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Why The Threads Launch Was A Masterclass In Product Marketing

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Careers, Business, Marketing

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Why launching Threads is a genius move and the future

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0:00.0

So we're going to talk about why the Threads launch was a masterclass in product marketing.

0:05.4

And so as of this recording, Threads came out basically three, four days ago or so.

0:11.0

And I, we're going to talk about why we thought the way they went about this is probably a template for how new apps will be launched in the future to slow down other social media platforms.

0:24.0

And the big thing that they did, which was really, really smart,

0:29.0

they integrated into the community that they already had

0:32.0

and they made it super easy to get mass

0:34.2

distribution. That's why it was a genius move. It was hey we want to go after

0:40.1

Twitter we want their market if you end up just creating another social app, and I think they

0:44.9

try to go after Twitter a few times, right, Eric? And it never worked, and now they're just like,

0:50.0

let's keep us simple. They don't even own threads.com. It's threads

0:53.0

net by the way and they're just like just make it where people on

0:56.7

Instagram which is one of their most popular apps that people are

0:59.2

super engaged on click a button and boom they can end up popping up something that's similar to

1:03.4

Twitter and they knew that people who use Twitter, you know, yes they use

1:08.4

Instagram, they use Snap, they may use Facebook and LinkedIn etc. They don't want to all in one app that does everything they like the

1:16.4

Twitter app for what it is so they created something similar to that just does that because it already

1:20.8

works but they made it super simple and easy for anyone to

1:25.6

on board and they also did it during a perfect time because a lot of people have

1:30.8

issues not law some people have issues with Twitter and the way Elon's running things.

1:36.3

And I'm not saying that's right or that's wrong, but you can see a lot of interviews like

1:40.0

him being interviewed by BBC and people complaining about Twitter and I'm not saying he's

1:43.7

doing a bad or a good job.

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