Dlive and DSound Contest Idea?
How do we collaborate to promote @dlive, Steem's decentralized live streaming platform and @dsound, Steem's decentralized platform for uploading audio at https://dsound.audio/? Will you read this post to discover an answer and provide feedback because this will help us get started promoting @dlive, @dsound, and Steem on the world's most popular websites like YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, etc.
After authors earned $10,000+ USD in a week publishing hundreds of original and powerful stories to the Steem blockchain with the supernatural writing contest, many of us have been asking about the next contest?
Meanwhile, @dlive and @dsound seem like ideal applications to promote on Steem because live streaming is growing rapidly in terms of viewers while being very hard to get started with as a new streamer especially when it comes to earning. @dlive has a delegation of about 2 million Steem Power from Steemit Inc via @misterdelegation which gives @dlive the ability to upvote those publishing live streams for over $10,000 USD a day in rewards paid by the Steem blockchain.
@dsound by @prc meanwhile has its own 1 million Steem power Delegation allowing for upvoting $5,000+ a day in original music, podcasts, and audio uploaded. With the popularity of podcasts today and the inability of most musicians to earn anything making music, how do we help those that would love to use @dsound and listen with no ads to discover Steem?
Contest Idea?
How do we work together to bring thousands of new users to @dlive and @dsound? Millions of people worldwide would be thrilled at the chance to earn $10 USD worth of rewards a day from live streaming on @dlive and uploading audio to @dsound. Meanwhile, almost everyone that might benefit has no idea these exist and struggle to earn anything using other platforms like YouTube and SoundCloud. Ultimately if we want to make @dlive and Steem successful it is all about user growth.
What if we had a contest that promoted @dlive and @dsound on YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, Mixer, and Smashcast featuring original music with a $100+ payout to listeners daily for finding an easter egg in the music? I happen to have a live music streaming setup that is ideal for this which would allow me to play electronic music all day every day and easily hide an audio clip with instructions on how to win.
To win, a user would need to sign up for Steem and be ready to post upon hearing the audio clip. As soon as the audio clip was heard at a random time during the live streaming music, the user would need to create a new post on Steem based on what was requested in the audio clip and link to it on newest @dlive post. As soon as I found the first winning post, I would send an upvote to the winner through one of the voting bots and take down the live stream. For the next contest, I record a new audio clip and put the live stream back up again.
The live stream on @dlive, YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, Mixer, and Smashcast would focus only on promoting Steem featuring live price updates, instructions on how to participate, and links to @dsound to listen to individual tracks along with @dlive to participate in the contest. New uploads on @dsound would then have additional easter eggs offering more rewards to users following the instructions which might appear at the end of a song or when the beat dropped in the middle of a song or in the text of the post.
Funding?
We already have funding through delegations to my upvoting bot which pays delegators 45% of bids back every day automatically and funds projects to grow Steem via @budgets with 45% of bids while bot operators receive 10%. To run a contest like this on a regular basis, we ideally would want to raise the money within the contest itself because this would guarantee it was self sustaining. Fortunately with @dlive and @dsound having such large upvotes, funding these contests would be as easy as getting enough upvotes to pay the rewards out on each contest post.
A small upvote from either @dlive and/or @dsound would put out $100 a day in rewards as I created the contests each day. No contest from me = no funding. SBD upvotes from contests with votes from @dlive and/or @dsound would then go to @budgets which then would send to winners. Fortunately we do not need to get pledges of any upvotes to begin and are able to immediately fund with the Steem and SBD @budgets already has. When @dlive and @dsound find the contest helpful, each would have the ability to provide ongoing funding.
Do It?
Launching a contest like this and doing it on a regular basis might be very helpful for the Steem blockchain and also would be a big commitment from me every day to live stream to 4 to 6 websites and check for the contest results. I think this might combine really well with everything else we are doing together.
What do you think?
Love,
Jerry Banfield
Promoting @dsound and @dlive is a great idea. However the contest idea seems like a lot of work on your side and might have some perverse effects by attracting people who are more interested in "gaming the system"(of the contest) and making off with the booty than in producing quality content.
Because ultimately what we need above all, whether on @dsound, @dlive or @steemit is quality content.
One way to get quality content is to have it currated by humans (not bots).
So here is an alternative idea: you invite people to stream on these sites and look how many humans (not bots) have upvoted a posting (regardless of their SP, so disregard the rewards). And after a set period of counting human voters you have a look yourself at the first three or five (or whatever) and "top up " with a vote from mrdelegation or however has a nice SP those that you find best among the pre-selected.
Possibly less work for you and certainly less distortion introduced by the rules of the contest.
Thanks for giving it a thought.
As a minnow who has produced quite a lot of content for other platforms, I appreciate the idea to count votes and not rewards. If you want to get good content, take a look at how many new people join the platform every day. I think @sorin.cristescu is on to something here. @jerrybanfield, I made another comment later on the thread with ideas of how to do less work and add more value so you don't burn yourself out on this.
Sorin I think you are right about the contest being a lot of work on my side and I will ask for direction on how to promote without making it so much work and by adding more value.
I don't really believe that human votes can suggest or guarantee a quality content as i know if many great writers here who make quality posts but don't get up to 5 votes and 1 dollar pay out.
This is a great initiative @jerrybanfield
You come everytime with bang new innovative ideas. Combining different social networking sites and promotion through it is great idea.
I would love to listen and wait for the request and than upload the answer or steem post.
When it will roll out?
Hope I will be the first to win your vote.
Regards
Soon given the feedback!
Hey @jerrybanfield.
Is there any chances that my story will get some. Reward from you. As it is not mentioned in your grid list. I have already send you the link above.
@dsound, and these other branched dapps will definitely need some aid receiving users. I believe its best to delete all social media and move to the STEEM bchain. That's what I have done. Steepshot is also pretty cool!
I believe the contest is a good idea. The main factor behind my idea though is consistency. Let us suggest a contest where individuals must post on one of those mediums for 7 days in a row.
With proof of post for 7 days, sufficient post, within given criteria, they will be rewarded in some way.
It will motivate usage of the site, but most importantly it will instill a little habit in every poster that will make it a little easier to continue using after that 7 day period!
Let me know what you think about this idea!
Someone help me. I can not login with steem account at dsound.
I'm facing this problem. Nobody can tell me its solution?
You must go to permissions and click view on your private posting key. It’s hidden until you click it.
i up voted ,resteem and followed
Great Idea @jerrybanfield. It will be a great way for steemit community to grow and also a nice way for Steem and SBD to gain more popularity. Almost nobody will want to reject $10 for participating in this. If you know the worth of $10 then you will understand my point. Let's get the ball rolling so we can get this place saturated with more creative minds.
I love to comment on the #SPIRITNATURALWRITINGCONTEST you did because you talked about here as well. I like to ask if you even checked the different post people did using the tags and following your instructions. I had to share a part of my life in that contest but I doubt if you even saw it, a guy also asked about that in your discord channel but nobody answered him. I will be glad if you reply this comment.
Best regards.
Welcome to steemit @sh-saimum I hope you will enjoying steemit
Yea Bro me enjoying
AFter reading you post. I came to know about @dlive and @dsound
You post is very helpful almost to the new steemians. Thanks for sharing this with us. @jerrybanfield
@uzairkhan622 thank you for letting me know it was helpful!
Welcome sir
hi jerry, we appreciate the work you are doing , promoting this amazing products i will surely be trying some -of your tricks to see what really works