In January 2025 artificial intelligence once again dominated global headlines following the announcement of the Stargate project and the release of DeepSeek-R1.
Firms such as Meta and OpenAI continue to pour billions into the industry and attract sizeable investment, increasing both the volume and the quality of AI-generated content. Together with the AiTube team, we explain how to monetise it.
AI’s Cambrian explosion
According to an October 2024 report from investment firm Blackstone, data usage has increased 100-fold over the past 15 years, and more data have been created in the last three years than in all previous human history. Analysts expect this trend to intensify as AI develops.
Over the past five years the number of leased data centres in the United States has risen 17-fold, propelled by AI and cloud technologies. Blackstone forecasts around $2trn will be invested over the next five years to build infrastructure for the sector in America and abroad.
“In the coming years, the volume of AI-generated content will grow at a crazy pace. Until recently its value was in doubt, but today we can create realistic videos from prompts, and AI startups pay bloggers for unreleased clips. Over time, the price of high-quality AI content will keep rising, creating demand for platforms to monetise it,” say AiTube representatives.
What is AiTube
AiTube is a platform for publishing AI-made content: text, images, video and audio. Users can sell their works to others and earn from them.
“The platform is unique in that it combines every possible monetisation model — nothing else does that yet. It resembles YouTube, Spotify and an NFT marketplace at the same time, while being none of them,” the AiTube representatives stress.
Only AI-generated content may be posted on AiTube. Minimal editorial touch-ups to improve quality are allowed. It is forbidden to upload:
- photorealistic images of real people if they could be perceived as documentary;
- shocking or offensive material aimed at humiliating people on religious, national or gender grounds;
- advertising content, except when used once as part of an artistic concept.
Upon registration, users receive access to a tutorial video with examples of acceptable content to upload.
For deposits and withdrawals AiTube supports USDT on the TON, Ethereum and TRON blockchains, as well as the internal stablecoin USDM on TON.
How to earn on AiTube
The platform supports several monetisation methods:
- creating and selling collections. Creators can produce original collections of video, images, audio or text. Once uploaded, they can be bought by other users via auction. On a successful sale, 90% of the proceeds go to the creator and 10% to AiTube;
- likes and downloads. Users can send paid likes to support collections. They set the price of a like themselves, turning it into a tip. In addition, collections and their items can be available for download for a fee set by the creator. Revenue from such operations is distributed the same way: 90% to the owner of the collection, 10% to the platform.
AiTube users can promote collections with built-in advertising tools. Budgets are spread evenly over the entire period, and impression frequency depends on a campaign’s share of the overall ad pool.
Registration on AiTube requires only an email address. After verification, users can upload up to three collections with 24 artworks in each. Collections can be grouped into series.
The Help tab lets you contact support if you encounter issues with uploading collections, depositing/withdrawing USDT and other matters.
A control panel at the top offers five main elements:
- favourites list — add users to favourites by clicking the star on a profile;
- collection rankings — an all-collections list sortable by yield, owners, series and format;
- open auctions — a list of active auctions, sortable by date added, price or collection format;
- wallet — displays your transaction history on the platform;
- chats — a repository of conversations with other AiTube users.
We tested the wallet and the like-based monetisation feature. We topped up the balance with 5 USDT on TON, entering the address and memo. The funds arrived instantly.
We browsed the collection rankings and available artworks on the platform. Among the works, we chose Datarium 2, opened the collection page and left a like.
On first clicking the heart, AiTube notifies you that each like costs at least $0.01. Subsequent likes are debited automatically. The full payment history is shown in the wallet menu.
Clicking the three dots next to the like opens a menu where users can set their own like price and leave a comment for the creator and the current owner of the collection.
“When you try to leave a comment for the first time, a one-off anti-spam fee of $3 is charged. This measure is aimed at reducing spam. For bona fide users the sum is symbolic — a kind of ‘entry ticket’ to the community. At the same time it deters spammers: their comments will be deleted, accounts blocked, and the $3 paid will be lost,” the AiTube representatives note.
By clicking the menu button in the bottom-right corner, users can download a collection for the fee set by the owner or buy it at auction. In the latter case, the collection is fully transferred to another AiTube user.
When withdrawing USDT the platform charges a 2% fee. Withdrawals of the internal stablecoin USDM are free, but at the time of writing it is not available on other trading platforms. The AiTube team plans to sign partnership agreements soon to integrate USDM with other services.
Conclusions
AITube is a marketplace for AI-made content. Here you can buy and sell AI-generated images, audio, video and text, as well as rate works and chat with other creators.
Registration is quick — only an email is required. The service supports USDT on Ethereum, TRON and TON, making deposits and withdrawals convenient for cryptocurrency users.