--- title: 'Traffic Is the New Oil: How to Earn from UBT Traffic and What It Is' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=sIxjwEWtgzg' video_id: 'sIxjwEWtgzg' date: 2026-07-23 duration_sec: 698 channel: 'MYKHAILOV' --- # Traffic Is the New Oil: How to Earn from UBT Traffic and What It Is > Source: [Traffic Is the New Oil: How to Earn from UBT Traffic and What It Is](https://youtube.com/watch?v=sIxjwEWtgzg) ## Summary The video explains why audience attention is the 'oil of the 21st century' and how to monetize it through traffic arbitrage, focusing on free methods like creating short-form content for TikTok and Instagram. The speaker shares his journey from dropping out of university to earning a living through traffic, and breaks down different monetization models including CPL, CPA, and pay-per-view. ### Key Points - **Audience as Oil** [00:01] — The audience is the oil of the 21st century; traffic is the new currency. - **Speaker's Background** [00:15] — Mikhail dropped out of university at 19, entered traffic arbitrage, and now works from anywhere. - **Telegram's Role** [01:11] — Telegram has ads, referral systems, and products; it's a key platform for monetization. - **Two Paths: Paid vs Free** [01:50] — Paid traffic costs money but gives instant results; free traffic takes time but no upfront cost. - **Paid Advertising Model** [02:16] — Arbitrageurs buy ads, bring clients, and profit from the difference between ad cost and payout. - **Free Traffic Focus** [03:06] — The speaker switched to free traffic two years ago, leveraging TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. - **CPL Model Examples** [04:22] — Casino theme pays $40, dating $15, tourism $300, cryptocurrency $550 per lead. - **CPA Model** [05:00] — CPA pays for simple actions like subscribing to a Telegram channel; prices from $0.05 to $1.50 per subscriber. - **Pay-Per-View Model** [05:37] — Streamers pay for clips from their streams; Arthur Zloy paid $250k, Vadim Evelon $3M, Andrey Burim (Noustroy) $30M. - **Demand for Native Ads** [07:15] — Native advertising (clips) sells better than traditional ads; demand is higher than for paid traffic. - **Getting Started Resources** [08:35] — Free lessons on YouTube and a Telegram channel with a PDF guide covering two monetization schemes. - **Paid Community: Trffic Union** [10:09] — A closed community with structured info on editing, UBT traffic, commenting, monetization, AI, and more. - **First Steps Advice** [11:02] — Hardest part is starting; in 2-3 months of active work, one can start earning by creating content. ### Conclusion Traffic arbitrage, especially through free content creation, is a viable way to earn money online. The key is to start, learn from free resources, and scale with paid tools if needed. ## Transcript tell you why the audience is the oil of the 21st century, how much your transfer costs the TG channel admins, how TikToks and Reuss bring in $1,000 to their Avion, Andrey Maustroy, and Artur Zloy gave away in their own dialect. $600,000 into the stock exchange. And how can you turn constant doomscrolling into your profession? My name is Mikhail. At 19, I dropped out of university and my in the field of traffic. Two years later, I've traveled around the world, tried out the hobbies I've now I can work from absolutely anywhere I want. But later. Now I'll try to answer the question. Why did all these bloggers suddenly start making their stupid TikTok videos? Why have experts suddenly opinions on YouTube? And anyway, why is there so much create it simply because they have nothing better to do? And here, perhaps, you can say what these platforms. But objectively, if it’s not English-language content or it’s not in German, then, well, the payouts are just a pittance. Take a closer look at what all these bloggers ask you to do every time. And I, by the way, am no exception, if anything. The link will be in the description. Telegram has absolutely everything. There are tons of ads, some of their own products, referral systems, and everything else that makes a person make a purchase, even if half an hour ago they were just browsing TikTok. Yes, of course, some sell advertising within other social networks, but in reality, this is only available to bloggers who film themselves on camera, unusual users. , a bunch of exchanges with advertisers, and no restrictions at all files, sell products, whatever we get a piece of this pie if we don’t want to film ourselves dancing on , we essentially act as intermediaries between the business and the client who will purchase something from that business . To be more precise, we bring these clients. And here, roughly speaking, we have two paths. The first one is the one with instant results, but it costs money. And the second one is free, get any results. Let's start with the paid one. What is this? This is, in essence, all this advertising that we dislike so much, which prevents us from watching movies, there, videos on YouTube, on Instagram it regularly appears. I don’t know if we hear it on the radio or if we just see some banner on the wall when we enter the metro. This is also paid advertising. If it's not a super- large corporation, then they outsource all these marketing tasks to so- called arbitrageurs, who come to the platform, negotiate a price, then take the business offer, place it on the platform, and then take their profit. Yes, let's say they had to place an ad for 20 dollars, and for each person they brought in they received 30 dollars, with 10 dollars in their pocket they could buy a Rolls-Royce. But look what the problem is. If this arbitrageur chooses, I wrong Geo, the wrong platform, yes, and pays his own money for placement, but no clients come, then he will receive nothing, and no one will return his initial investment . That's why I gave up on this area two years ago and completely immersed myself in conditionally free traffic. Now I'll tell you what it is . And let's be honest, we all spend hours here watching these videos. Some people less, some more, somewhere it’s entertainment content, just to, I don’t know, relax, unwind, somewhere we’re interested in finding out how others live, and somewhere we want to acquire some new skill, some new knowledge. And, in fact, with all this we turn to three platforms. We have TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, which, And at first glance it seems that the content is completely harmless. Here are videos of already humming a song. What kind of business is this, [ __ ]? What kind of business is this, [ __ ]? Here Ender Tate says you're a beggar. And here we have a completely candid girl simply dancing for the camera. Well, if you look the video from Thailand leads to some travel agency with last-minute deals. Moustroy leads to the casino. Ender Tate is teaching some course on how to become a dating site. If you've ever know that some guy who has nothing to do with Mustroy [music], or Andryutate, or this girl, at most, I don't know, maybe he's sitting on a beach in Thailand somewhere. Casino theme - $40, Adauta [music] theme - $15, Tourism theme - $300, Cryptocurrency theme - $550. And even [music] or Instagram, then join my Trffиic Union community, some other random guy will earn 30 dollars just from sounds really sweet, but it’s not that simple. I told you about the CPL model, where you bring in a client, they perform a target action, for example, buy a product, and you receive some kind of payment for it . The guys who work according to this system are not new to this field, and they know what they are doing. But there is also a much simpler system. It's called CPA, which stands for Cost Action. Here you get paid for some simple action. For example, subscribing to a Telegram channel. For example, I pay one dollar for each subscriber. Yes, of course, the numbers here are significantly smaller, but the volumes here are also much larger. For example, my team and I attract 5,000 applications every day on a certain topic. Prices here start from about 5 cents and end at about a dollar and a half. It all depends on the channel's topic. The most important thing here is that your subscriber is alive, and whether he buys something or not is completely irrelevant. But it does n't end there. There is another payment system in which you don’t even need to transfer your audience anywhere. You just get views and you get paid for them . And yes, I'm talking about all those popular bloggers and streamers that you constantly see to tell you how much some streamers paid their followers for simply taking an interesting moment from long videos and posting biggest streamer. This is our Arthur the Evil. And I have a spreadsheet with all his payments for last year. A total of $250,000 has accumulated here, but that's still just crumbs. Next, let's take a more popular streamer, Vadim Evelon. Here he paid out more than 3 million dollars. And the one who was one of the first to come up with the idea of doing this, Andrey Burim, better known as Noustroy, paid out a total of 30 million dollars in the period from 2000 to 2008. And let me say it again. A man paid out $30 million in less than 2 years simply because some guys made short videos from his streams and posted them on TikTok. It's clear that all of this wasn't done by just one person, but still, not by the way, he was one of the first to come up with this whole system, not only in the CIS, but throughout the world. Then it was picked up in the West. A lot of players. They even created their own By the way, I also dream of creating something similar for the CIS market. And here's what's important to think about. This trend is n't even three years old, but anyone who starts streaming, selling, or engaging in any kind of media activity immediately starts looking for teams with cutters, trying to find people who will make these clips for them. And if you just go to TikTok, Instagram, you'll see a ton of videos there with boosters, and Gulakomoli, and a ton of these streamer guys who are now actively exception. Now I'll try to do more broadcasts, more videos like this, try to film some kind of like content so that you and I get some money for them. And to be honest, right now the demand for this type of traffic is much higher than for paid advertising. Well, judge for yourself. It's one thing when they write you an advertisement, like, well, you see some video on YouTube, the video, another location, and they tell you: "Buy, I don't know, buy Coca-Cola, yeah, buy some product, something else." And the second thing is when you just watch, and the guy is showing off or some kind of jokes, gags with this Coca-Cola, right? That is, you watch this content yourself, you like it , you like it, you see Coca-Cola , yes, you think: “Well, if this is a type, then I’ll take it too.” That's why this type of advertising is native; it sells much better and works much better. And if you look at the trends, then now almost, well, everyone is starting to switch to this kind of native advertising, yes, when it’s shown somewhere in some videos, in reuses, in something else like that, when there is no such advertising banner. And "Okay, I get it, free traffic is in demand right now, people are paying for it, how do I get started with all this?" And here, in fact, it’s impossible to answer in a few words my YouTube channel. There are, in fact, a lot of free lessons, a lot of examples of how it’s all done, uploaded. Besides this, I have a Telegram channel. I created some kind of structure there with the most important lot of useful information there. To make things easier and to help you navigate put together this simple guide, which describes two, so to speak, schemes— yes, one is a bit more drab, yes, where you can create your own product on Telegram and start making money from it. And the second structure is where you can simply make videos on TikTok and Instagram and also make money from it. If you're interested, head over to Telegram, where you can quickly find it in a pinned message. Just open it, it's a PDF file, and that's it, off to take a look. freely available. You just go to YouTube, go to Telegram, and get all this information. For the most part, it will be enough for you to start taking first results. But besides this, I also have my own paid products. I not ashamed of them at all. These are all sorts of parsers, all sorts of software and communities that only make life easier for the guys who have already achieved some initial see something online that says absolutely everything is free, like a program for making money, just leave your money on this exchange, then you should know that most likely, some of that money has already gone into the pockets of other traffic arbitrageurs for successfully bringing in a lead. And contrary to all the rules of modern through a bunch of funnels, checklists and all that stuff . I will simply say openly that I have my own closed channel. It 's called Trffic Union. This is a community where I've written separately on editing, UBT traffic, commenting, monetizing a Telegram channel, a separate section of, let's say, podcasts where I simply share some of my experiences, a separate funnel on AI, yes, that is, how it is, well, how to work with AI and a bunch of other useful things like that. Plus there's a great community, yes, with, well, adequate, flexible, cool guys. Let me say right away that you can easily find 60 percent of this information yourself on the Internet. It’s just that structured, and secondly, I will put in there, for the most part, all of my what worked for me, what didn’t work for me. In fact, you can treat this community less like a private traffic group and more like something closer to Arsen Markaryan's base. That is, such a soulful group, only with some hard skills. In the end, I will say that the hardest thing is to start. The first steps in any field are the most difficult: figuring everything out and creating all the accounts. But in 2-3 months, if you're actively doing this, all just scrolling through TikTok and Instagram, looking at what's trending, picking up some ideas, going into Capcats, doing some small editing, uploading it all to your accounts, and after a while, getting paid. But again, you have to get there before that, and before that you will have some specific work to do. That's watched up to this point. Have a watched up to this point. Have a wonderful day everyone and stay in touch.