The other day we talked about How to Make Money With Content Creation. However, we did not talk about content creation avenues to make money with. What do we mean by this? What do we mean by content creation avenues? We mean platforms to use to make money with content creation. We mean where do you place your content in order to make money with it.
Now without wasting anymore time, let us go straight into it.
1. Podcasts.
One of the most common avenues that you can use to distribute your content so as to make money include podcasts. Podcasting has become a very major way of content creators to make money these days. As podcasting grows more and more, so does the listeners. Hence the market for podcast content is growing. This has led to many more podcast creators making more money. This is usually through the ads playing in the content. In addition to that, you can also make money through advertising within your episodes.
Podcasting sites include Podbean, Buzzsprout, Simplecast, Libsyn, Transistor, Blubrry, Brainy Podcasts, Captivate and Spotify.
2. Social Media.
Another major platform for making money with content creation is social media. Actually, social media is the largest avenue for content creators. The reason for this is that, social media is very close to everyone and very easily accessible. Some of the social media you can use to distribute your content include:
- Facebook. FB is a great social media platform to distribute your content on. Actually Facebook is the largest social media platform in the world. As of January 2025, they had more than 3 billion active users. Hence with FB you can reach so many people and make money with your content.
- YouTube. YouTube is another great avenue that you can use to release your content and promote it. YouTube allows content creators to make money with their content. There is youtube partner program that allows content creators to monetize their content.
- TikTok. TikTok has also grown to become one of the biggest social media companies in the world. TikTok has so many people active on daily basis using TikTok regularly. With such a large audience you can be able to promote your content and earn with it.
3. Blogs.
Another great avenue that you can use to make money with content creation is blogging. If you are a content creator, who produces text content, then blogging is for you. Say for example you are journalist, you can use blogging to publish your news articles to the public. Maybe you write other interesting articles, you can use blogging to publish this content and make money with it.
The way to make money with blogging is through advertising such as google adsense. Thus you display ads on your website and earn with it. You can also earn by publishing sponsored articles. By the way, with blogging you do not have to only make text content. You can also make money with video content and other visual content such as images.
4. Video Gaming and Streaming Sites.
For the content creators who products such content as video game plays or streams, you too can make money with your content. Yes you can use your video gaming content to make money with it. Such content can be streamed online for viewers to watch. Some of these viewers are paid viewers, meaning they pay to watch the content. In addition to that, you can make money with video gaming through live streams. For the very interesting games and good players, people will even pay to watch a live stream as you play it live.
5. Live Streaming Sites.
As internet becomes faster and more accessible to the world, live streaming grows. These days there are more live streams than ever before. One great thing about this is that it has opened room for content creators to make money with live streaming. If you go to platforms like Twitch, kick and YouTube live, you can make money with your live. There are so many features that enable live content creators to make money with their live.
Live streaming sites you can try include OneStream Live, StreamYard, Twitch and Kick.
6. Photography & Design on stock photo sites.
Content creation also includes graphic content. It involves content such as stock photos, and graphic designs. When you produce this content, you need somewhere to distribute it. You need an outlet avenue to use to make money with it.
Such sites that you can use include Unsplash, Pixabay, Pexels, Dreamstime, iStock, and Adobe Stock.
