5 Low-Competition T-Shirt Niches That Sell (POD Niche Research)

About this video

The creator, who says he has done print on demand for over eight years and made over $400,000 in royalties on Merch by Amazon alone, shares five low-competition niches found with Merch Informer, each paired with an Ideogram AI design prompt shown on screen. His method is a ‘3-second test’ — can someone instantly tell what the shirt is about and feel something — plus three filters: low upload count with demand, design gaps in humor/aesthetics/angle, and crossover potential. The five niches are: (1) Resist penguin activism, a defiant penguin holding a fish like a protest sign (191 results noted); (2) a rocking bear playing bass guitar for music fans and animal lovers (292 results); (3) ‘Just a girl who loves bunnies,’ an evergreen that spikes at Easter (246 results); (4) ‘Do your very best,’ a cute motivational retro strawberry design for teachers/students in test season (172 results); and (5) Ice Cream Drip Baseball, a melting candy-colored baseball for baseball/softball season (617 results). He checks BSR/sales history for each, then pitches his Top Research Design Vault at $10 a month and advises personalizing, stacking niches, using AI smartly, and uploading across platforms.

Key takeaways

• Apply the 3-second test plus three filters: low upload count with proven demand in Merch Informer, a design gap, and crossover/mashup potential.
• Resist penguin activism, rocking bear bass guitar, and ice cream drip baseball are presented as weird/crossover visuals with low result counts and active BSR sales.
• ‘Just a girl who loves bunnies’ and ‘Do your very best’ are framed as evergreen/seasonal hybrids — bunnies spike at Easter, the strawberry motivational design spikes in test season.
• Use Ideogram AI prompts (shown for each niche) to generate clean variations, then customize style, fonts, and colors rather than uploading raw output unchanged.
• Make ideas your own by adding personalization, stacking niches (e.g. bunny plus teacher, bear plus dad), and uploading the same idea across Amazon Merch, Etsy, Redbubble, and other platforms.

Episode details: published April 21, 2025 · 12:07 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are RJ Martinez’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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