SteelAlive · B2B · automated Instagram commenting service
Auto-post memes and client videos on many TikTok accounts to promote songs
100M views; top post 2M, but weak as a business and dropped
Mixedorganic-short-video
What they did
Automated TikTok accounts posted mostly memes, clients' UGC-style videos, reposts and edits, including clients' music; some with calls to action to use the sound and film your own video. Clients paid for 1 million views. Served as proof that their automation could run accounts and get views.
What happened
About 100M views, 200K-900K views on some first videos and a 2M-view static image, but the business was hard because they had to make most content themselves; switched to Instagram comments.
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