I Tried 24 Ways to Promote a Telegram Channel—Here Are the 3 Best

[00:02] despite being blocked in 2026, and the Russian-speaking audience is concentrated primarily on this platform. I've been on Telegram for six years and during that time I've successfully promoted and monetized more than ten projects there. In this video, I'll share

[00:16] all the promotion methods I've used and lay them out in tier list. is provided for informational and educational purposes only. actions shown in the video. And the first method is purchasing advertising. This is

[00:29] when we purchase posts from other Telegram channels with a link to our own. We go to any random Telegram channel in TGAT. And here is the section on attracting subscribers. And here we see where this

[00:44] only other Telegram channels. For example, let's click on July, 58 For example, let's click on July, 58 mentions, and we see that he is mentioned in various channels like these. mentioned the channel. We click and see that yes, this is an

[01:00] advertising creative. You need to create something similar in order to purchase. It needs to be tested. Then, when we see a good conversion rate, that when we see a good conversion rate, that is, from views to clicks on our

[01:15] Telegram channel, then we scale it up. It would seem that this is a classic, a necessity. Well, it's not that simple. In 2026, the subscriber price is getting higher and higher. Well, 2026, the subscriber price is getting higher and higher. Well, this has been a trend for the last five years. And

[01:28] at least in 2026, buying ads on other Telegram channels is unprofitable because subscribers are, well, too expensive. And in order to balance the debit with the credit, to be in the black, it is necessary to, well,

[01:42] be in the black, it is necessary to, well, buy really cheaply. And even if we come out on top, the profit margin will still be significantly lower than if we neurocommenting or conditionally free traffic. We'll talk about this a little

[01:57] later, but you can't avoid buying ads entirely , because it affects your Telegram channel's trustworthiness, which is how much other admins trust you. Specifically, you offer to host your site, and the admin goes to the

[02:12] Attracting Subscribers section and sees where you're driving traffic from. And here, at most, he sees all your traffic sources. At the very least, he simply understands that you are on the market, and you either bought from someone or

[02:27] sold to someone else. And, accordingly, this list of channels influences how much you are trusted. Even if your main traffic doesn't come from advertising purchases, it's , you're not a scammer, and you're not rigging it. If you're just entering the

[02:43] Telegram market, this traffic source is a must-have for you. Because if you don't have any purchases within the cart, the admins won't know where your traffic is coming from, you'll be a no-name, and, accordingly, no one will buy from you

[02:55] because they won't trust you. But we can't rely on it as the main source of traffic, so we're confidently setting it at 5050. Oh, I completely forgot, I'll have four levels here and the top one—this

[03:11] method is definitely worth using. You can promote your Telegram channel. This is a good You can promote your Telegram channel. This is a good method, but a little worse than the top. That is, it is better to use the top methods . 50/50 is possible, but there are

[03:24] nuances. And it's best not to use these as the primary way to promote a Telegram channel . And no, that is, it’s better not to get involved at all. You'll waste your time, you'll waste your money. I don't even know which is worse. You can still

[03:37] earn money, but you can’t get back time . Next we have UBT, conditionally free traffic. This is any traffic that we do not pay for directly. But in general, this is what people call the transfer of traffic from Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.

[03:51] traffic from Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. Therefore, under UBT I will have exactly these traffic sources. And this is my most marginal source. I have already I filled up two others using the same combination and sold them. I

[04:05] showed you the video. I'm not running it now, but I'll start a little later. Here is my nickname. And I uploaded it from accounts like these on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. I have 60,000 subscribers here. The videos themselves are just

[04:21] creatives. I show that there is some educational article that will allow you to quickly learn English. You can pick it up in the Telegram channel using the link in the profile header. Accordingly, traffic goes through this link in the

[04:36] profile header and, accordingly, ends up in my channel. And here I sell advertising. We go to the advertising effectiveness section and, in fact, we see that I periodically place it here. This project has a 95% margin for me. All

[04:51] I spent money on was an anti-detect browser, a proxy, and that's all. One such creative project takes, well, 5 minutes to put together. And, accordingly, in a day I can easily create 200-300 of these creatives and attract 100-200 applications

[05:06] per day. I also have a welcome message in this channel . And, accordingly, here I also put another Telegram channel. And, accordingly, I earn money both from the feed and from the

[05:19] welcome bot. Overall, I don't see any reason to give up almost free traffic. And what's more, if you know how to use it, you can have a project with almost 100% marginality, where will you see this?

[05:33] marginality, where will you see this? Therefore, we confidently place UBT in the top section. And then we have manual commenting. There is automatic commenting. This is when we use a neural network and some software

[05:47] to massively comment on other people's chats. And there is manual. That is, we manually log into a chat and chat there, leaving comments with the goal that someone will visit our profile, see the Telegram channel in the description, and subscribe to it. And

[06:03] here, if you sell advertising, then this method is 100% not suitable for you. Because if you sell advertising, you need a massive influx of traffic. It is necessary, well, that at least 100-200 people come to your Telegram channel per day.

[06:19] And such a source will not provide such volumes of traffic. But if you're selling something on your Telegram channel, you need a highly targeted audience. And in this regard, manual commenting will suit you. And, by the way, there is a life hack.

[06:35] edited, unlike neurocommenting. That is, you left neurocommenting. That is, you left a comment, and an hour, two, or a day later you edited it. That is, you had a neutral comment, but you made

[06:48] it byte-like, provocative, and so on. As a result, people click the link in your profile description to your Telegram channel. This is the only advantage of manual commenting, as opposed to automatic commenting. That is, you can

[07:01] use it if your project is suitable for it , but it is still important to understand that you will not provide yourself with large volumes of traffic , and such a source is not suitable as a permanent one, but it can be used as a temporary one , so it is 50/50. Then

[07:16] we have raffles. This is motivated traffic, where in order to participate in a giveaway, you need to subscribe to a number of Telegram channels. Here is an example of such a prank. To participate, you need to subscribe to

[07:30] three Telegram channels and then click the "Participate in the giveaway" button. And this is how Telegram channels get cheap traffic. And I'll say frankly, I have a source of traffic, because this traffic is not engaged. All a person

[07:46] wants to do is win a prize. He is not interested in the channel's content and does not intend to stay on the channel after winning. That is, even if he doesn’t unsubscribe later, he will become dead weight and will not watch the channel’s content. This means that

[08:00] subscriber engagement will decline. I know channel admins who regularly hold giveaways and argue that buying ads costs subscribers much more. And it happens that there are generally 100,

[08:16] 200 rubles. and so on. Well, yes, but there are ways to attract a but there are ways to attract a much more targeted audience, for example, the same UBT traffic or the same manual commenting. Yes, there will be small

[08:29] volumes, but this is the target audience. And the most absurd thing is that you have to pay a pretty penny for this traffic. Let's say here's a prank. There is a T-shirt being raffled off here. It costs, let's say, 5,000 rubles. And such raffles

[08:44] are held once a month. If you give away a T-shirt like this every month for 5,000 rubles, then in a year it will be 60,000 rubles. In addition, you need to purchase advertising for the post with the giveaway so that an audience comes in the form of motivated

[08:59] traffic. And this is additional money. That is, for the sake of motivated traffic, such channels will spend, say, 150,000 rubles to get normal volumes. And in the process, they become addicted to this traffic. Here

[09:14] , for example, there are 54,000 subscribers. If this channel stops holding giveaways, then from 54,000 subscribers there will be about 40,000 left, and the reach will drop

[09:27] by two or three times. This means that the traffic is not targeted, and in order to maintain existing coverage, it is necessary to constantly hold giveaways. This is okay if we sell advertising and the price is determined by reach, but it is much better to bring in the same volumes

[09:44] using the same UBT traffic, because once we bring it in, we don’t need to invest in this traffic anymore, especially if the traffic is junk, and UBT traffic is targeted subscribers. That's why pranks take pride of

[10:01] place on our wall of shame. They can be arranged when you have a core audience. But if you're just starting out on your own Telegram channel or have a couple thousand followers there, I strongly advise against

[10:14] doing so. Our next source is neurocommenting. This is when we buy Telegram accounts and, on their behalf, the neural network writes comments about our competitors, and, accordingly, the audience goes to our profile, where

[10:30] our Telegram channel is listed. And this is how we build our audience. This is especially often used, for example, in football themes. The target audience here is mainly male. Let's go to the comments. And as funny as it may be,

[10:45] comment is a neurocommanding. We see the first female comment from Violetta. first female comment from Violetta. We click and, in fact, see what is pouring into dating here. Thus, not only dating, but also

[10:59] many other topics can be uploaded. You can pour money on gambling, betting, health topics, and so on. This can be done, for example, in boterasoft. Here we go to the main menu and first add accounts, add proxies to them

[11:15] and then click new task. And here we choose neurocommenting and, accordingly, launch our advertising campaigns in this way . We need accounts in Tata Session or JSON format. We go to any

[11:31] account store and, accordingly, choose the one that suits us best. I recommend taking American or Latin American ones, because they are more durable. Let's take this one, for example. And it costs less than a dollar. Here we see the

[11:46] T data session format and Jonlezhka 7+ days. This is excellent. We buy. And we receive a folder with data. We simply insert it into the bot and use it. Neurocommenting has two advantages. Firstly, we attract an audience from Telegram.

[12:01] we attract an audience from Telegram. This is the most targeted, the most involved. And unlike UBT, here we won’t experience a drop in reach or a drop in conversion. And drop in reach or a drop in conversion. And secondly, if we pour UBT, we often

[12:15] face bans, but in the case of neurocommenting, there are much fewer of them. And in this way we can more effectively promote various gray topics. That's why

[12:27] promote various gray topics. That's why I put non-recommendation here in the top section. Muslooking is also an automated feature that allows automated feature that allows us to view Telegram user stories

[12:39] us to view Telegram user stories and attract them with our vibrant avatar. The person comes over, then looks at our bio, there's a Telegram channel, and he subscribes to it. I'll even give my profile as an example. And

[12:54] now we see that more than half of those who liked it are automated. Well, for example, this. We see that this is what is pouring into the Telegram channel. The method itself is good, but the problem is that not many

[13:10] people use Telegram Stories, and therefore it is quite difficult to reach a potential audience . Therefore, we put malukiing here in the Possible section.

[13:22] By the way, you can also run muscle looking in the trsoft bot . I made a video on this topic, link in the upper right corner. SEO articles are when we write text materials on various forums or websites and attract an audience through

[13:37] search. You can also write them based on recommendations from a forum or website we write for, but, as a rule, the main flow of audience comes from search. Plus, when we write based on recommendations, our article

[13:52] is promoted for a few days, but SEO articles can work for us for years. For example, there is a website vc.ru - this is a marketing website. And, accordingly, if I want to use such articles to promote my own Telegram channel,

[14:08] for example, the main one by traffic, my channel by traffic, accordingly, I go to Yandex Wordstat, enter

[14:20] these search queries are not popular. But, for example, earning money on the Internet is in use. Accordingly, I take all these

[14:35] SEO keywords and include them in my article, and then publish it on vc.ru. And thus I collect views from Google, Yandex, and so on. This method is great if you are

[14:49] selling something. If you sell advertising, you won't get large volumes of traffic here. And therefore you will suffer, you will have low coverage, and, accordingly, your advertising will be cheap. But if you have some kind of product

[15:03] or information business, then such articles can bring in a pretty good audience , and people read these articles, and they come already warm. Therefore,

[15:15] we will put the articles here. The only thing is, I would like to put it here. The only thing is, I would like to put it in “You can”, but this traffic source is too narrow-profile. Theodoreveya is when we create Telegram bots and

[15:31] publish a link to our main Telegram channel in them. And this way we get to the top of the Telegram search and, accordingly, receive traffic from there. It looks like this. For example, I typed in Yandex Market in the search. And here we see a

[15:46] list of the most popular channels. And here we see the third bot on the list. We click here and see that all this bot represents is a

[15:59] link to the main Telegram channel. And this Telegram channel is being promoted. As we can see, applications are not even accepted here, but I think there is quite a lot of traffic here . These bots are popular because this parameter, the number of

[16:16] active users per month, can be easily boosted, even easier than the number of subscribers to a Telegram channel. And bots are given higher priority in Telegram searches than channels. And this way we can easily get to the top of search results.

[16:34] as the main one, because the volumes aren't the same, plus we can't control them. But I still recommend using them if you have a Telegram channel,

[16:47] whether it's on a broad or narrow topic, because Telegram search is used almost the same way as Google. Well, the only thing is that they don't google Well, the only thing is that they don't google various recipes and so on here,

[17:01] so we put Darvey in the possible. Telegram ATS is targeted advertising in Telegram. I really don't like this source of traffic. Firstly, it is very limited compared to Facebook targeting, which we will discuss a little later, and

[17:15] even VKontakte targeting, because there can only be two traffic sources here. The first is interests, and they work very crookedly. There we tune in to some Indians, Pakistanis, and so on. And the second is Telegram channels.

[17:30] Let's say I have a Telegram channel, and I want to promote it through Telegram Ads. Here is Belyak's channel about neural networks. Let's say I want to target this I want to target this channel's audience and, accordingly, I indicate its

[17:43] channel's audience and, accordingly, I indicate its link. It turns out that Telegram will show my ads to the audience of this channel. But the most disgusting thing is Telegram ADS commissions. I have not updated the data. At the time when

[17:56] I was pouring from this source, the entry threshold was 3,000 euros. And 1,000 euros is just the commission. You need to pay a commission to the intermediary. It's either Magnetta

[18:09] Pro or some other agency, I even forgot the name, OnePot. That is, just to access Telegram, you need to pay a 1,000 euro commission. Now, perhaps less, but the essence is absolutely the same. that is,

[18:23] crude tools and a high entry threshold with an unreasonable price. And yet Telegrams has defenders. And yet Telegrams has defenders. Supposedly, in this way we are targeting an audience of experts who do not sell advertising.

[18:38] experts are drawing their audience from outside. The same Belyak that I showed you is transferring his audience from Instagram. It makes more sense for me to start making similar reels, and a similar audience will watch them

[18:52] , and I will have an overlap with do, here is my Instagram account on neural networks. And thus I am already developing my other channel about neural networks. In general, I spread Telegrams at every

[19:08] opportunity. No one has yet convinced me that this tool has any advantages. Therefore, to the board of shame. But Facebook Ads are much more interesting. This is when we launch targeted advertising on

[19:23] Instagram and Facebook, and include our Telegram channel in the link. And Facebook advertising is still one of the best sources of paid traffic. All we need is to put together the right creative, and Facebook will find our

[19:36] audience itself. You can simply launch wide. There are a lot of services for this . For example, I use othaar, so we place Facebook Ads here. Tatop is still missing, because it is

[19:53] Chat mailings are when we launch posts like these. And to be honest, I haven't seen any successful advertising campaigns yet. All I saw was a

[20:05] huge number of garbage, either fake or dead fake or dead Telegram chats. And if people follow our links, then this is absolutely junk traffic that does not perform targeted

[20:17] actions. For example, I was posting to various online job postings, and I was getting absolutely trashy, garbage traffic from there. And if we want to

[20:29] work through Telegram chats, then it’s better to choose neurocommenting or manual traffic, because this way we can manage it more effectively. That's why we place Telegram chat newsletters here. Inviting is when we

[20:45] invite our potential audience to our chats and then publish a link to the main Telegram channel. It's possible, but most people already have privacy settings that prohibit invitations to chats, at least to non-contacts, and sometimes to

[21:01] everyone. Therefore, it is difficult to reach a large potential audience potential audience . Therefore, we put it in the 50/50 section. . Therefore, we put it in the 50/50 section. But for those who are reached in general, iving can

[21:14] show good results and high conversion. Sending personal messages can be either manual or automatic. It's better to use automatic ones, because this way we simply reach a larger

[21:28] audience and use more accounts . But this is very triggering for the audience . Most of these messages are simply not read, and the conversion rate for

[21:40] clicking on links in private messages is very low. And, as a rule, messages is very low. And, as a rule, the audience simply spams and deletes the chat. Therefore, to the board of shame. Long YouTube videos are how I

[21:55] promote this Telegram channel. Almost 7,000 subscribers, and they all came from this YouTube channel. Well, the maximum there was 1,000 came from TikTok. There are two big pluses here. This is search traffic, which works exactly the same as in Google.

[22:11] And the audience from search traffic is the most engaged. If she types in a search query, it means that the problem we are solving really hurts her. And the level of trust is also maximum. Let's say you run a YouTube channel. Let's say you

[22:25] run a YouTube channel, and in order for a person to feel like you're their friend, you need to interact with them for 30 minutes , so that they see your face for 30 minutes. It's easiest to do this with long YouTube videos,

[22:38] much easier than on Instagram and TikTok. Well, the downside is that it takes a long time to produce videos, so we put long YouTube videos here. This is an absolutely top-notch method, but its only Achilles' pet is

[22:54] production. I know several psychologists, for example, who understand how much of the target audience comes from here. However, I have no time to run a YouTube channel due to my busy schedule at my main job. Back

[23:09] when short videos were just emerging, advertising with bloggers was the absolute best way to promote a Telegram channel. I know people who have gone from, for example, who have gone from, for example, 50,000 subscribers to 300, and have earned

[23:23] up to a million dollars. However, in 2026, conversions are no longer the same. It would be possible to buy, especially when there are UGC creators, but it would be better to use the same UBT, the same neurocommenting, fire from Facebook and so

[23:38] on. I know channels that attract a large number of subscribers this way, but they found these connections several years ago. And if you're currently using Telegram, it might be a good idea to take a closer look at neurocommenting or

[23:52] look at neurocommenting or UBT. Therefore, we put advertising with bloggers in section 5050. I wo n't go into detail about contextual advertising. It just so happened that contextual advertising doesn't play well with

[24:06] Telegram channels. YandexDirect is currently promoting Max channels, but this is n't because life is good, but because Max only has two external Max only has two external traffic sources. This is VK and contextual advertising in

[24:20] Telegram channels is low, but contextual advertising also has low conversion rates for Manals , so we're sending it here. A mandatory subscription is when

[24:32] our channel is added to the bot. To use this bot, you need to subscribe to our channel. This is what it looks like. We go into the bot and see that in order to activate the bot, you need to subscribe to a number of channels. Such places

[24:46] subscribe to a number of channels. Such places are sold, and a subscriber here costs 2 are sold, and a subscriber here costs 2 dash3 rubles. Here is the advertising bot chat. And, accordingly, everyone here is selling a similar subscription. This is called op. And

[24:59] this is the same motive as the pranks. Only in the case of a mandatory subscription we pay much less money. But the other downsides are still the same. This traffic is completely unengaged. And it’s only worth using

[25:12] if you have another source of traffic. plus stable advertisers. Then, yes, you can increase the cost of advertising by increasing reach. Therefore, we set a mandatory subscription to 5050. You can use it, but there are certain

[25:27] conditions. Collections are when a post is published with a list of Telegram channels. And I wo n’t even start talking here. This is 2016, but in 2026 just forget about it . I was shocked when I found out that the collections are still alive and are still being made. No

[25:43] need, don't waste your time on this, don't burn out your traffic. Mutual PR, well, burn out your traffic. Mutual PR, well, is when there are two channels: yours and someone else’s , and you mention each other in order to transfer audiences to each other

[25:56] . And here I will be brief. I haven't seen a single effective channel that does mutual PR. If a channel does mutual PR, that means its business model is crap, that means its traffic is crap. And if you're thinking about mutual PR,

[26:12] then you urgently need to change something in your project. If you agree to mutual PR, you will lose more than you gain. You will move three tracks, and you will burn out your existing traffic. So everything is clear here. Similar channels

[26:27] can be found in the Telegram channel settings, and you can view similar channels of your favorite open Telegram channel. And the channels with the greatest audience overlap are shown there. This is a great source of

[26:40] traffic generation. If a person subscribed from it, it means that their interests are the same as your core audience, because the channel they subscribed to is in a similar category to yours. And the only downside is that we cannot

[26:55] yours. And the only downside is that we cannot manage traffic from similar channels. Otherwise, it's a great source of attracting subscribers. Well, it's like BTraffic, only there we promote in text format. And here I have had a

[27:11] rather unpleasant experience working with Threads. I transferred my audience from there, but for some reason the unsubscribe rate in the future was extremely high. And it feels like the TES audience isn't particularly large, and so we're reaching it pretty quickly

[27:28] . At some point we simply stop receiving traffic. But the biggest problem is unsubscribes. I had a situation where I attracted 2,000 people to a Telegram channel and 1,100 of them unsubscribed. Although I was promoting my

[27:43] Telegram channel on psychology and at the same time I was publishing posts on psychological topics. So, well, we will get traffic, but the quality of this traffic is, well, just so-so. Therefore,

[27:58] 50x50 it could be attributed to SEO articles, because we can publish the same SEO articles on vc.ru, on on vc.ru, on Reddity, on LZ, for example, and so on. What's

[28:13] interesting about Cen is that it used to have a pretty good recommendation system. In 2020, when I first joined Telegram, I got my first 1,000 subscribers from Zen. Back then it was Yandex Zen. And then these articles would easily

[28:28] get into recommendations. I published products there and people bought them through my referral published products there and people bought them through my referral links, but now DZN has been sold to VK, and everything that falls into Mail.ru's hands turns into crap. So the DZN

[28:42] Mail.ru's hands turns into crap. So the DZN ends up on the honor roll of shame. And mutual subscription. Well, it's like in the early 2010s there were various services for mutual friends on VKontakte. That is, a person subscribes to my

[28:55] Telegram channel, and I subscribe to his Telegram channel. But this is complete [ __ ]. Here you won’t get any volume, and the traffic is completely untargeted. And this is the ethereal list we got. Let's make two substitutions. And I

[29:11] want to move long videos to the top. At first I thought, well, they're hard to make, and then somehow, well, if they're hard, then why are you even going into monetizing a Telegram channel, into media coverage, and so on. I'll move the SEO articles here.

[29:27] If you sell something, you can attract a very targeted audience. This is the kind of territorial list we get. The best ways to promote a Telegram channel are free traffic, neurocommentary, and long YouTube

[29:42] videos. If you're interested in other ways to make money, I've compiled a separate tier list for them in this video, and there you'll find many other ways to make money online, which I, in particular, use.

[29:57] which I, in particular, use. Click. Enjoy watching.