How to start a faceless YouTube channel

1. Choose a subject and a format

Start narrow: one region's history, one kind of animal, one sport, one field of science. A narrow subject gives you a long list of ideas that belong together, and it tells a viewer what the next video will be.

Then choose the shape the videos share. Ginvid calls these video types: Story, Top 5, Did you know, True story, Geography, Data, Quiz, Reddit-style story, Scary story, Would you rather, Two truths and a lie, and Quotes. The Video page opens with the most used ones as cards. Pick one and keep it for the first videos, so the channel has a recognisable form.

2. Create the channel on YouTube

You create the channel yourself, in YouTube. According to YouTube's help page, you open the profile picture menu, go to Settings, choose Add or manage channel(s) and then Create a channel, and pick a name and a handle. A Brand Account is the option when more than one person should manage the channel or when its name should differ from your Google Account.

Ginvid does not create a YouTube channel for you. You connect the channel you made when you want to publish from Ginvid; until then you download the file and upload it yourself.

3. Make the first videos

On Ginvid's Video page you choose the type, write the idea in one line, read the script it writes, adjust the Auto settings (voice, look, length) and see the price before you press Make. A Short can be 5 seconds to 3 minutes; a landscape video up to 7 minutes. Every word of the script can be edited before anything is made.

Make three to five videos in the same format before you decide anything about the channel. They show you what the format costs in credits and time, and what you want to change.

4. Answer YouTube's questions for each video

• Made for kids: YouTube requires every creator to say whether videos are made for kids, and a wrong answer can lead to action against the account.
• Altered or synthetic content: YouTube asks you to disclose realistic content that was made or changed with AI. The details are in Is AI-generated content allowed on YouTube?
• Shorts: a square or vertical video of up to three minutes is a Short (YouTube). More in How long should a YouTube Short be?

5. Keep the videos original

YouTube's policy on inauthentic content is aimed at videos that look made from a template or mass-produced. It says a series is fine when each episode has its own storyline, focus or concept, even in a similar format. In practice that means a new topic and a new angle in every video, a script you have read and corrected, and pictures that fit the subject. The same page says AI-generated content can fall under the policy when it relies on generic templates and gives an impression of mass production, which is a reason to edit rather than to avoid AI.

6. Set a schedule you can keep

Choose how many videos a week you can check. Ginvid's Autopilot can make each video on the days you choose and email it to you; it publishes by itself only if you switch that on. Nobody can promise how many people will watch, and this page does not.

What Ginvid does not do

• It does not create or verify the YouTube channel, or decide the channel's subject.
• It does not guarantee views, subscribers or any other result.
• It does not check the facts in an idea-based script for you. Videos made from sources found on the web list those sources; read them and the script either way.
• It is not free to make a video. Memberships start at $39 a month and the smallest way in is 10 credits for $9; the pricing page has the rest.

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