#123: 400 million users later — why isn’t Threads a marketing priority yet?

At the start of the year, you open your marketing plan and wonder: is Threads worth the effort, or just another platform to maintain? When Meta launched it in 2023, 100 million users signed up in a week. Today, it sits at nearly 400 million monthly active users with strong engagement and Gen Z attention.So why aren’t marketers prioritizing Threads for marketing?This episode explores the tension between scale and significance. Threads has reach, lower ad costs, and Meta’s backing—but lacks clear positioning, mature ad products, and proven ROI stories. It feels powerful, yet undefined.Is Threads an early opportunity hiding in plain sight, or a platform still searching for its purpose? Listen in as we unpack whether it becomes a marketing essential—or remains a watchlist experiment.(00:00) Intro(01:08) Let’s start with the launch of Threads(02:44) Where does Threads stand today - users, behaviour and context(05:28) How are marketers and creators using Threads, right now?(07:40) Reasons behind why Threads is not a marketing priority, yet(10:36) What Threads is, and is not, providing to the brands, marketers and creators(12:18) What Threads needs to do going forward…(14:21) In summary…