Picture a message landing on your phone from a company you have never heard of. They found your Telegram channel, they like who reads it, and they want your rate for one sponsored post. You type a number, they agree, and the money arrives before the weekend.
Now picture your ordinary week instead. Long hours, a paycheck that stretches less far every year, and a phone full of other people's channels that someone else is earning from. Maybe a family member keeps asking when things will get easier. Maybe you keep asking yourself.
Telegram crossed 900 million monthly active users and then shipped Stars, the in-app payment token that turned a broadcast channel into something you can charge for. Channels are forming in every niche and language right now, and readers rarely keep several channels covering the same thing. Whoever starts the useful one this year becomes the default. Those who come later fight for what is left.
At around 1,000 subscribers the going rate is $50 to $200 per sponsored post. Starting runs from $0 to about $50, most people take one to three months to reach their first profit, and $200 a month is a realistic first rung.
So what would you send those 1,000 people every day? Tonight, write that answer in one sentence, then open Telegram and create the channel. Both take a few minutes and neither costs you anything.
Here is what most Western marketers miss: Telegram works as a full media platform. In much of Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, it is where people go to read, watch and follow the things they care about. Channels behave like newsletters with near-perfect delivery. Groups behave like forums with real-time conversation. Bots behave like apps that run inside the chat window. And the TON blockchain adds payments, mini apps, and token economics you will find nowhere else.
This guide walks you through building a profitable Telegram channel from scratch, earning from several revenue streams, and reaching audiences your competitors are completely ignoring.
When you post to your Telegram channel, every subscriber gets it. No algorithmic feed decides which of your followers gets to see your content. Compare that with Instagram (where 5-10% of followers see your posts), Facebook (even less), or Twitter/X (variable and unpredictable).
Telegram behaves like email: your message lands directly in the subscriber's chat list. Telegram messages get far higher open rates than email, though, because they sit in the same app people use to talk to their friends and family. Average view rates on Telegram channels run 30-60% of total subscribers, compared to 20-25% for email newsletters and single digits for social media posts.
That reliability is why many creators move their audience to Telegram even when they have large followings elsewhere. When you control delivery, you control your business. How many of your current followers actually see what you post today? Check the reach figure on your last few Instagram or Facebook posts, then compare it with the 30-60% a Telegram channel typically gets.
Telegram's end-to-end encryption options, self-destructing messages, and minimal data collection make it a platform privacy-conscious users trust. In regions where government surveillance is a real worry (much of Asia, the Middle East, parts of Europe and Africa), Telegram is the platform of choice specifically because of its privacy features.
That privacy focus draws a particular kind of user: more tech-savvy, more engaged, and often more willing to pay for quality content. The audience skews toward professionals, crypto enthusiasts, tech workers, and politically engaged people, with above-average disposable income.
Telegram channels can have unlimited subscribers. There is no cap, no throttling as you grow, and no pressure to pay for reach. A channel with 10 subscribers works exactly like a channel with 10 million subscribers. Every message reaches every subscriber the same way.
Groups can hold up to 200,000 members, so Telegram can host some of the largest real-time community discussions on the internet. Channels for broadcasting plus groups for discussion give you a complete setup for building an audience.
Which of these could you write about every day for a year without running dry? That stamina matters more than picking the highest-paying niche on the list.
Every post written as a small standalone article adds up to something you own: a channel with your name at the top and readers who open it each morning. That ownership is the first thing this work builds for you, well before the first 200 dollars arrives. Write ten posts before you tell anyone the channel exists.
So the channel exists and it has a shape. What follows decides whether anyone ever finds it, which on Telegram is the harder half of the job.
Your most effective growth tool is cross-promotion with other channels in your niche. It works like guest posting on a blog or guesting on a podcast: you recommend their channel to your subscribers, and they recommend yours to theirs.
Look for channels with similar subscriber counts and content that complements yours without competing with it. Message the owner directly with a specific cross-promotion proposal. Usually each channel posts a recommendation of the other with a short note on why their readers should follow.
Every major Telegram niche has cross-promotion networks. Once you connect with a few channel owners, they will introduce you to others. These relationships build on each other: every swap brings new subscribers, which makes your channel more attractive for the next one. Which 10 channels in your niche could you message this week?
Telegram's official ad platform lets you run sponsored messages that appear in other channels. You can target by channel topic, subscriber interests, and region.
Telegram Ads require a minimum spend, which makes them a better fit once your content and your way of earning are already proven. Cost per subscriber varies by niche. Finance and crypto channels pay more per subscriber than entertainment or lifestyle channels.
The secret to Telegram Ads that work is copy that matches the tone and format of normal Telegram posts. Salesy or corporate messages get ignored. Write your ad as one channel recommending another.
Telegram has a built-in search that helps people find channels by keyword. Tuning your channel name, description, and posts around the right search terms helps people stumble onto you.
On top of that, when subscribers forward your posts to their contacts or groups, those messages carry your channel link. Shareable content (breaking news, actionable tips, surprising data, useful resources) brings in new people through forwarding.
How You Earn From Telegram
That is the audience question settled. Now for the one you started reading for: what those subscribers are actually worth to you in a month.
Premium Subscriptions
Telegram's built-in premium subscription feature lets you charge a monthly fee for access to exclusive content. Subscribers pay inside the Telegram app, and Telegram handles billing, access, and renewal automatically.
You can set up tiers: a free public channel with regular content and a premium channel with exclusive in-depth analysis, early access, tools, or direct contact with you. The free channel acts as a funnel that shows off your expertise, and a share of free readers become paying members.
Premium Telegram subscriptions usually cost $5 to $50 per month depending on the niche and what you deliver. Finance and trading channels charge the most because their content directly helps subscribers make money. Educational and entertainment channels charge less and make up for it with volume. What would your most loyal readers happily pay you each month: closer to $5, or closer to $50?
Telegram Ads Revenue Sharing
Channels with 1,000 or more subscribers qualify for Telegram's ad revenue sharing program. Telegram places sponsored messages in your channel and shares 50% of the ad revenue with you. It is passive income: you never chase advertisers or negotiate deals, because Telegram handles everything.
What you earn from the program depends on your niche, subscriber count, and engagement. Finance and technology channels earn the highest CPMs. Channels with highly engaged, active readers earn more than channels with large but passive audiences.
The program runs through Fragment, Telegram's marketplace platform, and payouts arrive in TON tokens, which you can convert to ordinary currency.
Direct sponsored posts are a major source of income for established channels. Brands, products, and services in your niche pay you to publish promotional content in your channel. Telegram's automated ads are placed for you; sponsored posts are content you write and control yourself.
What you can charge depends on your subscriber count, engagement rate, and how valuable your niche is:
| Subscribers | Price per post |
|---|
| 1,000-5,000 | $50-$200 |
| 5,000-20,000 | $200-$800 |
| 20,000-100,000 | $800-$3,000 |
| 100,000+ | $3,000-$10,000+ |
Find sponsors by contacting brands in your niche directly, joining Telegram marketing networks, or listing your channel on ad exchanges like Telega.io. Always disclose sponsored content so your readers keep trusting you.
Affiliate Marketing
Because Telegram delivers straight to the chat list, it is an excellent place for affiliate marketing. Product recommendations, tool reviews, and deal alerts can carry affiliate links that earn you a commission on the sales they lead to.
To keep affiliate income going on Telegram, only promote products you genuinely believe in and that fit your audience. Readers who trust your recommendations buy more often, so each recommendation earns you more. Readers who feel spammed with irrelevant promotions leave.
The affiliate content that works best includes detailed reviews, comparison posts, deal alerts with time-limited offers, and tutorials showing how to use the product. Context and real enthusiasm beat generic promotional copy every time.
Earning Through the TON Ecosystem
The TON (The Open Network) blockchain opens up ways to earn that only exist on Telegram:
Mini apps are lightweight web apps that run inside Telegram. You can build one to sell digital products, deliver courses, run a shop, or offer services, all without your users ever leaving Telegram. Mini apps like Notcoin have attracted tens of millions of users, which shows how far the platform can carry something.
TON payments let people pay in cryptocurrency directly inside Telegram. You can accept payments for products, services, or donations in TON tokens. That is especially useful for international audiences where ordinary card payments are limited or expensive.
Token-gated content uses TON tokens to control access to premium channels or groups. Token holders get the exclusive content, so access itself has tradeable value. This model suits crypto-native audiences.
Bot-based commerce uses Telegram's bot API to build automated shops, booking systems, and service delivery inside Telegram. A fitness coach can sell workout programs, a consultant can book calls, and a creator can sell digital downloads, all through a Telegram bot.
Most of this section rests on one pattern: a free channel feeding a paid premium tier. Should that premium channel hold a few thousand dollars a month, in the middle of the 200 to 15,000 range, the surplus could go toward a family car bought outright so the school run stops depending on lifts. Price the premium tier for the readers you have today and the work you can keep delivering.
Think of the first sponsored post as proof. Someone outside your family decided your words were worth paying for. Stack a few of those each month beside a small premium tier and the extra money starts to have names: the school fees, the overdue car service, the month you finally put something aside.
Bots and Automation
Why Bots Matter to You
Telegram bots are the automation layer that lets you grow without burning out. They take on jobs you would otherwise do by hand: scheduling posts, moderating groups, processing payments, delivering content, and engaging with subscribers.
The Telegram Bot API is one of the friendliest APIs around for developers. You can build bots in any programming language (Python and JavaScript are the most common) and host them on any server or serverless platform.
The Bots You Will Want
Content scheduling bots let you queue posts ahead of time and publish them at the best moment. That keeps your posting steady without you being glued to your phone. Tools like ControllerBot and Postoplan do this without any coding.
Moderation bots for groups handle spam, enforce rules, welcome new members, and manage permissions automatically. Combot and Rose are popular choices that work out of the box.
Analytics bots track channel and group numbers, including subscriber growth, post reach, engagement rates, and member activity. That data shapes your content plan and helps you fine-tune posting times, formats, and topics.
Payment and access bots manage premium subscriptions, process payments, and control access to private channels or groups. You can have them custom-built or set them up with no-code bot builders.
Building Custom Bots
For more advanced automation, custom bots can scrape websites for auto-posting (deal and news aggregators), pull in external APIs for real-time data, run interactive quizzes and challenges, send drip content to new subscribers, and manage customer support. A basic bot needs intermediate programming skills, or you can hire a developer on Upwork for $100-$500. No-code builders like ManyBot cover simpler automation.
Where in the World to Focus
Telegram's strength varies by region, and knowing the differences shapes what you post and how you grow.
Asia is Telegram's largest growth market. India alone has 200M+ users, with massive adoption across Indonesia, Iran, and Southeast Asia. These markets give you enormous audiences with far less competition from established creators. Content in local languages grows extremely fast.
Europe uses Telegram heavily, especially Eastern Europe and Russia, where it is the dominant messaging app. European audiences favor news, politics, technology, and finance. GDPR makes Telegram's privacy features especially appealing there.
Africa and the Middle East are frontier markets where Telegram use is speeding up, driven by privacy needs and low data costs. If you get in early, you can build a large audience with little competition.
Crypto-native audiences treat Telegram as essential infrastructure. Every crypto project, DAO, and DeFi protocol has a Telegram presence. Crypto channels are among the most profitable per subscriber because the audience is highly engaged and comfortable paying on-chain.
Writing in your own language for a fast-growing local audience is where this page says Telegram grows quickest. Should a channel like that climb toward the uncommon 15,000 ceiling here and leave a steady surplus, the money could pay for your parents' first trip abroad, the holiday they kept putting off for you. Start with the readers who share your mother tongue. Which language do you write in more naturally than most creators in your niche?
Channels and Groups Need Different Writing
Writing for Your Channel
Your channel posts should be polished, valuable, and complete on their own. Each one should deliver a full thought, insight, or resource that earns your reader's attention. Think of channel posts as mini-articles or carefully chosen recommendations.
Use rich formatting: bold text for key points, bullet lists people can scan, links to sources, and images or videos to break up the text. Add a clear call-to-action when it fits: follow a link, check out a resource, share with a friend, or upgrade to premium.
Writing for Your Group
Group conversation should feel relaxed and welcoming. As the owner or admin, you set the tone by asking questions, replying to members, and encouraging people to talk. Groups that feel like conversations between peers thrive. Groups that feel like lecture halls die.
Good group management includes:
- Setting clear rules and enforcing them consistently
- Pinning important messages and frequently asked questions
- Creating topic threads for organized discussions
- Running regular polls and interactive content
- Recognizing active and helpful members
Linking Your Channel and Group
Telegram lets you link a discussion group to your channel. When subscribers want to comment on a channel post, they land in the linked group, where the discussion happens around that specific post. That gives you a natural flow: people read in the channel and talk in the group.
The linked setup keeps your channel clean and focused on content while still giving you the community conversation that builds loyalty and keeps people from leaving.
Measuring How You Are Doing
Track five key numbers to improve your Telegram business: subscriber growth rate (are you gaining or losing subscribers?), post view rate (what percentage of subscribers see each post?), forward rate (how often posts are shared, since heavy forwarding drives organic growth), subscriber retention (net growth after unsubscribes), and revenue per subscriber (how efficiently you earn across all streams). Use TGStat and Combot to track these numbers and spot the trends that should shape your content and growth plan. If your view rate sat below the 30-60% range for a month, what would you change first? Posting time is usually the cheapest fix, so check TGStat for your peak hours before you touch anything else.
Getting Started Today
You now have the whole picture: what to build, how to grow it, what it pays and where the line sits. This last part is the version you can act on before the day is out.
Creating a Telegram channel takes 60 seconds. Open the Telegram app, create a new channel, write a clear description, and publish your first post. That is all the infrastructure you need to begin.
Getting in is deliberately easy because Telegram wants creators on its platform. Your edge comes from the quality of your content, your consistency, and the community you build around it. Complex technical setups and big upfront spending add very little.
Start with the niche you know best. Post 2-3 times daily for the first two weeks. Care obsessively about quality: every post should be worth your subscriber's attention. Reach out to 10 channel owners about cross-promotion. Share your channel on every other platform where you already have a presence.
Within 30 days, you will have a clear picture of your audience, your strengths, and how fast you are growing. Within 90 days, you can have your first paying subscribers and your first income from the channel. Could you hold 2-3 posts a day for those first two weeks alongside everything else in your life? If not, start at 2 a day and protect the quality.
Telegram is growing, its tools for earning keep expanding, and its global audience is enormous. The creators who build channels now will own a way to reach people that keeps gaining value over years. Build yours while the space is still wide open, before it gets crowded.
Every week you wait, someone else's channel becomes the habit your future readers open over breakfast. Habits are stubborn, and readers rarely switch once they have one. Create the channel tonight, write the first two posts, and send the link to a handful of people who care about the subject. Tomorrow there is something real to build on.
2026 Market Snapshot
Telegram in 2026 sits inside Independent market research's Paid Communities thesis as the global, low-friction, message-first alternative to Discord and Slack. If you serve non-US audiences (crypto, trading, expat communities, certain B2B niches), Telegram is structurally the better paid-community platform for you, and the same Independent market research playbook (rituals, 90-9-1, presale validation, community-as-a-service) applies.
- Independent market research benchmark: a paid research community reportedly grew to 1,000+ paying members using paid-community rituals. The same playbook scales to Telegram channels
- Presale validation cited by Independent market research: Rosie Sherry presold The Indiependent to 27 people for $325; Charlie Ward presold Ramen Club to 20 people for $500 MRR
- Tooling reality: Levellr is explicitly cited as a tool for building "thriving fan community on Discord or Telegram," meaning Telegram is treated as a peer platform
- Community-as-a-service trend: Independent market research names Bri Leever, Ece Kurtaraner, Late Checkout, Hard Numbers, and Sara Saunders as the operators productizing community work, many of them serving Telegram-native audiences
- Participation reality: the 90-9-1 rule (90% lurk, 9% contribute occasionally, 1% create) cited by Independent market research applies to Telegram identically; design your pricing around the active 1-9%
Rosie Sherry found 27 people willing to pay before she launched. Who are the first 27 people you could ask? Write their names down; if you cannot reach 27, grow the free channel first and come back to the presale later.
Key Players to Watch
The figure below comes from a cited third-party report, at second hand from the operator, and describes monthly recurring revenue at an early stage.
The 2026 Telegram opportunity sits where paid-community operators, distribution-first content creators, and the messaging-platform tooling stack meet.
- Pat Flynn: Telegram as high-deliverability complement to email
- George Mack: curated content distribution model that translates to Telegram
- a paid research community (the operator): 1,000+ paying-member paid-community archetype
- Rosie Sherry (The Indiependent): presale-led community launch case from Independent market research
- Charlie Ward (Ramen Club): $500-MRR presale Independent market research cites
- Lenny's Newsletter: newsletter+private community stack scalable to Telegram
- Bri Leever / Ece Kurtaraner / Late Checkout / Hard Numbers / Sara Saunders: Independent market research's community-as-a-service archetypes
- Levellr: Independent market research-cited tool for paid Discord/Telegram communities
- MemberSpace / Spiffy / Payhere: paywall/checkout layers compatible with Telegram bots
- Notion: all-in-one workspace cited by Independent market research, often used as the docs layer for Telegram channels
- Bankless: community of crypto enthusiasts, archetype for Telegram-native paid channels
- TopMusicPro: Independent market research-cited niche community archetype that translates well to Telegram
Predictions for 2026-2027
- Through 2026, Telegram's bot platform and Stars-based monetization mature into a real creator-economy stack, narrowing the gap with Discord and Patreon for paid-community use cases.
- By 2027, niche Telegram paid channels (trading signals, deal alerts, regional news) follow the Independent market research paid-community playbook with rituals, presales, and 90-9-1 design, most of them run by 1-3-person operations.
- Community-as-a-service expands into Telegram-specific specialization (Russian-speaking crypto, MENA founders, LATAM e-commerce) as operators set themselves apart on cultural and language fit, mirroring Independent market research's broader prediction.
- Telegram emerges as the primary high-deliverability backup for newsletter operators, in line with Pat Flynn's framing. When email deliverability dips, Telegram becomes the broadcast channel that actually reaches subscribers.
- A wave of Telegram-native paid drops (limited-access mastermind cohorts, paid AMAs, presale-validated micro-communities) lands in 2026-2027, ported directly from the Discord paid-community playbook.
Each of those shifts lands on channels that already have trust and a habit of daily reading. Newsletter writers fleeing poor deliverability and paid drops copying the Discord playbook will need audiences that exist today. Start posting now and you are building the audience those trends will go looking for.
Emerging Opportunities
Presale-validated Telegram paid channel: Take a clear niche (regional crypto news, sports trading signals, deal alerts in a vertical) and presell 20-50 founders for $20-$50/month before you launch. Independent market research explicitly cites this presale model (Rosie Sherry, Charlie Ward) as the lowest-risk way to test whether people will pay for a community.
Telegram-as-a-service for B2B operators: Charge $3K-$10K/month to design, launch, and run a Telegram channel for a SaaS or media business. Independent market research's community-as-a-service framing applies: most businesses want the channel without the daily community-management work.
Niche signals / curation channels: Run a curated channel (deals, articles, jobs, opportunities) in a tight niche and earn through a paid tier or sponsorships. Independent market research's George Mack-style framing translates directly: curated content sent through a messaging app builds on itself because subscribers see every send.
Telegram backup layer for newsletter creators: Build a Telegram channel as a high-deliverability backup for an existing newsletter audience. Independent market research's Pat Flynn-aligned framing treats this as defensive distribution: when email deliverability gets worse, your Telegram subscribers still receive every message.
Common Objections & Counterarguments
"Telegram is just for crypto and shady stuff.": That reputation is left over from 2017-2020. Independent market research's broader paid-community framing applies: TopMusicPro-style niche communities, Lenny's-Newsletter-style premium content, and regional B2B groups all run on Telegram now, especially outside North America.
"I can't run a Telegram channel and a main business.": Independent market research's community-as-a-service operators exist for exactly this. Or you can use the ritual-driven model (one weekly send, one monthly AMA), which asks far less of you than 24/7 chat moderation.
"Telegram doesn't have a payment layer.": Levellr, MemberSpace, Spiffy, Payhere (all cited by Independent market research) handle paywalls and one-click upsells outside Telegram, and Telegram Stars now adds a native option. Payments no longer stand in your way.
"Most Telegram channels die after 6 months.": The 90-9-1 rule cited by Independent market research explains why: most channels fail because creators design for the 90% lurkers and neglect the 1-9% active core. Channels with rituals (weekly calls, daily standups, monthly drops) keep retention high enough to keep growing.
Everything up to here assumes you can post whatever you like. One category of content changes that, and it is the category channels drift into fastest.
Telegram's commercial world leans heavily toward trading signals, crypto calls, and paid investment channels. Because so much money flows through those, one area of law matters far more to you here than the advertising rules that dominate other platforms.
Paid signals look like regulated activity
The standard Telegram money model is a subscription channel issuing specific calls: buy this, at this price, with this target. Please understand what that looks like from a regulator's chair.
Giving personal recommendations about specific investments, for payment, is a licensed activity in most developed jurisdictions. Regulators classify you by the substance of what you provide, whatever label you put on it. A channel calling itself education while issuing timed entries and exits on named assets is issuing timed entries and exits on named assets.
Several shields people lean on protect them far less than they think.
"Not financial advice" in the channel bio. A disclaimer that your own content contradicts becomes evidence of what you knew. It gives you no defence.
Operating from a jurisdiction with light regulation. Financial services rules generally attach to where the customer is, as well as to where the provider sits, which is the same principle covered elsewhere in this guide for online coaching. A subscriber in a regulated market brings that market's rules with them, straight into your channel.
Taking payment in crypto. This changes the payment rail and nothing about the regulatory character of what you sell.
Calling it a community instead of a service. If the recurring fee buys access to calls, the fee buys the calls.
Ask yourself honestly: if a regulator read your last ten posts, would they see education or instructions to trade? If the answer is instructions, the next section is the one to act on today.
Selling a signals channel almost always means publishing a track record, and this is where operators create the clearest liability for themselves.
Screenshots of winning trades with the losses left out, percentage returns quoted without the capital at risk, and demo-account results presented as if they were real are the standard complaints. In regulated markets, promotional material about investments generally has to be fair, clear and not misleading, with performance shown in a way that does not overstate it.
The FTC's Rule on the Use of Consumer Reviews and Testimonials of 14 August 2024 adds another layer wherever you reach US consumers. It prohibits fake or false testimonials, including AI-generated ones and those from people with no actual experience, prohibits incentives conditioned on positive sentiment, and prohibits buying or selling fake indicators of influence such as bot-generated subscribers. Inflated member counts are endemic in this niche, and they are exactly the conduct the rule describes.
If you run any paid Telegram channel
Get local advice before the first subscription if your content touches markets. This is the one category where going ahead and fixing things later is genuinely dangerous, because the remedies include personal liability for you.
Publish complete results or none. A track record showing losing trades alongside winning ones is easier to defend and, counterintuitively, more persuasive to serious subscribers.
Disclose every paid promotion. Being paid to mention a token or a platform requires disclosure, and promoting assets for payment without it has led to enforcement action against promoters in multiple jurisdictions.
Report engaged subscribers. View counts per post and reply activity are the numbers a serious sponsor wants, and they are numbers you can stand behind. Raw subscriber counts prove very little.
Building Where Nobody Will Find You for Free
Telegram's other defining feature is commercial, and it decides whether your business works at all.
There is no algorithm to carry you
Telegram has essentially no recommendation system. Nothing shows your channel to people who might like it. There is no feed placement, no explore page, and no viral mechanic that works without a human choosing to forward something.
That flips the trade-off you see on every consumer platform, and both halves matter to you.
The hard half: growth is entirely on you. A channel with excellent content and no outside promotion reaches nobody. Every subscriber arrives because you brought them, someone forwarded a message, or you paid for placement in another channel.
The good half: your reach belongs to you. Once someone subscribes, your messages reach them. There is no gradual throttling of organic reach, no format change that halves your distribution overnight, and no ranking shift to survive. The link between subscriber count and reach, which broke everywhere else, still holds here.
What that means for you in practice
Budget for growth on purpose. Cross-promotion with other channels and paid placement are the main ways in, and they belong in your budget as a real line item from day one. Operators who wait for organic growth simply stay small.
Treat forwarding as your growth loop. The only built-in distribution is a member sending your message to someone else, so write posts worth forwarding: self-contained, useful without context, and clear to a reader who has never subscribed.
Verify any channel you buy placement in. Bot-inflated subscriber counts are everywhere, and paying for exposure to fake members wastes your money and, as above, falls in a category the FTC rule now covers. Ask for view counts per post in place of subscriber totals, since views are much harder to fake convincingly.
Let durability shape your pricing. Because reach does not fade, a Telegram subscriber is worth more to you over time than a follower on a platform that will throttle you later. That justifies spending more to win one, which is the calculation most operators get backwards. How much would you pay today for a reader you can reach every single day for years?
Put simply, Telegram trades discovery for reliability. It is a poor place to be found and an unusually good place to keep the audience you have, which suits a paid product far better than an advertising-supported one.
A note on payments
One practical detail catches new operators again and again. Mainstream payment processors treat trading signals, crypto services and subscription channels as elevated risk, and they close accounts with the balance held.
Read the acceptable use policy of any processor before you build on it, so you learn the rules before the first hold. If your product sits in a restricted category, say so when you sign up and use a processor that accepts it. Being closed for a category you hid is worse than being declined for one you declared.
Keep your subscriber records and payment records outside the processor as well, so a closure costs you a payment rail and leaves you the list of who has paid for what.
And check the policy again at renewal. Processors revise their restricted-category lists regularly, and a service that was accepted when you signed up can become prohibited without anyone telling you until the first hold.
Where Telegram fits alongside your other channels
Because it keeps an audience well and finds one badly, Telegram works best as your second step, after you have caught someone's attention elsewhere.
Win attention where discovery exists, on a search-driven or recommendation-driven platform, and turn that attention into a Telegram subscription where the relationship lasts. Operators who try to run the whole funnel inside Telegram spend heavily on placement and grow slowly. Operators who use it to hold on to an audience built elsewhere get reliable reach without paying for every subscriber.
That also lowers your platform risk, because your audience lives in more than one place and a disruption to any single channel is survivable.