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Simply Piano · B2C · piano learning app

Mark songs in the piano app that you can also sing in the singing app

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What they did

Users said they sing while playing, so the Simply Piano song library shows an indicator on pieces also available in Simply Sing (play and sing together with a spouse). Cross-promotion is only done where it adds user value; new apps otherwise grow with their own independent playbooks rather than pushing traffic from Piano.

In their words

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David BarnardWhen you launched Simply Guitar, and this goes to the cannibalization question, did you promote it inside the piano app or did you use what you learned scaling Simply Piano and do almost like a parallel motion to scale Simply Guitar?

Yoav SharonParallel motion, we only do these promotions when it really serves our users. Meaning, where we feel that actually... so I'll tell you even an interesting example. We heard from many Simply Piano users that we understood that when they play, they also sing. So, we added in our library of, we have library of many songs, a lot of licensed songs, we added an indication for those pieces that we also had the same piece in Simply Sing so that a person know, okay, I can learn how to play this on my piano and my spouse can increase our confidence in singing this and we can sing and play together or I can do it by myself. So, only when we do feel that it gives value to each of the apps, we do this type of promotions.

Yoav SharonWe do have one angle and we can talk about it separately where we do promote our bundle, all of our apps, but this is definitely separate. When we start, no, we always start with our playing our independent growth playbooks.

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Tags: cross-promotion, multi-app