Let’s analyze one of the approaches to driving freemium traffic from YouTube Shorts to Telegram channels and some relevant monetization methods.
YouTube Shorts Traffic Generation Scheme
Let’s consider a random Short that generates traffic: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uqHZ1uO2LZo
According to this scheme, they upload interesting movie quotes to YouTube Shorts with several links in the description.
They use a similar approach to generate freemium traffic on TikTok.
How to Drive Traffic to the Movie Bot?
To find out the movie title, the user must subscribe to the Telegram bot by following the first link and entering the code specified in the description.
But first, the movie bot will ask them to subscribe to three other channels.
Once they subscribe and enter the code, they’ll see the offer to ‘earn money’ in another bot under the movie title:
In this bot, the user just needs to click the button and will allegedly be credited some money. Next, to access details about the money they ‘earned’, they have to subscribe to several more channels.
However, even if they get access to their account balance, they won’t be able to withdraw any money. The withdrawal is locked; to unlock it, they must invite ten referrals.
Before this step, bots serve to attract subscribers to the Telegram channel net. We decided not to invite any referrals and therefore we don’t know how the complete scheme works.
How to Drive Traffic to the Offers?
There is another reference to the dating offer in YouTube Short’s description.
It redirects the user to several different offers via the pre-landing page.
How to Monetize Traffic via Ad Trading?
The owner of these movie bots monetizes traffic by selling channels and ads in their Telegram channel net.
They also provide paid channel placement services in Telegram bots.
Telegram Channel Net
Let’s take a look at some channels on the net using the first bot as an example:
Channel #1
- Channel name: FUCK’ТЫ
- Content: Fun facts.
- Monetization method: Ads trading.
Telemetr statistics:
Channel #2
- Channel name: ZАРУБА+
- Content: News, trash.
- Monetization method: Channel and ads trading.
Telemetr statistics:
Channel #3
- Channel name: Everything is TARO
- Content: All about tarot (abandoned channel).
- Monetization method: Dating offers.
Telemetr statistics:
