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⛔️ TRANSLATION IS NOT LOCALISATION A grammatically correct ad can still feel wrong to the market. When a campaign enters a new country, teams often translate the existing offer and keep everything else unchanged: the promise, proof, pricing logic, landing page and conversion path. The words change. The decision context does not. Real localisation asks different questions: What creates trust here? A case study, recognised brand, local partner, product demonstration, community size or personal recommendation may carry different weight in different markets. How is the problem described? People may experience the same problem but use different language, categories and comparisons to explain it. What is considered a normal first step? One market may readily book a call. Another may prefer to explore a channel, receive a guide or test a product before speaking to sales. Which objections appear first? Price, privacy, payment method, support language, implementation effort and regulatory concerns vary by region. What proof is relevant? A strong result from one country may not automatically transfer credibility to another. Localisation is not replacing words. It is rebuilding the message around the way a specific market evaluates risk and value. Before launching a translated campaign, review the complete chain: audience context 👉 offer 👉 proof 👉 entry point 👉 CTA 👉 sales handover. The language should be local. The logic should be local as well. Get high ROI traffic: https://t.me/m/kMlTOwwRYzYy

➡️ A QUICK QUESTION Over the last few weeks, I have focused on the part of Telegram marketing that is easiest to underestimate: what happens between the first click and a commercially healthy acquisition cost. We covered funnel leaks, entry points, offer logic, launch economics - and, most recently, the new targeting opportunities available through TON accounts. Before I move into the next block, I want to make the channel more useful for the people actually reading it. ❓ Which topic would you like me to go deeper into next: choosing GEOs, audience targeting, creative testing, moderation, analytics or scaling? Write your answer in the comments ⬇️💬 and if you have a specific project or campaign you want me to use as context, send a short description to @brainstat_en (i may use the problem as the basis for one of the next breakdowns).

NEW TARGETING OPTIONS CREATE MORE OPPORTUNITY - AND MORE WAYS TO WASTE BUDGET 😭 When a new targeting option appears, the first reaction is usually predictable: launch quickly, test more GEOs, increase the number of campaigns. The opportunity is real! But broader access does not automatically create better economics. Imagine two teams entering the same new market. The first one sees an open auction and immediately copies its existing campaign. It keeps the same offer, the same entry point and the same qualification logic. The traffic looks cheap during the first days, so the team increases spend. The second team treats the new targeting option as only one part of the system. Before scaling, it checks whether the audience can actually buy the product, whether the first step feels natural for that market, and whether the tracking is good enough to distinguish cheap activity from useful activity. Both teams may get clicks. Only one of them is learning something commercially useful. This is why the main question after a targeting update is not: ✈️ How much traffic can we buy now? It is: ✈️ What hypothesis can we validate now that was difficult to test before? A new GEO can help test product demand. A new audience segment can reveal a stronger message. A broader targeting pool can make scaling possible. But each of these requires a different campaign structure and a different definition of success. The advertising account gives you access. The strategy determines whether that access becomes growth. What new GEO or audience would you test first if targeting limitations disappeared tomorrow? Write it in the comments. If you want a second opinion on whether that market is worth testing, send the product and target country to @brainstat_en

300 MILLION USERS CAN STILL BE A RETENTION FAILURE 🐹 Hamster Kombat became one of the biggest growth stories ever built inside Telegram. At its peak the project reported hundreds of millions of players. Then the retention problem appeared. ➡️According to Helika data reported by The Block, Hamster Kombat fell from roughly 300 million users in August 2024 to 41 million by November after the airdrop. The same report estimated retention for Telegram games at only 5-20%, below traditional gaming benchmarks of roughly 20-30%. ➡️Now compare that with Notcoin. Notcoin attracted around 35 million users within weeks, but the more important metric was what users did next: TON reported that the project helped double activated wallets to 8.5 million in one month. Two viral Telegram projects. Two different lessons! Hamster Kombat demonstrates how a powerful acquisition loop can become fragile when the reward is the main reason people stay. Notcoin shows the value of connecting viral traffic to a deeper product action. ❗️For a normal business the equivalent is simple. A cheap subscriber is not a success if the user never reaches the product. A viral lead magnet is not a success if the audience disappears after receiving it! The question is not only how do we acquire more users? It is what behaviour do we want to create after acquisition? What is the activation event in your Telegram funnel - the action after which a user becomes genuinely valuable? Write it in the comments! If you are not sure what that event should be, send your funnel to ⚡️@brainstat_en and I’ll help define it

315,000 USERS, 27 MILLION PLAYS, SOLD OUT IN 10 MINUTES: AZUKI’S TELEGRAM EXPERIMENT A useful 2026 case comes from GAMEE and the Web3 brand Azuki. In Q1 2026 they launched Alley Escape, a Telegram Mini App built around the Azuki IP. According to Animoca Brands, the campaign generated 315,000 users and 27 million game plays. A related Azuki sticker drop sold out in 10 minutes! The interesting point is that the Mini App was not the final product. It was the campaign mechanic! Instead of sending the audience from content ➡️ landing page ➡️ registration ➡️ another platform, the brand placed an interactive experience directly inside the distribution environment. That changes what landing page can mean! For a consumer brand the first conversion does not always need to be a form submission. It can be a game, product configurator, quiz, calculator, sample experience or limited drop. The business still needs a second step - purchase, registration, subscription or repeat visit - but the first contact can create participation before asking for commitment! The numbers also show why engagement depth matters. This was not a one-click campaign: hundreds of thousands of users generated tens of millions of interactions. For international brands Telegram can therefore be used not only as media inventory, but as a campaign environment. 🤔 What could your audience actually DO inside Telegram instead of only reading about your product? Share an idea in the comments. If you want to test whether a Mini App mechanic makes sense for your product, send the concept to 👍 @brainstat_en