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Sludge Mother

HOW SLUDGE MOTHER TARGETED A NEW MARKET

$100 spent, and now Mexico City is her 3rd most streamed city.

— 1
Total Posts
— 100
Reach
— 10K+Streams
Conversion

From one TikTok to a top-three streaming market.

When grunge outfit Sludge Mother launched their campaign on Fanfluencer, the brief was simple: get "I Don't Want A Job" in front of audiences they weren't already reaching. They picked the song, funded the slots, and let the matching engine surface creators in their target lanes.

One of those creators was @feerrrtz — a verified Rising-tier creator with an audience concentrated in Mexico..

The post hit immediately. Within 72 hours of going live, "I Don't Want A Job" started climbing inside Sludge Mother's daily streaming dashboards. Within two weeks, the band's listener geography had visibly shifted.

The numbers.

Today, Mexico City is Sludge Mother's #3 most-streamed city — a market they had no measurable presence in before the campaign opened. The audience didn't just sample the track and bounce; they followed the artist, saved the song, and started showing up in adjacent track listens. The discovery flywheel did its job.

Why it worked.

Sludge Mother didn't try to force their existing fan base to do something different. They paid a real creator with a real audience that already trusted them, and let cultural alignment do the rest. @feerrrtz's followers weren't being marketed to — they were being introduced to a song their favorite creator was actually playing.

That's the entire bet of the platform: pay the human who already has the relationship, and let the audience self-select into the artist. Sludge Mother's Mexico City top-3 ranking is what that looks like in practice.

We were able to enter a new market, and turn one post into real streams.

DJay Brawner, TUFFMGMT

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