There is such a thing as a holiday channel.
It is a channel whose content focuses on a holiday.
Is it profitable?
Well.. a good planned and built holiday channel has two life stages.
The first one is … the immediate stage. It starts about a month before the holiday and focuses on direct sales – affiliate products, services, etc.
The second is a bit more interesting – the “growing” or “dormant” stage.
It starts after the holiday season ends when you switch your ads to more general ad types and start selling the following season’s ad space.
A holiday channel is perfect for channel farming – it has excellent value during the holiday season for someone in the right niche and costs close to nothing to maintain. It is easy and fast to build and duplicate.
The best part of all?
We have a holiday every month – smaller or bigger, but we can find holidays throughout the year.
At the time of writing this article, we have, according to HolidayInsights, the following holidays.
October
24 United Nations Day
22 Make a Difference Day 4th Saturday
31 Halloween
November
1 All Saint’s Day
1-2 Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)
2 All Soul’s Day – usually on the 2nd
6 Daylight Savings time ends gain 1 hour of sleep – date varies
8 U.S. General Election Day – please exercise your right to vote
11 Veteran’s Day
13 Caregiver Appreciation Day
13 Sadie Hawkins Day
17 Great American Smokeout – third Thursday
20 Universal Children’s Day
24 Thanksgiving Day – fourth Thursday
25 Black Friday – the day after Thanksgiving
26 Small Business Saturday – Saturday after Thanksgiving
27 Advent begins
28 Cyber Monday – Monday after Thanksgiving
December
7 Pearl Harbor Day
12 Poinsettia Day
18 Chanukah lasts 8 days
21 Winter Solstice (shortest day of the year)
23 Festivus – for the rest of us!
25 Christmas
26 Kwanzaa
27 National Fruitcake Day
28 Boxing Day – date can vary
31 New Year’s Eve
You can grow the list with local – county-specific, nationality, or religious holidays.
Just two examples you could use to target international “markets” are St. Patrick’s Day – March 17, or Cinco de Mayo – May 5.
Of course, some will have a bigger audience and some smaller – but – every holiday will have a specific audience.
Targeting the next three big holidays, here are some channel ideas.
Halloween – October 31
Halloween costumes – ideas
Halloween movies
Halloween decorations
Halloween Activities
Halloween books – for a review type of channel with a year-long audience
Halloween crafts, and so on.
Thanksgiving Day – November 24
Thanksgiving food
Thanksgiving activities
about thanksgiving
Thanksgiving turkey recipe
Thanksgiving cards, and so on.
Christmas – December 25
Christmas wishes
Christmas movies
Christmas activities
Christmas songs
Christmas stories
Christmas gifts
Christmas Decorations
Christmas desserts, and so on.
Can you find free content for this type of channel?
Yes, you can!
Just do a short CC search on YouTube. You’ll see it.
Can you find products or services to sell?
Yes, you can.
Search on ClickBank or any other big affiliate network – Amazon, Walmart, eBay, etc., and you’ll see.
Now you have a time frame – a topic, content, and products to sell on your channels so … let’s get building and making a profit.