A lot of people realize the potential of YouTube, but not as many realize you can make money without ever showing your face. You've probably seen YouTube stars out there getting millions of views per month, making millions of dollars on the platform. But there's just as many, if not more, creators that never even step in front of a camera yet still make tons of money, but they're completely anonymous. You might not even know who they are.
The way this works is you choose a niche and the first step that's often the hardest within this process is actually starting a faceless youtube channel. There are thousands of niches out there.
So in this article, we are going over the top 30 best niches in which you can start your own faceless youtube channel. These niches will be categorized based on those that attract the most views fast at the same time being scalable enough to help you get your channel monetized asap. So you can hopefully choose one of these and start on your YouTube journey.
In order to give you as much value as I possibly can within this article, we've boiled all of these niches down to 8 main categories of content.
- Psychology
- Wealth
- Health
- Relationships
- Technology
- Travel
- Education
- Entertainment
Psychology Category
The psychology category contains niches that have evergreen content and tend to attract lots of views over a long period of time. Below are the best niches in this category:
1. Stoicism/ Ancient Wisdom
The first niche category that we're going to be taking a look at is Stoicism/ ancient wisdom. Think of how many great writers there are out there that have compiled so many great works over the ages. You can simply create a YouTube channel summarizing these works and potentially make a lot of money from it.
Here's a YouTube channel right here called "Philosophies for Life."
They have over a million subscribers, which would have gotten them the Youtube Gold Play button just like that. They’ve gotten over 2 million views per month yet they've only uploaded 98 videos in order to get to that point.
You might be saying, "That's epic! I would love to have those statistics on one of my own channels." But don't the videos that I'm uploading have to be just incredible in order to get to those stats?
Well, If we look at this channel and we go over one of their videos, it's literally just a whiteboard video.
Now you might be saying, "That's great, but how do I make a whiteboard video?" Now, you can use software like Doodly or Videoscribe to create whiteboard videos just like this.
So all you do is record a voiceover. You can literally use your phone. And then, simply for the visuals, you can use one of those whiteboard software I shared and create a channel just like this.
And by the way, if you're wondering how to see these statistics,I'm using an extension called VidIQ extension, and I'll try to leave a link down below where you can sign up for VidIQ.
Now, let me show you something cool as to how you can calculate how much channels like this might be making. If you open up a calculator and you type in how many views per month they're getting, they're getting about 2 000 000 views per month.
What you can actually do is divide this number by a 1 000. This will show you how many thousands of views per month a channel is getting, and you can do this on any channel that you see out there on YouTube.
If you're wondering how much money they might be making, what you do from here is multiply this by a reasonable CPM, which is how much money a channel makes per thousand views.
Now, a channel like this, I would estimate to be making around $5 per 1 000 views, but it does vary a lot; channels can make anywhere from $1 to $30 per thousand views.
So, we multiply it by the CPM which we estimate to be $5. This channel is probably making around $10 000 a month just from ad revenue alone. You could sell products with this channel or promote affiliate products and make a lot more money. Plus, there's no limit to the number of channels that you can run. Some people tend to run dozens of these channels.
2. Self-Improvement
The self-improvement market is gigantic. As you can see, channels like “Brainy Dose” take advantage of this, and they have over 2 million subscribers. They pull in 3.7 million views per month.
If we go to their videos here, it's just videos like "11 signs you need some alone time," "Signs of a weak-minded person," etc.
And if you click to watch one of these videos, you'll notice it's simply stock footage with some voice-over talking in the background explaining these different concepts.
Now, in order to create videos like this, you can actually use completely free stock footage websites, like Pixabay Videos, Pexels Videos, Motion Elements, Vimeo Free Stock Videos, etc.
Go to these websites, download the videos, write an original script, do a voiceover, and you can make videos just like this one. Also, to give you guys some more value right now, if you don't want to pay for expensive editing software, you can use completely free editors just like iMovie (For Mac), Hitfilm, OpenShot, and ShotCut for Windows.
Then you simply need good thumbnails in order to entice people to click the video, and those are essentially cover images of the video right here. And in order to make thumbnails with Canva.
3. Mental Health
Channels just like “Psyc Hub” produce mental health videos on a variety of different topics. And if you go to any of their videos, they're just simple animations. You can use programs like Animaker to create animations similar to this.
4. Charisma
A lot of people want to be better at communicating with people in social situations, etc., and this channel right here capitalizes on that called “Charisma on Command”. They have 6 million subscribers, and they just produce videos like "How to avoid being ignored if you're quiet" or "Three habits to look witty in a conversation."
People love this type of content; they get 12 million views per month. And if we do that same math on this channel, they could be making as much as $60 000 per month just from ad revenue.
Wealth Category
Now the following niches fall under the wealth category. This category by the way has some of the biggest rates per a thousand views:
5. Investing
Channels just like “Chris Invest”, create investing content without ever showing their face. And their videos are simply whiteboard videos just like we discussed earlier with those free software that you can use.
6. Personal Finance
There's a channel called “Practical Wisdom”, which does a lot of personal finance videos like "10 things the rich do that the poor don't," also whiteboard videos, and they also get a ton of views.
7. Make Money Online
Now, the proof that there's demand for this niche is the fact that you're reading an article that's in it right now, but what you didn't know is you can definitely do this niche on Youtube without ever even showing your face.
For example, the owner of the channel Make Money Matt started by never showing his face. In a video on his channel, he explains that his first videos were literally just screen recordings, and he once got a video to over 166 000 views. And not only that, he got his channel to make $27 000 per month without showing his face.
However, he says that eventually, he started to show his face on this channel because it was a really big thing he wanted to overcome. It also helped to build trust for selling his courses and everything like that. But you don't have to do the make money online niche while showing your face if you don't want to.
Now, if you ever want to make screen recording videos, use this completely free software called OBS to create screen recordings.
8. Business/ Startup Stories
Think of how many different companies are out there that are huge companies that people want to learn more about. This channel called “Magnets Media” creates videos about all the biggest companies you and I know about.
And as you can see, they pull in 11 million views per month, and they just create videos about the backstories of a lot of the biggest companies, drama within the companies, etc., and they pull in a lot of views.
9. Finding a Job
This channel right here called “Career Addict” just helps people find the right career. They get a ton of views. They just make animated videos, and like I said, you could use animated software like Animaker to make videos like this.
10. Luxury Niche
I'm sure everybody reading this right now would love to own a yacht or a private jet someday. I know I certainly would. And certain channels just like this one called “King Luxury” capitalize on this fact by creating videos about rich people, mansions, yachts, and basically the life of the super-rich. And they get 4.8 million views per month on their channel just talking about luxury.
Health Category
The health category is another solid category for creating faceless Youtube channels. Here are the top niches you can explore in this category:
11. Weight Loss
Channels just like this one called “Bestie” create content on this subject. And as you can see, their videos are literally just stock footage, just like that other channel “Brainy Dose” that we looked at earlier. And you can get completely free stock footage online to create content just like this one, and this channel gets millions of views, and they have four million subscribers.
12. Fitness
As you can see, the “Body Hub” channel which focuses on health and fitness has over a million subscribers; they get a ton of views per month and they're pulling in about 3.8 million views per month. They create videos that are also just stock videos with subtitles on top of the videos, and they do great.
13. Health Remedies
This channel right here called “Natural Cures” creates health remedy videos on a variety of different topics. They get a ton of views; they have 3.4 million subscribers. So this could be a potential idea if you're interested in this sort of thing.
Relationships Category
Relationships is also an evergreen category that attracts many viewers. Here are the top niches in this category where you can create faceless youtube videos:
14. Dating
This applies to creating videos about how to get a girlfriend, boyfriend, etc. And as you can see, this channel called “Top Think” does a lot of videos on this exact subject, and they pull in 3 million views per month. And, of course, like all the channels within this list, they create content without ever showing their face.
15. Friendships
As you can see, this same Top Think channel above has done a bunch of videos about friendships as well, and a lot of these have done incredibly well.
Technology Category
Imagine wanting to know about the latest tech stuff or solutions to how to use a certain software of fixing an issue on your iPhone. You'd likely check YouTube. Now think about having a tech channel. You'd share info, get viewers, and earn tons of money. Here are the top niches in this category:
16. Software Tutorials
Channels just like “Skills Factory” are a wonderful example of software tutorials and review channels that can get a lot of views. Tthis channel rhas over 400 000 subscribers, and gets a ton of views just from showing how to use different software. And you can create videos just like this without showing your face ever using free software like OBS.
17. Tech Gadgets
This is more of channels like “Top 10 Zone” which create videos about all sorts of different tech gadgets, whether it be camping gadgets or office gadgets, etc. Just go down the line, create videos about all these topics, and potentially siphon off a ton of views while providing people with value. And this channel does this without ever even showing their face.
20. Virtual Reality
There are tons of different big virtual reality videos out there talking about the best headsets to buy, and they can get a lot of views. And most of these make their videos without ever even showing their face.
Travel Category
Think about planning a trip and checking YouTube for ideas. Now see yourself making travel videos. You'd share experiences, get noticed, and could even earn from it. Here are the top niches in this category:
21. Travel Listings
Channels that create travel countdowns about topics like “10 Towns offering free land” or “Top 10 most violent small towns in America”, and just interesting lists about different places all around the world. They never even show their face, and this channel called “World According To Briggs” gets 5.6 million views per month.
22. Travel Guides
Think about when you're going to a new place, you probably open up YouTube or a web browser and you look up what are the best things to do in the place. You can literally go to websites to find and compile some of the best places to talk about within your video, write an original script within your own words, give more value, create a video potentially without ever even showing your face, just like this channel right here does called “Island Hopper TV”, that just talks mainly about like tropical locations all over the world.
They create a lot of travel guides like this one right here that can potentially get a lot of views, and this channel right here pulls in 4.1 million views per month, so this can certainly work.
23. Travel Finance
There's a channel called “Scary Harry” which produces videos like “15 big cities to live in Europe for less than [this] much per month”, and they create a lot of videos about like the best places to retire in different countries and so forth.
As you can see, this channel does amazing. They never show their face. It could potentially be a great opportunity for you if you're interested in both traveling and finance.
Education Category
Think about when you want to learn something, you probably open YouTube and search for what you want to learn about. You can potentially make an education channel, teaching people stuff and giving value, and in turn, getting a lot of views and potentially making a lot of money. Here are some niches within the education category:
24. Piano Niche
Channels like “Phianonize” create videos showing how to play different songs on the piano. They often use animated piano tutorials without showing their faces.
25. History
You can pick one subject in history and create a whole channel around it, focusing on different historical events or time periods.
26. Engineering
Channels like “The B1M” produce engineering videos on different megastructures and engineering projects.
27. Geography
Channels like “Real Life Lore” produce videos about different countries and backstories, discussing interesting geographical facts.
Entertainment Category
Now the entertainment category is tricky. There is some content like entertainment news that can get tons of views in a short period of time but then the videos die off since the news has passed. Also, there are some entertainment niches that can generate lots of views in a long time. So here we are going to focus on the latter.
28. 360-Degree Videos
Channels like “Brightside VR” create 360-degree videos where viewers can pan around and look around in the video.
29. Sports Education
You can create an education channel focusing on teaching different aspects of a particular sport. Alternatively, you can create content about players, countdown lists, and interesting facts related to sports without using copyrighted footage.
30. Scary Niche
Yes, we saved this one for last. Channels like “Dark5” produce scary and mysterious videos about various subjects, capturing the interest of viewers.
Conclusion
So these are the top niches on YouTube for creating faceless Youtube channels as they have high demand, are evergreen, have alternate monetization opportunities, and offer higher than average CPMs.
If you're interested in starting your own faceless niche channel, always keep in mind that creating a faceless channel can be highly successful if you choose the right niche, provide value to your audience, and remain consistent in your content creation.
And just remember, next time that you watch a faceless YouTube video, just think that the person behind that video in that channel could just be some kid living with his parents, making a ton of money. And that's the true beauty of faceless YouTube channels. Literally, anybody can start one. It doesn't matter if you're charismatic or not. So it's now back to you to implement this as the opportunity lasts.
