AI Influencer
Create AI influencers and monetize them! Learn how to design, manage, and profit from virtual influencers on social media.
How to Create AI Influencers with SeaArt.AI and Generate Profit?
From brand endorsements to magazine covers, an increasing number of Virtual Influencers are appearing on social media and in the fashion industry, attracting many fans and making profits for their creators.
1. Successful Cases
Lil Miquela
The top North American virtual influencer, Lil Miquela, with 2.6 million followers, enjoys sharing her fashion, food, and romantic life on Instagram. Currently, Lil Miquela charges $8,500 for endorsements and has successfully collaborated with famous brands like CHANEL, Prada, Vetements, Supreme, etc. According to data from the UK company OnBuy, in 2020 alone, Lil Miquela generated revenue of $11.7 million for her managing company Brud.
Emily Pellegrini
Emily Pellegrini's rapid rise to fame on Instagram has caught the attention of soccer stars, billionaires, and celebrity athletes, now boasting almost 300,000 followers. Within six weeks of her debut, Emily Pellegrini has earned nearly $10,000 in the private domain and is touted as the world's most popular artificial intelligence.
SeaArt Monetization Cases
Ambra Fontana
Ambra Fontana, a virtual influencer created with SeaArt.AI by our user, has gained nearly 9,000 followers on Instagram in just one month. The account's combined value reaches $1,000 per month, with sales of exclusive content on private domain platforms alone surpassing monthly earnings of $500. The creator told us the workflow relies entirely on SeaArt.AI generation without the need for additional tools.
💡 https://www.instagram.com/ambrissima/
Alert: On instagram there are many pages that offer to increase followers by paying between 30$ and 200$. DON'T TRUST. the followers who fall back on you are all bots, this will only lead to your profile having fake followers as well as spending money unnecessarily.
A useful method to increase followers is to ask for collaborations from much larger pages. the maximum number of collaborations you can ask for a single post is 5. sometimes these pages ask you to pay a fee, see if it makes sense. a useful method to understand if a page is trustworthy is to compare followers - likes of the posts. example: if a page has 100k followers but its posts only have 100-300 likes, it means that they are all bot and it doesn't make sense to pay. if instead the posts have more than 2k likes, it may make sense to pay a fee. keep in mind, however, that there are always many pages that do free collaborations, just look for them! (From creator)
2. Monetization Strategies
AI Virtual influencers can be monetized in the following ways:
Brand Promotion
This involves accepting advertisements on social media platforms. Currently, numerous AI influencers are making profits this way, especially on platforms like Instagram and Twitter.
Brand Endorsements
After gaining more fans and traffic, some brands will take notice and invite virtual influencers to collaborate and endorse their products, generating income in the process.
Private Domain Sales
This is by far the most common monetization method for virtual influencers. The creator can place a "one link" on their social platform and create massive exclusive content (such as customized photos and paid conversations) within their private domain. This content is only visible after payment, thus drawing in fans willing to spend.
3. Creation & Management of AI Virtual Influencers
Define Persona
The character can be a girl, boy, infant, pet, etc. Add a name, personality, and identity (such as student, idol, housewife, CEO, supermodel, and fashion blogger). Choose the persona you think is most suitable or capable of monetization through this method.
Create Image
An important aspect of character creation is to have a consistent face. SeaArt offers three methods to achieve this: LoRA Training, Face Swap, and Identical Seed. You can choose one of these methods for character creation.
LoRA Training
Create a dataset of the same face (with about 50 images) and remove all facial feature tags to achieve a consistent appearance. For the base model, we suggest <unStable Illusion> for European faces and <Beautiful Realistic Asians> for Asian faces.
When generating images with LoRA, it's recommended to use the base model from the training (European: unStable Illusion, Asian: Beautiful Realistic Asians). The suggested LoRA weight is between 0.6-1. Please pay attention to maintaining consistent LoRA weights and base models.
Prompts (keep them simple): Include character traits such as age, hair color, and eye color. Add other info as needed, such as clothing and scenery. (For example: 1girl, Brown hair, Realistic, Working out in a gym.)
If the face generated is not ideal, use Img2Img -> Character Repair with a Denoising Strength of around 0.3 (using the previous large model + LoRA + prompts).
AI Face Swap
Face Swap Template Sources:
SeaArt's built-in image/video templates
Generate scenes and poses, then swap the face
Stock image/video websites
Identical Seed
After generating an image with a large model, you can copy the seed and use it with the same model, along with slightly adjusted prompts, to achieve a consistent facial appearance.
Publish Content & Generate Copy
Once the image is finalized, you can go on to set up an account.
Personal Profile
Welcome, everyone, I'm xxx / your xxx,
I'm from xxx / a Berlin girl
Personality: Funny, lovable, likes xxx
Other Links...
Update Content
a. Generate Copy
Utilize SeaArt's AI Chat (or other large language models), select Social Media KOL, and automatically generate copy.
It could be about everyday life (fitness, swimming, shopping...), edgy stuff, greetings, etc. Recommended Tags: #aigirlfriend #aigirl #aimodel #ailingerie #aifashion#virtualmodel #digitalgirl #aiinfluencer #seaartai
b. Video Content
You can upload your favorite templates (or use ones provided by SeaArt) and use SeaArt.AI's Face Swap feature to swap in the virtual influencer's face before posting them on social media platforms.
After setting up an account, you can consistently update social media content by following this procedure: Generate Images -> Update Content -> Publish Content.
By using this method, you can achieve automated operations, quickly create multiple virtual influencer IPs, and operate several matrix self-media accounts on your own, thereby monetizing through various AI influencer IPs.
With the continuous development of AI technology, using the IP of virtual influencers for content monetization has become a trend in Internet marketing. If you have already planned to earn significant profits through this approach, this article will help you start. Please note that managing social media accounts requires persistence. Follow the steps outlined above to create and regularly operate AI influencers, and you are bound to attract considerable traffic and fans, leading to substantial profits.
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