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- Instagram Theme Pages Operator
- $320,725 annual revenue
A Redditor shares how he made $320,725 last year running Instagram theme pages – niche accounts that grow by reposting viral content instead of creating it.
He ran a 2M-follower science page (built from zero in 12 months) and a 3M-follower luxury page.
Where the money came from 
- $120,156 in direct ad sales – brands like Kalshi, Polymarket and Stake spending big
- $110,569 from Instagram’s bonus program – they pay $30-$100 per 1M reel views, and one of his pages was getting 200M/month
- $90,000 from selling the science page outright
A 2M page can sell sponsored posts for $500-$600. His luxury page landed a 12-month deal with a jewelry brand: $4,500/month for 5 posts + 5 stories.
The workflow…
I use an Instagram downloader app to download viral content and then I edit it by either adding text or a different background or a voiceover or captions and repost it onto my page.
One catch – Instagram cracked down on aggregator pages recently, so pure reposters no longer get the same reach there.
But this playbook still works on TikTok, YouTube Shorts and X. This guy has done it on all three.
Pick a niche you actually enjoy and start curating 