So you want to make money with YouTube Shorts channels without ever even showing your face, but you don't know where to start. And a lot of that stems from the first step in this process, which is choosing a niche or a category of content that you're going to upload. It's important to stick to a single niche so all of your different shorts feed each other, so when one blows up, all your other videos will also benefit from that, and they'll drive traffic to each other. Now if you don't know which niche to choose, don't worry, so many people get stuck here and they worry about what's gonna happen if they choose the wrong niche.
Luckily, you can easily prevent choosing the wrong niche because there's a few best YouTube Shorts niches that are out there. I've done a ton of research into this, talked with some of my students who are succeeding with YouTube Shorts, and after watching this video, you'll be certain that you have a good niche. Now, in the last video, I introduced you to making money with YouTube Shorts, which most people don't even know is possible.
So if you missed that video, make sure to go check that one out first so you can get a foundation for this. That being said, let me reveal to you how you can get results fast with YouTube Shorts channels. And the first thing that you need to do is choose a niche. I'm going to be revealing 10 amazing YouTube Shorts niches and ones that you can do using AI to generate the videos for you so you barely even have to lift a finger. I'm also going to show you example channels within these niches, how they're potentially making money, and how they're actually generating their videos so that you can copy them and do the same.
YouTube Shorts niche number one is funny stories. You've probably seen videos like this all over social media getting tons of views and these videos are literally just a funny story on top of some stock footage or an AI generated background And these can shockingly get a lot of views like take a look at this channel right here Their top videos have 19 million 11 million 4 3 2 million views on individual videos And what's really crazy about this channel is that this channel was literally made in november of 2023 It hasn't even been a year since I'm recording this video right now. And this channel can already almost get a silver play button.
And this isn't the only channel doing this. There's tons of different ones doing this where it's literally just some text on a screen telling a funny story or a joke, and then they just put something playing in the background. They might be saying, Matt, that's great, but how could I generate videos similar to this that could also get a ton of views? without putting in a ton of work.
Well, check this out. If we take a look at some of their top videos right here, like this one right here, a boy having trouble with his teachers, what we can do is go into the website vid.ai, which we talked about in the last video in this series, and then go into create a new project, select a custom prompt, and then put in funny story about a boy and his teachers, choose a voice. You can do any one that you'd like.
Let's do a female voice on this one. And then you can choose what you want your video to look like. You can even put a gameplay video for the background of your video.
Let's just do an AI generated one right here and then click generate. And boom, just like that, our video is done. Let's take a listen to what this sounds like and looks like. Ever had a day where everything goes hilariously wrong?
Meet Timmy, the boy who turned his classroom into a comedy show. One day, Timmy just... Just like that, we have a funny story that we can upload that we literally generated in under 30 seconds. And then what's also awesome about this is that all of your videos will be stored in your homepage, so you can always go back to them, download them, upload them to YouTube Shorts whenever you want. Niche number two is travel.
Check out this channel right here producing videos like the 10 countries with the best food in the world, 700,000 views, they have multiple videos with millions of views on them, not the only channel doing it, there's tons of different channels like this one. and this one right here. And travel videos typically have pretty good CPMs due to the fact that one of the biggest advertisers on YouTube with YouTube ads is Expedia, which is a travel company. So therefore CPMs or how much you make per thousand views will be a lot more in this niche.
And now a hack to get incredible ideas if you were to do a channel like this would be to go to a popular channel like this one right here that produces videos about travel, but they produce long form videos. You might be saying, Matt, why would I be wanting to look at long form videos? if I'm going to be running a shorts channel. And the reason is, is you can go in, find their top videos like this one right here, countries that will pay you to live there. You can literally just copy this title right here, go to vid.ai, click create new, drop in the title, choose your voice, click generate, and boom, just like that, our video is done.
Let's take a look at it. We'll actually pay you to move there. Countries like Italy and Portugal offer...
Just like that, we've taken an idea from a long form video that's already worked. People are interested in this topic and we've converted it into a short form video. And... And there are endless channels on YouTube that produce only long form videos that you can get ideas from in order to generate short form content based off of it.
And in fact, if you need to see a ton of channels that produce long form content to get ideas from, you can go to the TubeMagic Niche Explorer by going to TubeMagic and then going to Niche Explorer right here. We have hundreds of different niches right here with example channels, plus approximates of how much they pay out per thousand views but that's just for long-form content. Short-form is going to pay out significantly less per 1,000 views, but...
It's much easier to get a ton of views with short form content on YouTube specifically. Not to mention subscribers as well, so it's a lot easier to get play buttons. Niche number three is texting stories. Take a look at this channel right here where it's literally just text exchanges between people.
usually like a funny interaction or something awkward or something that grabs people's attention and is a little bit dramatic and Controversial and these videos actually get millions of views and with vid AI we are building in a texting story template That's going to be there very soon But in the meantime, you could literally go to vid AI click create new put in something like funny texting exchange between boyfriend and girlfriend Select your voice Go down here. Let's do a gameplay video for the background of this one, and then we'll click generate. And boom, just like that, we have our video done.
Let's take a look at this right here. My friend, something that totally backfired. Hey babe, I just saw a dog that looks just like you.
Oh really? Is it? So as you can see, it literally just put together a funny texting story like that in a matter of seconds.
We didn't have to write anything. We didn't have to script anything. But the beautiful thing about vid.ai is that if you go to generate a video, on this page right here. You can also even choose custom script. So you can put in your own script of what you want it to look like.
You just need to make sure that it's under, I believe, about 200 words for your script. Niche number four is drama videos. Drama videos do incredibly well on YouTube in both long form and short form.
Take a look at this channel right here. Over 300,000 subscribers. They have tons of videos with over 20 million, 20 million, 17 million, tens of millions of views on individual shorts on this channel. just talking about popular YouTubers. So you can tap in to these popular YouTubers fame and pull some of that for your own channel in order to get views.
You do have to be careful in this niche. You don't wanna say anything that's factually incorrect. So my advice to you is that if you did this niche and you use something like vid.ai, make sure you do the custom prompt because you don't want the AI making up something about somebody.
Make sure that you only write stuff that's true. Like you can pull any of these trending topics like as you can see this video about mr Beast's girlfriend got 12 million views and you could generate something about that on vidai For example, just like I said make sure that you do a custom script that you either write yourself Or you vet it to make sure that it is factually correct shorts niche number five is scary stories Take a look at this channel. They already have 16 000 subscribers with just 20 videos And as you know, with something like vid.ai, you could generate 20 videos in less than 20 minutes. And if we go to their most popular videos right here, they already have videos with almost a million views on them. Take a look at also this channel called Scary Story, which does the same thing.
They have millions of views on their videos. And within vid.ai, since we know that scary stories are so popular, we actually built in a specific scary stories prompt that you can literally just select. And you can even add iterations on it by clicking iteration and say that you wanted your scary story to be specifically about a topic that's popular, like a giant man with this one right here. So you just put giant man in there and it'll make that scary story tailored to that. But if you just want to do a basic scary story and let the AI come up with the idea for you, then you could do that and it might look something like this.
The other when Sarah decided to take a shortcut through the woods as she walked the side. As you can see, it's a pretty good scary story that you can upload onto YouTube Shorts. Niche number six is fun facts. Now, I know I said that I do recommend choosing a very specific niche, but there are some exceptions to that rule.
And I found that fun facts on. YouTube shorts specifically can actually perform pretty well Even if you're talking about a bunch of random facts like take a look at this channel called prolific 2.0 They have nearly 200,000 subscribers. So that would get them a silver play button Not only that they have tons of videos with millions of views on them Plus here's another channel doing the same exact thing and the facts are about tons of different topics Like for example ones about Komodo dragons and another's about Albert Einstein And here's yet another channel called Daily Facts Worth, where if we go to their shorts right here, they have tons of videos with millions of views on them, over 400,000 subscribers, 5,000 videos on their channel, which if you were looking at this and you didn't know how easy it was to generate videos using AI, you'd probably be like, oh my gosh, 5,000 videos, they probably had to put in so much work to make that happen.
You can literally generate thousands of videos using something like vid.ai very realistically. Now, something I noticed and something I recommend you do as well is look for trends. on a lot of these top channels.
Like look at the most popular videos and see if there's any trends that are consistent across them. Like with these fax channels, the top video on this one is about North Korea. One of the top videos on this one is also about North Korea. So this is obviously a really popular topic.
And if we go into vid.ai, we can click create new, we can select a fun facts prompt, and then we can click add iteration and type in North Korea. and then click generate and boom just like that now we have a fun facts video about north korea did you know that north korea is home to the highest mountain on the korean peninsula and you can make it more controversial as well by saying controversial facts about north korea and that's the beauty of this you can iterate on this and make it better and better you might have to generate a couple until you find something that's actually good that's going to peak people's emotion usually that involves being a little bit controversial in the content i've noticed that's worked pretty well with shorts and imagine you take a popular topic like north korea for example this You can make an entire shorts channel based off of that in an afternoon. Niche number seven is animals.
Take a look at this channel right here that produces animal videos called Pink Coconuts. Only 117 videos on their channel, completely AI-generated shorts on it. And let's take a look at them right here.
Over 100K subscribers, that would get them a silver play button. Not to mention that if we go to their most popular videos, they have one with over 10 million views on their channel. Tons of more with over a million views on their channel. just about different animals.
And the top video right here is about animals that went extinct, so you could generate something similar. Like, for example, you could put in a prompt with vid.ai saying something like, give me 10 creepy animals that went extinct. So something that looks a little bit scary, like, is what worked on this channel right here.
Now, within vid.ai, we have a built-in animal facts prompt that you can just select, and it'll generate facts about random animals. And here's one of the ones that I just did right here about chameleons. Did you know that chameleons can change their color? It's not just for camouflage.
They change color to communicate regulate just like that literally within 30 seconds I generated that video that I can upload to YouTube and I have a piece of digital real estate that I own niche number eight is History people are very interested in what's happened in our past and you can take advantage of that by producing Historical shorts like this channel right here does called history verse Also almost a hundred thousand subscribers like you can see what I mean when I say that it's a lot easier to get tons of subscribers with Shorts channels. They might be saying, Matt, that's not fair for the short form content to get so many views and subscribers as opposed to my long form, it takes a lot longer. Like most of my channels that have gotten gold and silver play buttons, that's all with long form content.
That is a lot of hard work to be able to do that. Or you can take advantage of this trend that's going on right now in the world and with YouTube specifically with short form content that is being prioritized. And you can use it within your business to help you build your business and your YouTube channels. And even if you have long form channels, you can drive views to them by linking. specific short form videos to your long form videos as well.
So don't worry about that. But take a look at this channel right here. Completely AI generated videos in the backgrounds of this just with text on them. Here's another channel doing the same exact thing and another channel doing the same exact thing. And you could use vid AI put in a prompt like history facts and just like that we have a video about it.
Did you know that the oldest known written recipe dates back to ancient Mesopotamia? It's a recipe for beer. Niche number nine is psychology. And channels like this one right here produce psychology videos that do really well, literally just text on a screen.
Here's another channel right here called Mastery Mind Control, which also does psychology videos. Now you might be asking, how do they do these type of anime backgrounds right here? Well, we've actually built that directly within vid.ai.
So if you go to generate a new video. You can for example choose a psychology prompt right here and then we have a built-in anime template right here or you can even choose line drawing and it'll be very similar to this channel right here. And here's yet another channel also doing psychology videos about relationships primarily and this channel has a couple videos with a million views. And if you do any of these niches you want to make sure that you model videos that already have a lot of views. Our next niche is quizzes and riddles.
This channel right here called QQuiz is getting over 5 million views per month, and they only have 300 videos on their channel. They almost have a million subscribers, which is enough for a gold play button. And they just do these random riddles, like who is the fake Spider-Man riddle challenge. Here's another one called Riddle Zone right here, that also does quizzes and riddles.
And so I put this prompt right here into vid.ai, riddle that makes you think, and here's how the video turned out. What has keys but can't open locks? Think carefully.
Just like that, we have a riddle video that we can upload to YouTube Shorts. And coming very soon is a custom built-in quiz videos template for vid.ai as well, as well as would-you-rather videos, split-screen videos, and much, much more. Now, if you want to find more niches, you can always use the TubeMagic Niche Explorer.
Just go to tubemagic.com. You can sign up for it. This is our other software that helps people optimize their YouTube videos.
This software will also do things like come up with video ideas, scripts, and optimize your videos completely for you. But I'm really proud of our niche explorer that we put together right here with all of the top niches on YouTube, how much they make per thousand views, and example long-form channels within them that you could base short-form content off of. And also when it comes to shorts, the same ones that are high CPM with long-form content are going to make more money with short-form content as well. It is going to be significantly less money per thousand views as opposed to long-form content, but it's much easier to get views.
Plus you can use Shorts to drive traffic to your long form videos by linking them together. And here's a list of some of the highest CPM niches on YouTube that you can take a look at that you can get ideas for a Shorts channel within. But if you wanna make this simpler for yourself, just remember that some of the top niches on YouTube are typically related to wealth, health, technology, travel, and tutorials.
And in my opinion, these are some of the best niches because they have higher than average CPMs. There's opportunities to make more money, which we'll be talking about a little bit further within this video series. They're evergreen, meaning you can get views for years and years into the future. That's something I've also noticed with Shorts, with running some Shorts channels myself, is that I've uploaded a bunch of Shorts that barely get any views or only get like 500 or 1,000 views at first.
But a couple months down the line, I've had some absolutely blow up and get millions of views. So that's why evergreen content can be important. But Shorts are so easy to generate, you easily have a channel talking about trends and an evergreen channel as well. Now I know that I mentioned vid.ai a lot throughout this video and there is a good reason for that.
It generates videos faster than almost anything else on the market and that's due to the fact that we built in a custom processing engine that generates different points of the video all at the same time. It's really complicated even I don't fully understand it but we've invested hundreds of thousands of dollars into making this the best video generation AI tool on the market. Pretty soon, we'll be able to do long form videos as well, as well as a ton of other amazing stuff. If you want to jump on and be part of the first 200 people to use Vid.ai before we close it down at this discounted price and raise it up to $100 per month, you can simply click the link down below this video and join at the discounted price before it goes up. And if you join now, you'll be grandfathered in and you'll be able to keep that price for the rest of your life, even when the software is multiple times more money.
It is definitely a worthwhile investment when you compare this against hiring freelancers, spending thousands of dollars per month, or spending hundreds of hours of your own time. In the next video in this series about YouTube Shorts, I'm going to reveal me creating an entire brand new YouTube Shorts channel from start to finish. And I'm going to be using AI and you can watch over my shoulder as I do it.
And also how my students and I are making money using YouTube Shorts channels and monetizing in some pretty outside-the-box ways. These are secrets that nobody else talks about when it comes to YouTube Shorts, so make sure to stay tuned for that video. Your mind is going to be blown on a couple of things.
That being said, if the next video is already out, you can check it out next to me right here. My name is Matt Parr. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you there.