The New AI Business That's Making People RICH

AI Sleepy Video Business Model [00:00]

• An AI business generates significant monthly income ($10,000 to $80,000+) using free AI tools.
• The business involves creating long (2+ hours) niche videos, often narrated by AI voices, for sleep or background listening.
• This can be operated as a one-person business with zero employees.

  "Can I show you a crazy new AI business that is making people $10,000 a month, $30,000 a month, and even $80,000 plus per month?"

Rapid Monetization and View Growth [01:03]

• Channels using this model achieve monetization surprisingly quickly, often within days of going viral.
• Examples include a philosophy/psychology channel gaining 8 million views in 8 months, a science channel hitting 3.8 million monthly views within 1 month of starting, and a medieval history channel reaching 11 million monthly views in its first month.
• YouTube's monetization requirements are 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours.

  "Firstly, I'll be honest. I am shocked at how quickly these channels are getting monetized. It's insanely fast."

High Earning Potential and RPM [01:53]

• The longer video format allows for more ad breaks (midrolls), potentially increasing revenue per 1,000 views (RPM).
• While the average YouTube RPM is $3-$8, a creator focusing on long videos with midrolls can achieve significantly higher RPMs, with one example showing over $80 RPM.
• A channel with 11.5 million monthly views could earn $34,000 to over $90,000 per month.
• One creator reported earning $10,000 in 3 months with 472,000 views, equating to an RPM of $21.51.
• The "Sleepy Historian" channel, with over 31 million views in 6 months, is estimated to have earned over $650,000.

  "So, if you do the math, then 11.5 million monthly views with an average RPM of $3 to $8 would earn a creator $34,000 to over $90,000 for the month."

Niche Topic Selection with Gemini [04:00]

• Gemini, Google's free AI, is used to find popular sub-niches on YouTube with low competition.
• By asking Gemini to search YouTube data, it can identify topics with at least 500,000 views that have little to no existing content in the sleepy video format.
• An example demonstrates finding an untapped niche in "Bible archaeology" by searching for "relaxing facts about Bible archaeology" and finding no results.

  "So, it would make sense then that if someone were to combine both of these things into a single video, then people would probably want to listen to it."

Scriptwriting with Perplexity, ChatGPT, and Claude [06:46]

• Perplexity is used as an AI-powered search engine to find verifiable facts, sourcing information from the internet.
• ChatGPT is used to reorder facts gathered by Perplexity into a more engaging, story-like script.
• Claude, a competitor to ChatGPT, is then used to generate the actual script segments, prioritizing helpfulness and honesty for a more natural and engaging writing style, often outperforming ChatGPT in writing tests.

  "And so I just went ahead and did a search for each segment of the script. Then I copied and pasted the script segments that Claude created for me into a Google document, and I saved it to my computer."

AI Art Generation with Leonardo AI [09:34]

• Leonardo AI is recommended for generating visuals due to its daily free credits and commercial use license for generated images, even free ones.
• Images should be generated in widescreen format.
• The number of images used can vary significantly, with some viral videos using many images while others use very few.

  "Leonardo gives all free accounts daily free credits. And secondly, Leonardo lets you use images you generate with it for commercial purposes, even free images, without putting a watermark on it."

AI Voiceover Generation: Clipchamp, CapCut, and ElevenLabs [12:20]

• Clipchamp: A 100% free Microsoft video editor with a text-to-speech AI voice generator, suitable for generating audio in chunks.
• CapCut: An AI-powered video editor with a text-to-speech feature in its pro account (around $10/month, with a 7-day free trial). It allows generation of up to 10,000 characters per segment.
• ElevenLabs: Considered the "golden standard" for professional AI voices, it's fast and can generate a full audio file from a script in minutes. It offers a free trial, but commercial licensing requires a paid plan.

  "This is the golden standard right now for professional AI voices because it's fast. You can just upload a script and it will generate it as a single audio file within minutes, but it isn't free."

Video Editing and Finalization in CapCut [17:01]

• Basic video editing is performed using editors like DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere Pro, or the desktop version of CapCut. Clipchamp is not recommended for long videos.
• AI-generated images are added to the timeline and their duration is extended, with transitions and filters applied.
• Royalty-free meditative music is sourced from sites like Pixabay, avoiding tracks with digital fingerprints that claim ad revenue.
• The final video is exported, with HEVC or H.264 recommended for compression.

  "By default, each image plays for just a few seconds, so you can click and drag it at the edges to extend this."