics from
- 8:32their channel. The top performers that
- 8:34are most likely to go viral if you were
- 8:36to recreate them. Ranking the most
- 8:38insane near miss driving moments. These
- 8:41are such good high performing content
- 8:44ideas. So, from here, all that you need
- 8:46to do is choose a video topic that you
- 8:48really like. And then, you're going to
- 8:50take that topic and go over to this
- 8:52tool, RankReel. [music]
- 8:53This is going to automate all of the
- 8:55editing and actually making the videos
- 8:57for you. And honestly, this is probably
- 8:59the most powerful part of the whole
- 9:01system. [music] I'm going to leave a
- 9:02link for the description below so that
- 9:04you can get set up as well.
- 9:06>> [music]
- 9:06>> Now, once you're inside RankReel, you'll
- 9:08see that this thing is built
- 9:09specifically for making ranking videos.
- 9:11You're going to enter your video title,
- 9:13paste TikTok clips into the rank slots,
- 9:15give each clip a name, and set a custom
- 9:17playback order. It's going to generate a
- 9:19finished vertical video for you, all in
- 9:22one place. So, now, right at the top of
- 9:25your app, you just enter that video
- 9:26topic you picked from Claude. For me,
- 9:29I'm going to go with ranking best
- 9:30football moments. Now, you'll notice,
- 9:32yeah, this looks super basic. And if you
- 9:34go look at the big ranking channels,
- 9:36you'll see that their titles always look
- 9:38really clean and exist in one specific
- 9:41format. Always two lines of text, not
- 9:44three, not one, always two. And with
- 9:47colors that break up the keywords. So,
- 9:50in my app, I'm just going to hit return
- 9:52about halfway through the text to split
- 9:53it into two lines. Then, you need to
- 9:56highlight the keywords.
- 9:57>> [music]
- 9:57>> The words that make a viewer instantly
- 9:59understand what the video is about. For
- 10:02me, that's football moments because best
- 10:05doesn't really add anything.
- 10:06>> [music]
- 10:06>> And then, you just give it a color.
- 10:08Blue works. Honestly, I think teal looks
- 10:11cleanest. [music]
- 10:12And now, when somebody lands on this
- 10:14video, their brain instantly reads
- 10:16football moments, and they know exactly
- 10:18what they're watching. That's what stops
- 10:20people from scrolling away and killing
- 10:22your performance. Once your title is
- 10:24optimized, you'll need to actually go
- 10:25find clips to rank. And by far the best
- 10:28way to do this is in TikTok because they
- 10:30have such a good video search engine.
- 10:32Just look up your video topic in the
- 10:33search bar. And just like that, you'll
- 10:35get a bunch of viral clips with millions
- 10:38of views that you can use in your
- 10:39videos. Like this clip, for example,
- 10:41right here. 2.1 million views. And this
- 10:45is really important. You only want to
- 10:47use viral clips. Don't grab some clip
- 10:50with a few hundred likes because the
- 10:52original didn't go viral on its own, so
- 10:54why would it go viral for you? So, I'm
- 10:56going to download this clip, go back
- 10:58into my app, and paste it into the first
- 11:00ranking slot. Rank one, and I hit send.
- 11:03And just like that, it pulls the clip
- 11:05into my ranking video. From here, you
- 11:07give the clip a short title so viewers
- 11:09know what each clip is at the ranking.
- 11:11The big channels all do this, right?
- 11:14>> [snorts]
- 11:14>> Like this one, I gave it a clip the name
- 11:16red card, and I ranked it number three.
- 11:18I'm just going to call mine instant
- 11:19[music] karma. And from there, you just
- 11:21repeat this process. Find four or five
- 11:24more viral clips, paste them in, name
- 11:26them, and here's an important thing. You
- 11:29need to rank the right number of clips.
- 11:31Too many, and people won't finish the
- 11:33video. Too few and you're not going to
- 11:35get enough watch time. If you look at
- 11:37the top performing ranking videos, they
- 11:39almost all land around six clips.
- 11:41Honestly, I think five to seven is the
- 11:43zone that you really want to stay in.
- 11:45Once you've added all your clips, here's
- 11:47the next most important step, custom
- 11:49playback order. Now, watch the big
- 11:52ranking videos that are out there really
- 11:53closely. They don't rank in a clean
- 11:55descending order, 7 6 5, they jump
- 11:58around all the time. They'll show number
- 12:00two first, then six, then jump back up,
- 12:03and obviously they'll save number one
- 12:04for last. It's a super smart little
- 12:06retention trick because the viewer never
- 12:08knows what's coming, so it feels less
- 12:10repetitive and they keep on watching.
- 12:13So, in your app, just turn on custom
- 12:15playback order and hit shuffle. It
- 12:17rearranges everything automatically
- 12:18[music] and you can drag clips around
- 12:20manually if you'd like. Then, scroll
- 12:23down, hit generate video, and you've got
- 12:27a finished ranking video. Now, from
- 12:29here, what you need to do is post one to
- 12:31two shorts every single day. You need to
- 12:34be insanely consistent and you cannot
- 12:36mess this up. It's critical. When you
- 12:38skip days, and I can promise you this
- 12:40right now, you will not go viral. And
- 12:42don't just take my word for it. Go look
- 12:45at any of those channels I showed you at
- 12:46the start of this video and open up
- 12:49their videos tab.
- 12:50Every single day there's a new short,
- 12:52sometimes two. That channel that's
- 12:54pulling in an estimated 50K a month,
- 12:57it's got daily uploads without missing
- 12:59once. That consistency is not a
- 13:01coincidence, it's the reason. So, if you
- 13:04go out there and you do everything I
- 13:06showed you in this video, you use Claude
- 13:08for all your research, you make your
- 13:09videos in Rank Reel, and you post every
- 13:11single day, no matter what, a few weeks
- 13:14from now, it is totally possible that
- 13:16you now have a monetized channel earning
- 13:19money and getting millions of views
- 13:21every single day. So, go out there, lock
- 13:24in, make some videos, and I'll see you
- 13:26in the next one.
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