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In today’s episode, Brock Johnson shares what he learned from making 3,238 Reels: educational content is dead, and entertainment needs to be the focus. That doesn’t mean dancing, aesthetics, flexing, trends, or silly stunts. It means retention is king. He starts with skip rate, the first step in retention. When people swipe away immediately, the first-frame visual was usually off-putting, uninteresting, or read as a scam, which mostly happens on normal Reels rather than trial Reels. He goes through the first-frame checklist: does the visual relate to the topic, is it plain and obvious, did you follow the rule of 3, is it HD, is it bright but not too bright, and is there an unexpected element.

From there, Brock breaks down the other places retention falls apart: a bad hook or uninteresting topic, a video that feels redundant or gives people the “I got it” effect, and a good video with a bad ending, usually an outro, a CTA, or a recap. He covers how to open loops, how to add secondary hooks right where people drop, and other ways to keep people watching longer, plus the questions he asks when he sees a drop-off. The goal is a 50% retention rate or higher. Hit that, and the video naturally earns a high engagement rate and lands above average or even great.

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In today’s episode, Brock Johnson sits down with Steve from CrossThread Garage to talk about what it takes to stop being a creator and start being a founder. They get into how he made that transition, what changed in how he thinks about his work, and why building something you own is a different game than making content for an audience.

Steve also walks Brock through his process of building an app for brand partnerships, from the problem he wanted to solve to how he approached building it. If you’re a creator trying to turn your audience into a real business, this conversation covers the mindset shift and the practical steps behind it.

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In today’s episode, Brock Johnson is breaking down the plan he used to reach 1 million followers on Instagram. It starts with posting three kinds of content: shareworthy posts built with my SHARE checklist (Simple, strong Hook, Authentic, Relatable, Entertaining), posts with DM automation, and more carousels, since they beat Reels on engagement and far fewer people post them. Every week, the DM automation posts promote four things: my personal email list (the R.E.P.O.R.T.), the business email list through a freebie, the $7 two-week trial, and the podcast and YouTube channel.

Brock also covers the volume and systems behind it: five trial Reels a day scheduled in Metricool, expecting most to flop and swinging anyway, plus five feed posts a day. In 2025 he went from about 2.5 to 4 posts a day and grew from roughly 20K to 65K followers per half-year. To keep that pace without burning out, Brock built systems in Dropbox and Google Drive, upcycle every evergreen post at least three times 90+ days apart, and batch and schedule months ahead, with seasonal posts up to a year out. He closes with one collab post a week, where he offered to do most of the work like Marketing Harry does, and the symbiotic relationship between YouTube, the podcast, and Instagram, where each one feeds followers to the other.

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In today's episode, Brock Johnson is breaking down a new Trial Reels hack I'm calling the Triple Double Method that's helping accounts go viral repeatedly off a single piece of content. The idea starts simple: post a Trial Reel, then post the normal Reel version, then post a mirrored Trial Reel with a few key changes, zooming in the video, speeding it up, re-editing the hook, changing the on-screen text, and adding a non-Instagram filter or color change. From there, you repost that same content again at the 90-day mark and again at 180 days, turning one video into five separate uploads.

Brock also covers the second version of the method, where instead of one video, you create three different hook variations shot on two cameras, giving you six total videos, and when you mirror each one using the same edit changes, that turns into twelve Trial Reels from a single piece of original content. This is a way to squeeze significantly more testing and reach out of the content you're already creating without having to constantly produce something new.

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In today's episode, Brock Johnson breaks down what's changed with the Instagram algorithm right now and how it's heavily weighting retention. He walks through the three-part funnel: skip rate is the bouncer that decides whether you get into the club at all, retention is what separates average content from great content, and share rate is what gets you into the VIP section. Understanding where you're losing people in that funnel tells you exactly what to fix.

Brock also covers Instagram's crackdown on AI content and how the pendulum has swung both on the platform side and on the audience side, why flashing text on screen is getting penalized, and why using outside editing apps isn't. He gets into the crackdown on duplicate trial Reels, why carousels are performing exceptionally well right now, and one specific data point: carousels are getting 89% better performance, or roughly 1.9x the views, compared to other formats.

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In today's episode, Brock Johnson sits down with Jamie Brindle to talk about how he completely flipped his content strategy, going from posting 12 Reels a day down to just 3 Reels a week, and still pulling in 50 million views. They get into why he made the switch, what convinced him that quality and testing would outperform sheer volume, and how his production process changed once he stopped grinding out daily content.

Jamie breaks down how trial Reels have become the backbone of his strategy, letting him test for retention and shares before a post ever goes wide, so that when something does hit, it hits big. They talk through what he's optimizing for at each stage of the testing process, how he decides what's worth doubling down on, and why this lower-volume, higher-precision approach is working better for him than posting around the clock ever did.

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In today's episode, Brock Johnson is ranking every Instagram growth strategy he could think of, 50 in total, from the tactics that actually move the needle to the ones that waste your time or put your account at risk. He goes through content approaches like trial Reels, trending audio, carousels, series content, repurposing long-form, B-roll, talking-head value Reels, yapping, and post & ghost, along with format-adjacent plays like green screen content, memes, niche theme pages, and hot takes.

Brock also ranks the operational and growth-hacking side of the game: keyword SEO in captions, bio, and alt text, posting frequency, best-time-to-post myths, engagement pods, mass liking, seeding comments, DM automation, hook optimization, collabs, lives, giveaways, cross-promotion, and the riskier stuff like buying followers, buying engagement, boosting posts, and buying aged accounts. By the end, you'll know exactly where each strategy falls, from must-do to don't-even-bother.

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In today's episode, Brock Johnson sits down with Chandler Bolt to talk about the moment he decided to spend $500K rebuilding his personal brand after scaling his company to $75M without one. They get into what actually triggered that decision, the shift from a top-down to a bottom-up approach, and exactly where the money went, production, ad spend, ghostwriters, coaching, and team. Brock asks him how he thinks about ROI on something as hard to measure as a personal brand investment when the business was already thriving without it.

Chandler also breaks down some of the unconventional tactics he's used, including a bounty system paying people to help him land guest spots on podcasts, along with other off-the-wall growth ideas. They dig into his philosophy that a personal brand should be an asset rather than a limitation, why he believes "faceless" stopped working in the age of AI, and whether that's a real shift or a story he needed to justify the spend. Brock closes by asking what the 20% of his playbook would look like for someone working with a $5K budget instead of $500K, and how short-form video fits alongside books as his original leverage tool.

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In today's episode, Brock Johnson is sharing 13 post formats that go viral every time he uses them, along with real examples from my own Instagram so you can see exactly how each one plays out. He starts with what he calls Gold Star Behavior, then moves through formats like Customer Callout, To the Music, Hills to Die On, and Low Flying Plane. Each one taps into a different angle, whether it's calling out real customer moments, syncing content to trending audio, or planting a flag on something you believe strongly.

Brock also breaks down formats built around quick engagement and personality, including the 1 Minute Random Topic, Reasons to Follow/Unfollow Me, Overrated/Underrated, No/Try, Don't/Do, Bad Better Best, Won't Judge, and How to Kidnap Me. Each format comes with linked examples straight from my own posts so you can study exactly how they're structured and start applying them to your own content.

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In today's episode, Brock Johnson  breaks down how I post 163 times per week across nine platforms without a full production team behind me. TMYP, TMYG. He shares the real context first: a business team, one content hire brought on in the last month, no designer used in nearly three years, and no kids. Instagram alone accounts for about 75 pieces of content per week, and he hasn’t missed a day of posting since March 28th, 2021, a streak that hits 2,000 days on September 18th, 2026. That consistency is generating roughly 20 million views per month.

Brock walks through the five systems that make this possible: an organization system built on automatically sorted cloud storage and Google Sheets tracking, a planning system for gathering and acting on inspiration, a creation system that keeps filming separate from editing and planning, a scheduling system where every post gets scheduled five separate times across different windows, and a tracking system that closes the loop. Before any of that, he shares the one prerequisite: if you don't already have at least a daily post scheduled for the next 14 days, stop posting and start creating.

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