Letterly · B2C · voice-to-text notes app
Put a large share of monthly revenue back into ads
Spends roughly $100K-200K a month on ads; results not shared
Unknownpaid-social
What they did
Spends roughly $100K-200K per month on advertising (figure garbled) against $250K monthly revenue, as a deliberate growth investment. Channels and creative not discussed.
- Stage
- growth
- Effort
- ~$100K-200K/month
“And uh yeah, and in terms of advertising, it's about two- $100,000 a month. It's quite a lot of investments, but we do it uh uh because uh like we want to continue to make the best possible user experience and also we want to grow and that's why we invest in advertising.”
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