Step 1: Pick a niche you can make 100 videos about
Most failed faceless channels fail here. Choose a topic you find genuinely interesting, where videos can be made from stock footage and narration, and where you can list 30 video titles in one sitting. History, space, psychology, money explainers, cars and original stories all fit. Then look at the channels already doing it and write down what they're missing: a slower pace, a different language, a region nobody covers.
Avoid "made for kids" content. Those videos have limited ads and features, and it's a hard audience to reach with faceless formats.
Step 2: Set up the channel properly
Create a Brand Account channel so you can add a manager later without sharing your personal login. Pick a name that says the topic or the feeling (the channel name generator linked below helps), make a simple banner, and write a two-line description that says what people get and how often. Verify your phone number so you can upload longer videos and custom thumbnails.
Step 3: Write scripts with AI, then make them yours
Free AI chat tools are good at outlines and first drafts. Use them to get from a blank page to a structure, then rewrite: check every fact, cut filler, add your opinion, and make the first line a real hook. YouTube's inauthentic content policy (renamed from repetitious content in July 2025) is aimed at channels that mass-produce near-identical videos, so each script should feel written by someone.
For Shorts aim for 70 to 150 words. For long videos, 1,200 to 2,000 words gives you roughly 8 to 13 minutes.
Step 4: Voice, footage and editing for free
For the voice, you can record yourself with a phone in a quiet room, or use a text-to-speech voice. Pick one voice and keep it. For visuals, free stock libraries like Pexels and Pixabay have millions of clips you can use without paying. Free editors such as CapCut or DaVinci Resolve handle captions, cuts and music.
This is the slow part. If you'd rather skip the manual editing, TallyReel does steps 3 and 4 in one app: you type an idea, edit the drafted script, and it builds the voiceover, Pexels footage, captions and music on your own computer. It's free for 3 videos, then $49 once.
- Match each sentence to a clip that shows what's being said
- Keep music quiet under the voice
- Always add captions, many people watch without sound
Step 5: Upload, title and thumbnail
Write the title as the question or promise the video answers, in plain words people would search. Thumbnails for faceless channels work best with one clear image and two to four words. Add chapters to long videos. If your video includes realistic AI-made scenes that could be mistaken for real events, tick YouTube's altered or synthetic content box; using AI to help write a script doesn't need it.
Step 6: Post on a schedule and read your numbers
A realistic start is one long video a week plus three to five Shorts. After ten uploads, open YouTube Studio and look at two numbers: click-through rate (is the title and thumbnail working?) and average view duration (is the script holding people?). Fix whichever is weaker in the next video.
Step 7: Get to monetization
The Partner Program opens at 1,000 subscribers plus either 4,000 public watch hours in 12 months or 10 million public Shorts views in 90 days. There's no guaranteed timeline; many channels take months, some never get there. While you grow, affiliate links in descriptions can earn earlier, as long as they fit the niche.