We made Allo’s viral Grok Bot video in 3 days.
1.16M views. Shared all the way to Elon’s timeline, he even reposted. Their brand-new X account went from 10 to 1,000 followers.
Here's exactly how we did it:
1. They skipped the content calendar
- Allo saw their Grok Bot app starting to take off
- Instead of adding a video to the end of the roadmap, they jumped on it right away
- Wait a few weeks and the moment is gone, or someone else does it first
2. Idea to live in 3 days
- Brief, storyboard, feedback, final cut. all in a few days
- We designed and animated the little Grok Bot with a headset just for this
- Storyboard approved, animation after
- The final video is 20 seconds
3. They matched what was already working on X
- Grok Bot was the conversation that week
- The video rode that wave instead of trying to start a new one
- One line of copy: “We decided to give Grok Bot a phone."
4. They fixed signup before hitting publish
- While we animated, another part of their team reworked the signup journey for new users
- Views mean nothing if the funnel leaks
- When the traffic hit, people actually signed up
5. The whole company got involved
- Once it blew up, everyone at Allo got involved
- They answered hundreds of comments
- They onboarded every new customer
The result:
- 1.16M+ views on the launch post
- 2,150 likes and 1,454 bookmarks
- Elon Musk himself retweeted it
- Hundreds of thousands of people discovering Allo for the first time
- Thousands of new signups
- X account from 10 to 1,000 followers
- 3 days from idea to live
Allo didn't win this by planning a launch months out
They moved the same week the moment showed up, and had the funnel ready when it hit
And that's the whole game now: the best launch video is the one that ships while the moment is still happening.
if you've got a launch coming up and want to know what your video should look like
Reply "launch"