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Noise · app that pays people to post

Pay thousands of regular users per view to post content you supply

About $0.30 per install on average; 2.5B views across the platform in a year

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What they did

Instead of paying 5-10 creators to post twice a day, give up to 50,000 regular users everything: the assets, what to say and the description. They only curate their account and post on schedule, and get paid for every view. Brands set the CPM, usually from their target cost per install. With 100,000+ posts a day, something hits; if not, analytics show why and small tweaks to text, picture or first seconds can turn 1,000 views into 10M. Noise runs its own growth this way.

What happened

Noise averages about $0.30 per install on its own platform; 2.5B views across all brands in the first year.
Stage
first year

In their words

Nic Weber - Meet The Guy Who Solved TikTok

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4:07

Joseph ChoiSo there's a bunch of like videos on your platform that are getting a bunch of views. What's the secret? How are they getting so many views?

4:13

Nic WeberIt's a distribution problem, right? And so a lot of the other folks out there are taking, you know, five people, 10 people and saying, "Hey, post this kind of content for us twice a day." And what we're saying instead is, "Hey, 50,000 people, post this content, and here's exactly what you need to post. And here's all the assets for it, and here's what you say, and here's your description." And it just goes absolutely crazy from there.

4:34

Nic WeberWe call it sort of like a shots on goal effect where just by naturally having a 100,000 pieces of content out there a day at least, you're going to get something that hits. And if it doesn't hit, it's going to quickly tell you why through, you know, analytics or just general viewership. And you can use that information to slightly tweak stuff to then make it just go crazy.

10:32

Joseph ChoiCreators on Noise are not meant to really invent their own formats. You should just come with a format, and then create the content and then they'll post it hundreds of times for you. And you pay CPM, right? So you don't pay creators like retainers or anything like that. You just pay like per how many views they get.

10:48

Nic WeberThat's right, yeah. And importantly on those CPMs, too, you set them. So the brands that come in, we say, "All right, generally what are you trying to target for a download? What's your cost per install?" And that's usually what we set the CPMs at. So depending on their product, depending on how many views they get, there's a lot of different levers that you can pull. But just, I mean, for ourselves, we're averaging like $0.30 installs using our own platform. So the cost is just, you can't compare it to anything else. It's insane when you get the machine up and running.

11:15

Joseph ChoiOkay. So now we have the mechanisms, can you just walk through some of these examples of successful TikToks that have been posted on the platform?

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Tags: tiktok, instagram, youtube, mass-posting, pay-per-view, cpm, shots-on-goal, slideshows