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Blinkist · B2C · book summary app

Send Meta ad clicks to your blog instead of the App Store

Claims to be one of the first to scale this way; no numbers

Workedweb-to-apppaid-social

What they did

Around 2019-2020 at Blinkist, scaled Meta ads sending users to a website such as the blog rather than directly to the App Store.

What happened

Claims Blinkist was one of the first to scale this way.

In their words

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… kind of the subscription app advertisers have been pushing. So I feel like it's at least on par now between like gaming and subscriptions. And I mean, you can see it in kind of the revenues on the store, how subscriptions have caught up there. Okay, well, that's a good transition. So like subscription apps versus gaming. So yeah, what happened from 2019? in 2022 yeah so i switched over to blinkist in 2019 because a good friend of mine from from

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inno games um started running the paid social team over at blinkist and that was my introduction to the um kind of subscription app economy it's a well-known subscription app they knew what they were doing we again had pretty good budgets um we're playing with a lot of novel tactics also in that web to app um segment for example we were i think one of the first scaling ads while sending them to a website like our blog instead of directly to the app store i tried a few other kind of subscription apps after i stayed with blinkers for i think like one and a half years stayed in ad tech working for like a company called study smarter a like a student ad tech a

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bit like quizlet here in germany and then tandem a language learning social network i don't do a lot of operative work anymore it's just a lot of kind of it's hiring it's reporting it's um administration And I noticed that that's not for me. And that's when I decided to go freelance and start my consulting business in 2022. Now you do consulting. So you don't do like the, like, what does that entail in the ad stack? I really honed in on meta ads …

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