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PhotoRoom · AI photo editing app

Make ads for small-business owners fun and consumer-style, not businesslike

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What they did

Treats small-business owners as consumers first (they are already on Instagram/TikTok), so paid creatives are not fully optimized for businesses and carry a fun twist.

In their words

How To Repurpose Offline Events Into Millions Of Online Impressions – Larissa Morimoto, PhotoRoom

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David BarnardSo that's such a great example. And then there was another one you did in Japan. Tell me about that one.

Larissa MorimotoYeah. I mean, just to follow up on the ICP, on targeting your ideal customer profile, I try not to use acronyms, so it's so hard. But our ICPs are essentially small businesses, so anybody who's trying to sell online. And for us, I mean, we also kind of go into with the mentality that yes, you're a business owner, but you're also consumer first. Because you're likely already on Instagram, you're likely already on TikTok, you're likely already existing in these spaces. And that's also why whenever we run paid acquisition, we don't even try to optimize our creatives fully for businesses. We try to have a fun twist to it, because ultimately consumers can also be businesses.

Larissa MorimotoAnd when we tried applying that mentality to a campaign that we ran in Japan, it actually ended up backfiring in the most interesting way possible. So Japan is also a pretty big market for PhotoRoom. And what we ended up doing is we secured a partnership with Tamiya, specifically because a lot of our user base in Japan are also collectors. So that's a huge market. If anybody has an app in the collector industry, Japan is definitely where you …

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