Brand
YouTube Shorts
on YouTube
The play
Vertical video repurposed from TikTok + Reels. YouTube's algorithm favors hooks + retention.
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Case studies
Apps that grew on YouTube Shorts.
Cal AI
Photo calorie tracker
$5.7M
Henry Langmack
Trajectory: $28K month 1 → $115K month 2 → $5.7M MRR. Seeded TikTok food influencers (10-15 micro creators) for free; they organically duplicated the before/after meals format. CAC was effectively $0 for the first 8 months.
Minea
Ecom spy tool — watch winning ads
$750K
Loïc Berthelot
Creator-with-equity playbook: hired French TikTok creators on 5-10% equity, no salary. Their videos drove $750K MRR in 18 months with $0 paid CAC.
Submagic
AI captions for short-form video creators
$500K
Jordan O'Dea
$5M+ ARR. Targeted TikTok / Reels / Shorts creators with TikTok influencer-seeding — the customers were the creators making the ads.