Blinkist is an app that condenses more than 2,000 non-fiction books into digestible recaps that take 15 minutes to read or listen to, empowering people to learn the essential ideas from the best books in a chosen field. Blinkist built a marketing strategy that leverages its own online magazine – drawing on content about learning, productivity, and knowledge to raise awareness for its offering and to drive subscriptions.
Partnering with Outbrain, Blinkist built a marketing strategy that leverages its own online magazine – drawing on content about learning, productivity, and knowledge to raise awareness for its offering and to drive subscriptions.
Blinkist worked with Outbrain as a primary strategic channel to reach qualified users and optimize toward two types of conversions:
In partnership with Outbrain, Blinkist generated up to 50,000 downloads per month. Ongoing optimization, as well as reaching a qualified audience, ensured 50% higher time-on-site than Search and a 50% lower CPC than Social.
