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Hello, friends. Welcome to AI Sandbox, our playground. Today I will show you how to stop playing guessing games with algorithms and start creating content that is guaranteed to get views. Faceless channels in 2026 are not just a trend, but an accessible business model that allows you to earn money from content without showing your face. Our plan for today is purely espionage. First, we will launch vdex.ai analytics to find a golden niche and identify competitors who are growing the fastest. Then, we will upload their data into NotebookLM to literally clone their success formulas and tone of delivery. And most interestingly, we will not just write a script from scratch, but also try to generate a ready-made video within NotebookLM. Ready to hack the system? Let's go.
Currently, YouTube is experiencing a boom in content creation without showing faces. This is not just a trend, but a full-fledged economy. The demand is huge, and the data confirms this. 2 billion active YouTube Shorts users per month, over 70 billion daily views. The average engagement rate for Shorts is higher than on TikTok, almost 6%. 6.2 million creators upload at least one Short monthly, and active creators upload 18-22 videos per month.
The most profitable niches on YouTube are personal finance and investments. $28-45. This is the so-called RPM (Revenue Per Mille) per 1,000 views. Next is technology reviews and comparisons. Following that are true crime, business documentaries, and financial history. $10-15. Scary stories and horror - $8-10. Aviation and military equipment - $6-10. The RPM is not high, but there is low competition with high audience interest.
And to understand what kind of content to create, you first need to find existing videos and analyze competitors. And the vdex.ai service will help us with this. This is a service created specifically for faceless channels. It allows you to find profitable YouTube channels using a faceless interface, find the most popular AI videos on YouTube, track the fastest-growing AI-focused YouTube channels, and find and clone viral YouTube videos. After authorization, you get the opportunity to make 10 requests in the system for free. Let's look at their pricing. The Basic plan is $19 for 200 requests per month. What is a request? It's when you set up filters and click the search button, and you get a selection. If you pay for the VIP plan, you get the opportunity to make 5,000 requests. When paying annually, the cost is naturally halved.
Let's go directly to the dashboard. This is the filter at the top. Below is the selection itself. Currently, the system has identified 1,320,000 faceless channels. To sort them, we set filters by channel name, description, and keywords. These are tags, hashtags. We choose the niche, personal finance. Channel creation date. We can leave it blank for now, but you can specify 7 days, 28 days, 3 months, 1 year. Let's specify 3 months. How many AI videos does the channel contain? More than 10. Percentage of AI-generated videos: 5%, more than 20%, let's set more than 20%. Number of subscribers. If we want to sort stable channels, we can choose from 10,000 to a million. If we want fast-growing new channels, then less than 10,000. Let's choose less than ten. Number of videos, number of long videos, number of Shorts. Outliers is a very interesting indicator. These are so-called view spikes, when there is a sharp increase. So-called outliers. Let's set less than five, if you please. We will now look at growing channels. The most recent video. You can specify a date, or choose ready-made periods: 3, 7, 15 days, 30 days. Let's choose the last 2 months. Last long video, last short video. Total views. Well, less than a million. Okay. Views in 30 days. Okay. Less than a million. Region. The largest number of content creators are in India. The USA is in second place. Pakistan is also among the leaders. Therefore, the selection will definitely include Indian channels. To exclude them, you can choose the USA or England, Australia region. Well, let's leave it as is and see what happens. Language. Since we are considering the highest RPMs, we will choose English. English-speaking YouTube. This is the trendy American YouTube. English-speaking YouTube. You can choose video categories, you can specify a category, for example, Education, or you can leave it blank. This is also an important button: block inactive channels. Let's click it. Done. Click search.
The service has provided us with a selection of 97 channels. Let's sort the selection by the number of subscribers. Sorted. Let's go into the first channel. Channel data, i.e., 300 subscribers, number of videos, number of Shorts, 12 videos, three Shorts, number of views, 300 likes. Since we made the selection based on channel creation in the last 3 months, this selection will only include young channels. But we are interested in looking at the technology, how they create videos. To do this, we go to the View Channel and look. The channel was created on October 28, 2025. Let's go into one of the videos. Yes, this is a generated character, possibly in. Interesting technology. It looks good. All the thumbnails are interesting, bright. The character is pleasant. How to make such a clone, you can find out in my video, on my channel via the link above. Let's look at the next channel. By the way, by clicking "Learn More," you can find statistical data in graphical form. How many views, what time it was. Let's look at this one. Cartoon characters. Let's look at the channel. Also generated, and you can easily create such pictures. The voice is also generated. This channel currently has 19 videos. Confirmed. Created on November 6, 2025.
VDEX AI has a "Grows" section that allows you to filter fast-growing channels, channel growth over a day, 7 days, 28 days, and so on. Time when the channel was created, number of AI-generated videos, share of AI videos, number of videos with high growth, number of views, number of subscribers. I made a selection of channels that grew in 7 days, opened 3 months ago, with more than twenty AI videos and an AI share of more than 20%. I chose English-speaking countries - USA, UK, and blocked inactive channels. A selection of 10,882 growing channels appeared. For example, let's go to this channel, Pop Story. Shorts are generated here. Based on the recently released film K-P Hunters, one of the main characters is Rumi with purple hair. The videos are made like small scenes from this cinematic universe. There is no exact resemblance, but the names and approximate resemblance are there. But nevertheless, this provides an opportunity to get a lot of views. I entered it into Social Blade, and this analytical site shows that this channel earns at least $25,000 per month, and possibly more, up to $400. Category B is very good, like a four, but still 190 million views from only five Shorts. And this channel was found by the vdex.ai service, or for example, this channel Savan Wild Moments. 156,000 subscribers, 61 videos, 300 million views. [laughter] >> [laughter] [laughter] >> is also monetized and earns, well, the numbers are approximate, but nevertheless, at least $69,000 is in category A. The top channels. 300 million views. In this way, in this section, you can find [music] such channels and draw ideas from them.
The next section is "Search Videos." That is, you can search not by channels, but by videos. Here, for "Search Videos," I made this selection. Long videos, created within 6 months, views from 10,000 to a million. Outliers, they are called differently. I call them spikes. Some call them outliers, meaning videos that have a lot of views. I set the value in the filter to more than five, to have blocked inactive ones. And these individual videos were selected for me in the True Crime category. This is also one of the profitable niches. Here they talk about crimes. For example, a celebrity from Jamaica. Apparently, she, yes, she was killed, unfortunately. 135,000 views. This video was published a month ago. These are data from bidex.ai.
The next section is "Trending." You can select by keywords in the title, description, channel name, long or short Shorts. Let's even choose not by title, but just trending long videos, created in the last 3 months. More than 10 outliers. Block inactive ones. Number of subscribers more than 10,000. Let's set the language to English, confirm. And search. 1,000 results. We sort them by the number of views and get these results: 18 million views, 9 million, 8 million views. Here you can draw ideas. Let's look at this one, it's interesting. Let's see. Old McDonald. Had a farm. Uh-huh. [music] [music] It looks like a children's video. The song is generated specifically based on a popular song. And the video is generated in AI. [music] I think children really like such videos. But, as we know, entertainment content does not pay high RPM, but due to views, 6 million views, I think it's a decent income. Earnings from 1.5, well, $1,600 to $26,000. You see, the RPM is not high, but people are still earning. Category B, a four, 8 million views.
You can save liked videos to your favorites. For example, here. This is an existing folder. Or you can create a folder called "Children's Videos." Done, saved. Now click the button and in [music] "Children's Videos" move it. Confirm. Now we want to watch. Click "Children's Videos." And here is our video selection. So, thanks to the site's functions, special sections, we can find viral videos and fast-growing channels, fast-growing videos. And all this gives us food for thought, food for creating our own content.
Now let's find a large million-subscriber channel. We leave our keyword "personal finance." And in the "Grows" section, we select a value greater than 1 million. Block inactive. Select English language and click the search button. Two channels appeared. This is an Indian channel. Let's go into this one. 1120 subscribers. 60 videos. The last video was created in August 2025. 17 outliers, meaning 17 view spikes. Let's go to the channel itself, View Channel. The channel was created, indicated in the USA in 2022. Let's take this channel as an example to clone it.
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Next, we go to the Google NotebookLM website, register. You will need a Google account for this, and it opens up this workspace for us. There are public notebooks. Like William Shakespeare. Can eyes tell about your and so on. And below are my own notebooks. [music] We create a notebook, name it after the channel, WR [music] Spire. We have prepared the notebook. We will copy all video links from the desired channel here. For this, we will need an extension. Go to the Chrome extensions store, type the name Grabbit. [music] Find this extension. I already have it installed. It needs to be configured. Settings. Scroll down, click "Add New Action." You need to choose a key combination. I choose the left mouse button Alt. Choose the color azure and the action. What will happen with this combination? Copy URL to clipboard. Click save action. Well, it tells me that such a combination already exists. My combination is Alt, left mouse button, and this azure color.
We also install another extension. Very useful. Go to the web store, websync. It's called NotebookLM websync full site Importer. Install it. I already have it installed. Now we go to the desired channel. Press Alt, left mouse button, and select all files. You see, this azure area appeared. Scroll down, select all videos, and at the bottom, the inscription "51 URL copied" appeared. Done, release. Go to the NotebookLM websync extension. You will need to connect to our NotebookLM account beforehand. Here, select "Choose your notebook." Our notebook is called Raider Spire. Select it in this area. Paste [music] Ctrl V, all links, and click the "Import URL" button. The import is happening. Now all video links from this channel will be imported into our notebook. 51 links. All copied. Click "Open Notebook."
Okay, we are in NotebookLM, specifically in the notebook for this channel. On the left, we have links to all videos. This is our knowledge base from this channel. Google has already studied all these videos. In the middle is the chat section where we can communicate. As if it's a teacher who knows everything written on this channel. And here is a brief analysis. These materials represent a series of transcripts from the YouTube channel Raid Spire, dedicated to comprehensive self-development. Special attention is paid to financial literacy, where the authors urge to change the poverty mentality to a millionaire mindset, avoid debt, and create passive income systems. In the right area, the so-called studio, we will receive ready-made products from this service. Audio summary - this will be a ready-made podcast. Video summary - this will be a ready-made video, mind map, flashcards for learning, infographic, presentation, data table. That is, all this will be generated based on this database.
Now we ask NotebookLM to study this channel. How scripts are written, titles, what hooks are used, what is the tone of narration. We paste the prompt into this window. All these prompts will be in your notes. Click. The script format usually follows a strict structure: hook. The video begins with a provocative question: what if, and a description of the viewer's acute pain. Introduction. The author acknowledges the listener's difficulties, often shares their own negative experiences. Main part. The material is clearly structured into numbered parts. Rules, steps, practical tasks, storytelling. There is a conclusion and a call to action. An emotional summary, inspiring immediate action.
The next step is to task NotebookLM with creating 10 variants of channel names. Paste the prompt. And here it generated 10 ideas. For example, the channel could be called "Silent Summit," "Architect of Freedom," "Path to Legacy," "Inner Fire," "Blueprint Your Own," "Discipline of Growth," "Financial Awakening," "Beyond Comfort," "Millionaire Code." [music] Excellent. I like the name "Millionaire Code." Let's write that. I like the name [music] next prompt. It writes: "Millionaire Code perfectly fits the chosen niche." Next step. We task NotebookLM with generating 10 video ideas for our new channel, Millionaire Code. While generation is in progress, don't forget to subscribe and like my channel. I am here to review new services. We test them in our sandbox.
First video for the new channel: How to disappear for 6 months and return unrecognizable. The code of quiet transformation. Second. Why are we all poor? Seven habits that secretly steal your future. Third, the 1% rule, how to manage money so that it starts working for you. Very interesting topics. I'm even curious myself how to earn the first $10,000 while you are still studying. The paradox of accessibility. Well, excellent titles.
Now we will try to create a video on one of these topics using NotebookLM. Let's choose, for example, investments in 2026. How to start from scratch and buy your freedom. Copy with the concept, with key steps, with the hook, and open a new notebook. Paste the copied text here as a source. Title: Investments in 2026. Now, to create a video, you need to click on "Video Summary" in the Studio section. But first, let's configure the video summary. Click the pencil. Educational video. Language: English. We are creating content in English. Here you can choose the visual style. Whiteboard, Kawaii, Anime, Watercolor, Retro style, Paper models. Let's choose the retro style and click generate.
While the video is being generated, you can click the "Presentation" button, also in English. Infographic. Let's make the infographic in Russian for variety. Audio summary. [music] Let's do a brief summary so I can show the capabilities of NotebookLM. I am using Google Account Pro. In the upper right corner, you see "Pro" written. But this function is also available on the free NotebookLM plan. I will provide the link in the notes in the description. You can go there, register.
10 minutes have passed. During this time, a video, presentation, infographic, and audio summary have been generated. Let's watch the video right away, what we started all this for. "It's the path to financial freedom and you know what the best part is literally anyone can do it. And look this isn't just some motivational quat." The video looks like changing slides and narration. It can work as an option, but there is a NotebookLM logo here, and YouTube may not allow monetization because NotebookLM exists for education, not for commercial use. Therefore, there is an option, for example, to download, open CapCut, create a project, import. Here in downloads, here is our video, the logo appears, yes, we divide it into 30-second segments. There is also a deletion function. Click on the brush, select this piece and click delete. It will cost 72 credits. We have 1,200 credits on our CapCut Pro account. So, this part is already deleted, and this one wasn't. The second part is deleted, the third is deleted. But you need a CapCut Pro account. But you need it for work anyway. I, for example, bought it for a year, and it's very convenient. I use it, generate images like this, and use functions like enhance quality and deletion. Inpainting. Look. Lip sync also works. You can voice an image with an avatar.
If you want to make a high-quality video, we can task NotebookLM with writing a script from scratch. Here is a detailed script. Block one, block three. You can also task it with writing prompts for this script and generating it yourself separately. For example, nanbann Pro. Here is a close-up of a person calmly drinking coffee in the morning, while asset growth charts are blurred in the background. Yes, even in this form. Everything, pasted the prompt. Nanbann. Well, okay, there's something to work with. Thus, you can start not from scratch, but create your own based on someone else's created channel. And this speeds up the process of creating your own faceless channel several times.
And now let's look at the infographic NotebookLM created. Here you go, Investments in 2026. Your path to financial freedom. I specifically made it in Russian to be clearer. Investing is discipline, not gambling. The rich make money work for them while they sleep. Use the power of compound interest, automate investments in index funds. A pleasant infographic in such interesting colors. And let's listen to the podcast. >> This is a brief breakdown of the investment strategy for 2026. How to start from zero? You know, it's commonly believed that investing is something complex only for Wall Street wolves. But this strategy proves the opposite. It's about how to make money work for you while you sleep. So, what's its secret? It all rests on just three key ideas. >> You can publish this audio summary on your Telegram channel. It will be convenient for people to listen to your recordings while commuting to work. Convenient tools for building a community and possible further monetization through paid consultations, creating courses, guides, and so on.
Today we have completed a full digital espionage course, found a profitable niche using vdex.ai analytics, and figured out how to use NotebookLM to extract competitors' success formulas and transfer them to our channel. What to do next? If this episode saved you time, support it with a subscription and a like. In AI Sandbox, we test only what really works. And so that you don't struggle with rewriting prompts from the screen, I have compiled a detailed guide for you on how to clone a channel: a step-by-step instruction. All prompts and settings from this video are already waiting for you in my Telegram channel. The link is in the description below the video. Go, grab it, and implement it. See you in the next experiments.