First, I’m trying to figure out how to say this in a constructive way. edit: Maybe I fail at that but I’m sure you’ll let me know.
I admittedly haven’t watched all of the new videos. After 10 years of making videos deep in this field, I’m much too close to the content to get excited about or really into these and they aren’t really shareable. As in, it’s not useful for me to share any of them with, well, anyone I know.
On a positive note: The editing is something special. Way to go Eli James!
But where are the hot new interviews and fresh takes? Also, and probably more important to this audience, where’s Zcash?
To speak frankly, from the perspective of a 10-year veteran content creator on YouTube, looking at the Zcash Media channel and distribution strategy, it looks like they don’t have much experience with running a YouTube channel. To make matters worse, it looks like their distribution strategy hinges on YouTube and the Brave deal.
Because the view counts and channel metrics seem to be what’s being valued here, are there specific numbers that y’all are expecting?
There seems to be some confusion as to who the target audience is. This is very surprising to me because I’ve always been told that the first rule of media is: Know your target audience.
If people outside of this crypto bubble are the target audience of these videos then Zcash, Brave and web3privacy now are not the target audience.
This is all evidence, to me, that this grant is a failure and the last milestone shouldn’t have been paid without more community feedback.