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FULL GUIDE: How I made $120,000 from a clip of a girl dancing

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When you see crazy claims like someone made $120,000 in a month, you probably think they're doing something crazy complicated, been doing it for years and are skilled out of their mind

And while that's often true, it's not the case for everyone

You see, just like with everything, there are loopholes to what feels like printing money when done correctly

and I'm confident one of those loopholes is what I did to make $120,000 from videos of a girl dancing

There were no fancy production. No professional studio. No face. No VoiceOver.

Just a clip of a girl dancing with text overlaid on top.

That clip, run through Meta ads pointing to a landing page promoting a Glitchy offer, made me $120,000.

So if you wanna replicate this yourself

Here is the exact system from start to finish.

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Why this works

Before getting into the setup you need to understand why in this case a dancing girl clip in this case works.

All social medias algorithms are built around content that stops your scroll. And videos that seem like regular "on your timeline" videos with a scroll-stopping hook does just that. The clips make it look authentic and "backs up" the text. The text overlay is what drives the viewer to the landing page. And the landing page does the selling.

That is the whole trick. It does not feel like an ad because it looks exactly like the content people are already consuming on their feed.

Step 1: Sign up for Glitchy and pick a CPI app offer

Everything in this system points to one Glitchy link. This is how you actually make money with this.

Glitchy is an affiliate network that pays you every time someone completes a specific action on your link

For this system you want CPI offers (cost per install app offers). Someone sees your ad, clicks through to your landing page, downloads the app, and you get paid.

App install offers on Glitchy are perfect for this creative format because the barrier to conversion is low. You are not asking someone to pull out their credit card. You are asking them to download a free app. The creative stops the scroll, the hook gets them to your landing page, the landing page warms them up, and the low friction conversion does the rest.

So simply go to Glitchy, browse the app offer category, and look for CPI offers with strong payouts and proven conversion rates.

Sign up for Glitchy: https://app.glitchy.com/ref?id=3396

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Step 2: Generate your clips with AI

You do not need a real person. You do not need to film anything. You generate the clips with AI.

And yes, don't steal them of social media, shits unethical and if you spend 2 sec more on it you can AI generate these for pennies.

Use Google Omni 1.1 for this instead

The prompt structure for dancing content in this case is simple. You want a young woman in a casual setting dancing in a natural, authentic way. Not choreographed. Not performative. The kind of content you see on a genuine TikTok or Reel.

Then angle the scene to the hook you're using. If you're using a sad hook = match the aesthetic

If you're using a happy-hook = match it

If you're using a aspirational one = match it

You get it. Use common sense and make it look like a good piece of content simply.

Here are the prompt elements to include:

  1. A clear subject description. Young woman, casual clothing, natural setting. Nothing that screams ad or production.

  2. The movement. Natural dancing, moving with music, relaxed and authentic. Avoid words like professional, choreographed, or performance.

  3. The setting. Bedroom, living room, outdoor casual setting. Somewhere that feels real and relatable.

  4. The aspect ratio. Vertical 9:16. Always. Meta feed and Reels placement.

  5. Generate at least ten variations. Different outfits, different settings, different energy levels. Different moods. You will test all of them and the algorithm will tell you which one performs best.

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Step 3: Add your text overlay

The text is what sells. The clip is what stops the scroll. You need to get both right.

Take your generated clips into CapCut or any video editor. Add text overlay that appears throughout the video.

Always center the text, it works better than top / bottom of the video.

Now see what works for others through ad-spy tools such as Tyver and start with those angles and as a LLM of your choice to make variations of these.

The text should feel like a caption someone wrote on their own video, not ad copy. Lowercase. Casual. "tiktok-language".

BUT it should have the goal to get the user to your landing page.

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Step 4: Build your landing page

You need a landing page between your Meta ad and your Glitchy offer. Never send paid traffic directly to an offer page. The landing page warms the lead up and dramatically improves conversion rates.

Use Lovable or any AI page builder:

"Build me a simple one page landing page for [app offer]. The headline should speak to [pain point or benefit]. Include three bullet points covering the key benefits of the app. The CTA button should link to [Glitchy link] and say Download Free Now. Clean, minimal, mobile friendly. No navigation. No footer. One button only."

Buy a .com domain and connect it. This is the URL you put in your Meta ad as the destination link.

The landing page does three things. It confirms what the ad promised. It builds enough trust to justify the install. It makes tapping the download button feel like the obvious next move.

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Step 5: Set up your testing ads

Now go to Meta Ads Manager and create a new pixel and connect a postback (so your data gets fed to your pixel).

Then create a campaign like this

Campaign objective: Leads. Maximum volume. Adset budget optimization (ABO)

Conversion event: complete registration (ALWAYS CONNECT A PIXEL)

Audience targeting: Start broad. 18+. USA only (or where your offer lives)

Placements: Feed / reels / stories on FB/IG only

Budget: Start with $30 to $50 a day per ad set.

On a ad level now, upload your dancing creatives and insert your landing page URL for where to send the traffic with appropriate URL parameters if your postback requires so.

Add 5 ads into each ad set and start with 2-3 ad sets like this in your campaign.

Let each ad run for at least 2 days before making any decisions.

If profitable increase budget, if not kill them.

And continuously add 1-2 of these assets with 5 ads in each per day, until you reach around 10-15 active ad-sets.

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Step 6: Scale

After each ad-set has ran for further ran for a day or two look at your numbers.

The clips with the lowest CPA is your winners. Kill everything that isn't profitable or near so, and create more variations of what works well in new ad sets

For the winners, you now move these into a CBO instead that is structured the same, but the ad-sets in this only has winners in them now instead.

Now this CBO is where you crank the budget and properly scale.

Still keep the ABO alive, but just scale that slower and properly scale your CBO.

Once you have a winning clip and a winning text overlay, generate more variations of the same style. Same setting, same energy, different outfits, different faces. Feed them into the same ad structure and let Meta find the next winner.

This is the loop that took me to $120,000. One winning creative format, continuously refreshed with new AI generated variations, pointed at a converting Glitchy CPI offer through an optimized landing page.

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The maths

A CPI app offer in this case pays 5-6 USD / install

I have a CPA that it around 2.5-3.5

That means that for each dollar I spend, I make around 2 back running this.

Why this works

The creative does not look like an ad and sparks curiosity. The landing page does the selling. The Glitchy CPI offer has a low friction conversion.

And will this work forever?

Probably not

But it does right now, and it will for the foreseeable future

So I recommend you get started

Generational money awaits.

YET

Most people will read this and do nothing.

So if you are not most people:

Sign up for Glitchy: https://app.glitchy.com/ref?id=3396


I made a full guide covering the exact Meta ad structure, the Omni 1.1 prompts I use for clips, the landing page template, and some offers that convert great on this traffic. Comment "ads" below and RT this and I will send it over. Must follow so I can DM you.

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