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Cassey Ho’s Journey From Blogilates on YouTube to DTC Success with POPFLEX — Podcasts (2022)

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October 26, 2022
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Cassey Ho didn’t set out to be a YouTuber. 

In 2009, Cassey was moving from California to Massachusetts to pursue a career as a fashion buyer. 

She wasn’t just leaving family and friends, she was also leaving the students who loved her fun pop-filled pilates classes. So Cassey filmed a few workout videos for those who wanted a way to still follow her routines and uploaded them to YouTube, under the channel “Blogilates.” 

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“I wanted to stay connected with those students that I was teaching Pilates [to] before moving to the East Coast for my first ‘glamorous fashion job,’” says Cassey. “And those two things were so pivotal.” 

Months into her corporate career, Cassey noticed her following on YouTube began to build up. 

“And then I saw it had thousands of views and hundreds of comments. I was like, what is this? What is happening?” she says. 

Cassey Ho wearing a black workout outfit while holding green and gold dumbbells.
Cassey Ho’s YouTube journey started because her students from Pilates classes wanted a way to follow her routines when she moved across the country. Jen Dessinger 

Another pivotal moment came when Cassey discovered a workout bag that she designed for herself ended up in Shape magazine.

“I didn’t even have a real brand at this point,” says Cassey. “I was so miserable at work [and felt] that this was a sign from the universe telling me ‘you need to go all in on yourself.’” 

Cassey Ho wearing a two-piece brown workout set and a baseball cap in a tennis court setting.
A yoga bag that Cassey designed for her personal workout needs ended up being featured in Shape magazine, which led to her quitting her job to pursue her own business. Jen Dessinger 

Cassey’s passion for design and her experience in the fashion industry became a natural fit for a thriving YouTube audience.

“Fans were like, ‘Well can we have a Blogilates shirt?’ And I was like, ‘Why in the world would you want to wear my screen name?’” says Cassey. “But that was also the moment I realized, ‘Oh my god, maybe Blogilates is not just a screen name.’” 

The Blogilates merchandise chapter, however, was short-lived. Copycat designs started to pop up online. Even when Cassey pivoted to design-based athleisure wear, she still faced trademarking issues before finally finding her footing with the launch of her direct-to-consumer brand, POPFLEX, in 2016. 

“The knocking off though … I hate that so much, because it’s not just that you’re copying me,” Cassey says. “It’s literally you’re taking someone else’s hard work and creativity, not doing any work, and then making profit off of it.” 

Cassey Ho in a two-piece orange workout outfit caught mid air in a jump step.
Working through challenges of copycat designs, Cassey found her footing and success with the launch of her own direct to consumer athleisure brand, POPFLEX. Cassey Ho 

Despite the challenges, Cassey remained focused on her main motivation for her products: how to better serve the community she built, from eliminating camel toes for folks wearing her leggings to making workout bags with separate waterproof compartments for dirty gym shoes. POPFLEX designs resonated with Cassey’s community and the company is growing at a stellar rate. 

“We just got on the Inc. 5000 list, which I’m so proud of. The growth has been insane. We’ve actually doubled sales over the last three years consecutively,” she says. “We had over 1.5 million visitors just last month to popflexactive.com, and we are over 800% up since 2019 in sales.” 

Tune into the full episode of Shopify Masters to hear Cassey’s design process for POPFLEX, advice for entrepreneurs who are building a team, and future product launches planned for POPFLEX.



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