Onlyfans is a popular site for any kinds of content creators including adult content. This platform has no censorship so anyone involved in adult industry can freely share their creations. Users of Onlyfans platform are not limited with webcam models only. Nude models, porn movies actors or just amateurs can easily use this site too.
In fact, not only adult content is shared here – many other creators use Onlyfans to sell their exclusive content: artists, musicians, dancers, cooks, fitness instructors and even celebrities.
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Onlyfans overview 2023
The site works worldwide and connects creators and their fans from any part of our planet. None of the previous public content sharing and selling platforms gained such success.
But no matter of the variety, the most popular use is selling the adult content. Long story short: this is like Instagram without any censorship restrictions. Ones who were forced to limit their content in Instargam or Tik-Tok now can freely upload erotic photos and videos to Onlyfans. The subscription plans and ways of monetization are way more developed in comparison with usual social networks. This attracts more and more creators every year and the audience is growing fast too!
Note that Onlyfans is not like any usual webcamming site. No mandatory livestreams are required (though they are possible).
Models usually sell their pre-recorded videos or nude photos bundles which should be produced in advance. Other type of interaction with fans (members) is present too, pretty the same as the usual camsites: chatting, direct messages, tipping. The whole Onlyfans idea might be similar to some camsites fanclubs, gallery posts or specific sharing systems, like MyFreeCams Share. In fact, you may use it in a same way as any webcam streaming site but the main priority is the content and not the streams.
Getting started with Onlyfans
What would you need to start earning money with Onlyfans? The top selling content are photos or videos. This means you need anything that can make proper quality photo and video material. This could be (but not limited with) the following:
- smartphone – the most universal tool;
- entry-level digital camera – suitable for most cases;
- advanced level DSLR camera – best for artistic shots;
- mirrorless camera – handy choice for both photos and videos;
- film camera – only if you are ready for some oldschool tech;
- action camera – in case your content is also outdoors or any way extreme;
- webcam – possible for creating some basic-level content;
- some studio lights would most likely be needed for proper imaging setup.
Do not use outdated capturing devices since your fans will not be happy with buying poor quality images or videos with low resolution.
You may also want to add some post-production effects to your images or video footage. This may require a laptop or desktop computer with proper editing software installed. But if you are not into any heavy motion-design, modern smartphones do provide basic and middle-level editing options, filters, masks, etc.
Usually it is enough of using your smartphone for smooth start of your Onlyfans career. Once you have a brighter understanding of what kind of content your audience enjoys more or what way your profile should turn, then add some advanced tech for improving your quality and style. Obviously you will need a fast and stable Internet connection since media files you upload might have pretty large file size. Slow or unstable connection would make the upload process way too long.
Take note that there is no need of doing everything with your own hands. You may use services of professional photographers or videographers to create your content and sell it when it is already done. It is only up to you in what way you will produce and create!
How to sign up at Onlyfans
Before you can start sharing and selling your content, you should register and set up your profile. This is simple and should not take much time. All you need is your unique nickname, email address and password. Obviously, only creators of 18 years old or more are allowed to share their content so be ready to provide your age verification document (like national ID card, driver’s license, etc). Take note that due to recent restrictions and regulations, Russia and Belarus based creators are not allowed to use all of the Onlyfans features.
When your sign up and verification process is complete, it is time to set up your page and content plans.
Keep in mind that your paid page visitors will not be able to see all of your content until they have bought a subscription. So try your best in providing as much free and introductory content to catch their eye.
The profile photo and model bio should provide max info so potential subscribers could have full understanding of what you will provide. Some creators tend to register even two Onlyfans accounts: one for completely free content used as a teaser, while the second one is totally paid subscription-based profile.
Do not forget to add your payout info in order to receive your commission.
Onlyfans value its own share as 20% of what your subscribers are charged. Remaining 80% is what you receive as your payout from content sales.
Also have a look at other site settings – you might want to add the two-step verification for more security. Do not forget to check out the Onlyfans mobile app – available for Google Android and Apple iOS.
Once you are ready with your vision of what your profile or profiles should look like, start uploading your content. It’s advised to share it in daily or weekly basis instead of uploading all you have at once.
Ways to make money at Onlyfans
- The platform provides several ways or making money. Usually they are to following:
- Selling your content via subscription;
- Receiving donations;
- Selling private photos or videos directly via paid messages or paid posts;
- Additional and custom services.
Uploading your paid content is the most common way of earning money on Onlyfans. Moreover, it is only you who decides the price! Once you are ready with your content plan, use the navigation panel to start uploading. Do not forget to add your post description and hashtags. Those should be interesting and attracting for your audience. No need of adding too much of those or some useless text with no connection to your current post.
The important step is to set up your subscription plans. The max price you may choose is $50 per month and the min possible is $ 4,99 per month.
Unless you are ready to share everything free – this option is also available. Your page can be free of charge but it also may contain free and paid posts. For example – heat up your audience with free content posts and later on add one more that would require payment.
Apart of basic subscription plans, there is also a donation option for you to earn extra. If your fans are impressed with your new posts, they may add extra tips (donations) straight from the post they are viewing or even from your profile page.
Any fan is allowed to donate, and it is only them to decide what amount they wish to donate you and how often they do this.
Still some platform limits apply to tip amounts in a following manner: $100 max tip for new users and $200 for fans who have been using Onlyfans for more than 4 months. Also, keep in mind that donation option is unlocked only after you do at least 10 posts.
Common webcam sites options like Tip Menu or Tip goals are also available. Additional way to motivate your fans is the Top Tippers option. You may choose lists of Top 1% or Top 5% of your most generous fans. Each month you will see the ones of your most loyal and productive tippers. That would give you an opportunity to make something special to thank them.
There is another option for you to use and earn – the paid private messages. This type of sharing your content is similar to the private shows at usual webcam sites. In this way you share individual and exclusive content with one and only person who receives it. Photos or videos from paid private messages are not appearing at the public feed. Make sure your private messages fans receive truly exclusive content which was not published before. Max PPV price is $100 and min PPV price is $3. Another feature for you to try is the paid posts – limited by $50 of max possible price.
Advanced ways of making money with Onlyfans
If ideas listed above are not enough for you, there is another possibility to earn extra. Talk with your best fans and tippers, ask them what is their favorite fetish or kink. Many models create personalized custom content for their best fans or provide some external services like private messenger or even phone calls. This is limited only with your imagination!
For example, many fans are interested in creator’s personal life. People might be curious about your personality and not only your sexuality and appeal. That gives you almost unlimited variety of extra content ideas.
How about sharing your hobbies with your fans? Give them some videos of your handmade or DIY-projects, or even what and how you cook for your dinner. Another good idea is sharing something from your past life: tell your fans stories of what you did when you were younger or how were your college times. Sharing your childhood photos is also a nice idea for becoming closer with your most loyal fans!
Selling merchandise is another way of adding more income to your Onlyfans page.
Not only celebrities can sell their personalized merchandise. Produce something what is individual to you and easy to deliver to your fans. That could be stickers, badges, T-shirts, postcards, posters, cups, caps – you name it! Design your unique print or motto and place it as a print on some clothes or household items and there you go – a variety of your own merchandise ready to be sold at any moment. And your very best fans could even receive some for free – as a loyalty reward! They would be surely happy to receive something which is not limited by the digital world.
Modern tech adds some special things which were not available a few years ago. Ever heard of the NFT tokens? This is a blockchain-based way to sell something digital and unique. If you can make a digital drawing or a sketch of yourself or something related to you, then you might want to sell it not just as a digital image which can be easily copied and re-shared without your agreement. But use NFT instead.
This means your fan receives a unique and one of a kind certificate attached to your image or drawing. It is 100%-guaranteed to be genuine and original.
Your fan who buys NFT from you is one and only owner of this piece of digital content with proven exclusive and protected rights. This might sound tricky but actually there is nothing complicated about selling NFTs. If you have basic understanding of how the blockchain tech works – it will not be a problem to dive into this new way of distributing your exclusive content!
In case you are more into traditional interaction – sell your fans your personal messenger or phone number. The ones who pay extra could talk with you live via phone call, direct messages, voice messages or even videocalls. The main idea of this is selling specific fan your time which is dedicated only to them. While chatting through on-site messages fans understand that they are not the only ones who are awaiting reply at the moment. You may have numerous conversations at the same moment. Same with live streams.
So what you offer now is private and direct conversation with one fan at the time, without distracting to others! That is how you call staying exclusively in touch! Your fans would be grateful to know you find some time especially for them! Do not forget to quit all your other conversations while being on direct voice or video call. Sell it as a time – for example: $10 for 20 minute voice conversation. Nobody else to see or hear! Only two of you! How does that sound? Pretty nice for ones who are in need of a soulmate.
As you can see, the possibilities are indeed endless. The amount of services you provide depend only on your imagination and time you can give to your fans.
None of this requires some extra gear or deep learning. This is just a variety of interaction ways possible via Internet. And all of them could bring you money!
Promoting your Onlyfans page
Unfortunately, Onlyfans do not provide much of a promotion tools. Usually Onlyfans is used to redirect traffic from your other social networks, like Instagram, Tik-Tok, Twitter, Youtube or webcam sites. There are corresponding external account fields you may fill out in your profile. If you do not have any well promoted social networks or streaming sites, starting Onlyfans from scratch might be a challenge. But this platform keeps developing more and more, giving creators more useful tools and techniques, so there is no need to panic. Give it a try and you will see where it goes.
You may also be interested in adding the promotional campaigns to your page. This is a simple limited time discount system which may attract new fans. All you need is to define the amount of discount you are ready to provide for your subscription and the time when it is available for your fans. The discounted subscription also may have an expiration date.
For example, you might want to give all your new fans a 40% off for a 2-months subscription, during one week. This would save them a lot money for the next 2 months and totally boost your subscribers count! They should be fast because once the promoted week is over, they will not be able to receive this discount. The expiration date for this campaign is 2 months so once they are over, fans would have a choice to buy a full-price subscription or cancel it. Isn’t this a good example? Try your own combinations to increase your income.
Another common Onlyfans promotion tool is the Free trial. This is pretty the same as the Discount system but you offer a completely free of charge access during a limited amount of time. This may be handy when trying to re-activate your expired subscribers or attract some new fans.
In most cases the Free Trial is very limited by time. Give it a try during holidays or Black Friday to motivate your potential fans!
To sum up: use the max of your existing social networks. Post links of your Onlyfans profile everywhere possible: at your Twitter, Facebook, Tik-Tok, Instagram, Youtube accounts. Do not forget some popular fun / time-killing sites are also good for promoting your content: share your teasers at Reddit or 9GAG to attract more potential fans. After linking your page with all your other profiles, set up your subscription prices wisely. Add discount or free trial campaigns often.
Define a list of your extra and exclusive services for your best fans. Provide most loyal ones free gifts and surprises. Sell your merchandise and be in touch with external messengers as your additional paid services. Combining those ways and methods would surely boost your income and attract a lot of fans to your page. Nothing complicated but have enough patience.
Onlyfans payout options
Once you earn at least $20, you can withdraw your money to your bank account. It is not possible to withdraw smaller amount according to Onlyfans rules. There is also a balance hold applied to your earnings that means you cannot receive what you have just earned instantly.
Some time is needed for transaction review and this may take up to 8 days before your earnings are cleared for withdrawal.
There is no need to count days. You will see your available earnings at the statements page. The “Current balance” amount is what you can withdraw right away. And your “Pending balance” amount is what still on hold. The hold state is created for security reasons. No need to worry about your pending balance.
You may withdraw your funds manually or using standard schedule. Usually the automatic withdrawal is each week or each month. If the min withdrawal balance is not yet earned, it would remain at your Onlyfans balance until you reach the lowest possible amount.
If you have a goal of saving some amount of money for your needs or projects, it is wise to withdraw only a part of your earnings while keeping the rest at your account. Be sure all your balance is secure at the Onlyfans platform and cannot be affected by third parties. In some cases it would be better to withdraw only what you need now and not the whole possible amount. Plan your expenses and make sure to keep only positive balance.
Keep in mind that chargebacks are possible at the Onlyfans platform. Each fan has an option to reverse any transaction. After his refund request being reviewed by Onlyfans staff, your earnings from this particular fan might be adjusted or reversed. You will see details at you Statements page.
Most common Onlyfans payout systems are Skrill, ePayments and Paxum. The payout systems available are different depending on your location. Some regions allow direct bank transfers, ACH or SEPA.
Most successful Onlyfans creators
Have a look at the rating of the most successful Onlyfans creators and models. Each of them have different approach. Those examples might help you with finding best approach for your fans!
Bhad Barbie (Danielle Bregoli) – estimated income: $52 000 000 for a year.
A bright example of what celebrities can make out of Onlyfans. Bhad Barbie is a famous rap singer. She was the youngest ever rap performer in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. She also starred in TV shows and Internet projects. Her Onlyfans is purely hot tease style. Being a famous celebrity boosted her Onlyfans account instantly with declared income of $50 000 000 for one year.
Pia Mia – estimated income $2 200 000 per month.
Another example of a popular singer blasted her way through the Onlyfans platform. She started with Youtube videos, modelling and singing, also some promotional videos starring. Having a huge audience she had no trouble using Onlyfans to increase her creative income. Her monthly subscription costs only $10. Keep in mind that she also might have some advertising or promotional contracts along with selling photos or videos which is not a direct Onlyfans revenue but still counted as one kind of income.
Mia Khalifa – estimated income $ 6 420 000.
Mia is a well knows porn actress and adult industry model. She had a long way before Onlyfans was even created and a lot of fans from previous projects. Onlyfans was just an addition to what she earns. Still it went pretty smooth and gives her additional income. Mia is also rated as one of the most popular accounts at Onlyfans. Her subscription costs $12.99 per month.
Gem101 – estimated income $ 2 300 000 per month.
One should not be a celebrity, music or movie star to become successful at Onlyfans. Gem101 is just a cosplayer and a photo model. But she managed to gather an audience of more than one million fans. Her subscription price is pretty high – $30 per month. But good account management and posting new content often made her a well-knows Onlyfans start without being a celebrity before.
Bella Thorne – estimated income $ 11 000 000.
Bella is a good example of making good income without paid subscriptions. She does not charge any monthly fees. But once she registered at Onlyfans her first day of sharing content gathered whole $ 1 000 000 which is a lot! Bella Thorne is a famous TV and movie actress, singer and book writer. Her Onlyfans content is not limited to hot photos only. She also shares her music videos and personal content with an early access for most loyal fans.
Daniel Newman
Daniel is a good example that not only female creators succeed at Onlyfans. A well known star of the Walking Dead TV-series and also an open bisexual personality started his Onlyfans account and gained about 7000 followers pretty fast. Most of his fans were shocked by this action but this does not seem to give Daniel any trouble. He is very active with his content and seems to enjoy what he does.
Safaree Samuels – estimated income $ 2 000 000 per month.
Safaree is a male rap singer and TV shows star. Onlyfans might have been more of experiment for him but so far he is a bright Onlyfans male star. As you can see, music-connected content is pretty common on this platform too. So far his income from Onlyfans-connected works is estimated as two million dollars per month.
Tyga
Tyga is another male black rap star who started his Onlyfans account claimed as having no limits. He has two Onlyfans accounts: both paid and free of charge. That helps him to provide any type of content which is suitable for all of his fans. Today he is one of the top male creators on the platform. He gained more than 58 000 subscribers so far and uses his Onlyfans account to promote his brand and lifestyle.
To sum up – Onlyfans can be truly a great way to earn more than you could of your own content using other ways or distribution. The most popular is erotic photos and videos and if you are into this kind of creativity – you definitely should give it a try. If not – there are plenty of other ways you can gather your own fan audience and receive money for your work.
