Internet Personality

Internet Personality Success Stories [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: October 10th, 2024

Think you can captivate an audience online? Becoming an internet personality might be for you. This business idea centers on building your personal brand and creating content that resonates with a community of followers.

You'll dive into platforms like YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter, sharing videos, photos, or posts that entertain, inform, or inspire. It takes consistent effort in content creation, audience engagement, and even some technical know-how to edit videos and manage multiple social media accounts.

Monetization comes in various forms—sponsorships, ad revenue, affiliate marketing, and merchandising among them. The work involves researching trends, engaging with your audience, and continually refining your skills. If you have a passion for connecting with people and sharing your unique perspective, this can be a rewarding venture with significant growth potential.

Ready to turn your creativity into a business? Becoming an internet personality is a modern way to make an impact and earn a living.

In this list, you'll find real-world internet personality success stories and very profitable examples of starting a internet personality that makes money.

1. Foundation for a Human Internet ($1.2K/year)

In 2019, Bastian, leveraging his decade-long experience in digital marketing, witnessed rampant bot-generated misinformation during Indonesia's presidential elections, inspiring him to create humanID—an anonymous Single Sign-On solution, now supported by Harvard Business School and Mozilla.

How much money it makes: $1.2K/year
How much did it cost to start: $0
How many people on the team: 0

This Founder Wants To Go Head To Head With Facebook's Most Used Feature

HumanID, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting online privacy and fighting fake news, has created an anonymous online and anonymous Single Sign-On (SSO) service to block spam and automated accounts, charging just 1 cent to run it, and has already attracted hundreds of users across various sites.

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