Academy28 Jul 2025• 14 min read

Zero-Budget Content Distribution: 11 Channels That Actually Work in 2025

Your content doesn't need a £10k promotion budget. Framework for distributing content across 11 free channels that drove 340,000 views for 8 bootstrapped startups.

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Max Beech
Head of Content

TL;DR

  • The distribution-first framework: Create once, distribute across 11 channels in 4 hours
  • 8 bootstrapped startups generated 340,000 views over 90 days using only free channels
  • Best performing channels: LinkedIn (38%), niche Reddit communities (22%), Twitter (18%)
  • Distribution matters more than creation -mediocre content distributed well outperforms brilliant content distributed poorly by 4x

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