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The $30K/Month Al Faceless Shorts Method Nobody's Talking About (Full Workflow) — Transcript

by Sanji Nai-Chien · 2,708 words · 400 segments · language en · Watch on YouTube

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  1. 0:00I'm going to show you how these channels
  2. 0:01make $30,000 a month posting faceless
  3. 0:03YouTube shorts using Claude to do 90% of
  4. 0:06the heavy lifting. Now, just take a look
  5. 0:08at this channel. If I pull up its stats
  6. 0:10with VidIQ, you can see it's getting
  7. 0:12millions of views, and VidIQ estimates
  8. 0:14that it's earning around 50K [music] a
  9. 0:16month. And this isn't some
  10. 0:18one-in-a-million lucky channel, it's an
  11. 0:20actual recreatable formula. Here's
  12. 0:23another channel, a completely different
  13. 0:24niche, but the same exact model. And
  14. 0:27it's pulling in hundreds of thousands of
  15. 0:28views and an estimated five figures in
  16. 0:30revenue every single month. And check
  17. 0:33out this third channel. Now, it was
  18. 0:35started just less than a year ago, but
  19. 0:37it's already on track to make six
  20. 0:38figures this year. And here's the best
  21. 0:41part. These are faceless channels,
  22. 0:43>> [music]
  23. 0:43>> which means no filming, no studio, no
  24. 0:45team, and basically zero expenses. It's
  25. 0:48almost purely profit. So, all that is to
  26. 0:51say that this business model is printing
  27. 0:53money right now. And in this video, I'm
  28. 0:55going to break down for you guys exactly
  29. 0:57how it works so that you can go out
  30. 0:59there and do the same exact thing. But
  31. 1:01first, I need to show you why right now,
  32. 1:03in this exact moment, is one [music] of
  33. 1:05the biggest opportunities to make money
  34. 1:07online, and literally nobody is talking
  35. 1:09about [music] it. Now, there's been a
  36. 1:11huge decline in the number of people who
  37. 1:12are starting YouTube automation, but
  38. 1:14fewer people starting means less
  39. 1:16competition for you when it comes to
  40. 1:18posting faceless videos. And I'm not
  41. 1:20just saying this randomly. There's
  42. 1:21actually real data out there to back it
  43. 1:23up. Now, this is the Google Trends graph
  44. 1:26for YouTube automation. It got really
  45. 1:27popular back in 2023, then peaked again
  46. 1:30in 2025, but since then, it's been in
  47. 1:33constant decline. Right now, search
  48. 1:35interest is at one of its lowest points
  49. 1:38since the end of 2022. That's to say
  50. 1:41that there are fewer people looking to
  51. 1:42start YouTube automation than at any
  52. 1:44[music] point in the last four years.
  53. 1:47So, when somebody out there tells you,
  54. 1:48"Oh, YouTube automation is
  55. 1:50oversaturated," the data actually says
  56. 1:52the exact opposite, which means it's
  57. 1:54actually easier to go viral right now.
  58. 1:57But at the same time, something
  59. 1:59interesting also happened. RPM for
  60. 2:01shorts, which essentially is how much
  61. 2:03YouTube pays per thousand views, has
  62. 2:05gone [music] way up. Now, let me show
  63. 2:07you what that means in practice.
  64. 2:09Remember the first channel we were
  65. 2:10looking at? Just look at this short. 14
  66. 2:13million views in about 2 weeks. Now, not
  67. 2:16every single view gets monetized.
  68. 2:18Realistically, around half of those
  69. 2:20count as qualified views. But US shorts
  70. 2:22RPM right now are hitting 40 plus cents.
  71. 2:25So, let's run the math. Roughly 7
  72. 2:28million qualified views at a 40 cent
  73. 2:30RPM. That's around $2,800
  74. 2:33from one short. And here's where the
  75. 2:35opportunity becomes really insane.
  76. 2:37Claude has made it stupidly easy to
  77. 2:40[music] automate the entire content
  78. 2:42creation process for faceless videos.
  79. 2:44Researching what's working, coming up
  80. 2:46with video ideas, you can now have
  81. 2:48unlimited amounts of that. Proven, go-to
  82. 2:51viral ideas on tap. And with a few other
  83. 2:54AI tools, editing YouTube shorts becomes
  84. 2:56just [music] as easy. So, you can go
  85. 2:58from research to idea to a fully edited,
  86. 3:01posted video. And the entire process
  87. 3:03takes around 10 minutes per short. So,
  88. 3:06with all that being said, let me get
  89. 3:07into how to actually do this and build
  90. 3:09your first profitable faceless YouTube
  91. 3:11channel and take advantage of this
  92. 3:13insane opportunity. Now, [music]
  93. 3:15everybody knows that the niche you pick
  94. 3:17for your channel is literally the most
  95. 3:19important part. If you pick a bad niche
  96. 3:21from day one, you're never going to get
  97. 3:23views. If you pick a good niche, you
  98. 3:25could potentially scale to hundreds of
  99. 3:27millions of views. And in this video,
  100. 3:29I'm not going to sit here and show you
  101. 3:3020 different niches and say, "You choose
  102. 3:32the best one." I'm just going to show
  103. 3:34you the one best niche [music] that I'm
  104. 3:36seeing new channels go viral with the
  105. 3:37fastest in 2026. This channel right here
  106. 3:40just started 3 months ago, and they're
  107. 3:42consistently getting millions of views
  108. 3:44on every single video. [music] Like,
  109. 3:46here's a video from a few days ago. 3.4
  110. 3:49million views. 2 weeks ago, 6.2 million
  111. 3:52views. And the niche that they're doing
  112. 3:54is literally just making [music] ranking
  113. 3:56videos. Everybody knows it. You
  114. 3:58basically make videos where you compile
  115. 4:00a bunch of clips from other platforms
  116. 4:02like Tik Tok and Instagram, [music] then
  117. 4:04you mash them together, and you rank
  118. 4:05them. So, add your opinion on which ones
  119. 4:08are the funniest or whatever you choose
  120. 4:10to rank them on. And channels in this
  121. 4:12niche have made hundreds of thousands of
  122. 4:14dollars with this exact format. So, I
  123. 4:16can tell you confidently, this is the
  124. 4:18niche I would start with today because
  125. 4:19channels running it are making thousands
  126. 4:21of dollars every single day right now.
  127. 4:24And you can verify that for yourself.
  128. 4:26Pull up vidIQ on this channel and just
  129. 4:27look at the estimated earnings. Here's
  130. 4:29another really good channel to look at
  131. 4:31for inspiration. They only posted just
  132. 4:33over 300 videos, and they already have
  133. 4:35almost 2 million subscribers and more
  134. 4:37than 3 billion views generated. Every
  135. 4:40video that they post gets millions of
  136. 4:42views. This one they posted just a few
  137. 4:44days ago has 9 million views already.
  138. 4:47Literally, just ranking the funniest
  139. 4:49[music]
  140. 4:50football moments. This is the easiest
  141. 4:51content you could be making right now.
  142. 4:53So, I'm going to show you exactly how to
  143. 4:55make these videos super quickly and how
  144. 4:57to use AI to do 99% of the work for you.
  145. 5:00First off, you need inspiration channels
  146. 5:02to take your ideas from. So, I've
  147. 5:04already given you one super good one,
  148. 5:06but [music] here's another really good
  149. 5:07one. And here's a third great channel to
  150. 5:10reference.
  151. 5:11>> [music]
  152. 5:11>> And you can look all of these up. And if
  153. 5:13you just go through their videos and you
  154. 5:15like and comment on a bunch of them,
  155. 5:17your whole feed will become ranking
  156. 5:19content almost right away. And then you
  157. 5:21can literally just scroll shorts, and
  158. 5:22it'll show you more and more new ranking
  159. 5:24channels. Now, once you've done your
  160. 5:26research and have a bunch of great
  161. 5:27ranking channels whose strategy you want
  162. 5:29to replicate, this is where we use
  163. 5:31Claude to do all the ideation and the
  164. 5:33research on which videos you should
  165. 5:34actually make. So, first, you're going
  166. 5:36to head over to Claude, but before you
  167. 5:38can actually use it for this, you need
  168. 5:40to add a little extension to it called
  169. 5:41[music] vidIQ. And don't worry, it's
  170. 5:44completely free. Just go on Google and
  171. 5:46look up VidIQ Chrome extension.
  172. 5:50It's going to look something like this,
  173. 5:51VidIQ extension for YouTube and
  174. 5:53Instagram. And again, it's completely
  175. 5:55free. Just install it onto your Chrome
  176. 5:58browser. Once you have VidIQ installed,
  177. 6:00go to Claude and create a free Claude
  178. 6:02account. And when you refresh your
  179. 6:04screen, you'll see that VidIQ appears
  180. 6:06just right there. The Chrome extension
  181. 6:08actually automatically adds itself to
  182. 6:10your Claude, but you do need to set it
  183. 6:13up. So, you're going to need to click
  184. 6:15the little VidIQ drop down and then go
  185. 6:17to connect YouTube insights. It's going
  186. 6:19to take you to a page like this, where
  187. 6:21all that you have to do is click
  188. 6:23authorize. [music]
  189. 6:24And literally just like that, with a
  190. 6:26single click, it's done. If I hit the
  191. 6:28little drop down now, it'll show as
  192. 6:30connected. So, this is where things
  193. 6:33really start to get insane. You're going
  194. 6:35to go to one of your inspiration
  195. 6:36channels that you found. Now, I'm going
  196. 6:38to use this one as an example because
  197. 6:39they're already getting hundreds of
  198. 6:41thousands, if not millions of views on
  199. 6:43every single video.
  200. 6:44>> [music]
  201. 6:45>> And they're kind of a newer channel, so
  202. 6:46I think it's a good one for you guys to
  203. 6:48get inspired. You're going to click more
  204. 6:50>> [music]
  205. 6:51>> and then this little pop-up's going to
  206. 6:52appear. Scroll to the bottom and click
  207. 6:55share channel. Then, all you have to do
  208. 6:57is click copy channel ID right down
  209. 6:59there. Then you're going to go back to
  210. 7:01Claude. You're going to click the little
  211. 7:02plus right here, click connectors, and
  212. 7:05then go to [music] add from VidIQ for
  213. 7:07Claude using that new extension we just
  214. 7:09add.
  215. 7:10Then, you're going to click where it
  216. 7:12says competitor breakdown. And it's
  217. 7:15going to ask you to paste in that
  218. 7:16channel ID. So, you just paste the ID
  219. 7:18that you copied and you click add
  220. 7:20[music] prompt. It'll add this little
  221. 7:22bubbly automatically for you and then
  222. 7:24you just hit send. And you can see that
  223. 7:26it's going to automatically start
  224. 7:27running. And as it goes, it's going to
  225. 7:29start asking you for some permissions.
  226. 7:31All that you need to do is click always
  227. 7:33allow on most of the things that it
  228. 7:34asks. Then, just let it run. It's going
  229. 7:37to take about 5 minutes to do a full
  230. 7:39research breakdown for you. And there
  231. 7:41you go, it's done. You can see that it
  232. 7:43gave me this insane report with charts
  233. 7:45and analytics. It shows me all of the
  234. 7:47top videos from that channel, and it
  235. 7:49shows me their growth over time. So, I
  236. 7:51get a full chart with all of their
  237. 7:53metrics. And now, I can actually chat
  238. 7:55with Claude about this channel.
  239. 7:57And the way that you use this data is
  240. 7:58simple. You use it to get the best video
  241. 8:01ideas for your ranking videos. Because
  242. 8:03we all know ideas are what make the
  243. 8:05ranking videos go viral. Look at the
  244. 8:07biggest channels in this niche. They get
  245. 8:09millions of views on every single post.
  246. 8:12Now, this one from last week, 15 million
  247. 8:15views. And it's because their video
  248. 8:16ideas are better than other people's.
  249. 8:18They're creative and they're unique. So,
  250. 8:20in the same Claude chat, I'm just going
  251. 8:22to ask it to give me a list of viral
  252. 8:24ranking video topics based on what's
  253. 8:25already worked best for this exact
  254. 8:27channel.
  255. 8:28>> [music]
  256. 8:28>> And just like that, it gives me the
  257. 8:30exact proven winning video topics from
  258. 8:32their channel. The top performers that
  259. 8:34are most likely to go viral if you were
  260. 8:36to recreate them. Ranking the most
  261. 8:38insane near miss driving moments. These
  262. 8:41are such good high performing content
  263. 8:44ideas. So, from here, all that you need
  264. 8:46to do is choose a video topic that you
  265. 8:48really like. And then, you're going to
  266. 8:50take that topic and go over to this
  267. 8:52tool, RankReel. [music]
  268. 8:53This is going to automate all of the
  269. 8:55editing and actually making the videos
  270. 8:57for you. And honestly, this is probably
  271. 8:59the most powerful part of the whole
  272. 9:01system. [music] I'm going to leave a
  273. 9:02link for the description below so that
  274. 9:04you can get set up as well.
  275. 9:06>> [music]
  276. 9:06>> Now, once you're inside RankReel, you'll
  277. 9:08see that this thing is built
  278. 9:09specifically for making ranking videos.
  279. 9:11You're going to enter your video title,
  280. 9:13paste TikTok clips into the rank slots,
  281. 9:15give each clip a name, and set a custom
  282. 9:17playback order. It's going to generate a
  283. 9:19finished vertical video for you, all in
  284. 9:22one place. So, now, right at the top of
  285. 9:25your app, you just enter that video
  286. 9:26topic you picked from Claude. For me,
  287. 9:29I'm going to go with ranking best
  288. 9:30football moments. Now, you'll notice,
  289. 9:32yeah, this looks super basic. And if you
  290. 9:34go look at the big ranking channels,
  291. 9:36you'll see that their titles always look
  292. 9:38really clean and exist in one specific
  293. 9:41format. Always two lines of text, not
  294. 9:44three, not one, always two. And with
  295. 9:47colors that break up the keywords. So,
  296. 9:50in my app, I'm just going to hit return
  297. 9:52about halfway through the text to split
  298. 9:53it into two lines. Then, you need to
  299. 9:56highlight the keywords.
  300. 9:57>> [music]
  301. 9:57>> The words that make a viewer instantly
  302. 9:59understand what the video is about. For
  303. 10:02me, that's football moments because best
  304. 10:05doesn't really add anything.
  305. 10:06>> [music]
  306. 10:06>> And then, you just give it a color.
  307. 10:08Blue works. Honestly, I think teal looks
  308. 10:11cleanest. [music]
  309. 10:12And now, when somebody lands on this
  310. 10:14video, their brain instantly reads
  311. 10:16football moments, and they know exactly
  312. 10:18what they're watching. That's what stops
  313. 10:20people from scrolling away and killing
  314. 10:22your performance. Once your title is
  315. 10:24optimized, you'll need to actually go
  316. 10:25find clips to rank. And by far the best
  317. 10:28way to do this is in TikTok because they
  318. 10:30have such a good video search engine.
  319. 10:32Just look up your video topic in the
  320. 10:33search bar. And just like that, you'll
  321. 10:35get a bunch of viral clips with millions
  322. 10:38of views that you can use in your
  323. 10:39videos. Like this clip, for example,
  324. 10:41right here. 2.1 million views. And this
  325. 10:45is really important. You only want to
  326. 10:47use viral clips. Don't grab some clip
  327. 10:50with a few hundred likes because the
  328. 10:52original didn't go viral on its own, so
  329. 10:54why would it go viral for you? So, I'm
  330. 10:56going to download this clip, go back
  331. 10:58into my app, and paste it into the first
  332. 11:00ranking slot. Rank one, and I hit send.
  333. 11:03And just like that, it pulls the clip
  334. 11:05into my ranking video. From here, you
  335. 11:07give the clip a short title so viewers
  336. 11:09know what each clip is at the ranking.
  337. 11:11The big channels all do this, right?
  338. 11:14>> [snorts]
  339. 11:14>> Like this one, I gave it a clip the name
  340. 11:16red card, and I ranked it number three.
  341. 11:18I'm just going to call mine instant
  342. 11:19[music] karma. And from there, you just
  343. 11:21repeat this process. Find four or five
  344. 11:24more viral clips, paste them in, name
  345. 11:26them, and here's an important thing. You
  346. 11:29need to rank the right number of clips.
  347. 11:31Too many, and people won't finish the
  348. 11:33video. Too few and you're not going to
  349. 11:35get enough watch time. If you look at
  350. 11:37the top performing ranking videos, they
  351. 11:39almost all land around six clips.
  352. 11:41Honestly, I think five to seven is the
  353. 11:43zone that you really want to stay in.
  354. 11:45Once you've added all your clips, here's
  355. 11:47the next most important step, custom
  356. 11:49playback order. Now, watch the big
  357. 11:52ranking videos that are out there really
  358. 11:53closely. They don't rank in a clean
  359. 11:55descending order, 7 6 5, they jump
  360. 11:58around all the time. They'll show number
  361. 12:00two first, then six, then jump back up,
  362. 12:03and obviously they'll save number one
  363. 12:04for last. It's a super smart little
  364. 12:06retention trick because the viewer never
  365. 12:08knows what's coming, so it feels less
  366. 12:10repetitive and they keep on watching.
  367. 12:13So, in your app, just turn on custom
  368. 12:15playback order and hit shuffle. It
  369. 12:17rearranges everything automatically
  370. 12:18[music] and you can drag clips around
  371. 12:20manually if you'd like. Then, scroll
  372. 12:23down, hit generate video, and you've got
  373. 12:27a finished ranking video. Now, from
  374. 12:29here, what you need to do is post one to
  375. 12:31two shorts every single day. You need to
  376. 12:34be insanely consistent and you cannot
  377. 12:36mess this up. It's critical. When you
  378. 12:38skip days, and I can promise you this
  379. 12:40right now, you will not go viral. And
  380. 12:42don't just take my word for it. Go look
  381. 12:45at any of those channels I showed you at
  382. 12:46the start of this video and open up
  383. 12:49their videos tab.
  384. 12:50Every single day there's a new short,
  385. 12:52sometimes two. That channel that's
  386. 12:54pulling in an estimated 50K a month,
  387. 12:57it's got daily uploads without missing
  388. 12:59once. That consistency is not a
  389. 13:01coincidence, it's the reason. So, if you
  390. 13:04go out there and you do everything I
  391. 13:06showed you in this video, you use Claude
  392. 13:08for all your research, you make your
  393. 13:09videos in Rank Reel, and you post every
  394. 13:11single day, no matter what, a few weeks
  395. 13:14from now, it is totally possible that
  396. 13:16you now have a monetized channel earning
  397. 13:19money and getting millions of views
  398. 13:21every single day. So, go out there, lock
  399. 13:24in, make some videos, and I'll see you
  400. 13:26in the next one.

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