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Run X ads aimed at followers of the 20-25 most famous pastors

Host calls it an underpriced channel; no costs or results given

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What they did

Committed Christians tend to follow a favorite celebrity pastor, so following one is a good signal. Listed the top 20-25 most famous pastors, found their Twitter/X accounts, and targeted their followers with Twitter ads (the option is now called follower look-alike). Guest thinks few other platforms offer this (maybe Facebook for pages).

What happened

No numbers in the body; the host frames it as an underpriced channel the guest learned to use. BibleBuddy reached ~100K MAU per the host.
Stage
early

In their words

Lotanna Ezeike - He Built a Simple $120k/Yr App, Then Sold It For Multiple 6 Figures!

Play from 13:40
13:36

HostAnd then you grew through some weird marketing channels, like Twitter ads.

13:40

LottsSo I found that hardcore Christians normally have an affinity to like one pastor, or like one like celebrity pastors. So I was kind of like, "Okay, if you follow that pastor, that's probably like a good indicator that you're Christian." So Twitter at the time, I don't know if they do that now, they allow you to target the followers of specific accounts. So I think I just went on and I was like, "Okay, cool. Who the top 20 or 25 most famous pastors? Okay, cool. What are their Twitter accounts?" And then just like target their followers. This is one of the first apps that I created, so like I found it very hard to find how to monetize it. So we happened we started doing ads at first, which was more like banner ads, I remember, but at the time we didn't do the interstitial ones. I couldn't crack how to monetize it properly. I think maybe I was just more afraid. I was kind of like, "Oh, God, if I monetize like Christianity, is that bad? I don't know." So that kind of like my first one. I think I definitely took a lot of learnings from that.

14:35

HostI'm just trying to look at if the follower ads are still a thing. I think they are. I think I was looking in the Twitter ads dashboard the other day. Oh, there it is: follower look-alike.

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