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  "slug": "duolingo-how-did-you-hear-attribution-2026-06-06",
  "company": "Duolingo",
  "headline": "The one onboarding question that proves a viral video made money.",
  "topic": "{Stash Edge — Attribution Play}",
  "source_name": "The Drum",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Attribution Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Attribution · Duolingo\n\nThe one onboarding question that proves a viral video made money.\n\nViews are vanity until someone tells you the panda is why they showed up. Add the one line to the Stash Room intake and the day a video pops, you will see it in the funnel instead of guessing. It is the cheapest piece of measurement you will ever build, and the only one that ties a laugh to an invoice.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/duolingo-how-did-you-hear-attribution-2026-06-06\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/duolingo-how-did-you-hear-attribution-2026-06-06\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/duolingo-how-did-you-hear-attribution-2026-06-06",
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      "title": "The one onboarding question that proves a viral video made money.",
      "body": "✍️ YOUR NOTE — write 2–3 lines to ONE person so they feel: \"this is about me… I could actually do this… I could make money from this.\" Energize them, make it yours. (This is the part that gets the opens.)\n[ your take… ]\n———\nHere is a real one you can run this week 👇\nBecause in-feed links are not tappable, Duolingo measured viral impact with a \"How did you hear about us?\" onboarding field and shifted its KPI from press and impressions to real new-user counts.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): when the platform will not give you a clickable link, build the attribution yourself — one \"How did you hear about us?\" field at intake. Duolingo's social lead put it plainly: whenever they have a viral video, they see an uptick in new users. That single question turns vanity views into a number you can take to the bank.\nWhat that means for you: Views are vanity until someone tells you the panda is why they showed up. Add the one line to the Stash Room intake and the day a video pops, you will see it in the funnel instead of guessing. It is the cheapest piece of measurement you will ever build, and the only one that ties a laugh to an invoice.\nIf you make, sell, or gift anything with your name on it — this is yours to run. You can do this.\n(Real, not theory — The Drum: https://www.thedrum.com/news/2025/02/25/duolingo-s-tiktok-mastermind-its-unhinged-social-strategy-and-killing-its-mascot.)\n———\nOr — want it built FOR you? Your logo, your products, your own private room, priced and ready, in about five minutes. That's literally what we do →\nhttps://www.pops4.com/vip?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=stash",
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