Last spring I got approved for Amazon Associates and spent two months posting static image carousels with affiliate links to a dead Instagram account. I think I made $11 total. The tiny bit that did move was one Reel I tried where I held up a coffee grinder and talked, but I hated being on camera and the one clip took me six tries.
I noticed the faceless channels that actually convert usually have the same presenter in every video, so it feels like a real person reviewing stuff. I run the product photo through APOB AI to get a short vertical clip with the same AI presenter each time, and keep each clip short because the expressions start wandering on longer takes. I disclose in the captions that the presenter is AI generated. Then I trim and add captions in CapCut on my old iPhone, grab a track from the YouTube Audio Library, and post with my affiliate link.
I posted 22 clips before one hit. First two months I made basically nothing again. Month three, one clip for a $20 kitchen gadget started picking up some steam and I hit $90. Now it sits around $350 most months, and it comes from maybe six or seven clips that keep getting seasonal traffic. My garlic press clip spikes every November when people search for holiday cooking stuff. The thing that moved the needle was having the same presenter across my whole product catalog so the account looks like an actual reviewer people recognize, not any single viral hit.
This is absolutely not quit your job money. It is boring steady money for about an hour of work per clip. That is the whole story.
