If you run a Telegram channel and you've searched for ways to earn from it, you've probably found two different answers that don't quite agree with each other. One says Telegram now shares ad revenue with channel owners. The other says admins still rely on third-party sites to make anything from the videos they post. Both are true. They're just answers to different questions.
Telegram's own revenue share is real — and narrow
Telegram pays channel owners a share of the ad revenue from sponsored messages — short ads Telegram itself inserts into a channel's post feed. To qualify, a channel needs at least 1,000 subscribers, and Telegram keeps the other half of what those ads earn. Payment is in Toncoin (TON), Telegram's own cryptocurrency, not rupees.
That's a genuine program, and for a channel with an engaged, five- or six-figure subscriber base, it adds up. But look at what it's actually paying for: impressions of a text ad in your feed, counted across your whole channel, settled in crypto, gated behind a subscriber floor.
What it doesn't cover
None of that touches the thing most Telegram admins actually post: a video file, forwarded or linked, that people tap to watch. Telegram has no mechanism to:
- Pay you for views of one specific video, as opposed to overall channel ad impressions
- Pay anything at all before you cross 1,000 subscribers
- Pay in rupees, to a UPI ID, instead of a crypto wallet
- Tell you which of those views were real people, and which weren't
That last point is the one that matters most. Telegram's revenue share is about ad delivery, not about your content's performance. It has nothing to say about whether the view behind a rupee was eight seconds of real attention or a bot that opened and closed the link in half a second.
This is the actual gap: a channel admin sharing video files has no path to being paid by Telegram for that, full stop — not a small one, not a slow one. Zero, regardless of subscriber count, until a completely separate system is built on top.
Why a third-party host exists at all
That gap is exactly why platforms built around shared video links exist — Drisvani among them. The shape of the job is narrow and specific:
- Take the video a creator sends (forwarded to a bot, nothing else)
- Turn it into one link that plays in a browser, no app required
- Count each view against rules a viewer can't game — real playback time, once per person per day, no bots
- Turn counted views into money, and show the creator exactly how
None of that overlaps with what Telegram's own program does. A channel can use both at once: Telegram's sponsored-message share for the feed itself, and a video host for the links posted inside it.
What to actually ask before picking one
Since this market runs on advertised numbers that are hard to check, the questions worth asking are the same ones we'd want asked of us:
- Is the revenue split published, or a number someone quoted you in a chat? On Drisvani it's 80% for the first 100 creators, 70% after — written down, not negotiated per admin.
- Does it pay in rupees to UPI, or does it need a separate wallet? Drisvani's minimum withdrawal is ₹200, straight to your UPI ID.
- Can you see which views counted and which didn't — and why? If the answer is "just trust the total," that total is unverifiable by definition.
That last one is the whole idea behind this blog, and the system it describes: a record you can check, not a number you're asked to take on faith.