For Business Inquiries: [email protected] Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:01 - The hidden niche validation method most creators miss 2:04 - The overlooked AI niche quietly taking over YouTube 2:57 - Small channel strategy that’s suddenly exploding 3:29 - The controversial reselling blueprint nobody talks about 4:32 - The replica technique sparking debate online 6:02 - Beginner-friendly AI strategy changing the game 7:31 - The hidden backend strategy top creators rely on 8:43 - The underrated AI news content blueprint 9:39 - The controversial perspective driving massive engagement 11:46 - The “boring” job niche with surprising demand 13:28 - The time-machine strategy that gives an unfair advantage ---------- SALARY DISCLAIMER: All income figures presented in this video are sourced from Glassdoor reports at the time of editing. These represent reported salary ranges for full-time positions, which may differ from freelance, contract, or part-time opportunities discussed. Actual earnings vary significantly based on experience, location, skills, hours worked, and current market conditions. The figures presented represent potential earnings according to third-party sources, not guaranteed results.
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All right guys, today I'm gonna be covering
boring YouTube niches that make the most money
and I'm actually gonna be showing some of the smaller
and newer channels within those niches
that are up and comers
that are really crushing it right now.
Now, this video is meant to be educational,
showing you which niches are the best,
showing you which video ideas are the best,
what strategies are working
and also how to monetize these channels too.
But it's also meant to be inspirational
and motivational to you.
Hopefully you can get some motivation from these
and take a few things here and there
for your own YouTube channel.
With that being said,
I always like to give the disclaimer
that any business out there
has a higher chance of failing than succeeding
and YouTube is no exception.
That is one of the reasons why I make these videos
to make your probability of success significantly higher
but I go beyond that.
All right, quick break,
I'm hanging out with my brother Zach right now.
He's not a tech guy at all
and he made $214 in a single day on YouTube.
And I just wanted to let you know
that this week, Tuesday, 9 p.m. Eastern time,
we are hosting a free live one-time workshop.
So one thing that people struggle with the most
is finding their niche
and that is why we actually created an AI
called the Niche Validator
that's gonna help you find your niche
or help you dial in your niche if you already have one.
And we're gonna be giving away this Niche Validator
this week at a live workshop
and it's called the YouTube Content Advantage
for Making Money in 2026
and it's happening on April 7th, 2026.
So make sure you mark that down.
If you're struggling to find your niche
or you don't wanna commit months or even years
to a niche that ends up not being profitable,
then this is for you.
So click the link in the description
in the pinned comment below
and once you register,
hit add to calendar so it shows up
on your Google, Apple, or Outlook calendar.
And if for whatever reason,
you're watching this in the future,
still check the link in the description
in the pinned comment below
because we may be doing another live workshop in the future
and it'll tell you when.
Now, you'll also be able to ask me questions live
so I look forward to meeting you
and you'll also get an update
on how this guy is doing on YouTube as well.
So see you this week
and back to your regularly scheduled programming.
All right, the first boring YouTube niche
that I'm gonna be giving into
is basically building local AI agents.
Now, an example of that is this channel right here.
1.5 million views in 12 days.
This is a brand new channel
and vidIQ says that they're already making
about two to $5,000 a month
with a brand new channel that's only posted one video.
So basically what a local AI agent is
is a agent that you set up either on a computer
or some sort of server that you typically have at your house
that you can easily interact with.
And of course, these local AI agents
have exploded in popularity recently
with the release of Clodbot, also known as OpenClod now.
And there are countless channels out there
getting hundreds of thousands or even millions of views
talking about Clodbot and OpenClod.
But it's not just those big channels that are getting views.
Even tiny channels that are talking about
other types of local AI agents
are also blowing up just like this one right here, Brenpulli.
So I'm gonna be focusing on these smaller,
newer channels in this video,
but just know that there's other channels
that are making six figures, seven figures,
sometimes even eight figures a year in these same niches.
And it's also based on the character BMO
from Adventure Time as well.
Perhaps the greatest challenge isn't creating intelligence,
but understanding what it means to be truly human.
And yeah, this channel is gonna blow up.
I would imagine if they do things correctly,
they're gonna be making a lot more money
than they're making right now, which is pretty epic.
All right, next channel is going to be a bit controversial
and I do not condone this in any way, shape or form.
However, this channel is going to be Terry Zhao
and this is a channel that talks about reselling.
Now, there's certain types of reselling
that is completely ethical,
where you just buy stuff low and then sell stuff high.
And then there's a type of reselling
that is very arguably unethical
and then there's kind of a lot of different shades between,
but basically it's where you kind of do replicas
of real products out there and then resell those replicas,
or you buy the replicas and then resell them.
And most of the time, of course,
people know that they're buying replicas,
but it's still unethical considering the original company
isn't making any profit from their brand
and stuff like that.
So with that being said, I'm not condoning this at all.
However, there is an entire industry of channels
that talk about replicas.
Many people argue that it is ethical
and they think it's ethical, but I do not condone it.
With that being said, this channel does talk about that.
They talk about one-to-one replicas and reselling,
where some of these replicas are so close to the real thing
that you literally can't tell the difference
unless you are an expert.
Now, you might be looking here
and you might be thinking this channel
is not making any money.
It's only making like 68 to $205 a month.
But in reality, this channel is monetizing
in a completely different way
because they have a link tree,
where first of all, you can buy the replicas
and they have affiliate links and that kind of thing to them.
But more importantly, they have a course
and they have coaching on how to actually make money
with replicas.
And so I happen to know that this channel
is making at least six figures,
even with this tiny channel
that's only getting probably about 30 to 50,000 views,
somewhere around there,
they're making at least six figures from this channel.
And there are tons of channels that cover reselling.
Some of them cover replica reselling, some of them do not.
There's also a lot of channels
that just cover replicas in general,
whether or not they agree with them or not.
So for instance, this channel right here, Risk Check,
made these videos on the best Rolex Super Clone.
This fake Submariner is insane.
So that's just an example of people making money,
whether or not they're making money directly
from the replicas or just covering the replicas,
or they're making money
from just talking about reselling in general.
There are many, many different niches
that are all about reselling,
whether it's ethical or not online.
And this is a tiny channel
that's making really good money doing it.
Now, the next niche is AI Coding and AI Workflows,
specifically for beginners.
And this is an example of a channel that does this,
Leon Van Zyl.
And he makes a lot of videos on how to use Clawed Code,
how to use Open Claw, et cetera.
And he does it from a beginner perspective,
basically just pretending like you don't know anything
about any of these.
I'm going to teach you how to build AI agents
that can see, speak, and think for themselves
without writing any code.
Now, when we were doing the research for this video,
it showed that he was making about three to 8K per month
just from AdSense alone.
But AdSense is not where he's really making his money.
You see, if you look at the links in his About section,
as well as his description,
you're gonna see where the real money is coming from.
For one, he's got a school group here
that only costs about $7 a month.
It's got over 600 members,
meaning he's probably making around $5,000 a month
from this school group.
Plus he's got affiliate links and other links
where you can either donate money to him
or affiliate links for different products.
And those are probably making him
a good amount of money as well.
So he's definitely making at least six figures a year
from this channel.
I would imagine he's making minimum
multiple six figures a year.
And there are countless channels that are doing this.
Some of the coding channels
are making like a million dollars a month.
And of course, these are the ones that are focusing on AI.
For instance, this guy, Matt Wolf,
revealed that he was making over $700,000 a month
with this channel.
And if you look at his estimated monthly earnings,
it says he's only making two to 5K a month.
And by the way, that's one thing
that you really wanna keep in mind
is that if you just look at the money
they're making from AdSense,
that might be a tiny amount.
But for a lot of channels,
if they're in the right niche
and if they're monetizing correctly,
can make far, far more from backend monetization methods.
Just as an example, on this channel,
I make about $20 per 1,000 views from AdSense alone,
but I make over $400 per 1,000 views.
And that's actually on the conservative side
from all of the other methods.
And that's something I reveal exactly how to do
in this live workshop that we're doing this week.
So click that link in the description
in the pinned comment below to learn more about that.
It's completely free.
So there's literally no reason to not attend.
Once you click and sign up,
make sure you put it in your calendar as well.
And honestly, Matt went from pretty much zero
to making almost a million dollars a month
in just three years.
I mean, if you look back at his channel,
he was making content on stuff
that had nothing at all to do with AI.
And he was just getting nowhere with that content.
And then three years ago, he started talking about AI
and his channel absolutely blew up.
So yeah, sometimes it really pays to pivot niches,
which again is another thing
that I'll talk about in the live training.
So click the link in the description
and pinned comment below,
because you might be stuck in a niche
that's just a dead end and it just leads to nowhere.
You can very easily pivot to a niche
that is significantly better.
Or if you don't want to make educational content
like how-tos and that kind of thing for AI and tech,
what you could do is just start a news channel
on AI and tech.
And that's exactly what Fireship did.
This is a channel that gets 6 million views a month.
According to view stats,
they're making about 16 to $45,000 a month.
And according to vidIQ,
they're making 38 to $113,000 a month.
And keep in mind,
this is literally just from AdSense alone.
If you count all the other stuff,
they are making far, far more.
They, of course, are monetizing in other ways.
For instance, they have sponsorships like Hostinger.
They lead people to the Fireship website.
They have affiliate links, et cetera, et cetera.
So if they're monetizing correctly,
they're making a heck of a lot more than that.
Now, their most viewed video
was God Tier Developer Roadmap.
We're going to travel to the deepest, darkest depths
of the software engineering field.
That video got 8 million views and made over $40,000.
All right, guys, but you might be thinking,
Shane, I am not interested in tech.
I want to hear about other stuff
and how other people are making money.
Well, here is another niche,
which is basically just the religion niche in general.
And showing a channel that's been kind of blowing up
in this niche recently,
that's called It's God's Plan.
Now, this channel is making 759 to $2,000 a month
just from AdSense alone.
They're probably too new to be monetizing correctly,
but they recently have been blowing up
with these types of videos.
Keeping a man happy is simple,
but most wives are too selfish to even try.
Isn't it crazy that so many married men
absolutely hate their wives?
Now, I'm not saying I agree or disagree,
but this is kind of a contrarian take.
And specifically, you know, this is in the religious niche,
and specifically Christianity.
There's lots of other channels out there in this niche,
like Wes Huff, for instance, Bible History, and more.
This channel makes four to $11,000 a month.
Of course, there's other ways that they can monetize.
There's channels like RedeemedZoomer
that make cartoon versions of basically Christian videos.
They're making five to $15,000 a month.
And then there's my client, DamianNKennedy,
who's making a full-time income from their YouTube channel,
which they just started.
And it says they're only making $263 to $790
in AdSense per month,
but they're making a full-time income from this channel
because they're monetizing correctly on the back end.
And they're all about basically, you know,
helping Christians find their ideal partner
that basically has the same values as you.
And then if you already have your ideal partner,
optimizing your relationship,
making sure that your relationship is as good as possible.
So this is an awesome channel,
and I also just did a video where I interviewed them.
So really good stuff.
So yeah, I think you can see that this is a big niche,
and there's all these kind of sub-niches
within the bigger niche.
There's probably like thousands of sub-niches
within the bigger niche of, you know,
Christianity or religion.
And you can talk about that stuff
and make a full-time income from YouTube doing it.
So when I'm showing you these niches,
like I don't mean you need to do the exact niche.
Just think of all the sub-niches,
all the other niches that are similar to these
that you could potentially do.
And this is one thing I really help people with
because one of the biggest things people struggle with
is picking their niche.
And that's where we're gonna be focusing on
in the live workshop that we're doing this week.
So click that link in the description
and the pinned comment below to attend it.
And then finally, I've got a super boring niche,
which is basically helping people get jobs,
but specifically helping people get jobs in the trades.
And this particular channel, Zach of All Trades,
is ran by my own brother, Zach.
So basically I convinced him to make a YouTube channel.
He really didn't wanna do it,
but his first video ever blew up, got over 800,000 views.
And one month after posting his video,
he was already making $214 a day from his channel.
He's now making a heck of a lot more
than that from his channel.
Last time we checked,
about six months after this channel started,
he had a $510 day.
So he's absolutely crushing it.
Plus he's making money from affiliate marketing
and other ways as well.
And by the way, we're gonna be giving updates
on Zach as well during the live training.
He might actually show up to it as well.
Sometimes he shows up.
So click that link in the chat
or the description in the pinned comment below.
And do not miss out on the live
because we're only doing it this one time.
Now, Zach is not the only one in this niche.
This is actually one of my favorite niches,
which is basically just kind of semi-replacing
most of the current education system
and just helping people get jobs
without having to go six figures in debt
to get a college degree.
So this is something I've talked about a lot on my channel.
And we've had countless client after client after client
where all they did is basically they got a job
and then they just teach people
how they can get the same job.
GRC for Mere Mortals is an example of a channel
that's crushing it, doing this exact model,
teaching people how to get into cybersecurity jobs,
specific one called GRC.
The Financial Controller is another example of a channel
that basically helps accountants
become financial controllers.
He's crushing it.
And I could just keep going on and on and on
for all the different types of people that we've helped
in this type of niche.
It's actually one of my favorite types of niches
and it's so useful and it's so good.
Because just imagine if you had a time machine,
like whatever job you're in right now,
imagine if you had a time machine
and you could go back in time and tell yourself
exactly what to put on your resume,
what skills to have, what projects to make, et cetera,
and how to interview to get the job that you currently have.
I bet you could tell yourself,
you'd just be able to give yourself the cheat sheet, right?
It'd be like a cheat code, right?
Well, that's what you can do for other people.
And you can charge them a lot of money to do that
because they're going to get the job
and they're going to make hundreds of thousands
or millions of extra dollars over their lifetime
because of it.
And they're going to be able to save a ton of time
and not have to go to college, et cetera.
So this is one of my favorite niches
and it's just an absolute no-brainer value proposition.
You can cover more like broad jobs, just jobs broadly,
kind of like Zach of all trades,
or you can cover very, very specific jobs as well.
But yeah, attend the live training.
If any of these sound interesting to you,
I'm going to be showing people how to pick their niche,
how to make the right videos
and how to make it happen with a channel
that you can actually make a full-time income from.
So attend that live training,
click the link in the description
and the pinned comment below.
And also, if you want to check out that interview
I did with Damon and Kennedy,
check that out by clicking right here.