The novel-promotion business has existed for years and never cooled — plenty of people earn serious money from it annually. But novel-promo videos come in many forms, and the AI comic variant is the fresh one: high originality, never flagged by duplicate detection. If you’re entering AI comic novel-promotion now, pick afocused niche — the odds of results improve sharply. Dual-male-lead novels are a good choice; they trend easily. One student in the author’s group runs exactly this format: his first video hit 80,000-plus views, and after a few more uploads, a 150,000-view minor hit followed. Maybe luck was involved — but everyone grows an account by publishing consistently and waiting for the hit, and the numbers at least prove the traffic is enormous.
The originality is structural: the workflow generates original anime images with AI and edits them into video, so literal duplication is impossible. Generating the images is simple — a few keywords — no AI background required. Monetization matches traditional novel promotion: CPS and CPA rewards for new-user acquisition. And because the niche is dual-lead novels watched mainly by women aged 20-40 — a high-spending demographic — conversion rates run high.
The Income Reality
So what does it actually pay? The ceiling is high. The student above works on a CPA basis — new-user acquisition: no purchase required from viewers; you earn the bounty whenever someone downloads the novel platform’s app through your video, so conversion is relatively easy. Fifteen days in, he produced a million-view hit and banked 33,000 RMB that month. Tempted? Here is the full workflow.
The Nine-Step Workflow
In one sentence: turn the novel you’re promoting into AI images, cut them into a video, publish to Douyin/Kuaishou, and when viewers download the novel app and search your alias keyword to keep reading, you’ve completed an acquisition and earned the reward.
Step 1 — Pick the promotion platform. Use a third-party novel-promotion aggregator: it consolidates nearly every platform running acquisition campaigns, settles commissions promptly, and just needs phone-number registration plus binding your publishing accounts (Douyin, Kuaishou, or Xiaohongshu — your choice).
Step 2 — Choose the novel. Select the novel platform (Qimao in the demo): the aggregator surfaces current high-converting hit novels — and even prepares the hit copy for you.
Step 3 — Apply for your alias keyword. Click “I want to promote,” complete the keyword form, submit — and write down your alias keyword; you’ll need it in the comments later.
Step 4 — Get the video script. Take the platform-provided copy and rewrite it with AI. The tool used here is a mini-program called Qingdou: paste the original copy, hit “start creating,” and it rewrites the script in about a minute.
Step 5 — Generate the AI images. Use a free drawing site — Yijian AI (portal.yjai.art). If you know MJ or SD, results are better; if not, Yijian works and is beginner-friendly. Enter text-to-image, pick the “Anime 2” model, default mode, 4:3 ratio, generate 4 images per run and pick the best. Regular channel, expert mode, image-control strength around 60-80. Then add keywords matching the script: for “I have three boyfriends,” describe “three men in suits”; for “I was pinned to the desk,” describe “a black-haired man in a suit, sinister smile.” Save each image locally. A one-minute video needs roughly 30 images.
Step 6 — Edit the comic video. Import all images into Jianying (CapCut CN), add them to the track, and scale each to 105-110 percent. Add start-and-end keyframes to every image and drag positions so images pan across the preview — find benchmark videos on Douyin for reference. Then add fitting BGM: the audience for dual-lead novels is mostly female, so search the term for “ambiguous/romantic tension” in Jianying’s audio library for something warm. If you hear a track you like on a benchmark account, use a music-recognition app to find it.
Step 7 — Publish. Distribute the finished video across Douyin, Kuaishou, Xiaohongshu, WeChat Channels, and Bilibili. Copy the link from whichever platform gets the highest views — you’ll need it for backfill.
Step 8 — Guide in the comments. The safe method: use the alias keyword plus emoji in the comments to point viewers to the app search.
Step 9 — Backfill the video link. Return to the aggregator, paste your best-performing video’s link into the works-link field, and complete the remaining fields as required. Done — the acquisition now tracks to your account.
The Compliance Rules
- Keep alias keywords to 4-5 characters — short, clear, easy to search.
- Avoid sensitive words in the script: banana, milk, yogurt, carrot and similar terms trigger violations.
- Use the Qingdou mini-program for script rewriting.
- Open with a hook, then keep the rest measured — nothing extreme.
- No nudity in AI images: characters must stay clothed, no intimate body contact.
- Never reuse the same images across videos — add fresh ones every time to avoid a repost judgment, and skip heavy effects and transitions.
- Since this is CPA promotion, don’t verify your real identity on the short-video accounts at first: these are traffic funnels with account-ban risk, and if a verified account gets banned, your identity information is trapped.
Source: opp2.com. The playbook’s economics are the lesson worth keeping even outside this niche: original AI-generated visuals plus an acquisition-based revenue share is a complete micro-business — and the same structure (AI content pipeline, platform aggregation, keyword attribution) transfers to whatever content vertical you know well enough to feed it.
