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cchound.com has written about the tools creators pay for since 2016: music licensing, stock footage, narrator voices and the discounts that make them cheaper.

In 2026 the tools changed faster than our reviews could. Coding agents could build a video from a script, generated voices became hard to tell from a recording, and graphics could be written instead of edited. We wanted to know how much of a YouTube channel AI can actually do, so we ran an experiment.

We started a brand-new faceless channel and built every video with Claude Code and Artlist, on a fixed schedule. In its first 28 days it reached 517,320 views and 398 subscribers.

The course is that experiment written down, level by level, with the prompts, checklists and rules we used. When the tools change, we update the lessons and list the changes in the changelog.