What if I told you that on YouTube there is another way to become a successful YouTuber, other than the stereotypical one, while also pilling in that money? There are countless people nowadays who want a platform where they can display their talents or passion, but are either camera shy or simply just want to respect their privacy. Whatever the reason might be, now it’s possible to become a successful YouTuber without having to show your face.

When YouTube was initially founded, many people gained fame and made a lot of money by making videos with themselves in it, but in recent years a side of YouTube where the YouTubers chose to hide their identity gained massive popularity and is still unknown to many.

So, in this article, we will dig into the world of faceless YouTubers and look at multiple ways through which you can make videos without showing your face while stocking in that money and fame.

YouTube’s Origin

YouTube is one of the most popular video sharing platforms and the world’s second most visited website. This website allows its users to view, upload, and share videos online. YouTube was initially founded in 2005 and has experienced a significant surge in its growth, still standing tall after all these years, when other rival platforms have gone obsolete. There is a variety of content on YouTube ranging from movie trailers, songs, educational videos, vlogs, and much more.

YouTube allows YouTubers (which are the content creators on this platform, with a channel that has a decent number of subscribers and views, and can either be an individual, businesses, or organizations such as big-label companies) to make a lot of money (we’re talking in millions of dollars) through placing advertisements on their channels.

For almost every topic you could think of there will be a video for it on YouTube. The most attractive quality of YouTube is that it gives you full freedom to choose from a myriad of genres. For instance, if you love traveling you get to see so much diversity in the videos, as people from all around the world have uploaded their own unique journey. So, you don’t even need to worry about the fact that other people have already covered a particular topic you wanted to make videos on, as your videos will be your own unique creation, and people on this channel love diversity.

How Can You Make a Faceless Channel on YouTube- A Brief Overview

Below are some of the steps involved in starting a YouTube channel:

• The first step is obviously to create an account on YouTube, which should be a piece of cake for you if you already have a Gmail account.
• The next step is to find what you’re the most passionate about or a niche you have expertise in. For instance, some people love anime and Mangas, so they can choose that as their niche and start making videos about these topics, without showing their faces.
• The next step is to make sure that the content you’re creating is of high quality. You should focus on these three things: an attractive thumbnail and video title and adding music to increase the number of views on your videos and your watch time.

Steps After You Have Created Videos

After you have made videos, you need to follow the following steps:

• Next you need your videos to be visible and reach your targeted audience. For that, you need to start searching by using titles that contain a lot of keywords, and also adding a description and tags to your videos.
• Most importantly you need a way to involve the audience for that you need to ask them to leave a comment and like your videos. You also need to remind them to subscribe to your channel, as half of the users that see the video, don’t subscribe to the channel.
• To get your channel monetized you need to focus on engagement metrics, which are the comments, likes, shares, watch time, etc.

A Detailed Overview on How to Strategize Your Content.

When you have successfully created your account, the next step is to find what your niche is going to be for your faceless channel for example are you going to make podcasts or a review channel? So, you need to plan your content and write down how you’re planning to change your channel’s settings and preferences.

Below are some important things that will help you in carrying out a plan for your YouTube videos:

1)  Finding your niche and area of expertise

If you don’t identify who your target audience is going to be, then it’s going to be very difficult for your YouTube channel to grow. For instance, you decide to create a book reviewing channel, and you don’t even know the basics such as: what your target audience likes, what are the latest trending topics in this niche, what thumbnails gather the most clicks, what titles are attracting the audience, etc.

Therefore, you need to identify your niche and research on YouTube who your target audience is and what the trending topics of interest in this area. As you need to cater your content according to the likes and dislikes of your target audience, to reach the maximum number of views.

To sum it up, there are three main questions you need to keep in mind:

• What is your niche and area of expertise
• Who your target audience is going to be (gender, age group, region, ethnicity, religion, etc.)
• What will be your genre for instance, are you going to make education videos, entertainment videos, informational videos, or a concoction of everything?

When you’ve answered all these questions, you’ll able to look at the bigger picture and start focusing on setting your plan in motion, by making videos.

Considering the above-mentioned things, you’ll be able to improve the statistics of your channel and performance to be on your way to monetizing your account.

2)  What are the Best Topics for a Faceless YouTube Channel

Some of the most famous YouTubers such as Corpse Husband, who’s a famous faceless podcaster, and The Bright Side, who makes informational videos, on every topic possible, have never shown their faces on any video on their YouTube channel and still have generated a fortune of wealth and fame from YouTube. This shows all you need is to decide what the theme of your channel is going to be and start creating high-quality videos.

Below are some famous YouTube channels and the niche of their channel.

1.  Faceless Podcast

Famous faceless podcast creators such as Mr. Nightmare and Corpse Husband have a subscriber count of 6.39M subscribers and 7.38M subscribers respectively.  

Both of these podcasters make videos in the Horror genre and have gained massive popularity. If you are someone who loves to talk and has knowledge or interest in a specific genre then you should consider this. You can either wear a mask or use animations in your video.

2.  Travel

Touropia is a famous faceless channel on YouTube, that has over 1 million subscribers.  You can create videos like Top Ten Best Places to Travel in Italy in 2024 or The Worst Country to Travel in 2024.

If you’re into traveling and keeping yourself updated by reading various articles and newsletters, you can use that knowledge to make enlightening and fun videos on traveling.

3.  Life Hacks

A famous channel on YouTube called The Bright Side has 44.3 million subscribers. They have created informational videos on almost every topic.

 So, if you’re someone who loves to gather information about life-saving hacks, you can use this idea or change this idea into something unique.

4.  Gaming

If you’re someone who loves gaming, you can make videos doing something you do for fun. There are numerous gamers on YouTube who upload walkthrough games and gather millions of views. For instance, a famous faceless gaming channel called Top5Gaminghas 5.66 million subscribers and earns a lot of money on a daily basis.

5.  Health

If you’re someone who is health conscious or in the health care sector, you can use that knowledge and expertise of yours to create videos on YouTube. For instance, a famous channel on YouTube called Bestie Health has over 4.41 million subscribers and shares videos such as “11 HEALTHIEST Morning Drinks For Optimal Health You Can Make At Home”.

6.  Food

If you’re a foodie and have a lot of knowledge regarding culinary or what are the best places you can eat at, then you can use this idea to make your own faceless YouTube channel. For instance, a famous Faceless YouTuber called Mashed who has 1.31M subscribers, makes videos such as “This Is Why Trump Really Eats So Much Fast Food”

3) How To Find Out What’s The Most Searched Niche on YouTube?

Besides The topics I discussed above, you can also use Google Trends to find out which topics are popular and trending. You can also Predict future trends using Google Trends and discover new hot topics that are not yet found by the general Public.

4) Get Creative with Making Your Banner Image and Channel Icon

The Image that is visible at the top of your channel is called A YouTube banner Image.

Your icon is a small image that appears next to the name of your channel and whenever someone searches your channel your icon image is what’s displayed to them.

To make a brand name for your channel you need to create a unique banner image and title, that your subscribers can relate to you because you won’t be using your own picture. So, this could be a way for them to associate an image with your name.

To customize your banner image and channel icon you can use the help of tools such as Canva and Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator.  Even if you’re not familiar with graphic designing, you can see various easy-to-understand tutorials on YouTube. But if you want professional help at a reasonable price you can go to freelancing websites such as Fiverr and Upwork and hire freelancers that will get this done for you, at a price that is light on the pocket.

5) How to Write a Well Organized and Written Script

Since you’re not showing your face, so your voice and the content of your video are what will leave an impression on the audience. You need to write a script that should be well-narrated, with dialogs and a message that’s told clearly.

Writing a Script is very similar to writing an essay, it also has three main parts:

• An introduction that is well-written: You need to start strong as that’s what’s going to get the audience’s attention and it’s one of the main components in improving your time watch. As many people click on the video but if the introduction of the video is not interesting, they’ll get bored and move to the next one. Especially, since the attention span of the users has decreased thanks to YouTube shorts.
• A Body that tells the message: The body of your script should contain information in a well-organized form. For instance, the main theme of the video should be clear. You should also use examples and statistics to back up your idea, etc.
• Bottom-line of your video(conclusion): You should summarize all the main points and ask your viewers to share comment, and like your video. For instance, “In my upcoming video, I’ll give a shout-out to the top ten comments.”. Once your channel starts growing you can even start affiliate marketing by placing affiliate links in the comment section or in your description. For instance,” The link to buy Demon Slayer merch, is in the description below, and if you use my code you’ll get discount ”.

6) How to do Video Editing?

This is one of the most important steps as you will have to combine everything perfectly and in a way that grabs the attention of your target audience.

This includes adding the following items to make your video:

• Script: The script you wrote
• Doing Voiceovers:

you either need to record your own voice or you can also take help from AI and use an AI-generated one using software such as Pictory 

• Music: Next you need to add a background, intro, and outro music in your video.
• Thumbnail and Title: You need to make a picture for your thumbnail and you need to make it interesting so that the audience will be intrigued to watch the video. Also, you need to come up with a title that will attract the viewers.

Conclusion

YouTube could be an amazing opportunity for you to create the content you’re passionate about, without compromising your privacy. There are a lot of niches you can choose from and even create your own unique one, as YouTube allows its content creators with utmost freedom.

You’ll have to invest a lot of time and effort as a form of upfront investment, but the results will be worth it. You just have to pick a niche, make a plan, and post videos consistently without compromising on the quality of the content.

Starting something is always hard and things may seem challenging at first, but the more you learn and make videos the more you’ll get the hang of it. So just be a little patient and eventually you’ll be on your road to monetization.

With that, I wish good luck to everyone on their, sort of uncharted YouTube endeavors.

FAQ’S

1. Is it possible to make a faceless YouTube channel?
Yes, absolutely. Numerous successful YouTubers never revealed their faces in their channels, yet generated a fortune of fame and wealth. What matters is the quality of your content, your niche, and making your content in accordance with your targeted audience.

2. How much money can a faceless YouTuber make?
Well, there isn’t a limit on how much a faceless YouTuber can make, as they can make the same amount as a YouTuber that shows their face can. The more subscribers they gain, the more views they’ll have and they can make money through monetization, sponsorships, partnerships, affiliate marketing, collaboration, becoming a brand ambassador, etc.

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