The best marketing strategy is a profitable business model. Everything else is just noise.
Every creator who tells their audience about Patreon is doing our marketing for free. The product sells itself through the people who use it.
Home Try-On wasn't just a logistics feature — it was a social media campaign disguised as a service. People posted photos of themselves in five frames and asked friends to vote. Free marketing.
The best marketing we ever did was making a product good enough that people told their friends about it. We didn't need a Super Bowl ad. We needed great joggers.
I spent my whole career in advertising watching brands spend millions to be 5% funnier than their competitor. I thought, what if we just made the funniest brand in the world and put water in it?