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Aviram

From zero streams to a proven cost per stream of half a cent

Aviram photographed with a guitar in a red jacketZero to scale

Independent rock artist

Built from zero, indie budget

Aviram

From zero streams to a proven cost per stream of half a cent

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2.5M+

Streams in 12 months

$0.0056

Cost per stream

192,770

Saves

Started

March 2023

Daily budget

$20 to $50

Platform

Spotify

Method

Hyper A/B testing

The challenge

Aviram came to us in March 2023 as a rock artist with no streaming history and no paid media in place. Rock is a hard genre to buy attention in, and the budget was modest: twenty to fifty dollars a day, roughly one thousand dollars a month.

The approach

We ran our hyper A/B testing method from day one. Creatives, hooks and audiences were rebuilt weekly, spend followed the variants that produced the cheapest qualified click, and every result was read inside Spotify for Artists rather than in ad manager alone.

The result

Week one produced 345 streams at eleven cents each. By month five the same method had compounded into 122,939 streams at a cost per stream of $0.0056, and the twelve month view shows over 2.5 million streams with 192,770 saves and 104,665 playlist adds.

Straight from the campaign

Meta ads manager results for week one
Week one, ad level results
Spotify for Artists stats after one week
Week one, 345 streams
Meta ads manager results for week two
Week two, spend follows winners
Spotify for Artists stats after two weeks
Week two, 1,271 streams
Meta ads manager results after one month
Month one, ad set expansion
Spotify for Artists stats after one month
Month one, 4,425 streams
Meta ads manager campaign overview
Campaign view across four campaigns
Spotify for Artists stats after five months
Five months, 122,939 streams
Spotify for Artists twelve month stats
Twelve month view
Instagram ad creative on a phone
Creative in feed
Second ad creative on a phone
Creative variant

How the campaign ran

01

Seed

Small daily budget on Meta, aimed at the streaming profile

02

Test

Creatives and audiences rebuilt every week

03

Compound

Winning sets scaled as cost per stream dropped

04

Verify

Every claim read back in Spotify for Artists

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