I'm submitting a Hive proposal to use 50 HBD per day from the Decentralized Hive Fund in order to promote Hive and all Hive projects on my Youtube videos and livestreams. I currently have just under 20,000 subscribers on my Youtube channel covering NFT games, which is the perfect market to promote Hive to.
The majority of my subscribers are already playing Splinterlands and have a Hive wallet. Despite already owning a wallet, most Splinterlands players do not actually know anything about Hive or engage in the blockchain outside of Splinterlands. See this informal poll I ran on Twitter that showed that 57% have never use hive for anything out side of Splinterlands, even for something as simple as investing in Hive. I believe this actually drastically overestimates the number of SL users who use Hive, as this poll was liked and retweeted by a few users with a large hive following outside of Splinterlands (it started off bouncing between 70-80% "No" until it spread to those other audiences). These are the people that Hive needs to be capturing and converting into regular users of the blockchain, and I believe I am in a perfect position to do that as an NFT influencer.
50 HBD per day would get Hive projects advertised on 2 livestreams per week and 1 stand alone video for the next 2 months. While my prices keep rising as my channel grows 10% per month, I will lock this price in for a minimum of 2 months. 30% of those funds will be spent on giveaways handed out during the stream to promote the livestreams and make viewers excited about having sponsored streams. Winners are chosen via nightbot to ensure complete randomness.
Here is an example of a sponsored livestream. The sponsors banner is on the side and they get full screen promos and special airtime once per hour while the giveaway is run.
All hive projects will be eligible to be promoted on stream. I will advertise everything from the 12% return of HBD to 3peak to the upcoming Ragnarok airdrops. Anyone who is creating anything on Hive can reach out to me to organize promotion at no additional cost.
You can support this proposal by voting for it HERE. Thank you to everyone for all the constant support, regardless of whether or not this passes!
You mean paying from DHF for ads on your OWN YT channel?
This is really far from the ownership mindset IMO. You have a stake here, isn't it in your own interest to promote Hive?
Or I might be not understanding something here...
Yes, my channel. I'm simply creating the proposal, because I believe I can deliver value. I have virtually no say in whether or not it gets approved or not.
As for it being in my best interest to promote Hive, this is literally my primary job. I will sell advertising to whoever pays for it (assuming there are no moral issues or reasons I can't support them appearing on my channel). Saying I should do this for free is effectively saying I should use my own money to promote Hive.
This is basically the same proposal I am sending out to various companies (modified slightly due to the format). I thought it would be worth sending out to the Hive community as well. From my end it's no different promoting hive or hive projects vs promoting other Blockchain projects on other chains.
Ok, thank you for explaining. I didn't consider possibility of this attitutude. Good luck!
Great to see new initiatives for funding!
This type of marketing is probably the best one.
57% of splinterlands players are bots or free players, so you don't have much auditorium, nevertheless, your videos will help newcomers, I guess... good luck