I was struggling online to make even one dollar. Until I found YouTube.
I heard people saying about making money on YouTube without showing your face. Oh my god, was my reply!! I was fear friends to watch me on YouTube.
One day morning I created Faceless YouTube channel named SAYANSI Tips, I started creating pregnancy related videos and uploading to my channel.
After four months, my YouTube channel was monetized with Google ads. Now I make $50 per month with my brand new YouTube channel.
In this article am going to explain how to get started to make money on YouTube without making videos.
1. What are the benefits of a faceless YouTube channel?
- No camera needed
Camera has no function to do in faceless YouTube channel.
- No lighting instruments required
Light have no functions when creating faceless YouTube channel. Lighting instruments cost more than $100.
- No Background materials required
No setting of background in Faceless YouTube channel.
- Camera stand are not required
Stand that holds camera has no function to do on faceless YouTube channel.
- It's easy to create videos
Just photos, prompt, or text and voice to create complete video.
In-Short, creating faceless YouTube videos is simple and straight away process that don't consuming time.
Why create videos showing your face is not good ideas?
- Need camera
Camera is very expensive, cost almost $500 , which was impossible for me to purchase it.
- Need background materials
For videos to look great, need good background color. How to create it ? become a big challenge.
- Need camera stand
Even if you purchase a camera, stand is still needed. Stand cost almost $20, become difficult to afford it.
- need complex editing
Sometime you have to merge, cut or duplicate video to make it good. This editing become difficult for me.
In-short, creating video by showing your face is cost and time consuming process.
How to solve it?
Let see how to make money on YouTube without showing your face.
Top Methods for Making Money on YouTube without showing your face
- Editing contents
- Use AI tools
- Hire freelancer
- Using photos
1. Editing Content
This methods involved editing videos from public domain like pixabay
This videos are free to use, you have to show you appreciation to the original creator of the contents.
How to edit videos
You have to take similar video cut, join or duplicate to make sure you create something new which is not available Online.
You can add photos,words and change filter to create something new. Make sure new video is not similar from original videos.
Compiling Video Clips into a Compilation
Also you can combine many public videos clips to form single video. This is another way to edit your videos by combining video clips to form new long-form video.
2. Use AI tools
You can use videos generator AI to generate video without showing your face.
Website like Heygen can help to create videos within a second.
Automatic video generator AI tools
Command AI tool to create video that you want. Put good prompt that explains how video should be.
AI can generate video base on your command. AI will put imagine and captions for your video.
Text to video AI tools
To create videos just go to chatgpt and create videos script. After getting video script, go to Heygen to convert your text into video.
Talking image AI tools
This tools convert human photos into talking image. You have to find video script and insert it to the Ai, tools will generate voice over from script while image is talking and moving into different directions.
Heygen is talking photo AI which can generate talking image within a second. Try Heygen now.
Heygen creating super clean videos that looks very professional.
3. Hire freelancer to create videos
Best way to make money on YouTube without showing your face is hiring someone from Fiverr to create videos for you.
Fiverr is online market place for freelancers to provide services depends on their skills.
There are million's of freelancer that can create videos for $10 per video.
Steps to hire freelancer on Fiverr
- Go to fiverr
- sign up an account
- find freelancers that offer videos Creating service
- negotiate the price
- buy service
- receive your videos
- pay
You can create as many videos as you want. Make sure you find best keywords that have low competition with high search volume to make sure your videos performing well.
To make sure you find best freelancer, you have to test many freelancers to make sure you find one who Creating high quality videos that can rank on YouTube.
4. Using photos
This is type of videos that am Creating in my Faceless YouTube channel (SAYANSI Tips) until now.
This involved mixing voice over and photos to get video. This involved Downloading photos that related to your voice.
Your video show the sliding photos corresponding to the event in the voice.
For example, my channel is about pregnancy, when I was creating videos about "sign of pregnancy" I downloaded photos that related to signs of pregnancy.
When I mentioned sign of pregnancy (example breast pain) I was putting the photo that show the woman touch her breast.
Make sure you put animation in each photo for video to look great.
This is how you can make money on YouTube without showing your face by creating photos sliding videos.
5. Screen recording videos
Another Faceless YouTube channel is about capturing screen of your computer or phone.
This kind of videos is instructional videos. For example you can create YouTube channel about "how to use your phone", screen recording softwares can help you to capturing your instructions in your phone.
Videos like how create account on fiverr, screen record can be a good choice.
This type of videos can be monetized by YouTube when you reach threshold of 1000 subscribers and 4000 hours of watch time.
If you want to start to provide instructions, screen recording videos can be choice for you.
Top faceless YouTube niches
1. Finance
2. Health
3. Relationship
4. Products reviews
1. Finance
Topics like money saving, insurance, loan, banking, cryptocurrency, side hustle, make money online and economic can be suitable for Faceless YouTube channel
2. Health
Topics like Body health, pregnancy, personal hygiene, diseases, baby health , woman health, treatment, vector, natural treatment and sign if diseases can be suitable for Faceless YouTube channel.
3. Relationship
Topics like how to find mate, marriage, divorce, husband care, wife care, how to increase love, love during teen-age topics is suitable for Faceless YouTube channel.
4. Products reviews
Products comparison can be suitable for Faceless YouTube channel.
Topic like product A vs products B, can use only photos to explain products.
How do you go viral on YouTube without showing your face?
- choose popular topic
- Follow the trend
- Using keywords
- SEO optimization
- Choose popular topic
You have to choose a popular topic that a trending light now. You can get more peoples to your videos than ever before. You have to consider what topic are trending on your niche to make sure you are creating video related to the topic.
- Follow the trend
The trending is changing over time, you have to make sure you are creating videos depending on the trending topics or popular topic for specific time. Economic events, social events and natural events can be trending over different time.
- Using keywords
Using keywords is very crucial to your videos, people are searching certain words online.
You have to target specific words which called keywords, don't write anything from your head. You have to write the title after research it online.
Some keywords have high search volume with high competition.
Where others have high competition and low search volume.
You have to consider high volume and low competition keywords.
Make sure you don't catch up to High competition keywords.
- SEO optimization
You have to optimize your videos by putting the keyword in the description, title and the tags to be appeared when someone is searching about your keyword.
When I was started a YouTube channel, I was not creating any thumbnail. This resulted into poor Click through rate (CTR)
Make sure you create a good thumbnail which is engaged. This will allow more people to click into your thumbnail and increase click through rate which result into more exposure to your YouTube videos.
Can you actually make money from faceless YouTube channel?
Yes, you can make money on faceless YouTube channel using :
- ads
- Affiliate
- program
- sponsored post
- selling digital products
- selling members-ship.
1. Ads
This is common method to monetize your YouTube videos. This involving putting ads on your videos.
You will make money when someone watching your Ads or click it.
Depends on your topic, you can earn from $1 up to $10 for 1,000 view depends on topic cost per one thousand views (CPM).
To be eligible for ads monetization, you need 1,000 subscribers and the 4,000 hours of Watch time.
I was attained this eligibility within 4 months in my channel.
To make sure you qualify very faster in ads monetization, you have to create a long-form videos which will increase hours of Watch time.
Also tell your people or your traffic to subscribe to your channel to get 1,000 subscriber fast.
Some topics make more money on ads monetization while others are not making good money on ads monetization.
You have to choose a topics which generating more money on ads like:
- Finance
- health
- cryptocurrency
Also you can make money depends on types of traffic you're getting on your YouTube channel. Traffic from developed country have high CPM compared to developing country.
When your visitors come from United States or United Kingdom, you probably going to make you more money than traffic from India.
2. Affiliate marketing
Affiliate marketing involves selling of product and service of other people using affiliating links. You make a successful sales through your affiliating links.
To do Affiliate marketing on your YouTube channel you have to follow the following steps:
1. join affiliate program
2. Create an account
3. take Affiliate links
4. promote to your YouTube channel and make money without showing your face.
Popular Affiliate program:
Commission Junction (CJ)
You have to put your Affiliate links to the videos description. You have to make sure you encouraging your traffic to click the link in the description.
By doing so, many people who need your product will click and purchase your products. You'll making money in form of commission depend on commission allocated in your products.
Some affiliate program pay 10% while others pay 50% up to 70% per each is successful sale.
This means you will get the amount of money from each successful sale depending on your commission allocated.
If product is sold for $100, you will get 50% of the price.
You'll making more money if you keep putting Affiliate links in description of each videos.
Notes:
To make more money you need to create landing page. This is page which is between traffic and Affiliate products.
When some one click link, he will land to landing page, he/she must fill email address and names to access Affiliate products.
This will allow to create email list which you will use it to sell future Affiliate products.
People with big email list are selling thousands of dollars per month from Affiliate marketing.
Commission gorilla is landing page creator tool for Affiliates. Their landing pages are super clean and have 80% of making sales.
Join commission gorilla for free.
Also you can hire someone from Fiverr to create Affiliate marketing landing page for you for $10 only.
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3. Sponsorship videos
This is a way of making money where brands come to pay for sponsored video. This videos is about their products and services.
You will get paid for each video you created. Some brands need more videos depend on the topics they want to promote.
You have to prepare a specific price for each video you creating. Some YouTube channel charge $100 up to $1,000 for each sponsored video.
Depend on the amount of subscribers you have, make sure you set a good price which is relevance to your YouTube channel.
By doing so you will make more money on Youtube without showing your face.
4. Selling digital products
Best way to monetize your YouTube channel is to sell a digital products.
Digital products involved digital eBook digital, online courses and a digital AI which you can sell it and make more money without showing your face.
You have to create a digital product that is related to your topic on your YouTube channel. In each video, you have to encourage your traffic to purchase your digital product. If you are selling eBook, make sure you tell them about importance of getting your ebook.
By doing so many people who needed to learn more about your topic or about your services will purchase your digital product.
That's is how you'll make money on Youtube without showing your face.
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5. Selling members-ship
Members will pay a specific amount of money to access exclusive videos.
You have to create a separate video which will not accessed by public.
People who need to learn more about your topic will pay for membership to access in-depth training.
Eligibility Requirements for Monetization:
For Ads
To be eligible for ads monetization, you need to have 1000 subscribers and 4000 hours of watch time in past 12 months.
Affiliate marketing
No eligibility required to start earning money on your Affiliate marketing. You have to join affiliate program and start promoting product through your affiliate links.
selling digital products
No eligibility required to start selling a digital product on your YouTube channel. You have to create a digital product and start promoting on your channel even if you have one subscriber.
sponsored posts
No eligibility required to start making money on sponsoring post. Depend on your amount of subscribers, brands can pay for sponsored videos.
Can you be a successful YouTuber without showing your face?
- Consistency in Content Posting
- Engage with Your Audience
- Promote Your Channel on Other Platforms
- SEO optimization
- Consistency in Content Posting
You have to create a videos frequently to make sure your traffic are updated always.
Consistency helping to reach new traffic everyday. As long as you are posting a new videos, you are going to catch a new traffic from different part of the world and subscribe to your channel.
You have to prepare posting timetable and follow it. Your traffic will Understand it and waiting for your video when time reach.
- Engage with Your Audience
You have to engage you with your audience on platform like WhatsApp or Facebook page. This will allow your customers or your traffic to trust you and what you are doing.
You have to engage with your customers or you are traffic by answering question or by providing different opinions. By doing so many people will love your channel and watch every video that you are uploading.
- Promote Your Channel on Other Platforms
To get more audience, you have to promote your videos to social media like Facebook, Instagram and the TikTok. You would accumulate new member to your channel.
Make sure you create a social Media accounts with the same names as your YouTube channel for people to trust you as a Brand.
YouTube success stories
I was started my YouTube channel in November of 2023 (one year ago). I was able to monetize my channel within 4 months, now I make $50 per month!
What contents I was uploading?
I was uploading videos about pregnancy, which including signs of pregnancy, how to take care a pregnancy and how to get pregnancy.
I created video long-form videos to get more watch time per user.
Because I was listening people taking: "it's difficult to reach 4000 hours of watch time than 1000 subscribers".
I was uploading videos everyday, instead of quality, I was based on quantity and strategy work well.
How much I make in one year?
It's not much for Faceless YouTube channel with 35, 000 monthly views. I make $50 per month which it's is enough for me. Depends on my traffic, most come from Tanzania and Kenya which is less CPM countries.
Why I love make money on YouTube without showing my face?
- I spent little time to create videos
- I invested nothing
- I Am happy to help people
- I still learning new things
My expectations!!
I want reach $100 per month, by uploading more videos, engaging with my traffic, answering questions and post more short videos to boost my YouTube channel exposure. This will help to increase daily views, subscribers, watch time and revenue in general.
Do you love my journey.. let me know in the comments section.
If you have any questions, the following answer will help you:
Frequently Asked questions
1. Can you actually make money from faceless YouTube?
Yes, you can make money on faceless YouTube channel like other normal YouTube channel. Because you can monetize using the same methods used to monetize other YouTube channel like Google ads, Affiliate program, sponsored post and Membership.
2. Can a faceless YouTube channel be monetized in 2025?
Yes, faceless YouTube channel can be monetized in 2025 using ads, Affiliate marketing, sponsored post and Membership program.
3.Can you be a successful YouTuber without showing your face?
Yes, you can be successful YouTuber without showing your face if you optimize your videos and monetize it using popular monetization methods like ads, Affiliate marketing and sponsored videos.
4. Can I monetize my channel without showing my face?
Yes, you can monetize your faceless YouTube channel by sponsored post, Affiliate marketing, sponsored post, selling digital products and becoming a freelancer.
5. What are the benefits of a faceless YouTube channel?
Faceless YouTube channel don't need camera, background materials, lighting instruments and complex editing. It's simple to create faceless YouTube videos.
6. Can you make money from a faceless account?
Yes, you can make money on faceless YouTube channel like other YouTube channels through ads revenue, Affiliate marketing, selling digital products and provide freelancing services.
7. Is faceless content creation worth it?
Yes, it's worth and can be monetized with ads when you reach monetization requirements of 1000 subscribers and 4000 hours of watch time.
8. What type of content is best for YouTube without showing face?
Topic like Body health, pregnancy, personal hygiene, diseases, baby health , woman health, treatment, vector, natural treatment and sign of diseases topics, can be suitable for Faceless YouTube channel.
9. How do you go viral on YouTube without showing your face?
You can go viral on YouTube by:
- choose popular topic
- Follow the trend
- Using keywords
- SEO optimization
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