MasterClass Growth Playbook
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Quality
Cinema
Strategy
Celebrity
The Spark
Online courses had low production value.
The Growth Engine
The 'Cinematic Authority' Brand Moat: MasterClass tacticaly engineered a new category: 'Edutainment'. Their growth engine is 'The Celebrity Hero'—hiring icons like Gordon Ramsay, Serena Williams, and James Patterson. By using ultra-high-production cinema cameras and lighting, they made the 'Course' feel like a Netflix documentary. This aspirational positioning allowed them to charge premium annual subscriptions to users who don't necessarily want to *learn* a skill, but want to *feel* connected to excellence, effectively winning the 'Aspirational Education' market.