Fantyde wants to help influencers monetize their following

Hi! Creator of fantyde here. We're launching a platform to enable influencers to monetize their following beyond strategies like sponsored posts.

Influencers are an inventive crowd that work hard interacting with their fans and creating content. However, their monetization options are limited. The most common approach to monetizing a following after spending months/years working to build it is through pursuing brand partnerships. Advertisers will generally pay 4 figures for posts made by people with 500K to 1M followers.

We think that strategies beyond sponsored posts could present a huge opportunity for influencers to profit and for their followers to connect more meaningfully with them.

fantyde will allow influencers to offer a paid feed that their followers can subscribe to on a monthly basis to access exclusive content. fantyde acts as an extension of an influencer's Instagram/Twitter/etc. where their most dedicated followers can come to access more content.

Influencers set their own monthly subscription prices, and can interpret the opportunity however they want to (barring a few content restrictions). A few examples of premium content could be: exclusive recipes, daily video advice from an expert (e.g. a stock trader), a heartthrob offering access to more selfies, a digital nomad offering city guide videos, etc. Beyond the paid feed, we also want to build in complimentary capabilities like paid private messages and even 1:1 video chat priced by the minute.

We want to provide a medium for influencers to build revenue streams that compliment their core competency of creating original content and provide a solution to capitalize on the fact that their most dedicated fans want more of it.