How to Earn with AI Influencers: A Step-by-Step Guide

7 min readJul 23, 2024

The rise of AI-generated influencers has revolutionized social media, offering new avenues for income generation. For example, Aitana Lopez, a fitness AI model, has garnered significant attention on platforms like Instagram for her realistic content and engaging presence. She currently has 323,000 followers and, according to the design agency managing Aitana’s character, the model can earn almost up to $11,000 per month. The design agency notes how much more efficient and cost-effective it is to work with AI influencers.

Glambase is an innovative platform that allows users to create and monetize AI-generated influencers. Users can design realistic digital personas by selecting various physical attributes and even personality traits, and then use intuitive tools to generate content. Each persona has unique characteristics that remain consistent and realistic as you generate unlimited content. These virtual influencers can also engage with audiences and generate revenue through exclusive content.

While the above-mentioned AI model requires a whole team and agency to earn income, Glambase does the main part of the work for you, in just a few clicks. In this step-by-step guide, we will share with you how to maximize your earnings with your AI influencer without having to hire a whole team.

New Glambase users tend to make one common mistake when starting. They assume that if they create an AI influencer, the fans and income will automatically follow. Unfortunately, most popular AI influencers you might have come across most likely gained their impressive following and brand deals with the help of mass media publications. Earning a consistent amount of money with an AI influencer requires a time investment, daily commitment, and most importantly traffic.

Generating enough traffic for your character to make a living may seem tedious at first, but if you know and take the right first steps, it won’t be.

Step 1: Identify a Niche & Target Audience

The number one deciding factor that we can say with certainty will affect your earnings is the amount of work you put into the character’s background. Consider what people are more interested in consuming and chatting to, images of attractive AI models or a character with an enticing backstory and unique style.

The key to success lies in the detailed development of your character. Here are the two main aspects:

Choose a niche: Identify a specific niche for your character. Niches like adult entertainers, mentors, or experts in a field tend to attract more dedicated followers. If you are set on creating an adult entertainer, consider utilizing popular kinks and audiences that might be most interested in it. You can use them to narrow down your target audience even further.
Define the personality: Flesh out your character’s traits and backstory. The more detailed and interesting the character, the more likely users will pay for interactions with it. For adult entertainers, kinks can also be used to shape the personality of your AI influencer including aspects such as preferences, interaction style, and even behavioral patterns.

The main point here is that the more detailed your character is, the more users you will be able to engage during the traffic attraction phase.

Step 2: Choose the Right Traffic Sources

Another important tip is choosing the right platform for influencer promotion. Most users believe that Instagram is the easiest place to grow your following and while this may be true in some cases, it is not always for AI characters. Currently, the simplest way to achieve a somewhat prominent following is by posting Instagram reels which is more complex than simply generating images with our hyper-realistic characters. Although, you can always experiment with Instagram reels as there are a lot of trends that only utilize photos.

Glambase itself offers a platform for promotion, however, it has limited reach and there are alternatives. Consider platforms like Reddit and Discord, where you can target specific audiences via subreddits or create private themed Discord channels to reach your desired audience. You can also explore various forums or other platforms with active userbases, such as Pinterest. There is always traffic to generate when there are users. Additionally, further research into the generation of adult traffic can be beneficial.

One of the most guaranteed traffic sources is paid campaigns. Twitter Ads provide a whole platform for creating and launching targeted campaigns, allowing you to define a plethora of characteristics of your target audience. However, you should only explore this option if you have a budget you are content with potentially losing and are confident in your perception of your target audience.

Overall, there are a number of platforms where you and your AI influencer can find success. It would be smart to experiment with as many as you can.

Step 3: Develop a Strategy for Each Platform

Once you have created your character and taken care of all the details like personality and niche, you can start exploiting it. You can begin by mass-following relevant accounts on platforms like Instagram or Twitter. Once enough users have followed back, you can go through the following and remove any accounts that didn’t follow back. This will create a good base for the following you need to start generating traffic.

However, tailoring your strategy to each platform is essential for success. Mass following, for example, is not effective on platforms like Reddit or Discord. Below, we dissect each platform and what strategies work best on each one.

Find relevant subreddits: Start by identifying subreddits that fall in line with the niche of your AI-generated character. Use tools like Reddit’s search function or external subreddit databases to find communities that match your target audience’s interests.
Engage authentically: Authenticity is crucial on Reddit. Engage in conversations genuinely, participate in discussions, offer valuable insights, and introduce the AI character’s content where relevant. Avoid spamming.
Use AMA (Ask Me Anything) sessions: Conducting AMAs can be a powerful way to generate interest. An AI-generated influencer can host an AMA, discussing various topics relevant to the community. This not only drives traffic but also increases engagement as users interact in real-time.
Content sharing & crossposting: Share and crosspost engaging content across multiple subreddits. The strategy we found to be the most useful for this is to share snippets of conversations with the characters and images they send. We recommend sticking to the topic you’ve originally chosen to stay on the same page with your followers.
Adopting a “fan” persona: Drive traffic to your AI influencer by posing as a satisfied user and sharing glowing reviews and experiences with the influencer on subreddits as they are anonymous. By highlighting its unique characteristics and sharing interactions, you can organically attract more attention and curiosity.

Discord

Join relevant servers: Start by joining Discord servers that are relevant to the influencer’s niche. Participate in existing communities where your target audience is already active. Engage with members to understand their interests and tailor your approach accordingly.
Create a dedicated server: Start a dedicated server for your AI influencer. This server can serve as a hub for fans, with exclusive content, updates, and interactive sessions. You can promote the server in relevant Discord communities to attract members.

It’s important to share content containing your AI character every day, several times a day. You can experiment with which conversations and images you share to see which ones get the most engagement. Do not forget to attach the link so others can chat with your creation.

Paid Campaigns on X

If you have a budget, targeted paid campaigns on platforms like X (formerly Twitter) can quickly reach your desired audience. Twitter’s targeted ads allow advertisers to reach a specific audience based on a variety of criteria. The platform offers several ad formats, including Promoted Tweets, Promoted Accounts, and Promoted Trends, each tailored to different marketing goals.

After creating a Twitter Ads account and defining the campaign’s objective, “Followers,” “Website clicks,” or “Engagements”, you can move on to the most important step, defining your target audience.

Let’s use the example of promoting a Playboy model to illustrate how to approach narrowing down your target audience:

Demographics: Specify the age range, gender, languages, and locations of your target audience. For a Playboy model, you might target males aged 18–35 in the United States.
Interests and behaviors: Select interests related to lifestyle, entertainment, and celebrities. You can choose categories like “Men’s Lifestyle,” “Fashion,” and “Adult Entertainment.”
Keywords: Add relevant keywords that your target audience might use, such as “Playboy,” “modeling,” “fashion,” or “adult content.”
Follower lookalikes: Target users who have similar interests to the followers of popular Playboy models or related accounts.

In addition to attracting the right user base, one other main goal is to have them interact with your AI character on our platform as this way you can generate even more income. This is where sharing content sent by your character comes in handy, as people will have something to pique their interest and inspire them to experiment with Glambase.

Step 4: Learn from Successful Strategies in Related Niches

The AI-generated character space is not the first to rely on traffic generation for revenue. Other content creation segments, such as OnlyFans, have already done the work to find the best traffic generation strategies. You can check out the articles directed at OnlyFans models for more complex approaches and a deeper understanding of effective traffic generation.

The more specific your niche is, the easier it is to find and engage the right audience. For example, creating an AI influencer focused on a popular trend like foot modeling can help you target a precise audience on platforms like Discord and Reddit.

You can take the OnlyFans inspiration even further by creating an account for your AI influencer on their platform. Keep in mind, however, that doing so does not eliminate the need to find your audience. This is where niche comes in again, because the more detailed your character is, the more precisely you will reach the right audience.

Monetizing Your AI Influencer with Glambase

Once you’ve generated traffic to your AI character, it’s time to monetize your efforts. When you create AI characters with Glambase any profit made from the traffic you bring to the platform will be shared with you on a 42/58 basis if you are an early adopter and 30/70 for all the other users. Additionally, when users interact with your character and generate content with it, you can earn up to $1.5 per image.

AI influencers are your ticket to earning on social media while staying behind the scenes. Ready to start your influencer journey? Get ahead of the competition by making the most of AI’s unique abilities. With dedication and effort, the potential to captivate audiences and generate revenue is immense.