You’ll only start to see good results from your YouTube channel once you start to generate tens of thousands of views on your videos – not everyone who sees your videos will actually buy the products you’re selling, so unless you have a large following, you won’t be able to make too much money. But, if you manage to grow your viewership and especially, get enough subscribers, it can be a very lucrative platform for your affiliate marketing efforts.
A number of them include “hover over” sharing buttons that pop up when someone moves over your photos and gives them the ability to share the pic and link to their own Instagram or Twitter feed so that their friends can access it too.

Another way to leverage the popularity of listicles is with “useful tips”- type listicles. These are just as sought-after online and even though they might not focus on products primarily, that doesn’t mean you won’t have a lot of opportunities to include your affiliate links throughout.
Once you start bringing in money, you can reinvest some of it in paid traffic. You just create an ad (on a search engine or social media platform) and it draws people into your site. While it's not a guarantee that you'll get affiliate sales, it's still a great way to build traffic and potentially get your site ranked higher so it's found more often by the people who are interested in what you have to offer.