Thanks for your note on our proposal We also really feel like this is a wonderful opportunity to combine the release of our videos with the NU5 upgrade. The motivation to maximize this opportunity is why we designed a ground up approach with the help of two marketing experts weâve brought on to the team. We absolutely donât want to be left thinking âwhat ifâ and we really want to go for it in terms of bringing Zcash education to as many people as possible!
As for Coingecko or Coinmarketcap, those are great points. At the moment, we planned to advertise the release of our videos on Coindesk, since Coindesk is more of a news outlet and we are considering some of the content in our videos newsworthy. Also, weâd like to talk to ZF and ECC when it comes to advertising on different platforms besides the ones we pointed out since the lines can get blurry about what exactly we would be advertising for on coingecko, for instance (Is it Zcash Media? Is it Zcash itself? etc.). Definitely agree it is important to have good info on those places if more people get interested in Zcash and start examining its price history, monetary policy, market cap, etc. during the next month or two.
I think what @dontbeevil means is that you should make your milestones based on some quantifiable impacts like:
I am in favor of approving this proposal but I wouldâve preferred that you folks complete your earlier proposals first. While the previews shared has been excellent, we have not seen what kind of impacts your works can do for the Zcash community.
I am happy to announce that @ZcashGrants has unanimously voted to approve this grant subject to successful execution of the trademark agreement and ownership terms and agreements.
To answer the question about how the grant was evaluated, we provide a link here to the meeting we had with ZCG on 3/11. We presented our plan and received some committee feedback at the end. This obviously does not show all the committeeâs deliberations that occurred outside of this meeting, but it should give some additional insight into how we interacted with ZCG about this grant proposal.
Also, to answer the question about timing: we pushed our goals for releasing things back about 2 weeks. So now we will be doing our soft launch on April 8, Zcash short doc launch on Apr 22, and Halo/Dobbertin video on Apr 29. We hope this process will be really fun for everyone in the whole Zcash community!
Good point @GGuy, I had brought up the dubbing opportunity for the short documentaries during a casual Twitter Spaces with David & Natasha a while back. I believe the plan, for now, is to go with subtitles for a couple of popular languages? And maybe after evaluating the viewership, dubbing work can be undertaken.
As Mr Beast says in the video other languages are 90% of your potential audience. But yes I can appreciate the bandwidth issues . Also I imagine the % of âalt coinsâ distributing their video content dubbed in multiple languages has to be very tiny. Would be an awesome differentiator that would probably provide a high relative return on investment.
We created our Zcash Media channels (links below) and started posting teasers there last Friday. Please follow and share Note that some of these channels are placeholders for future efforts. So far, weâve been posting promotional materials on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Telegram, and we have clips and other content ready to go for all the remaining days of this month. The full videos will go on YouTube and Odysee.
Update: I think we will be using the Zcash Community Chat Telegram: Contact @Zcash_Community as our telegram âchatâ channel to consolidate Zcash chats on TG. Still have our own telegram announcement channel though.
We also really feel like this is a wonderful opportunity to combine the release of our videos with the NU5 upgrade. The motivation to maximize this opportunity is why we designed a ground up approach with the help of two marketing experts weâve brought on to the team. We absolutely donât want to be left thinking âwhat ifâ and we really want to go for it in terms of bringing Zcash education to as many people as possible!
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. Also I imagine the % of âalt coinsâ distributing their video content dubbed in multiple languages has to be very tiny. Would be an awesome differentiator that would probably provide a high relative return on investment.
