The Faceless Niches I'd Start Today (Before Everyone Else Does) — Transcript

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1. 0:00So, I went looking for faceless YouTube
2. 0:01channels that didn't exist six months
3. 0:03ago, and some of them are already
4. 0:05pulling in over a million views per
5. 0:07video, which, quite frankly, seems a bit
6. 0:09damn cheeky to me. While most creators
7. 0:12are still piling into the same saturated
8. 0:14faceless ideas,
9. 0:16these channels found little pockets
10. 0:18where the niches and the concepts are
11. 0:20still fresh like bread that's just come
12. 0:22out of the oven. And I'm not guessing
13. 0:23here. I pulled every one of these
14. 0:25channels straight out of our data at
15. 0:27VidIQ, which tracks over 135 million
16. 0:30YouTube channels. So, I kept the ones
17. 0:32that are under six months old with fewer
18. 0:34than 50 videos published. None of them
19. 0:36need your face, and none of them need a
20. 0:38big budget. So, here are the six
21. 0:40faceless niches I would actually
22. 0:43consider starting a brand new channel
23. 0:44on.
24. 0:45One of the six comes with a warning,
25. 0:47though, and I'll show you how to spot
26. 0:48that in your own niche. But first up,
27. 0:51horror movies. But not horror movie
28. 0:53reviews, I might add. We're talking
29. 0:55survival plans, videos where you take a
30. 0:58horror film everyone's seen and work out
31. 1:00exactly how you would get out of it
32. 1:02alive. This channel, Spooky, was created
33. 1:04six months ago, hasn't published 30
34. 1:06videos yet, but is already regularly
35. 1:08cracking over 100,000 views per video.
36. 1:11And incredibly, the biggest video on the
37. 1:13channel, how I'd survive every Final
38. 1:15Destination movie, is already sitting at
39. 1:17over 1 and 1/2 million views.
40. 1:19>> Today, I'm going to be going over every
41. 1:20mistake and bad decision made in all six
42. 1:22Final Destination movies and explain
43. 1:24what I would have done differently to
44. 1:27survive.
45. 1:27>> Now, you as a viewer are probably
46. 1:29already familiar with the film, so the
47. 1:30click itself is pretty easy, and then it
48. 1:33turns into a game. Could you have made
49. 1:35it out alive?
50. 1:36>> I am keeping the group together and
51. 1:37assigning everyone a watcher. If
52. 1:39somebody is next, at least two people
53. 1:41are watching them constantly.
54. 1:43>> And horror fans argue, which a comment
55. 1:45section absolutely loves. And that's not
56. 1:47the only channel. Cinepocalypse, as I'm
57. 1:49going to pronounce this channel, started
58. 1:51around the same time and is doing insane
59. 1:53numbers, too. This how I'd survive title
60. 1:55and concept is really new to YouTube and
61. 1:57it's dominated by just a few channels
62. 1:59right now. So, to make this work, you're
63. 2:00going to need a voiceover, short clips,
64. 2:02stills, and a hand-drawn escape plan.
65. 2:04And let's be serious here, the clips
66. 2:06have to be of a commentary style, short
67. 2:08and analyzed, not simply a re-uploading
68. 2:11of a film, or you're going to get
69. 2:12yourself in copyright trouble. The
70. 2:13ultimate idea here is big film, a
71. 2:16built-in game, and almost nobody's doing
72. 2:18it right now. So, that's niche one. Next
73. 2:20up, we have economic rise and fall
74. 2:22stories about businesses, products, and
75. 2:24places. The Ground Break channel is
76. 2:25about three months old and has around 20
77. 2:28videos, and four of those have already
78. 2:30hit 100,000 views. That's like a 20% hit
79. 2:33rate, which is incredible.
80. 2:35Who would have thought the world of
81. 2:37printer cartridges could be so
82. 2:38fascinating?
83. 2:39>> At $62 for 10 ml, this ink costs roughly
84. 2:43$6,200
85. 2:44per liter. That makes it one of the most
86. 2:46expensive liquids you will ever purchase
87. 2:48in your life.
88. 2:50>> $62. The Global Index channel here is
89. 2:53doing pretty much the same thing with
90. 2:54the apparent demise of Dubai.
91. 2:57Big views on a channel with just a few
92. 2:59thousand subscribers. So, it's
93. 3:00essentially famous places, big numbers,
94. 3:02and a question everybody wants answered.
95. 3:05Is this thing about to collapse? This is
96. 3:07where UV responsible creator have to be
97. 3:09careful, however. The whatever is dying
98. 3:12concept can tip very quickly into
99. 3:15absolute nonsense. So, every number,
100. 3:17every fact, every opinion on screen
101. 3:19needs a source. The generic AI finance
102. 3:22documentary space is already very
103. 3:23crowded and often fast and loose of its
104. 3:26details. So, make sure your videos know
105. 3:28what they're talking about. So, to find
106. 3:30success here, you want to pick products,
107. 3:32businesses, industries, and countries
108. 3:35nobody's covered yet. Oh, I should
109. 3:36mention by the way that every channel
110. 3:37I'm showing you today was found with the
111. 3:39VidIQ MCP, which basically plugs Claude
112. 3:42or ChatGPT straight into our data. So,
113. 3:45instead of using generic AI advice, it
114. 3:48can actually see what channels are
115. 3:49breaking out right now. Now, I'm telling
116. 3:50you this because it's free to use. All
117. 3:52you need to do is head on over to
118. 3:53vidiq.com/mcp
119. 3:56and you'll have it up and running in
120. 3:57about 5 minutes. And I'll put the exact
121. 3:58prompts I use to find these channels in
122. 4:01the video description. Okay, niche
123. 4:03three, and this is a bit of an odd one.
124. 4:05Money stories told in the second person.
125. 4:08In other words, it addresses you
126. 4:09directly as if you are a stick man.
127. 4:11>> It's 7:41 on a Tuesday morning, and
128. 4:14you're standing in the break room
129. 4:15microwaving the same oatmeal you've
130. 4:17eaten for four years.
131. 4:18>> Holly Finance is five months old, 13
132. 4:21videos as of time of recording, but
133. 4:22already they've cracked 5,000
134. 4:24subscribers. And again, they have at
135. 4:26several standout videos all based around
136. 4:28this POV point of view title concept.
137. 4:31And here is what convinced me that this
138. 4:33is a format that is not a fluke. A
139. 4:35Russian language channel doing exactly
140. 4:37the same thing grew from nothing to
141. 4:40nearly 15,000 subscribers in even less
142. 4:43time. Now, typically the topic of
143. 4:44personal finance is usually quite dry,
144. 4:47delivered to you by a financial advisor
145. 4:49in a shirt and tie. But this turns it
146. 4:51into a whimsical daydream you get to
147. 4:53live through for 20 minutes. The format
148. 4:55these channels are following is to
149. 4:57ground the content in stories, not
150. 4:59advice. But just to be on the safe side,
151. 5:02you might want to include a disclaimer
152. 5:03that this is not financial advice. But
153. 5:05essentially the financial lessons are
154. 5:08the same as they ever have been, but the
155. 5:11costume these videos wear to communicate
156. 5:13those lessons is new to the viewer. Dark
157. 5:16history is the next niche, but with an
158. 5:18investigative twist, [music]
159. 5:20reopening the case files on famous
160. 5:22deaths.
161. 5:22>> Anne Boleyn was beheaded at the Tower of
162. 5:25London on a Friday morning in 1536.
163. 5:28Cause of death, sharp force injury to
164. 5:31the neck.
165. 5:32Mechanism,
166. 5:34decapitation.
167. 5:36Manner,
168. 5:37judicial execution under royal warrant.
169. 5:40>> Ancient Forensics has been a really busy
170. 5:42channel these last six months with
171. 5:43weekly videos, several of them big
172. 5:45outliers. Now, Dark History is a big
173. 5:48YouTube topic with around half a million
174. 5:50searches a month for the phrase alone,
175. 5:51but it's packed with big and
176. 5:53well-established channels. So the
177. 5:55autopsy angle is a fresh slice of a very
178. 5:58crowded cake. So what we're looking at
179. 5:59here is calm narration, public domain
180. 6:01paintings, and documents. It results in
181. 6:04content that appeals to the same huge
182. 6:06potential audience, but with a sharper
183. 6:08angle. For this concept, it's all about
184. 6:10living in insert country here video.
185. 6:13Happy Travel 99 is just over 3 months
186. 6:15old and living [snorts] in Norway did 3
187. 6:19million views alone, which is
188. 6:20incredible.
189. 6:21>> To understand how a place gets this rich
190. 6:24and stays this quiet,
191. 6:26a visit is not enough.
192. 6:28You have to stay a full year.
193. 6:31So that [music] is what we will do
194. 6:33from the January fish to the December
195. 6:35lights.
196. 6:36>> So on paper, this is the best niche that
197. 6:38we're looking at today, but let's check
198. 6:41whether we're still early into this
199. 6:43idea. I asked the VidIQ MCP through
200. 6:46Claude to count how many channels have
201. 6:48used the exact title How many people
202. 6:50live in
203. 6:514K in the last 90 days. It came back
204. 6:54with at least 80 channels using that
205. 6:56title structure over 150 videos, and
206. 6:59that was a conservative estimate. So
207. 7:01there are channels finding success in
208. 7:03the space, but when you see numbers like
209. 7:05that already, the window is closing and
210. 7:08you'd be walking into this space as a
211. 7:10100 or so copycat. This is the warning I
212. 7:12was talking about earlier. It's all well
213. 7:13and good finding channels doing great
214. 7:15numbers, but they are benefiting from
215. 7:17first mover's advantage. So who else is
216. 7:19operating in that space? And so this is
217. 7:22the bit I want you to steal.
218. 7:24Run that exact MCP data check on your
219. 7:27niche before you make a single video. It
220. 7:30takes about 10 seconds, and as I've
221. 7:32already mentioned, the prompts are in
222. 7:33the description. All of which brings me
223. 7:35to the final niche, the one that I
224. 7:37actually might start myself.
225. 7:39Deep dives into law on huge sci-fi and
226. 7:42fantasy book series.
227. 7:43>> June part three comes out in just a
228. 7:45little over two months,
229. 7:48and I could not be more excited. And if
230. 7:51you're watching this video, the odds are
231. 7:53you're just as excited as I am.
232. 7:55>> The Understory channel was created at
233. 7:57the end of April and is obsessed with
234. 7:59June. The complete history of June video
235. 8:01is now at around about 2 million views,
236. 8:03and our tool estimates that the channel
237. 8:05is earning thousands of dollars in ad
238. 8:07revenue alone already. But here is my
239. 8:10favorite detail about this niche. It
240. 8:12already has its own built-in defense
241. 8:14against AI slop content. This channel,
242. 8:17Bolter and Blade, puts human made in
243. 8:19every single title and is focused on the
244. 8:21Warhammer 40k series. The creator reads
245. 8:23all of the books and is very proud of
246. 8:25the fact that they do all of their own
247. 8:26narration with no AI and uses human
248. 8:29editors. And it's grown at a very
249. 8:31consistent rate, 10,000 subscribers in
250. 8:33just 4 months. Fandoms with enormous
251. 8:36source material will happily binge a 40
252. 8:38or 90 minute deep dive. And with another
253. 8:41Dune film on the way, new people are
254. 8:42about to go looking for the lore as
255. 8:44well. And the moat or the defensible
256. 8:46position in this niche is the bit that
257. 8:49lazy automation channels simply don't
258. 8:51want to do. Actually read the books,
259. 8:53delve into the vast intricacies of the
260. 8:55world. So it's still early and the hard
261. 8:58part is exactly what protects you in
262. 9:00this niche. It is real reading, real
263. 9:02fans, and hardly anybody is doing this
264. 9:05properly yet. That's a niche for me. So
265. 9:08here we have six relatively fresh and
266. 9:10new YouTube spaces where brand new
267. 9:12channels are winning right now. And
268. 9:14nearly every one of them is being
269. 9:16rewarded for the same things. Real
270. 9:18research, real footage were available,
271. 9:20and real points of view, which just so
272. 9:22happens to be exactly what YouTube is
273. 9:24looking for. But before you pick one of
274. 9:26these spaces, run that 10 second check.
275. 9:29How competitive is that niche today?
276. 9:32Reponse in the description and the MCP's
277. 9:34free at vidiq.com/mcp.
278. 9:37And make sure you run it on any channel
279. 9:39topic or video idea you might have in
280. 9:41the future. And while we're on the
281. 9:42subject of faceless channels, you'll
282. 9:43probably want to know how to build one
283. 9:45that YouTube will not demonetize. We've
284. 9:47done a full guide on that right over
285. 9:49here.
286. 9:50I'll see you in there.