Project: Boneyard Gaming Community
Astro DAO transfer - https://app.astrodao.com/dao/marketing.sputnik-dao.near/proposals/marketing.sputnik-dao.near-882
Boneyard Gaming Community budget October 2023
Est. August 2022 - The Boneyard Gaming Community is on a global level and everything supported with the English language.
Report to previous months funding - September Report
Previous funding:
September - [Approved] Boneyard Gaming Sept 2023 Podcast/Social Media/Content creation budget
Links:
Boneyard Gaming Discord
Boneyard Gaming Twitter
billybones1 Twitter
Soos Twitter
TikTok
Youtube
Linktree
Website
Hello @marketingdao-council,
Since our last funding we’ve continued the podcast and have doubled, yes you read that correct, doubled our views. We now average 100+ views and getting more and more founders on to talk and showcase what they’re building. I also give that Near option to use Near if they aren’t already. Decent growth and gradually attaining the attention of fellow gaming content creators and the Near community.
Goals:
Without a clear scope of KPIs from the MDAO we went with what we’re good at in gaming and the Near Community. It seems hosting Near podcasts hangs onto the Near community while expanding to gaming from across the board. Numbers have never been better at this point and as always excited to continue growing. Our goals will be to continue updating the community on Near about NDC and governance. While also covering gaming as its our bread and butter.
Team:
Host - billybones1 - United States
Co-host - Soos - Philippines
billybones1 has created the grassroots community Boneyard Gaming in late 2022. In his free time, he built out a Discord with my skills learned from moderating in the past. It has since grown beyond his expectations. Boneyard Gaming has evolved into a community that explores the newest game releases on Near and various other game-related blockchain networks. Within this community, we engage in socializing, playtesting alpha game builds.
Soos is also a core team member of NEKO as the Learn to Earn Manager, one of the hosts of the Neko Morning Show, and Neko content creator. He’s passionate about web3 and NEAR, Soos loves to share his knowledge and insights through, making videos, and creating educational content to help new users. He is an ex-Overwatch E-sports pro and his insights from competitive gaming is a vital resource for these live sessions. Content creation and blockchain awareness is what Soos loves to educate.
Deliverables:
I’m happy to say I created a free website on GoDaddy that I linked above highlighting our podcast. Its simple, but its free and I encourage anyone to do on a low budget. It costs nothing but time. I do own boneyardgaming.gg but the costs and time it takes to upkeep a website at this time doesn’t seem plausible yet.
Joe Explains how Shard Dog can onboard not only users but projects to Near with the unnoticeable tech in Keypom.
We continue to grow our reach on most platforms and now have the attention of over 179 followers this month. Thats 29 more than last months growth. We’re successfully conducting 8 podcasts last month with a few short -form content clips. I’m ecstatic to deliver a podcast that doubled our views and gained hundreds of followers over this time. This was our goal to gain hundreds of viewers per pod and we’ve succeeded. Lets double that again this year!
We continue to have some small talk to get to know the founders/CEOs of these projects. I feel it gives the crypto community some peace of mind when investing at the same time trust before utilizing their products. At this point, I think we got every single person on the pod to have a good laugh. Cheeky smile montage on the way?
In order to track and share the KPIs we’ll be utilizing a social media score. At the top of this proposal you can see the report to last months funding. If more info is needed I would be happy to share our growth. We’ve seen our best numbers yet. I would also like to point out that this growth is with just a couple minor giveaways on top of the awesome content. I believe growing your base following is most critical when starting out. We can double those numbers again with good content and great guests . Allow me to oblige.
Relevant Experience:
I’ve been involved in the near ecosystem since January 2022. I started off as an active community member who was looking for their next favorite video game. I quickly became a moderator/community manager in several projects which led to me quitting my full-time job as a shipping supervisor for a small Chinese company. The experience gained there and previous other jobs in office admin and customer service primed me for what I do today. If you haven’t heard me say this before, I’m a lifelong passionate gamer since the original Nintendo days. I’ve been Jr. trading crypto for the past 2-3 years and found gaming in the 2021 P2E bubble. I am also a part of a couple gaming guilds I recently joined a couple gaming guilds to get a feel of what a gaming guild is. Both of which have just started and a perfect opportunity to watch and see how one is built out. I’ve also invited Soos to join as well so we both learn.
As mentioned above Soos is the L2E Manager at NEKO (Good Fortunate Felines) and one of the hosts for the NEKO Morning Show. Once we found the streaming platform they ran with it. The Boneyard Gaming podcast looks to replicate that success on multiple channels as well. Soos loves to educate and has even managed a pro E-Sports gaming team for the game Overwatch. This is prevalent to our mission and his views and knowledge are a pillar in what this project is. He has been helping me co-host these spaces since February. Us both being core team members of NEKO has sparked our chemistry, love for games, and crypto. Which is the reason I’ve invited him as a co-host to these lives.
Funding for the month of October 2023:
1 month of Podcasts - 8 sessions ~1.5 hours each (see metrics above)
Time spent hosting (~3 hours each) + Time spent prepping (~2-4+hours each)
A podcast takes much more work than a Twitter spaces. We have to prep earlier and do sound and video checks for us and the guests. I’ve made a video intro that can change every podcast with pics relating to the guests.
Outreach/scheduling/flyers/research/organization - 350USDC per session (2800USDC/month)
Total monthly requested: 2800USD
If the MDAO thinks it makes sense to do more than 1 month, I would be interested.