How To Make Money With OnlyFans

The purpose of OnlyFans is to provide a platform for creators to create and distribute valuable, premium content they can’t get anywhere else. Creators can set their page to be free or paid and fans then pay to get access to the exclusive content. While creators can create accounts for free, when they earn money from the platform, OnlyFans pays out 80%, keeping 20% of the earnings as a fee.

Since a lot of the content on OnlyFans is explicit, users have to be at least 18 and will need a government-issued ID in order to sign up. Every creator’s branded content is also protected by OnlyFans, ensuring that it can’t be shared outside the platform. In fact, if a user tries to take a screenshot on the site, the content will show up blacked out. Users are also subject to banning if they’re caught trying to screenshot or record what’s going on.

Who Uses OnlyFans?

OnlyFans can be used by anyone. OnlyFans is home to writers, poets, inspirational speakers, authors, artists, chefs, and more. But since OnlyFans lets people post content that would get them banned on other social media sites like Facebook and Instagram, it’s also widely used by sex workers and amateur pornographers who upload videos and images, and who interact with their fans using direct messages.

How Much Can You Earn on OnlyFans?

OnlyFans sets minimum and maximum subscription rates. The minimum subscription price is $4.99 per month and the maximum subscription price is $49.99 per month. Creators can also set up tips or paid private messages starting at a minimum of $5. Paid tips and private messages can not only boost earnings but help creators engage their fans and build a loyal following.

OnlyFans creators can sell personalized or interactive content on the site for additional fees. Some creators have built a tip menu that details the content and interactions they’re offering and how much each costs. Again, OnlyFans takes 20% of the earnings creators bring in and offers this advice on earning money on the platform: “Your earning forecast really depends on the quality and quantity of the content you upload. The more you post, the more incentive there is for your fans to subscribe (and remain subscribed) to your profile.”

Get Paid for OnlyFans Referrals

OnlyFans also offers a referral program in which those who refer a creator to the platform can earn 5% of the referred creator’s earnings for the first 12 months up to the first $1 million earned by the referred creator. There are no limitations to the number of referred creators or total referral earnings. Referrals are paid out monthly on the first business day of the month.

Subscription-based social media

Subscription-based social media is an emerging money-making opportunity for technical and creative entrepreneurs. In a subscription-based social media platform, users pay for and subscribe to receive and utilize a specific product or service for a certain period of time.

Even though subscription-based models are more common and popular off the Internet (like gym memberships, newspaper subscriptions, and streaming favorite shows on Netflix and Hulu), the popularity is growing every day for many online businesses.

Social media and subscription businesses

The Internet has evolved into a platform with myriad offerings – from social media to e-commerce, to mention a few. Social media has evolved from simply being a channel for people to communicate between themselves, to a marketing tool for businesses to utilize. Similarly, we are seeing how online businesses are implementing an entirely new business model – the subscription-based. The online subscription-based industry is doing well, with strong growth for most companies. Some of this can be attributed to how businesses utilize social media not only as a marketing tool, but to gather customer insight as well.

OnlyFans is just one of the subscription-based social media platforms that are popping up. MeWe, a subscription-based social network that prides itself on being the anti-Facebook has launched a premium service, giving users of the platform the option to pay for services like adding a business page, adding voice and video calling, and adding cloud storage. For $4.99 a month, users can get access to all of the premium features. MeWe has already gained millions of users on its platform who are looking for an alternative to Facebook.

Since the global COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020, searches for “onlyfans” have increased tremendously on Google and OnlyFans reports that between March and April the site saw roughly 200,000 new people subscribing to the site each day, resulting in a 75% increase of new users. Only time will tell if this upward trajectory will continue for OnlyFans but what is clear is that subscription-based social media is a viable and thriving answer to social distancing and our increasingly digital world.

As a content creator on OnlyFans, you get to set your own rates and decide what type of content you want to create and when. Unlike social media platforms, OnlyFans allows creators to do what they’re interested in doing, not catering to a specific brand’s idea of what’s best. OnlyFans gives content creators the freedom to be who and what they want to be.