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2015 · Crowdfunding and preorders

KANOA

KANOA designed a truly wireless earphone for music and sport. Hanzo built its site and store, ran the preorder campaign, and made it one of the most successful crowdfunded projects of its time.

An athlete wearing KANOA earphones

$7M+

raised in preorders

45,000

customers

150,000

users acquired

$1.50

cost per user before launch

How it went

  1. 01

    Prelaunch · July 1 to August 30, 2015

    Hanzo and Verus began the prelaunch with $39K of ad spend across Facebook and Google. It reached 4M+ early tech adopters and acquired 60,000+ users at an average cost of $1.50.

    KANOA earphones
  2. 02

    Preorders · from August 30, 2015

    Daily ad spend grew 66 times from launch as the campaign scaled to 25M+ people. Hanzo's programmatic advertising acquired 45,000 customers at an average of $30 each, on a $149 product, and brought in over $1M a month in preorders: $7M+ raised.

    A runner training
  3. 03

    What Hanzo ran

    Website design, paid advertising, email campaigns, campaign management and product photography, on Hanzo's analytics, commerce and advertising platform. Public relations came from LMGPR and product design from Surfaceink.

    A KANOA earphone in the ear

From the campaign

KANOA earphones and charging caseAn athlete on a trail wearing KANOA
The original case study (PDF)Every launch →