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How Dark Noise Grew

Ambient noise app for sleep and relaxation

How did Dark Noise grow?

Summary of the sourced claims below

Dark Noise grew primarily through community marketing and engagement on Twitter, where the creator built an excited audience by tweeting updates and responding to user feedback before launch. The creator also established relationships within the iOS developer community by engaging on Twitter, guesting on podcasts, and writing blog posts, which contributed to press coverage at launch.

Channels

5 channels · grouped by how Dark Noise grows

  • Press

    · 1 mention
    “I did end up getting a few articles written about Dark Noise. ... I believe pretty much all of the press I received on launch day was due to attention and relationships I made during the months of development through Twitter and the public beta.”
    high

  • Webinars

    · 1 mention
    “I spent the majority of the day retweeting positive comments and answering questions on Twitter. I tried to do my best to make it feel like a big splash, so anybody who followed the app account or me would see a lot of activity on that one day.”
    high

  • Group Product Demos

    · 1 mention
    “Since I’m completely new to the iOS dev scene, I wanted to establish myself with this community. The bulk of that was done through engagement on Twitter, but I also guested on multiple podcasts and wrote up a few blog posts like this one.”
    medium

  • Community marketing

    · 1 mention
    “I treated these users as if they were customers and I created an app Twitter account to tweet out updates and respond to user feedback. ... I built up an excited audience, who was invested in the app by launch. This really helped build up some pre-launch hype, and I received a lot of reviews and ...”
    high

  • Twitter

    · 1 mention
    “Probably the biggest contributing factor to the successful launch of Dark Noise was the excitement I built leading up to the launch through Twitter.”
    high

How 2,669 businesses grow

Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each — Dark Noise’s highlighted.
  • Referral/Word-of-mouth
    68%
  • Social media
    58% ◀
  • Search/SEO
    57%
  • Email
    47%
  • Community
    33% ◀
  • Content/Inbound
    31%
  • Partnerships
    30%
  • Paid ads
    24%
  • Events
    24% ◀
  • Press/PR
    18% ◀
  • Outbound/Sales
    16%
  • Marketplaces/App stores
    8%
  • Brand Authenticity
    2%
  • Product expansion
    2%
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