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NICHE BEND DISCOVERY 📣
A simple stick-figure YouTube channel quietly earned $58,000 just by teaching practical life skills.
Channel stats: → 326K subscribers
→ 14.6M views
→ 110 videos
→ Around $4 RPM
So what’s the secret?
They take complicated topics and explain them in a way that feels ridiculously easy to understand.
I create engaging, high-quality stick-figure videos like this.
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I turned a written energy-market analysis into a 3-minute documentary-style YouTube explainer, with animated charts, maps and a mystery-style story.
The challenge: A dense article full of numbers (price spreads, refinery utilisation, exchange rates, earnings timing). The goal was a video that holds attention without losing accuracy.
What I did:
• Hook in the first 5 seconds: a live counter that grows $875 every second, the real price gap, ticking while you watch
• Story structure: obvious suspect → fake ending (“Video over… not so fast”) → the twist → four suspects, one chapter each
• Data you can trust: every figure comes from the source article; bar charts start at zero with units and dates
• Motion graphics: animated maps, bar charts, currency conversion, timelines, and stamps and labels timed to the exact narrated word
• Full production: script, voiceover, sound design, music mix, captions
Built for: finance and energy newsletters, analysts, research firms and Substack writers who want their articles on YouTube.
Have articles that deserve a bigger audience? Let’s turn them into videos.
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hi everyone!! here's something we've been working on recently! it's a little motion design project where we explored ways to make SaaS products feel more engaging, playful, and easier to understand. had a lot of fun bringing this one to life!
would love to hear your thoughts and feedback!
Opening on "Too many information" is a smart hook, it names the problem before showing the product. Will you keep that problem-first structure across the whole series?