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Google posted this from an account with 31.9M followers and reached about 5.1% of them. Accounts of that size usually reach 2.4 times their following.

This one did not get far past the people who already followed it. It ranks 283 of 611 launches from accounts that size. Against every launch in the directory it sits at 2.4 times the median of 688K views.

Every response ran below the directory's usual rate: 235 bookmarks, 78 replies, 9 quotes and 172 reposts against 1K likes.

The post was seen more than it was acted on, which is common for a launch that reaches past the people who care about the category. One bookmark for every 6.2 likes is a low ratio for a launch, and reads as entertainment more than intent.

The post opens with “Today, we’re introducing two new upgrades to live translate in the Google Translate app, making it even easier…”, a first-person opening that the founder-account launches in the directory use most. It carries no media, which leaves the ranking model nothing to hold a reader with past the first line.

The copy runs 33 words, about the usual length for a launch post here, where the median is 41. There is a link in the body, which costs a post some reach and buys it a place to send people.

It went out on a Friday. Launches posted on a Friday have a median of 880K views in the directory, which makes it the strongest day.

Why posts from large accounts under-reach covers this: a post seen by fewer people than follow the account was held back by the ranking model.

For the next one, read whether a launch needs a video: 99% of the launches in the directory carry one, and the guide is about when the 1% is the right call.

Virality without conversion is the guide for it: reach that outruns response is the pattern this guide is about. Every launch we track in Consumer AI is on that vertical's directory page.