Hi, I'm

Anatoly Kapustin

Anatoly Kapustin wearing a blue cap

I help digital products find unconventional ways to grow — by combining local insight, internet culture, and systems built for scale.

I make internet experiments, write, take street photographs, and occasionally run farther than expected.

Available for consulting engagements and fractional marketing leadership roles.

Some projects started as jokes. A few travelled surprisingly far.

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A short introduction

About me

I have spent more than a decade working at the intersection of consumer marketing, digital PR, creative strategy, and internet culture.

My work has ranged from helping launch Yandex AI in Turkey to building creator-led growth systems in the UAE and designing crisis-response infrastructure across 15 markets.

I am especially useful when a product enters a new environment and the obvious marketing playbook stops working: a new market, an unfamiliar audience, an emerging technology, or a problem that needs both a creative idea and a system behind it.

Outside client work, I have spent years experimenting with how ideas travel online — through public AI experiments, media formats, writing, memes, lectures, and my own online presence.

I work as an independent advisor, project-based consultant, or fractional marketing lead — depending on the stage and complexity of the challenge.

#1
among all apps in the Turkish App Store
Yandex AI, first days after launch
15
markets covered by a crisis-response system
2M
monthly views through creator partnerships
5.5×
below-market creator costs in the UAE
20M
monthly organic reach in personal media
150M+
total listens across platforms for an independent media project

From the cabinet

A random work case

Different problems call for different kinds of thinking.

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From the cabinet

A random personal project

I have spent years making small things and seeing where they travel.

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Beyond the job description

Other things I do

A few parts of my life that do not need to become case studies.

X / Twitter

Writing online since 2009

96K followers · 20M monthly organic reach. Mostly internet culture, technology, media, and things that are difficult to explain without making a joke first.

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Clubhouse

Live conversations

Hosted 50+ conversations during the brief and beautiful Clubhouse era.

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Lectures

Lectures about memes

Gave 20+ pro bono lectures on memes, viral mechanics, and how ideas travel online.

Running

Istanbul Marathon

Finished 42.2 km in 2024. It felt longer than expected.

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A useful first conversation

Let’s talk

I am open to conversations about product launches, market entry, creative strategy, internet-native growth, and technology products entering unfamiliar environments.

I am always glad to hear about odd internet projects, writing, photography, new formats, or a good reason to walk around a city.

Based in Europe.