Question about method to monetize site linking to instagram profiles

This is a question more than a method but maybe it will give some people some ideas. Let's say I start a blog or website and I list say 100 instagram profiles to follow in a particular niche and call it "top 100 Instagram profiles in <niche> (do better if going to do this)." Assume you can get the traffic there, now I want to talk about monetizing the traffic.

Obviously we can have ads. Obviously we can have affiliate links to something niche relevant but is there any way for me to monetize people clicking on the links to see the instagram profiles/pics themselves? The instagram viewer sites using the instagram API would be perfect but I can't seem to find any that will pay for traffic to be sent to their site?