Skool Platinum: The $100,000/Month Interviews, Now Public

Skool Platinum is a private Skool group for creators with more than 100,000 followers, and its recorded interviews with owners earning over $100,000 a month were made public in the Skoolers classroom on 1 September 2026. Four are live so far, covering AI automation, trading, health and cybersecurity. Between them they run $866,380.50 of monthly recurring revenue on Skool's own leaderboard.

What is Skool Platinum?

Skool Platinum is a free private group inside Skool for creators with large followings, described on air as being for people with 100,000 or more followers. It is not a paid tier of the platform and it is not the same thing as Skool's affiliate or partner arrangements, which is where most searches for the phrase end up.

The instance visible on member profiles at the time of writing is named Platinum (August) and lists 1,300 members at a price of free. The month in the name suggests intakes are dated, but Skool has not published how the group is structured or how people are admitted. You can see it on a member's public profile the same way you can see any other group they belong to; two of the four owners featured as Skool of the Week launches this week are in it.

Why were the interviews private?

They were recorded as internal research rather than as content. Skool's team said on air that these were never meant to be published, and that they only decided to release them after realising how specific the material was.

That origin explains the format. Owners share their screen and walk through their own classroom, calendar and offer, which is a different artefact from a polished podcast appearance. Skool's argument for the value is that between the interview, the owner's public community page and their social account, a viewer can reconstruct most of the strategy without asking anyone for permission.

Who is in the Skool Platinum interviews?

Four owners, in four unrelated niches, each running a community that sits inside the top 20 of Skool's global leaderboard. The revenue column below is Skool's own live figure read on 2 September 2026, not the round number quoted in the announcement video.

We already hold full breakdowns of all four rooms: Maker School, Health = Looks, Trading Bootcamp and The Cyber Range.

How did Skool choose who to interview?

By stats, not by reputation. Skool said it looks at which owners are most efficient at converting traffic into members and retaining them, then approaches those people, rather than asking the industry who the best operator is.

The consequence is the single most useful idea in the whole release, and it is worth stating on its own. The person Skool identified as the most efficient converter of Instagram traffic into Skool members does not teach Instagram. Ym Babie runs a trading community. The best available teacher of a channel is frequently someone who uses it as a means to an end and has never packaged it, because the people who package a channel are selected for being good at packaging.

What the four have in common

Skool named one dominant traffic channel for each of them, and for the one owner whose split Skool published, the platform's own network has since overtaken it.

Josh Madakor is the clearest case. Skool's team said on air that the Skool network drives roughly 55% of his traffic while YouTube sits around 20%, and immediately qualified it: YouTube is what started it. Skool published that split for Josh Madakor alone, so treat it as one worked example rather than a pattern across all four. Read as an example it is a clear one. The Skool network compounds on top of an audience; it does not conjure one. Anyone reading these interviews as evidence that a channel is unnecessary has the sequence backwards. Our data on that network is in Skool Growth Boost results.

The revenue-per-member spread is the second lesson. Health = Looks earns $37.82 a member across 7,475 people; Maker School earns $114.35 across 2,483. Both clear $280,000 a month. There is no single correct shape, and the two shapes demand completely different operations: one is a volume business with churn management as the core job, the other is a smaller room where a single cancellation costs three times as much.

The formula you can copy

Pick one channel and be measurably good at it. Skool named exactly one leading channel for each of these four owners. That is not proof they use nothing else, and Josh Madakor's own numbers name two, but in every case one source clearly leads. Depth in one channel is what produced numbers good enough for Skool to notice.

Know which shape you are building. High price and a small room, or low price and a large one, are both proven at $280,000 a month. What you cannot do is set a low price and then staff the room as though it were the high-price version. How to price a Skool community is where that decision gets made.

Watch the board, not the announcements. Every figure in the table above came from Skool's live leaderboard rather than from the video, and all four differ from the round numbers quoted on air. The board updates continuously and is public: see the Skool MRR leaderboard.

Frequently asked questions

What is Skool Platinum?

A free private group inside Skool for creators with more than 100,000 followers. The instance visible at the time of writing, Platinum (August), lists 1,300 members. Skool has not published how the group is structured or how people are admitted. It is a community for large creators, not a paid plan or a partner programme, despite being frequently searched as one.

How do you get into Skool Platinum?

Skool's stated bar is 100,000 or more followers. Skool has not published how admission works, and membership shows on a creator's Skool profile like any other group. It is separate from Skool's affiliate programme, which anyone can join and which is covered in the Skool affiliate programme explained.

How much do the top Skool creators actually make?

The four owners with public Platinum interviews run between $137,961 and $283,927 in monthly recurring revenue on Skool's own leaderboard. The platform's overall record, set the same week, is Blue-Collar Biz Accelerator at more than $1,000,000 a month.

Who does Skool say is the best at converting Instagram traffic?

Skool identified Ym Babie, who runs Trading Bootcamp, as the most efficient converter of Instagram traffic into Skool members on the platform. She does not teach Instagram; her community teaches trading, which is exactly why Skool considers the interview worth watching.

Where can I watch the Skool Platinum interviews?

They are in the classroom of the free Skoolers community on Skool, alongside Skool 101 and the Skool News archive. Four were public at the time of writing.

Do you need 100,000 followers to make money on Skool?

No, and the platform's own Skool of the Week features regularly include first-time owners. But the four Platinum interviews are not evidence for the opposite claim either: every one of these owners built a channel first and added Skool's network on top. The honest version is covered in do you need an audience to start a Skool community.