How B42 became a recognisable brand without paid advertising.
Company
B42
Timing
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Channels
Instagram · TikTok · YouTube Shorts
My role
Strategy · concepts · filming · editing
1,700
downloads / 1st video
52K
followers on Instagram
5M+
views / month
Content and audience
9K→52,8K
followers on Instagram
Growth without any paid advertising
Challenge
B42 is a German football training app. The product was ready, the audience was not.
Starting point
- Followers: 9,000
- Ad budget: 0 euros
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Insight
Players do not look for an app, they look for a way to improve. Teach first, sell after.
Strategy
Audience
Young players and their coaches
Hypothesis
Concrete technique coaching earns the views
Formats
Tutorials, right vs. wrong, pain tips
Distribution
Organic only, no paid advertising
Execution
The very first video brought 1,700 new downloads without a euro of ad spend.
Testing and iteration
Few ideas work perfectly at first. I test, learn and make the next version better.
Version A
Plain technique execution
What we learned
Viewers need a mistake to compare to
Version B
Right vs. wrong in the same frame
Result
6.6M views on a single video
Results
5M+
Views / month
52K
Followers
1,700
Downloads / 1st video
2x
Conversion
Numbers are based on analytics data.
Data behind the numbers
I don't want you to simply trust the results. I'm happy to show where the numbers come from.
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- Sales funnel conversion doubled
What I learned
Teaching content sells the product better than talking about the product.
One repeatable format grew the account faster than ten separate experiments.
Organic growth lasts, because the audience came for content, not for an ad.
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