6 Weird Niches That Are Crazy Profitable on YouTube

This channel right here blends English and Japanese calligraphy, so his videos are literally back and forth between English and Japanese, and sometimes he even blends them together, and he makes 53 to $158,000 a month. This channel, in my opinion, is a bit weird, but they're still absolutely crushing it. And today I'm gonna be going over this channel and other channels and how they're getting views, what video ideas they're picking, what niches they're picking, and how they're monetizing their channel. And this is meant to be educational, but also motivational and inspirational to you. With that being said, I do want to always preface this and have a disclaimer that most YouTubers do not make money, just like any other business out there, right? Most people who try just about any business out there do not make money, most businesses fail. And that's why I make these videos to give you examples and case studies of successful YouTube businesses from somebody who's grown my own successful YouTube business to eight figures, and I've also taught over 1,000 people how to do the same. And not only do I teach you for free on this channel and give you all kinds of awesome, amazing education completely free, but I also do completely free live workshops. And my next one is happening this week. So click the link in the description and the pinned comment below. And on this workshop, I'll tell you exactly what to do to build a sustainable channel, what not to do, which is probably even more important. I'll give you a step-by-step guide to get started. I'll help you to pick your niche and pick your video ideas. And then at the very end, I'm going to answer any question you have about YouTube for as long as necessary. It's literally like a workshop. It's a Zoom call where you will see me. It will be a live workshop. Super excited to have you there. So click that link in the description and the pinned comment below. Do not miss out on it. Okay, so back to the Japanese calligrapher, Takumi. He's making about 50 to $150,000 a month, according to vidIQ. And his most viewed video, which was a very short video, only about five minutes long, and it was called Print Incursive Handwriting with Pencil, Neat and Clean. It was about four years ago. That video got 55 million views and made $42,000. Now, his channel probably had its heyday quite some time ago. It's probably on the decline a little bit, but that still doesn't mean he's not making a ton of money from it because he has nearly 3 billion views, guys. I cannot describe, like, 3 billion views is an insane amount of views. So he has likely made tens of millions of dollars from this channel. And if you look in his About section, as well as his description, he does have a lot of affiliate links as well. So he's likely making a lot more than just from AdSense alone. With that being said, I have found time and time again that most YouTubers are terrible when it comes to monetizing their channel. They're literally leaving, like, millions and millions of dollars on the table every single year. And I've helped so many YouTubers. For instance, Sean, he was making about $30,000 a month. I helped him get to over $500,000 a month just by properly monetizing his audience. And just to give an example of this, I make about $20 per 1,000 views from AdSense on this channel. AdSense are the ads that show up on the channel. And that is the primary way that most people think that YouTubers monetize. But I make about $400 per 1,000 views from all other sources of income. And this is a mass market channel, meaning it does get millions of views a month. And it's designed to appeal to a bit of a broader audience. However, I have a second channel that's designed to appeal to a very niche audience, basically just business owners or advanced YouTubers who are trying to scale their YouTube channel. And that channel makes over $4,000 per 1,000 views. So if you're monetizing correctly, whether you have a big channel or a small channel, you should be making way more money than just AdSense alone. And that's something I see a lot of YouTubers messing up on. The aggregate, like, YouTubers are leaving billions of dollars on the table by not monetizing correctly. And you could actually monetize with a very small channel if you do it correctly as well. And that is something we will be covering in the live workshop called Make Money With YouTube, YouTube Secrets. That's this week. So click that link in the description in the pinned comment below to attend. Oh, and by the way, this is a one-time live workshop and we're also gonna be giving away an AI that makes the entire process significantly easier called the Niche Validator Pro 2.3. So click that link in the description in the pinned comment below to check that out too. And if you see this in the future, still click the link because there's a good chance that we'll be doing workshops in the future as well. And it'll tell you exactly when the next one is. All right, next channel is The Critical Drinker. And this is a very sort of sarcastic movie review channel. And he makes about 23 to $70,000 a month. Now this channel came up when I was checking out the Iron Lung movie review. So well done, Markiplier. You took a gamble and it paid off. Big congrats to Markiplier for launching Iron Lung. It was a massive success. I think that is absolutely amazing how YouTubers are basically kind of taking on Hollywood right now because in my opinion, Hollywood movies have not been very good lately as well. With the exception of Sinners. Sinners was excellent. And a few others here and there. But yeah, Critical Drinker, you know, I agree with some of the stuff he says on his channel. Basically just Hollywood movies kind of suck these days. I think a lot of people would agree and that's why the movie industry is kind of on a massive decline right now. And decentralized media like random YouTubers are able to make movies that are disrupting Hollywood. But yeah, he's making about 23 to $70,000 a month. According to ViewStats, he's making even more, about 35 to $98,000 a month. And his most popular video was why Ghostbusters 2016 failed, a scene comparison. It tries and fails to improve on the original without really understanding what made it so effective in the first place. That got about 8 million views and made about $42,000. All right, so speaking of Markiplier, he's always been a bit weird, let's be honest. I love him, but he's definitely a bit weird. He doesn't post as much as he used to. He probably doesn't take YouTube nearly as seriously as he used to as well. But he's still making about 70 to $200,000 a month. Basically just semi-passively from his YouTube channel. It's not even his main focus. He's also launched a bunch of businesses from YouTube as well. For instance, Cloak Brand. I'm sure he's got lots of sponsorships and lots of other stuff going on as well. So he's crushing it on his channel. But the most interesting thing is that he was able to launch this movie, Iron Lung. And it launched on January 30th and it was actually number one in the box office for a short period of time. I think it ended up being number two after a little bit, but still it had an unbelievable amount of success. And they say that it made at least seven times what it costs to produce, which is pretty insane in a world full of movies that are actually losing money when they launch. And he's just getting started. This is just the launch, so I'm sure a lot of people are gonna end up buying it on DVD and all that kind of stuff too. But yeah, what a massive W for Markiplier. Big shout out to him. What a talented guy, first of all. One of the goats of YouTube undoubtedly. And also someone just paving the way for other YouTubers. Imagine being able to have such a big audience that you can actually launch a movie, make it a really good movie, and then it ends up being like number one or number two in the box office and make seven times more than what it costs to produce. Unreal. So huge shout out to Markiplier, awesome stuff. And this just shows the power of YouTube. YouTube is totally taking over traditional media. It's just completely disrupting it and it's not stopping anytime soon. So this is one of the things we'll talk about in the live training. Attend that live training, click the link in the description in the pinned comment below. Completely free, just lots and lots of value, completely free, so attend the live training. Now, if you're watching this and you're thinking, Shane, this is only for channels that get millions of views and it's only for young people. Actually, you're totally wrong. Let me give you an example. Retirement Survival, this channel started very recently. Oldest video was about seven months ago. And they're making about seven to $21,000 a month. They're not getting a million views a month. Their most popular video was about one month ago. It was 1.8 million views, but typically they don't get a million views a month. Today I'm gonna talk about how much YouTube paid me for my small channel. And he's absolutely crushing it, making a ton of money. And he's making these super, super simple videos as well. Literally just probably recorded with the phone, no extra fancy stuff, maybe a mic, a phone and a mic, that's it. No scripting, no editing, just record with the phone for six minutes, 10 minutes, nine minutes, et cetera. Post that video up and he's making seven to $21,000 a month. Now, one of the big reasons for this is because that YouTube is currently having basically a renaissance right now, where either artificially or just naturally, they're recommending older people, right? They're recommending an older demographic likely because they want to attract an older demographic that advertisers will spend more money to get in front of. And so we're seeing this very simple, very basic content blow up from older creators again and again. Let me give you some more examples. RJ the Unretired is one of my clients. One month after starting his YouTube channel in his second month or so, he made $28,000. And the reason for this is because YouTube tends to pay more money to get in front of older audiences and older creators tend to attract an older audience. So he's absolutely crushing it. You know, 1.3 million views was his most viewed video. That was about four months ago. Know this, 64% of retirees file early. And if you look at his view stats profile, it says that he made about 6,000 from that video, but I actually have access to his profile and I know he made far, far more than that. So these tools are always guessing how much people are making, but for educational content, you make a higher amount. For older audiences, you also make a higher amount. So he's making far, far more than this. And like I said, in the second month on his channel, he made around 20 to $30,000. And if that wasn't enough, Zach of all trades, my own brother, 50 years old. The other channels I showed you, one of them was about 70, 80 years old. RJ is around 60 something years old. Zach is 50 years old. He started on YouTube. Basically he spent his whole life in the trades, made a really good income, but it was starting to get really tough on his body. So he came to me, he's like, Shane, how can I make money without sacrificing my body? He thought I was gonna tell him to do a remote job or something like that. And I was just like, no, do YouTube. He was very skeptical because he's not tech savvy. He's never made a video in his life. He just doesn't know how to do YouTube at all. He's not even really a YouTube person, but he listened to me. His very first video that he posted, blew up, got over 800,000 views. Everyone out here is talking about the same damn trades. Completely changed the game for his channel. One month after posting his first video, he was already making $214 in a single day, just from AdSense alone. Plus he's making money from affiliate marketing, et cetera. Less than six months after starting his channel, he was making like 500 something dollars a day, just from AdSense alone. So yeah, absolutely crushing it with his channel. He's gonna end up making a ton of money in his first year on YouTube. And he might even show up to the live workshop we're doing this week. So click that link in the description in the pinned comment below, if you wanna see him, or if you just wanna see an update on how he's doing. Now, additionally, Zack of course worked directly with us and that is how he got results. We have a select type of client that we will work with one-on-one to get results for, but we only accept about 18% of people who apply. So listen very carefully to see if you're the right type of person. One, business owners who want to grow and make money on their YouTube channel. So they wanna get more leads and they wanna scale their business with YouTube. These are people who wanna start right now and they're long-term focused. If you're somebody who wants to get rich overnight, or just like you expect to just go from zero to doubling or tripling your business overnight, we do not wanna work with you. But business owners who are long-term focused and they wanna start right now and they wanna use YouTube as a way to get more leads, that's the type of person we like to work with. Two, YouTubers who are getting a lot of views, they're making some money, but they're not monetizing correctly and they want our help with monetization. Three, YouTubers who are absolutely crushing it already and they wanna crush it 10 times harder. They wanna scale their YouTube channel. That's the type of person we love to work with as well. And then four, people who really want to take YouTube seriously. Usually these are people who have skills in their life, they're kind of professionals already and they just want to share those skills on YouTube and they're willing to treat it like a business and they wanna take it seriously and they want to start right now. So if you're any of those types of people, go ahead, apply directly to book a call with us in the description, in the pinned comment below. If it's not down there, it'll also be in the About section of the channel. On this call, we'll figure out where you are right now, where you wanna be, we'll make a plan to get there and we'll see if we're a good fit to work together or not. The call will be valuable whether or not we end up working together. Oftentimes we help people really dial their niche in on the call, but only book it if you're very serious. This is an example of one of our clients who did book that call and did work with us and he ended up absolutely crushing it. Click right here to check out more.