12 Faceless YouTube Channel Ideas For 2026

We're going over 12 different YouTube channel ideas that you can start right now to potentially make over $10,000 per month. And these are going to be faceless YouTube channel ideas. So you never have to get behind a camera and film videos or anything like that. Let's get straight into it. And channel idea number 1 is based off of this channel right here called Digital Engine. Now this channel has over 400,000 subscribers, but get this, they only have 16 videos. On their channel. So how in the world has this channel been able to achieve this with so little videos? Because with most channels, it takes posting 30 to 60 videos to even start getting some traction. Well, what this channel is doing is they're focusing on a very trending subject nowadays, which is artificial intelligence. But not just that, they're focusing on artificial intelligence news. So these are going to be trending subjects that a lot of people are going to be interested in. And if we take a look at some of these videos right here, they're really leaning hard into the fear aspect and curiosity aspect when it comes to AI and artificial intelligence and robots. For example, you can see, this is the dangerous artificial intelligence that got this person fired, or a stunning new AI could be conscious. These are things that a lot of people are interested in right now, and the videos are edited together with good music and everything, and there's a voiceover on top of the videos explaining these concepts and basically just bringing people up to date with the latest AI news and how this relates to the subject of the video. Now, this channel right here, again, with only 16 videos, is getting 1.2 million views per month. Let's say that you started your very own channel related to this niche and you got up to the point of getting a million views per month, which is certainly possible. This channel did it with only 16 videos. Imagine if you didn't do nearly as good per video, but you still put in the work and uploaded 30 to 60 to 100 videos on your channel. It's very possible to get up to that point. And let's say you get a million views per month, and let's say you're making around $10 per thousand views in terms of ad revenue, because YouTube will put ads on your videos and you'll get a cut of that revenue. Boom, you are making $10,000 per month. And that's just from ad revenue. In fact, you could make more money if you ever talk about any AI software or anything, sign up to be an affiliate for that, put that in the description of your videos. That's a whole nother revenue stream. Now at this point you might be asking, "Matt, where could I find clips to put throughout my videos similar to what this channel does?" Well, if you search most free stock footage databases like Pixabay or Pexels, you'll find that the selection is quite limited. And especially if you're gonna be focusing on niche subjects like this, talking about robots or artificial intelligence or anything, you're gonna want some pretty specialized clips that a lot of stock databases and websites won't have access to. And that's why I would recommend, if you are going to be running a channel like this, to get yourself a subscription to a website called storyblocks.com. Storyblocks is an all-in-one stock media website in which you pay a low monthly price to have unlimited access to that stock content. Now, I usually use Storyblocks on my 12 different YouTube channels in order to find stock clips to put in, in different places in the videos to basically fill in the gaps, but as you'll see throughout this video that we're going over right now, there are going to be several channel ideas that utilize almost entirely stock footage on their channels. And if you need stock footage, there's no better place to go than Storyblocks. There's also tons of built-in templates if you're using different editors, for example, DaVinci Resolve templates and so on. And one of the reasons I recommend Storyblocks so much is because you don't have to pay per clip like a lot of other stock footage websites do. You just pay that monthly cost and you can use those clips within your YouTube videos, not have to worry about copyright. And big thanks to Storyblocks for sponsoring this video right here. It's something I genuinely believe in. I don't take many sponsors with this channel, but Storyblocks is something I've probably been using for the past 5 years. And to get started with unlimited stock downloads at one monthly price, you can sign up at storyblocks.com/makemoneymatt for the best deal, or simply click the link in the description. Now channel idea number 2 for making $10,000 per month from YouTube right now is a channel called Before You Go. Now this channel right here mostly just helps people travel smarter by giving them travel guides and stuff of that nature. And this channel right here has only 30,000 subscribers, yet this channel is pulling in 1 million views per month if we take a look at their statistics right here. And that million views per month, if they're making $10 per 1,000 views from ad revenue, which I would venture to guess they are due to the fact that travel is a pretty high CPM niche. And the reason it's such a high CPM niche— and CPM is simply how much money you make per 1,000 views on your channel— is because some of the biggest advertisers on YouTube are travel companies. In fact, one of the biggest is Expedia. And what types of ads do you think Expedia is going to put their videos on? It will likely be travel videos. So this channel right here would likely be benefiting from that. Now a couple notable things to see regarding this faceless channel here is the fact that they have 800 videos on their channel, and the channel itself only started 2 years ago. So the fact that this channel stayed consistent, they uploaded a huge backlog of videos, and even though they have not uploaded in the past 4 months, they're still able to pull in that million views per month. And that's why people always come to me and they say, "Matt, YouTube's not passive. I have to keep uploading videos more and more." Not necessarily the case. I still make money from videos I uploaded when I was just a teenager in high school, and this channel hasn't uploaded for 4 months, yet they're still getting a million views per month, which could be $10,000 per month in ad revenue alone. So this channel right here, another thing that's notable and that proves a concept that's very important on YouTube is the fact that each of their videos doesn't have a ton of views. As you can see, only 600, 900 couple thousand views on some of these latest videos right here. But then if we go to the most popular tab right here, you'll notice a couple videos like this guide about what to do in Doha, Qatar got 192,000 views. This one got 147,000. Still no videos with a million views in sight. Yet when you add all those videos together, that can pull in a million views per month. They're also doing some short-form content as well right here, as you can see. And if we go to the most popular on the Shorts, we only have one with 390,000 views. So most of these views right here are likely coming from the long-form videos right here. And the reason that's important is because the long-form videos are the ones that can make more money because more advertisers want to put their ads on videos where people are likely to be actually watching through. And that's the reason why I personally focus only on long-form content throughout 99% of my channels. And you could find stock clips for most of these places right here on Storyblocks. For example, if you search Doha, Qatar, you'll find tons of great stock clips. In fact, over 330 videos that you can use within your videos if you were making these types of travel guides, which literally just consists of doing a voiceover on the video. You can simply use your phone to do the voiceover. You don't need any expensive microphone if you're just starting this. And then you could edit the videos together using any free video editor out there. For example, here's a bunch of free ones on the screen right here. And Storyblocks even has an epic built-in online editor, which I've done a video here on my channel going over using, and I was actually really surprised at how good good it was. Channel idea number 3 is this channel called Bestie Health. This channel has 3,000 videos on their channel, so even more than the past channel that we went over, and they have over 4 million subscribers on their channel. And they just post videos like 15 Top Bedtime Drinks That Can Help You Sleep Instantly. You'll notice another repeating theme on this channel. Not all of the videos have a ton of views, but when you add all those videos together this channel has a whopping total of 600 million views across all of their videos. And if we do the math on that, that's 600,000 times 1,000 views, so that's how many thousand views they're getting. If we multiply that by a $10 CPM, that means this channel has made around $6 million just from ad revenue from their channel. Not to mention the fact that you could easily go to websites such as clickbank.com or digistore24.com go to their marketplace, find health-related products, and there's a ton of them there. Grab the link to those products, post it in the descriptions of your videos. For every sale that you get, you just made a little bit of money as an affiliate, and that can add up if you have a lot of videos referring a lot of sales. And if you watch any of Bestie's videos right here, for example this one, what you'll notice is that in the background of the video, it's literally just stock footage mixed in with a slideshow, which you could easily make with something like Google Slides. And of course, the best place to get stock footage, Storyblocks. Channel idea number 4 is a channel called Alux. Now this channel just goes over different luxurious topics. For example, if we go to their most popular videos, 15 Things Poor People Do That the Rich Don't. Definitely a very thought-provoking title and something that makes people want to click. And they just do videos about, for example, expensive watches, expensive planes, and just luxury in general. And this channel right here, 4 million subscribers, 2,000 videos on the channel. They pull in 2 million views per month. If they're getting a $5 CPM on those views, that's well over $10,000 per month just from ad revenue. I would venture to say the CPM might even be higher than that due to the fact that luxury is a pretty decent CPM niche. And if we watch any of these videos right here, it's literally just stock footage in the background of the video. And if we go to their description, we'll notice that they're also actually selling courses. So they're selling goal-setting courses, freelance courses, mind mastery, and each of these courses is several hundred dollars. Now, how could you make a course like this? Well, you could simply set yourself up with a website like Kajabi, put together some simple courses that teach subjects that people want to learn about that are related to your channel and the traffic sources you're bringing in, refer people to those courses, and sell 1 or 2 of those a day at, for example, $250 to $500, and you're making anywhere from $500 to $1,000 per day, which is well over $10,000 per month. And if you can generate videos, either making them yourself or hiring somebody else to make the videos for you, then you can make a course as long as you have some knowledge that other people want to learn about. And if you don't, you can always learn that knowledge and then implement that making your own course. And doing just this will be the biggest thing you could do for your channel in terms of revenue and the amount of money you can make from your channel. And the reason I'm so passionate about this is because this is what I do on my personal channel, Make Money Matt, right here. I sell a course called Tube Mastery and Monetization, teaches people step by step how to grow their own faceless YouTube channels, everything they need to know, bonus templates, checklists, a community where we answer every question daily, literally everything you need to do this. And it's been one of the most fulfilling things of my life. Also one of the hardest in terms of having to actually deliver and make this course, but it's something I couldn't recommend more if you have any knowledge that other people want to learn about, because you can teach people at scale, and it's also a very passive source of income just like YouTube ad revenue, because you do the work once, putting together the course, uploading the videos, and then that can continue to pay you for years into the future. Channel idea number 5 is this channel right here called Top 10 Zone. This channel is a faceless channel that produces videos such as 50 hiking gear essentials you must take on your next hike. And this channel has 1,000 videos on the channel, and if we pull up the stats right here, they're pulling in about half a million views per month. And if we do the math on that, if this channel is making $20 per 1,000 views, then they would be making $10,000 per month. Now, that is not going to be the biggest traffic source with this channel, and likely a tech channel may not hit $20 CPMs. It'd probably be more around $10 per 1,000 views. But that being said, the way that this channel really makes money is like this. So what they do, if you go to any of their videos right here, for example, this 50 hiking gear essentials you must take on your next trip, scroll down to the description, click show more. What you'll notice is that there's a link right here for today's sponsor. So there is a sponsor on this video and they're making money through sponsorships. Just like this video right here was sponsored by Storyblocks, this channel right here is sponsored by multiple different companies that pay them in order to mention them in the video. Put a link in the description, and they have the potential of making a lot of money doing that. And then sometimes they could show one of those sponsored products, as long as they say that it was sponsored within one of their videos. For example, it could be a hiking gear product if they wanted to. Now, another way that this channel makes money— if we go to their videos, we go to the most popular tab right here, let's take a look. For example, top 10 best tablets that can replace your laptop. Let's take a look at this one. If we scroll down to the description, what you'll notice is that there's special links in the description that link to each of these products they talk about. And guess what? These links are affiliate links because they disclose it right here. So for example, if someone were to go watch this video about the best tablets and then go ahead, click through this link to the Microsoft Surface Pro, buy it, boom, the person running the channel just made a little bit of money. And take a look at this. This video has a million views. How many people do you think went through that link and bought? At least a couple hundred, if not a couple thousand people. Multiply that by a lot of sales, I believe this channel could be making well over $10,000 per month when you add in those 3 revenue sources that we talked about. And of course, they have a voiceover in the background of their video. The videos are edited together showing these different products and also following fair use. And if you want to learn more about that and how channels like this can make millions of dollars not having to worry about copyright, check out my video that I did on the subject on my channel going over that. And channel idea number 6 is this channel called Rebound Football. Now you might be wondering how in the world is this channel posting American football clips and how are they not getting taken down in terms of copyright or anything? Well, what this channel does, which is really smart, is they mostly focus on individual players and talking about the backstory on those players. And of course, there is a lot of stock footage mixed in here to fill in a lot of the gaps, just telling the stories of different players, the drama that's involved with the game, and really just stuff that people are interested in, and just talking, narrating throughout the video. And these videos can surprisingly get a lot of views. For example, this channel right here is getting nearly 6 million views per month. And even if the channel is only getting a $3 CPM, which is very low, in terms of most niches on YouTube, then the channel is still making $18,000 a month in ad revenue, which is absolutely bonkers. They could be making much more than that, in fact. And this channel right here is a good example of how to do a sports channel the right way, because I get a lot of people asking me how to do it, and they're scared about worrying about copyright. Don't just re-upload sports clips to YouTube. That will not go good, trust me. In fact, I've done a whole nother video on my channel where I go over niches that you should avoid at all costs. And I believe I mentioned sports on that list, but I mentioned if you do it the wrong way. And this channel is doing it the right way, at least in my opinion. And they only have 45 videos on their channel and they're getting that many views. Not a single short on their channel. These are all long-form videos, so they're making money from this. And they have over 100,000 subscribers, so they got themselves a silver YouTube play button. Channel idea number 7 right here is a channel that is near and dear to my heart due to the fact that this is a channel that's ran by one of my own students who's bought one of my Tube Mastery courses, and now we actually work together on some things. And this channel is called Debt Busters USA. The channel itself just posts videos, for example, about different AI software that help people achieve specific goals. For example, this top 10 free AI video generator tools video that got 200,000 views in 11 months. And what if I were to tell you that channels like this not only can make $10,000 per month, but this one actually is? And I know that because Khary actually showed me. And the way that it's making $10,000 per month is not from ad revenue. It's for signing up to be an affiliate for all of the different software he talks about. And what's epic about being an affiliate for these software is that it's mostly monthly recurring revenue, also known as MRR. This means when you get a sale, you can keep making money from that as long as somebody stays subscribed to that software. So software affiliate sales are some of the best you can get, and Karl is taking full advantage of that here. But he's also helping a lot of people find the best AI tools for different subjects, and these are actually some very value-packed videos. And he uses AI to help him in making some of these videos as well. He uses some of the actual tools he talks about. And that's the thing, if you make videos like this, you could use tools like TubeMagic in order to write your scripts. Do the best titles, descriptions, and tags to make sure your videos are as optimized as possible. You could use something like Play.ht to make superhuman-sounding voiceovers for the background of your videos, or even clone your own voice using that. And you could use things like Pictory in order to make stock footage-based videos for you, literally just inputting a script and a voiceover, and then it'll make the whole video for you. And those are just some of the AI tools that could help make your YouTube journey easier. Channel idea number 8 is Great Meditation. Now this is a meditation channel, and if we watch any of their videos right here, for example, just a simple 5-minute mindfulness meditation, what you'll see is it's literally just a picture on the video. And that's due to the fact that when you do meditations, you're really watching it for the audio. So that's the important thing with this. And you can literally just record yourself speaking a meditation, use something like TubeMagic or ChatGPT to generate your meditation for you, and basically just read it off put some nice music in the background that you get from Storyblocks in their audio library, and you could set yourself up an entire meditation channel. And this channel has a million subscribers, and if we go to their stats right here, they're getting nearly 4 million views per month. So just at a decent CPM, they could be making $10,000 per month, which is pretty cool, especially for a meditation channel. You could also sell your own custom meditations. You could sign up to be an affiliate for other people's meditations. For example, this website right here called Wholetones allows you to sign up to be an affiliate, and you can promote any of their meditation-related products that they have. For example, they have little meditation speakers as well as meditations themselves, premium ones that you could sell, and you could basically make extra money from your channel doing that. And now you have to be careful with the meditation niche though, because there's a wrong way of doing this and a right way. And actually go over the wrong way on that video I mentioned earlier about the niches to avoid at all costs. I mention meditation channels on there, but only if you do it the wrong way. And if you do it the right way, like I mentioned in my entire video that I have going over how to make meditation videos, I go over like an AI tool and everything to help generate these easier. I go over the right way of running a meditation channel within that video if you're at all interested in doing this. Channel idea number 9 for running faceless YouTube channels is this channel called Explore With Us. Nearly 5 million subscribers, nearly 500 videos. And the channel, you're probably gonna be pretty shocked by this, but it's getting 27 million views per month, which is absolutely crazy. Like, that's a lot of views per month on a single channel. And what this channel does is they're hopping on a trend that's super huge right now, which is true crime. Now, this is a trend that's been really popping off within the past few years of YouTube, and it only seems to be growing. And this channel has especially done well with these types of interrogation videos where they're going over different interrogations people have had, and they're basically just looking at them, telling the story of them. And as you can see right here, all their most popular videos have been uploaded in the past 2 years because this format has been working incredibly well for them. So it's definitely a channel idea to look into if you're into mysteries and true crime and everything. You could potentially make money from something that you're already interested in, and the way you'd make money is mostly through ad revenue. They do also have a Teespring link right here, so they're selling merchandise. But in all honesty, the amount of money they're making from this is probably nowhere near what they're making from ad revenue, I would guess. And that's just from selling merch myself from some of my channels. That really only works if you have more of a personality-based channel, from what I've seen. But the money that they're making from ad revenue, they're probably pretty happy with. Channel idea number 10 is Philosophies for Life. This channel got a million subscribers literally creating whiteboard videos about different philosophical concepts and famous philosophers throughout the ages. For example, this video about Marcus Aurelius and Stoicism got 6.3 million views. And if we take a look at this video, as you can see, it's a whiteboard animation. Now at this point you might be saying, Matt, wouldn't that be incredibly hard to create a whole whiteboard animation similar to this and hiring animators if I don't know how to do it myself? That could be pricey, right? Well, it turns out there's actually tools such as VideoScribe which allow you to create these whiteboard-based animations super easily. And it's basically just drag and drop creating videos like this. And this video right here that got 6 million views is literally one of these whiteboard animation things, and they're likely using VideoScribe or similar software out there to create this video. And it's just a voiceover in the background of the video just talking about these different philosophical concepts. And another thing with videos like this is it would be very easy to sell your own course teaching any of these philosophical concepts as well. So that would be a whole nother revenue stream, not to mention the ad revenue could be huge when we're talking millions of views on a lot of these videos right here. And if you were to do this niche, I would recommend focusing on the most famous philosophers. Like, as you can see, the most popular videos are Marcus Aurelius, Nietzsche, Seneca. Focus on the ones that people really want to learn about would be my recommendation in terms of getting as many views as you possibly can. Channel idea number 11 is this channel called Paddy Galloway. Now you might be saying, Matt, is this guy just showing his face on his channel? Is this not a faceless channel? Well, it turns out if you watch any of his videos right here, for example, this video about this unknown YouTuber gained 1 million subscribers in 6 months. As you can see, it's a completely faceless video. He's literally just doing a voiceover on it. And then again, it's using this whiteboard animation software, probably VideoScribe, for the background of the video, talking about this YouTuber, how he got a lot of views, just basically telling the story of it, the hacks he's using. And then these videos have the potential of getting a lot of views. In fact, this guy has not uploaded in over a year and the channel's still getting 130,000 views per month. Now you might be saying, Matt, that's not a ton. Even from ad revenue, that wouldn't be a ton. But what you can do with a channel like this is you could easily sign up to be an affiliate for my course, because my course goes over exactly how to make money on YouTube without making videos. It'd be the perfect fit for a channel like this. So if you needed an amazing affiliate product to promote to people interested in growing on YouTube, getting subscribers, getting views, making money on YouTube, this would be a perfect type of channel to promote that link from. And we give incredibly generous 50% commissions to affiliates. We make it like a true partnership. So if you're interested in that, you can check it out at digistore24.com, go to their affiliate marketplace, and then find the Tube Mastery and Monetization course that then you can sign up to promote. And we've paid out over $600,000 to affiliates, so that's just an opportunity that I'd like to extend out to you if you're interested in doing it. Of course, there's tons of different courses out there that you could promote, but when it comes to having an actual good product that you can feel great about promoting that we actually answer every question in, and we go over the top giving value. And it's like, this course should be at least $5,000 to $10,000, yet we're charging a fraction of that. And it'd be a perfect thing to promote from a channel like this. And that's how you could potentially make $10,000 per month with this. All you'd have to do is sell 20 sales where you get a $500 commission from that, and boom, you're making $10,000 per month. And even from relatively low view counts, that's still 130,000 people a month. That's still like an entire stadium worth of people. And if you can get just 20 of them to buy that course, boom, you're making $10,000 per month. And that could be a great idea. Channel idea number 12 is this channel called Cash Pro. This channel right here, they have 140,000 subscribers, 90 videos on the channel. They pull in almost a million views per month, and they just go over different ways of making money. Online. For example, 5 legit apps to make money watching YouTube videos, right? And if we do the math on this, what you're gonna be probably pretty shocked by is that from these 790,000 views this channel is getting, if we divide that by 1,000, this will show you how many thousands of views per month they're getting— 792. Now you might be pretty surprised by this, but I'm gonna multiply this by 30, and that's due to the fact that channels like this can get CPMs, or how much they make per 1,000 views, upwards of $30 or more. And this is what I've personally seen by running make money online channels myself, and even with my personal channel right here. And that would mean this channel could be making anywhere from $15,000 to $25,000 per month from ad revenue alone. Now what's epic about the make money online niche is that you can also sell your own course teaching people any of these subjects more in depth. For example, like how I sell my course, or be an affiliate for my course, or any course out there for that matter that's related to make money online subjects. And this again would be the perfect fit for something like that. Promote that in the description of your videos, get a bunch of sales through that. Not only make a ton of money from ad revenue because you're getting a super high CPM due to the fact that that's what this niche is. Get a good screen recording app. For example, you can use OBS, which is completely free and open source. You can download that on your computer record your screen showing these different ways of making money online. Also throw in some stock footage from Storyblocks like it looks like they're doing right here, as well as some memes. And then boom, have the potential of making $10,000 per month with your faceless channel. And if you want to set your channel up for the best chance of making as much money as possible from it, there's 4 key secrets that I recommend all YouTube automation channels do. And these are the 4 secrets that I wish I personally knew when I was starting my YouTube automation journey a couple years ago. I think my journey would have been sped up multiple times if I knew these secrets, and I'm going to show them to you. Guess what? For completely free. And you can check them out next to me right here in this video right here. Goes over the 4 secrets, best niches to do this in, how to actually get a ton of views and subscribers doing this so you're not just wasting your time with this, how to monetize to the next level, and a couple other key secrets. Check it out in this video right here. My name is Matt Parr. Hope you got value, and I will see you there.