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Masterclass.com YouTube Ads - Scaling to $160M+/year with Thomas Hopkins - VidTao Podcast

Masterclass.com YouTube Ads - Scaling to $160M+/year with Thomas Hopkins - VidTao Podcast

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Masterclass.com YouTube Ads - Scaling to $160M+/year with Thomas Hopkins - VidTao Podcast

FromVidTao Podcast

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Length:
99 minutes
Released:
Nov 25, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Masterclass.com's former head of performance marketing Thomas Hopkins reveals how he helped scale Masterclass.com to $160M per year, via YouTube ads, TV, and literally every other paid media channel available. _1) Find your competitor's top unlisted YouTube ads in our VidTao.com YouTube ad library   2) Want help scaling YouTube & other video traffic platforms to $10k/day+? Set up a brainstorming chat here:  https://inceptly.com/call_Get in touch with the host, VidTao Co-Founder Ian Nagy here:Twitter: https://twitter.com/cronag805LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-nagy/_Some highlights from this episode:✅ How Thomas went from running an eCommerce dog poop bag business to growing gaming companies, scaling ridership at Lyft to $5M/week, and scaling Masterclass from $40M to over $160M in a year.✅ How Thomas’ custom-built LTV (Life Time Value) models allowed gaming companies to see the ROI on their ads so they could scale ✅ The 4-part "DIY" Dashboard Thomas uses to measure each channel's impact on your marketing mix reliably, and know how they impact your overall profitability (even at $1 million per day in adspend)✅ What most direct response marketers get wrong when it comes to breaking through their scaling “ceiling” and what opportunities can happen when you combine brand + performance  to what Thomas calls “brandformance” ✅ The secret to making platform-specific content that scales✅ Why Thomas predicts 2021/2022 will be seen as “the lost years” of digital advertising - and why Facebook and Google ✅ The “old school” tracking metric used by Masterclass to scale to $160M✅ Why most incrementality tests fail - and the 1 metric Thomas uses “you have to make something like a 50% difference on that channel to actually see a jump”✅ The “ceiling” on direct response advertising - & why DR alone can’t scale your business to the maximum potential✅ How to use “Creative Diversity” to overcome ad fatigue, decrease your cost of traffic, and breakthrough scaling plateaus✅ The ad account structure changes Thomas made at Masterclass to help push yearly revenue way past $100M✅ The 2 keys to scaling post-iOS 14.5 ✅ Why Thomas predicts Facebook & Google’s “Walled Gardens” will soon no longer exist - and what this means for the future of advertising✅ Thomas' new Web 3 gaming company perfectstorm.gg - and why Web 3 gaming will soon be a $50 Billion space✅ Blockchain, and what it means for marketing in 2022 and beyond✅ And last but not least... The exact YouTube video ad formula Masterclass used to scale to $160 million per year (and the best example ad to use as a template even if you DO NOT have an a-level celebrity with name brand recognition)
Released:
Nov 25, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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What makes video advertising work on platforms like YouTube ads and TikTok ads (and more)? Find out where creativity and science cross in the video ads we see daily. Tune into the VidTao Podcast and get all the scientific insights straight from the source. We interview executives, deep learning experts, and marketing professionals. Our aim is to outline the thought process behind these ads. Why is deep learning and psychology essential for a successful video marketing campaign? What do AI and the 15-second ads on YouTube have in common? How can marketers influence our emotions? Press "play" and figure it out!