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YouTube Shorts That Don’t Show Your Face

Famous and Faceless: 16 Ideas for Face-Free YouTube Shorts
3 Examples of face-free YouTube Shorts

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YouTube Shorts are an amazing way for content creators to reach millions of viewers in a short amount of time. But not everyone is comfortable showing their face on camera - many YouTubers prefer to create faceless content, which allows them to maintain privacy while still engaging their audience. 

With the right strategy, faceless YouTube channels can grow fast, attract thousands of subscribers, and even monetize successfully! So let’s explore the best YouTube Shorts ideas that don’t require showing your face, along with tips on how to make your faceless videos interesting, entertaining, and profitable.

Why Create Faceless YouTube Shorts?

Creating faceless YouTube Shorts is the perfect option for those who enjoy creating content, but still want to stay anonymous. Faceless Shorts put the focus on the content of your videos rather than your appearance. Whether you’re an introvert, a private person, a business owner who wants to stay under the radar, or just someone who enjoys digital creativity, faceless YouTube videos offer many advantages.

Privacy Protection

Many YouTubers prefer to keep their identity hidden, avoiding unwanted attention. This privacy allows them to stay focused on their content and keeps them out of the public eye, enabling them to fulfill their content creation and Shorts goals while still going about their everyday lives.

Ease of Production

Without the need for on-camera appearances, you can create videos at the drop of a hat by simply using screen recordings, stock footage, or animations. This makes it possible to produce content quickly - and who doesn’t enjoy a work from home environment that lets you stay in your pajamas?

Unique Creative Opportunities

While you might think it would be the opposite, faceless YouTube content actually opens you up to endless creative possibilities, from whiteboard animations to motivational videos to voiceover-driven storytelling. You can explore lots of diverse formats and experiment with different types of content for your YouTube video Shorts without the limitations that come with needing to appear on camera.

Scalability

Faceless YouTube channel ideas can be scaled quickly and efficiently, so you can repurpose and automate your content. You can easily batch-create multiple videos without needing to prepare yourself and your lighting for each shot, focusing more on content than appearance. This leaves you more time to come up with Shorts ideas, make videos, and manage your faceless channel monetization!

Successful Faceless YouTube Creators

Many YouTubers have built highly successful faceless channels, some of them probably in genres you wouldn’t expect! Here are three great examples:

Screenshot of Bright Side YouTube channel

Bright Side: This popular YouTube channel creates informative videos with animations, stock footage, interesting graphs and charts, and slideshows, focusing on engaging and educational content.

Screenshot of TechZone YouTube channel

TechZone: TechZone’s success lies in consistent, high quality content without the need for face time on camera, instead keeping the focus on supercars, inventions, cool tools, and gadgets. 

Screenshot of So Yummy YouTube channel

So Yummy: You’ll see plenty of hands doing skilled chef work, and lots of interesting foodstuffs and gadgets, but this is yet another successful YouTube channel that rarely, if ever, shows faces.

How to Make Engaging Faceless YouTube Shorts

Faceless YouTube videos need to be just as engaging as those featuring on-camera creators - so here are some great ways to be sure your Shorts will grab viewers’ attention, even minus your face!

Choose a Good Niche

Picking the right niche for your Shorts is crucial for success. While it’s always best to choose something you’re actually interested in to make sure your videos come across as genuine, it’s helpful to consider high performing YouTube categories like entertainment, tech, motivational videos, or tutorials.

You can also analyze what successful faceless YouTubers are doing to help you identify gaps in the market; this can help you find where you can provide value to your audience. If you have a unique expertise or interest, that can also make your channel stand out from others.

Stay on Top of Trends

Coordinating your YouTube Shorts with video and pop culture trends, and also using trending music or sounds, are both great ways to boost engagement. 

While not every trend will suit your Shorts content, jumping on relevant trends as soon as you see them can help push your Shorts forward as more viewers search for trending topics.

Use Stock Visuals

Stock footage and AI tools are great assets to YouTubers looking to create video clips and Shorts without showing their faces. Stock footage platforms like Pexels and Unsplash can supply you with video clips and still images at no cost, and you can combine these elements with stock background music and screen recordings to make your videos more appealing.

Front page of the Unsplash website
Unsplash is one of several sites where you can download still photos and video clips to use in your faceless YouTube Shorts and videos.

Content creators who want to keep both their face and their voice out of their videos can even use AI voice generators to provide high quality voiceovers for their YouTube Shorts.

Improve Engagement with Editing

Great editing is essential for keeping viewers hooked! Use smooth transitions, dynamic text overlays, background music and voiceovers, and sound effects to really add a pro feel to your YouTube Shorts. Experiment with pacing and visual effects to add even more interest and energy. And add CTAs (calls to action) via text or voiceover to help guide your audience through your content and toward any actions you want them to take.

Free and paid editing tools like CapCut, Adobe Premiere Rush, and Final Cut Pro can help you create truly engaging faceless YouTube videos.  

Screenshot of the CapCut video editing site
While perhaps not as well known as Adobe or Final Cut Pro, CapCut is a reasonably priced and easy to use video editing tool with a huge library of effects, transitions, audio, and more.

Post Consistently

The YouTube algorithm rewards frequent uploads, so try creating your faceless YouTube videos on a regular schedule, for instance daily, weekly, or 3 times a week - to keep your viewers engaged. 

Regular content uploads help build momentum, keep your YouTube Shorts section fresh, and give your audience something to look forward to.

Optimize for YouTube’s Algorithm

Making your content SEO-friendly helps your faceless YouTube Shorts reach a larger audience. Use high ranking keywords in your titles, descriptions, and hashtags. 

A couple of easy ways to research effective keywords are to use the YouTube search bar by typing the hashtag symbol followed by a topic or keyword, and noting the other hashtags that pop up in the drop-down; you can also go to the Trending tab, browse through videos about topics similar to yours, and check out the hashtags they’re using.

16 Faceless YouTube Shorts Ideas to Get You Started

From educational content to audio based Shorts, animations to reactions, tutorials to motivational clips, there are plenty of creative ways to make faceless YouTube Shorts! Here are some great YouTube channel ideas and faceless video ideas to help focus your creativity:

1. DIY Projects: Share quick crafting, home hacks, or simple repairs that people can do themselves. This YouTube channel idea is very popular for YouTube Shorts, as they both deliver value to your viewers, and also allow for creativity in how you present the to-do steps to your viewers.

2. Science Experiments: If you’ve got the knowledge, you can create videos and tutorials of fun chemical reactions and STEM-based experiments that kids and adults can try at home. Add text explanations, music, and voiceovers to create a great blend of education and entertainment.

Examples of YouTube science experiment Shorts
Quick science experiments are a perfect educational fit for YouTube Shorts.

3. Cooking Tutorials: Step by step recipes with voiceover instructions are popular Shorts on YouTube! Even quick cooking tutorials, like how to make a smoothie or a simple snack, can become viral hits if they’re quick, easy to replicate, and have standout visuals.

4. Ambient Videos: This is another genre where you definitely don’t need to show your face, because the sound and vibe are the main features. Use stock footage and music to create them, and complement the sound with great visuals, making sure they loop perfectly at the 3 minute mark.

Example of an ambient YouTube short ("Snowfall")
Ambient Shorts like this one from Shattered_Illusions’ ambient YouTube channel can give viewers a calming deep breath in the middle of a busy day.

5. Motivational Videos: Success stories, short inspirational moments, and personal development tips are good YouTube channel ideas if you’re looking to build a positive-focused audience.. Many Shorts creators use stock footage along with voiceovers to deliver these motivational messages.

6. Whiteboard Explainers: Whiteboard videos allow you to present complex concepts in a simplified way, making them perfect YouTube channel ideas for explainer content. Mix educational content with basic animations for these Shorts, to catch eyes and inform your YouTube viewers.

7. Animated Storytelling: Many YouTubers create videos using only animations and images! Similar to whiteboard videos, these camera-free formats, using motion graphics, stop-motion, or cartoon-styled animation, allow for the creation of engaging faceless Shorts.  

8. Slideshow Presentations: Slideshows are a great way to convey information in a quick and entertaining way - these YouTube channel ideas have you pairing up text with dynamic transitions and images to showcase fun facts, comparisons, top 10 lists, or trends.

9. Virtual Tours: Create travel related content using public domain video, stock footage, or clips from places you’ve personally visited. You can showcase landmarks, cities, airports, or hiking trails to provide virtual tours without showing your face.

Example of a YouTube travel short showing the Eiffel Tower
TimeLabPro creates artistic destination YouTube Shorts and videos, “virtually touring” viewers through foreign countries and popular landmarks.

10. Gameplay Videos: Gamers can create fun faceless videos by simply screen recording their gameplay and adding voiceover commentary or text to highlight a splashy moment during their game. Twitch users can easily make YouTube Shorts from their channel clips!

11. Home Decor: Home and apartment decorating videos are widely popular because they visually demonstrate how to upscale your space! You can share before and after looks at room transformations, decor tutorials, or creative home organization tips, all perfect for faceless YouTube videos.

12. Gardening Tips: If you’ve got a green thumb, you can make videos sharing quick tips on how to care for plants, grow vegetables, or design landscapes. Gardening Shorts attract viewers interested in plant care, beautiful garden footage, and eco-friendly lifestyles.

Front page of Jacques in the Garden's YouTube channel
JacquesInTheGarden offers a huge roster of YouTube Shorts full of gardening tips and harvest-to-table recipes.

13. Life Hacks: Life hack videos, featuring quick and useful tricks to simplify daily life, let you share your knowledge and offer immediately useful info to your YouTube viewers. Shorts from this YouTube channel idea also tend to get shared because of their practical value.

14. Product Unboxings: Unboxing videos can showcase anything from gadgets or snacks to beauty products, fashion, or trending items. A well made unboxing video can generate hype even as a faceless Short, especially if it’s a product that’s new, in-demand, or popular.

15. Tech Reviews: Tech reviews are a great niche for faceless creators, especially since tech products are often easy to describe through their specs and promo materials. With this YouTube channel idea, you can showcase smartphones, laptops, apps, or any other gadgets that you think might be a hit.

An assortment of tech review YouTube Shorts
Tech reviews are a very popular Shorts category on YouTube!

16. Book Summaries: Book summaries can be a very engaging form of content on your YouTube channel, providing value to viewers who want the essence of a book without reading the full text. You can share spoiler-free plot previews, or highlight key points from textbooks.

Get More Eyes On Your YouTube Shorts With Fourthwall

Once your faceless YouTube channel gets some attention, it's time to focus on monetization! YouTube Shorts creators can earn revenue directly on YouTube through ads, sponsorships, and affiliate marketing - but you can also sell branded merchandise on a site like Fourthwall, which is one of the best ways to generate a steady income from your YouTube content.

Fourthwall is an all in one platform designed to help YouTubers, including faceless creators, design and sell their own branded merch, directly from your own customized Fourthwall store

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Whether you create entertainment Shorts, motivational videos, tutorials, gameplay videos, or product reviews, Fourthwall makes it easy to design and sell high quality products without needing any upfront investment or inventory management.

From custom T-shirts and hoodies to mugs and stickers, you can offer unique branded items that resonate with your audience, and sell them on your main YouTube channel by connecting your Fourthwall store to YouTube Shopping. Ready to add even more monetization to your faceless YouTube channel? Start selling with Fourthwall today, and turn your audience into customers!

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