Promote Case study — Build or Break

Daniel Lubetzky launched
Build or Break with us.
A day later it was national news.

The new podcast from KIND founder Daniel Lubetzky launched September 3. Our community went through the episodes, found the moments that would travel — Chris Paul on the Clippers sending him home among them — and put them on the pages whose audiences already cared.

ESPN, USA Today, NBC Sports and five more credited the podcast by name — and the links went to our posts, not the show’s. No pitch, no press release.

8
Tier-one outlets
408
Posts from our community
1 day
Launch to national news
The Promote mark in polished chrome
The Chris Paul story
2.3M

reach across X and Instagram on the Chris Paul story. Our posts carried 98% of all measured short-form viewership of the moment.

The moment

Our community found it.

Build or Break launched with three episodes. Our creator community worked through them and surfaced the one moment with real travel in it — Chris Paul describing how the Clippers handled his exit.

Across the campaign, 49 established pages and 63 accounts built for the show have put out 408 posts, and the campaign has passed 5M views. Every clip tagged the podcast, so the reposts compounded into one identifiable source instead of scattering.

The placement

On the pages their audience already follows.

The clip went to sports pages with established followings — accounts read by exactly the people who care about a Chris Paul story, including the reporters who cover him. Every post tagged the show, so the story stayed traceable to one origin.

@LegionHoops
X · 994K followers
@LegionHoops post
266,494
5,800 likes · 406 reposts · 456 bookmarks
@sidelinesources
Instagram
@sidelinesources post
395,147
8,072 likes · 219 comments
@CP3REGION
X
@CP3REGION post
142,957
358 likes · 42 reposts
Organic pickup
Earned media

Eight newsrooms picked it up.

Every one credited Build or Break by name — and the links landed on our placements, not the show’s own channel. Sports Illustrated’s link reads “the Build or Break podcast” and resolves to our @LegionHoops post. Yahoo Sports rendered that same post inside its article body.

Why it worked

Reporters cite where they found it. By placing the clip with niche-aligned audiences, we attracted newsrooms and publishers, established relevance immediately, and put Build or Break into the zeitgeist.

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