Sunny day yall.
Can this topic be assigned to @marketingdao-council for a review? 
Thank you.
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Ok, thank you! Happy to support! And thanks for sharing opportunities with Near Community.
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Hey, @Zhunda, your proposal, and its aim sound great. However, I would argue that some of the presented influencers are potentially dangerous for the NEAR reputation, as I suspect they are cheating with views and comments.
I am from Ukraine, so it’s easy to understand what My Happy Crypto is doing. On average, her episodes get around 20k views and what is strange: is there are always around 20-30 comments.
I want to emphasize attention to those comments: they are really weird and far from organic activity, where you can meet hate & support. Almost under episode praise attention.
Here is a screenshot of the range of comments under the original episode in April.
- I learn something new every time from your video. One project is better than the other, keep up the good work. Great platform to make money!
- I liked the review, we will work here. Thank you very much for the video.
- The review of the project is presented so competently and professionally that I wanted to take part. I think that the project has every right to the future.
- A very necessary and timely video … Finally I watched it. Thank you, I’ll take note, maybe for execution.
- The project is really great. It is worth taking a closer look, dig deeper and get to work.
… and so on.
I do not want to discredit the author of the proposal or even that influencer; I want to share my concern about it and warn the community about reputation and money risks that could potentially happen.
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Hey Ivan, thanks for your remarks.
Dasha is also from Ukraine. Peace in your homes.
Yeah, a small suspicious to comments also had, still they get likes and upvotes. Her services are cheaper then rest youtubers ask for such big channels, tho reviews are also average and her audiance seems more like “newbies” to crypto.
Next week will publish past months report. She made videos about Naksh NFT marketplace and Atocha puzzle game, both projects already got some positive feedbacks.
Each month we change 20% of youtubers, if you feel that she won’t give needed reputation for NEAR. No biggie, as community considers, for next month we will swap her with another youtuber.
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Great to hear from you.
I would not recommend looking at the prices and amount of subscribers when you are choosing influencers. If there is a choice between a small organic or big channel, but with cheated followers, I think it’s obvious that organic is always better.
If you need help defining good quality influencers & media, feel free to dm me.
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Subscribers don’t mean anything we concentrate on views.
Always going with organic ones.
Thanks Ivan, will write you. ))
Hi @Zhunda – thanks for posting the projects planned for the next round. Quick question based on your report from last time where there was a YouTuber who disappeared after being sent funding. Have the negotiations with these YouTubers already taken place or is that part of what happens next? Just trying to understand the process.
Also, following the comments from @boy.ivan, it reminded me to ask @Klint what was that tool you used to analyze YouTube followings? I remember you showing it to us, can’t remember if it was native to YouTube or a 3rd party tool you use at your agency. Might be a good tool for @Zhunda to have in the future.
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Hey Lorraine, had a long thought on this and remembered.
Was mentioned in this post:
This was the video from Korea Crypto Planet:
Fuso Tao Team wasn’t happy with it and when asked to remake it Martin (was an Agent of our guild) disapeared and second one was from Shirato Group
(now i see that they are permanently removed from youtube).
Youtuber was managed by same Martin, same thing, review was asked to be remade and at same time Martin wanished with no replies in Telegram. 
Social Blade is the tool. It’s for free and always is used to filter out youtubers.
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Thanks for your proposals and all the work that your team is doing.
Honestly, going through Stars Guild proposals is challenging. A lot of things listed where we have to either take your word for it or spend hours tracking down each one of these YouTubers. To echo some of my previous statements:
- The experience from the Meta pool videos was not great. Someone reading off the website (zero communication with the team, website was updated shortly after so video lost all it’s value) and for a Liquid Staking solution the main use case of stNEAR on Defi was never mentioned.
- Curious to see the Fusotao experience
- I do listen and take seriously comments from community members that point out questionable behaviour from some of these Yuutubers
- I am worried of a vicious loop where YouTubers may be faking numbers to charge more (or at all), where Stars Guild is incentivised to get as many YouTubers as possible due to agent fees, and where there may be an expectation that as it is community funding (‘free money’) then everyone gets paid and no one asks questions.
Market conditions have changed dramatically;
- Would be curious to know what role do these shillers for pay play on current market conditions? Seems like most lost their legitimacy and engagement overall for that content is down
- How could we create a strategy where we encourage organic content - engage members from within our community that have actual in depth knowledge about projects;
- Following on previous point; how can we amplify our organic community members content so they can grow their audience. Ecosystem is highly supportive and quality content gets views/subscribers
At a time when developers are getting their grants delayed or outright cancelled, we have to ask ourselves whether paying some of these YouTubers is the most appropriate move.
Just to be clear, I am to interested in picking pennies and reducing your management or agent fees. Just want to ensure that the YouTubers are throughly vetted and that we start thinking of growing our organic ecosystem so funding can be sustainable.
Looking forward to heard your thoughts before I make a decision.
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Hey @satojandro thanks for your feedback, will go step by step with this.
About MetaPool, here are the videos that were made:
By Crypto Chris:
By Lite Lidger
By Crypto News
@claudioac Can you give a feedback on these?
For Fusotao only Hidden Gem Team video was live, since Kore Crypto Planet and Shirato Group video that was managed by Martin didn’t went live.
@HaiVu can you drop a comment about their video.
Same thing, for community it’s done, so for me also easier to understand what changes should be made.
On market as i saw 95% youtubers do use bots and fake comments, to sort them out we use Social Blade ( https://socialblade.com ) traks suspicious info and from the begining we see to who partnership with or not. Just makes me sad when they increase views with bots. Plenty of agencies contacted us that partnership with youtubers, when taking a look what they offer, all of their youtubers have raised views with proxies. Once even got depressed and thought that whole crypto influencers market is fake.
With those that we worked still live and create content if talking about youtubers. Maybe with Martins youtubers wasn’t the best practice.
For shilling purposes we had in plan to use twitter ones (see our promo pack: Stars Guild Promo Pack - Google Sheets ) idea was to ask project authors to create contets using Gleam.io a givaway for certain tasks (subscriptions and likes), that’s a cool option for fresh projects to grow their audiance, even tho that less then 5% might become fans or clients.
If by youtube shillers you ment same video creators that use bots - try to make a search for certain project review, even big G brings to the top most viewed ones (including bot view gained), so for some those might be personal referal links, for others as mentioned they contact agencies and share a fee from a cut if they bring them clients. As i believe, such thing will remain on market, specaily for those crypto projects that get impressed by views and huge subscriber amounts.
As an idea before we had an ambassadors program, tho it didn’t seem to find much response (about 15 filled forms we had) when posted on few crypto forums outside NEAR. With two youtubers we even started partnership.
Plan was to post it on dropsearn.com by begining of this year, had chat with them, they said that for now having too much ambassador programs, so we thought that a small donation for sponsored ads could move conversation faster and wrote that idea when asked bigger budget writing down guild plans with milestones. At same time guild grants programme got on hold and now reduced, tho, someone had to manage whole programme.
After saw that DEIP launched their own ambassador programme DEIP Global Ambassador Program - DropsEarn
Had good comunication remained with Svyat after we helped them with few videos and asked how it goes with programme. He gave me Julias contacts (managed whole process), so they had about 500 filled forms with videos, some forms were 10 times filled by same user, some videos were totaly same, even same comenters and made just to get the bounty. Overal quality of videos was poor, made by amatures, ofcourse good videos also came, but the reviews were launched on YT and are live, good ones and bad ones. I just caught her up, asked for general review how programe went.
From my side if quality is needed, then it’s still about working with influencers who already got skills and audiance to share.
Always ask to spread a word that Dapp is built on NEAR.
The best thing we implemented by past month was to ask youtubers to show in their videos call to action to join communities, like russian speaking ones send to Play to Earn Games on NEAR, so for national guilds we always tried to put links to their communities under video. Tho, can ask them to share screens of TG groups or Discord with a call to join. Not only social links to Dapp.
To squeeze the most of youtubers that they can give.
Ok, will reduce agent fees and, few more videos and change some youtubers as @boy.ivan recomended.
Hey @marketingdao-council and @MktngDAO_Advisors
For this proposal have reduced cost of video managment agents bounty for Big youtubers (givaway contests creation additionally) from 200 USD to 100 USD per video.
For small youtubers remaining same 50 USD and still undervalued cuz with some youtubers had to remake video 4 times untill perfection.
Additionally as Ivan recomended removed My Happy Crypto and Crypto Sagittarius, filling mising spots with Crypton, On Chain Gaming and Crypto Gamers.
And by @satojandro recomendation to get the most of each youtuber we will ask them on each video to make a “call to action” to join NEAR communities, by showing screens to Telegram or Discord channels. Good samples we had with NEAR Protocol games Russian community, the catch was to encourage to join other play to earn games that are built on NEAR. With non gaming and english channels a good catch might be to join social media servers to build on NEAR, participate in contests and join niche communities, this one depending on Youtubers audiance.
Still as in past asking to put links in description to NEAR social media channels and #NEAR realated hashtags for brand awareness in general.
As for all 4 projects that will be advertised to get most engagement contests with big youtubers will be created and optimyzed after mistakes with past ones (rules were made too hard to participate).
Ahh yes, and for intrigue, we have in line 9 NEAR projects and DApps for upcoming months willing to get a PR taste from youtubers, so we got pretty big fan base for now. ))
Community, any additional ideas how to get maximum from these youtubers?
Hey @satojandro want to share contest results form BlueBit.fi from past cycle.
They made a givaway of 15000 BBT and created a Gform with question and BBT wallet to be left.
Contest rules were described and mentioned in Hot Crypto News and Crytpo News channels.
Results are the top!
Even if hundred dudes submitted 100 times, a good sample how to work with contests.
When Sandbox OWS was proactive with Sofia we had in mind to make a registration contest to onboard people to join Sandbox team and give them 5-10 USD in NEAR. This was in old times of NEAR. What you think, maybe something similar with bringing new community members can be done as a catch? Then what guild or offer?
Hey @Zhunda thanks for receiving and responding to all the questions and feedback.
Can you clarify for me whether the total funding amount was reduced and if so to what amount? Just trying to make sure I understand what the current proposal is requesting after feedback. Thanks!
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Sure!
Before:
Youtubers - 5650 USD
Agent Managing Bounties - 2400 USD
Miracles promo videos - 400 USD
Guild administration costs - 1500 USD
TOTAL: 9950 USD
After:
Youtubers - 6500 USD
Agent Managing Bounties - 1500 USD
Miracles promo videos - 400 USD
Guild administration costs - 1500 USD
TOTAL: 9900 USD
We also onboarded a new teammate @boy.ivan and he will assist with influencer search and work with them. So best thing when critics become guild members. 
But idk if for this round he will suggest his yotubers, or we will go with his ones in August proposal.
Hi @Zhunda – thanks. I really appreciate the time you are taking to reply to questions, give detail and look at what you are building with an eye toward experimentation and improvement. Also, it is cool to see that @boy.ivan is now working with the team.
Based on your willingness to take feedback in stride, try to up-level and try new things and bring on input and help from the community to engage more people in NEAR, I am happy to support this for another project pack and see how it goes.
It would be great to see what changes and new strategies you and the team try and get success with over the next 4-6 weeks.
You still need one more council member to support for approval.
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Hello @Zhunda ,
I checked the video, providing how to join the testnet and experience Fusotao with organic members comment below the questions on how to finish it => so the video content, and the audience is organic.
2nd, the channel hidden gem 107K subscribers - belong to the community member of Kiwi group is quite large with 200K members. As you can check here https://kiwigroup.com.vn, they are VC, Marketing agency, crypto education for starter, and with broad connection with other big communities, VC, CEX, so this is a good one for making video about projects.
Hence, this is not a green time in the market, we can ask them to reduce the cost to support NEAR ecosystem as well, as @satojandro direction.
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hi @Zhunda i have read though all this post and comments and come to the conclusion you are doing your best to get good value for the funds dsibursed, therefore i am happy to support for this month.
Moving to Approved. You can now make a Poll on Astro.
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Ahhh @HaiVu thanks for feedback, much appreciate it.
Steve who worked with Hedden Gem Team told that after YT algo changes their views dropped.
Tho, ill ask him for price reduction, if still interested and its your target audiance, can create another review about latest update on Fusotao. 
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Thanks so much @cryptocredit trying our best for the community. Thanks for opportunities once again. 
Hello, I make youtube content and am looking to make a detailed review of NEAR (not charging or looking for any fees). If possible, I’d like to have an interview with someone from the NEAR time to discuss NEAR, recent NEAR news/events and the upcoming NEARcon.
I might not check this forum, but if you could email me at team@fullvalue.club it would be more convenient.
Thanks!
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