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Functional coffee brand

Ecommerce case study

How a functional mushroom-coffee brand reached a 368K-visitor thread and 26 page-1 rankings, with zero ad spend.

Mushroom-coffee category swept through ranked Reddit threads: 368K visitors reached on one thread and 26 first-page Google positions.

368K

Thread reach

26

Page-1 rankings

$0 ad spend

Documented campaign

Numbers as recorded, client anonymized. Ask for the receipts on a call.

Summary

A functional coffee brand came to Engagement Amplified missing from the Reddit and AI conversations where supplement and coffee buyers compare brands.

Across the campaign the brand landed 26 page-1 rankings and a presence on a thread that pulls 368,000 readers a month, all through credible, human Reddit engagement.

It now ranks #1 for its brand-review term and surfaces in AI answers about functional coffee.

The Challenge

Before working with Engagement Amplified, the brand faced three problems:

  • Absent from r/Supplements and the coffee communities where buyers compare brands.
  • Generic "best mushroom coffee" threads and bigger competitors owned the search results.
  • Buyers searching brand reviews and "is it legit" never encountered them.

The Solution: EA's Reddit Visibility System

We deployed a Reddit visibility system built for credible, human-led discovery, engineered to rank on Google and get cited by AI.

  • Built buyer-matched personas and mapped them to the subreddits their customers actually read.
  • Keyword, competitor and thread analysis to find the highest-intent conversations.
  • Engineered owned threads designed to rank, across top, middle and bottom-of-funnel intent.
  • Natural placement in threads about pricing, alternatives, comparisons and "is X legit".
  • Real, Reddit-native participation, useful first, ban-resistant, no bots or spam.
  • Third-party thread commenting to intercept competitor and category demand.

The Results

Across the campaign, the brand's Reddit footprint took off:

  • Visibility: a presence on a thread seen by 368K readers a month
  • Rankings: 26 threads on Google page one for buying terms
  • Top spot: #1 for "[brand] coffee review"

Execution & Time Commitment

  • Personas + content calendar + thread strategy
  • Ranking, traffic-value & AI-presence tracking
  • Daily credible engagement across target subreddits
  • Monthly performance reporting + Slack support
  • One 30-min strategy kickoff call
  • Async sign-off on personas & tone

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