Arise · B2C · anime-inspired fitness app
Pay influencers and meme pages $1-2 per 1,000 views
$6-7 revenue per 1,000 views; grew to ~$50K/month at 70-80% margins
Workedinfluencer
What they did
Partnered with influencers and fandom meme pages, paying roughly $1-2 CPM (deals varied). Revenue ran about $6-7 per 1,000 views.
What happened
Influencer deals pushed the app to about $50K/month with 70-80% margins.
In their words
The Superwall Podcast · Daniel Kwon - He made $2.2M from building simple apps. Here's how (no-code)“most of the influencers and meme pages we worked with were happy with like a $1 to $2 CPM, and typically we're looking at around like a $6 or $7 RPM.”
“So most of the influencer deals are what pushed this app to around 50k a month”
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