A two-host slow-English conversation podcast, a faceless YouTube channel teaching ESL learners, fully AI-generated at roughly $1.59 an episode
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What Wholesale Ted sets out to replicate in this episode is a faceless YouTube niche she describes as people making up to $30,000 a month posting AI-generated videos — AI podcasts. She stresses how hot this category is: new channels launch every month and routinely rack up hundreds of thousands to millions of views. And the hottest sub-category right now is still language podcasts: two hosts having a slow, easy-to-follow conversation about everyday topics, serving people who want to learn conversational English. The benchmark channel she cites was created just 9 months ago and has already passed a million subscribers. Every channel in this niche looks alike: two hosts, slow pacing, everyday topics — ideal for ESL learners practicing listening. That's the underlying logic of the niche: it isn't entertainment content, it's learning content with genuine demand, so the audience actively searches for it and listens repeatedly, which makes the traffic steadier than a purely entertainment-driven faceless channel.
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Create free accountEmail code only. No password.Data credibility: Wholesale Ted used Social Blade to observe a benchmark channel with 3.8M views in the last 30 days and over a million subscribers in about 9 months, then estimated $11,000–$31,000/mo at a $3–$8 RPM. That is third-party math extrapolated from public view counts, not disclosed by the channel; this project itself is a tutorial replication with no actual revenue, so revenueMo=null. All revenue figures are founder-reported or estimated by the video's creator, and are unaudited.