Ben Leavitt

Founder, FollowBuddy · 1 appearance on the record.

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Ben Leavitt is the founder of FollowBuddy, an iOS app and SaaS tool that lets users track Instagram unfollowers without sharing passwords. He also runs the media consultancy Bunny Media and hosts The Ben Leavitt Show podcast.

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2 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not yet assessed 4 not checkable as stated how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 6 assertions · 3 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 4 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Ben argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Ben Leavitt: Follow Buddy operates entirely within Instagram's terms of service
“All that we're doing is telling people who unfollowed them through leveraging Instagram's export data feature. So all that you have to do is go follow the steps to get your followers and following information that is approved from Instagram. We're not breaking…”
Ben Leavitt Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 13:07 I Make $17K/Month With One Strategy

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Ben Leavitt on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Ben Leavitt said on Starter Story that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Not checkable as stated
Leavitt: Proper YouTube SEO guarantees top-five rankings even on new channels
“If you do SEO correctly, you will rank within the top three to five listings almost every time, even on a brand new channel.”
Ben Leavitt Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 8:40 I Make $17K/Month With One Strategy
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Leavitt: YouTube became the highest-grossing revenue source for multiple software clients
“I became multiple software companies, highest converting either affiliate or if they were a customer of mine, YouTube became their highest grossing revenue source.”
Ben Leavitt Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 2:15 I Make $17K/Month With One Strategy
Insight
Leavitt: Disclosing Product Cons Improves Viewer Conversion Rates
“I have consistently found that if you mention a con potentially I've seen has improved conversion rate.”
Ben Leavitt Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 9:50 I Make $17K/Month With One Strategy
Insight
Leavitt: Putting app links in first two description lines hurts YouTube CTR
“When people are searching on YouTube, they see the title of the thumbnail, but they can also see the first two sentences of the description. So a lot of people will just put their app link there. And that's a missed opportunity because anything that I have on …”
Ben Leavitt Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 10:22 I Make $17K/Month With One Strategy
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Leavitt: Unlike Google, YouTube easily permits multiple top search rankings
“The awesome thing about YouTube SEO, unlike Google, it's almost impossible for you to get multiple high ranking listings within Google, very possible on YouTube. And especially if you're doing this across multiple channels,”
Ben Leavitt Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 11:58 I Make $17K/Month With One Strategy
Assertion Supported
Ben Leavitt: Follow Buddy operates entirely within Instagram's terms of service
“All that we're doing is telling people who unfollowed them through leveraging Instagram's export data feature. So all that you have to do is go follow the steps to get your followers and following information that is approved from Instagram. We're not breaking…”
Ben Leavitt Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 13:07 I Make $17K/Month With One Strategy
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ben Leavitt: Follow Buddy generates $20K monthly with zero ad spend
“Follow Buddy makes 20 K per month. We have 82,000 users currently, 3128 paying users, and we've spent zero dollars on ads.”
Ben Leavitt Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 0:56 I Make $17K/Month With One Strategy
Disclosure
Leavitt: Follow Buddy customer acquisition relies entirely on organic search traffic
“All of our traffic is organic and it's all search based across the different social platforms.”
Ben Leavitt Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 4:12 I Make $17K/Month With One Strategy
Insight
Leavitt: Search-Driven Customer Acquisition Requires Almost No Creativity
“If you follow this exact approach, there's almost no creativity needed because you're just trying to go to where the people already are and just show up there when they try to solve their problem.”
Ben Leavitt Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 15:33 I Make $17K/Month With One Strategy
Assertion Supported
Leavitt: Video inventing the Instagram 'compare lists method' hit 1M+ views
“I made a video about that and it got like one point Something million views. And that strategy that I brought to the internet has since been repeated so many times that it's referred to as the compare lists method.”
Ben Leavitt Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 3:24 I Make $17K/Month With One Strategy
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Leavitt: Follow Buddy ranks number one on YouTube for Instagram unfollower searches
“We are number one for unfollower app Instagram. Not bad. Best Instagram unfollower tracker number one.”
Ben Leavitt Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 5:26 I Make $17K/Month With One Strategy

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
I Make $17K/Month With One Strategy Mar 19, 2026 12m
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