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Federico Malaman

100k+ subscribers and an online school.

Bass player, educator and recording artist · 2020 – present

Federico Malaman playing electric bass
YouTube subscribers
100k+
MIST listeners
37k+
Online learningBass player, educator and recording artist2020 – presentCase studyThe Social Target

The work

Federico Malaman is one of Italy’s best-known bass players. In 2020, with every stage closed, he needed his audience to find him online instead.

We built that audience on every channel at once. YouTube came first, with lessons, practice-alongs and jams with players he admires, and the channel is now past 100,000 subscribers. Instagram and the mailing list grew alongside it, so each new fan had a next step.

Then we turned the audience into a business. Federico’s online courses became a school, and this month it moves onto our own course platform. His method books, like Mala Walking, sell to the same audience.

When he released his album MIST, we ran the launch: the campaign, the promo videos with subtitles and the physical CD. It reached more than 37,000 unique listeners.

The approach

How the growth actually happened.

  1. 01

    Lockdown audience

    YouTube, Instagram and email grown together from 2020, so every new fan had somewhere to go next.

  2. 02

    Courses into a school

    His courses turned into a school with its own funnel, now moving onto our course platform.

  3. 03

    MIST, launched

    The MIST launch: Meta campaign, promo video with subtitles, and the physical CD.

  4. 04

    Five years compounding

    Five years of compounding, where each channel feeds the next.

More work

Three more to chew on.

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The Social Target · Limited · Est. 2017 · London