"60 Seconds of Steem" - Launching A Crowdsourced Marketing Campaign on DTube & Calling For Video Ad Creators! > $1,000 Steem in Sponsored Prizes

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Words may inspire, but only action creates change. - Simon Sinek

To me one of the greatest benefits of a decentralized network is the ability to take action without needing to ask anyone for permission.

You rather ask for consensus, and that can actually become even more challenging and exciting than simply letting to approve a plan by one higher-ranking authority.

Only by being in control of a set of private keys and by holding a certain stake of Steem tokens (resource credits), one does have a say - and can in theory make a difference here.

Steem is a mechanism that rewards voluntary action. - Matt @starkerz, Co-Founder @oracle-d

The Marketing Proposal for Steem I presented a couple of days ago on-chain was quite well received by the community (thank you!), which inspired me to keep going in the same direction.

Often we agree on the same path but then it still requires someone to take the very first step, to raise their hand and say I'll do it.

You need to get that famous ball rollin'.

That's why I kindly invite you to follow me today launching a Crowdsourced Marketing Campaign for Steem.

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Let's do this.

@heimindanger said when I told him about my idea.

I seriously loved that response :-)

Let's promote Steem to the world in the way the community decides.

We're calling on all video creators and vloggers in this network to produce a (commercial) video ad that promotes Steem.

There are no rules except these:

  • The video should be about 1 minute long: "60 seconds of Steem". *
  • It needs to be published on DTube being tagged with #sixtyseconds .
  • It can't contain third party elements, hence needs to be original.
  • It needs to be submitted until February 7th 2019, 09:00 EST.

For additional reach make sure to upload your video on Youtube, too, and include the link in the description of your DTube post.

Hint: You may bear in mind that Steem has multiple target groups which can even overlap (content creators, crypto enthusiasts, developers, investors,...).

Again, there are no rules on how the ad should look like or what message it should transmit (full freedom of creativity) - yet, the wider the audience you may be able to address with your ad, the higher the chances to be approved by the community and win the contest.

On the 8th of February all entries will be listed in a post published in this account - @surfermarly - and then the voting process begins.

The voting will be stake-weighted and end after 7 days on the 15th of February.

Campaign goal:

Let's tell the world about Steem.

The winning video ad should be spread by as many steemians as possible on the whole internet, aiming to create the largest media impact possible outside Steem's borders.

In order to generate the best impact possible, there will be a specific date and time recommended to publish / link the video ad in your (social) networks:

SAVE THE DATE: 20th of February 2019, 10:00 EST

Let's get this viral!

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Saving the best for last: @dtube, @good-karma's eSteem, @nextgencrypto alias Bernie Sanders & Head of Steemfest @roelandp are sponsoring the campaign with some decent donations of Steem & SBD - thank you so much for the tailwind, guys!

If you want to appreciate their contribution: vote for their witnesses :-)

Thanks to the sponsorship, the winning ads of the contest will be rewarded as follows:

Winning ad: 511.111 Steem

2nd best ad: 411.111 Steem

3rd best ad: 111.111 SBD



The five best ads will get an upvote from @oracle-d as creamy topping :-) Please read the comment from @oracle-d under this post for further details.


I hope that'll inspire all talented filmmakers on Steem to participate in the contest and to create something big :-)

Now please if you have any questions, suggestions or comments on the campaign, feel free to reach out at any time.

I'll be also talking about the project on the State of Steem Forum hosted by @pennsif on the PAL discord server starting today at 3pm EST / 8pm UTC - join us there!

Don't forget to share this post with your vlogging friends and make sure they'll get a chance to participate.

Let's do this.
Marley -


Side node:
This campaign is intended to encourage people to take some voluntary action and to share their ideas with others. If you feel that you don't have enough stake or influence and that your idea could probably not being heard: team up with others first, reach out to larger stakeholders directly, sell your ideas to them and get some tailwind for your plans.

Also you can basically crowdfund any idea you have using the Steem based application fundition.io - more on: @fundition.

Don't keep your ideas as a secret, they may be valuable for all of us.

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This blog was created in July 2016, aiming to provide thought-provoking content for open-minded people who go on adventure, step out of comfort zones and embrace the new.
Thanks for being part of the journey!

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PS: All my blog posts are created and submitted via eSteem Surfer - my favorite Steem desktop client that was developed by @good-karma's @esteemapp team. Check out their account for more information.

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Great work @surfermarly. Can we make this job a bit harder for you?

Top 5 video creators will get OD upvotes on the original video post in case 7 days did not pass or on any of their other high quality post:

1st - 80%
2nd - 70%
3rd - 60%
4th - 50%
5th - 40%

Please find us 5 great video creators to support. ;)

I will match @oracle-d upvotes for the top 5 as well.

Awesome! This is really great, thank you Dan 🙃

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Haha, challenge accepted with great pleasure! :-)

You guys rock - thanks a lot for the nice feedback and great support!!!

This is a great idea! I would like to donate 500 SBD to the prize pool. Just let me know where to send it. :)

Boom! Dan is the man!

Oh wow, what an extraordinarily generous move @theycallmedan! Fantastic!!
You can send the tokens directly to my wallet @surfermarly - do you have any suggestion regarding how to distribute those 500 SBD among the winners, or do you want me to decide?

Again, thanks for your great contribution - you really just put a HUGE smile on my face!! :-)

You can choose which way is best to distribute the 500 SBD. I will send shortly. And thank you for organizing this!

I’ll do an update post next week where I’ll inform the community about the additional prize :)

Welcome back with a bang Marly!!! Doing what an idol Steem Ambassador would do. ;) Cheers! And very interesting.

@ashtv, @waybeyondpadthai. You guys might be interested ;)

I have just resteemed this !!! Thanks for mentioning. I sure am interested :)

You are one of the best filmmakers I know on STEEM. Go kill it MO :')

Whoaaaaaaa!!! <3

Yes 😎😂

Agreed. @waybeyondpadthai for the win! :)

Cheers @hungryhustle, I’ll have a look :)

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Aaaaw, what a comment! Thank you so much - both for your lovely words and for spreading the word :-) I'm super excited to see the first entries!!

I am also very excited about this one. ;) And I am blown away by the response of other stakeholders to support this campaign. \m/

I’m totally blown away, too!! 😃

I did it since last year... We even already on the Indonesian national TV and newspaper... But anyway, we should do more... we need more #steem campaign. Though i was promoting Steemit at that time, I just wish Steemit.Inc do care what we all are doing.

Oh wow, that's an amazing piece of Art - LOVE IT!!!

I hope @ned, @elipowell, @birdinc and @andrarchy have seen this one already - great community spirit and fantastic achievement to even be featured on TV.

Are you going to participate in this contest, too?

Thank you, I don't think I can participate this time. Sorry, but I already have ideas about it. Anyway, I do really appreciate this contest, we do really need to make more people know and understand about steem.

Good luck!

Thanks a lot for the encouragement anyways 🙃

This is an interesting idea, especially because we are looking for a present and a bright future for the ecosystem Steem. We will take this idea to the creative parishioners of SteemChurch.
Ceo/@emiliocabrera

Thanks for making some noise within your community, it's much appreciated!
Let's hope for the best impact possible :-)

Much to my regret, I can't do videos. I don't even do cameras :) That will have to change, I think. However, I do social media. When this comes out, a vital part will be to make it "viral". That's when I'll jump in. I don't have to tell you this is a great initiative. What I can say is, I feel your energy and that's contagious.

Thanks for the great comment and your desire to contribute no matter what :-) The social media part will be a key driver to the campaign's success, so any support is more than appreciated here!

We'll have the winners after the 15th of February and the social media event is supposed to take place on the 20th, so just check my blog in that time period and you'll be provided with all the updates :-)

Steem on!

I'm going to put it on my calendar so I don't lose track. I love this platform and appreciate creative, energetic people who work to keep it vibrant.
Steem on!

It's really cool initiative, we will make a cool collaboration video with our members of @dcooperation community. I started to work on that, I have a cool idea, already shared it with our members and some members even recorded their part. Thanks a lot for such awesome contest. ☺

It was great to listen to you on PAL yesterday, great project! And thanks a lot for participating, I'm really looking forward to all those entries. Supposedly it's even gonna be hard to tell who's best in the end, we've got so many amazing video creators here on Steem.

Crossing my fingers for your part!! :-)

Thanks a lot. I think the most important is the participation. ☺

Great campaign and the power of people really count so here! Hope you have been well 😉

Hey hey!! Yeah I'm doing great - super busy, but that's fine. Hope life's treating you well, too :-)
Thanks for your great feedback and support!!! It's so much fun browing through all these lovely comments here - best reward ever, hehe

Have a nice weekend!!!

Great idea @surfermarly! Resteemed for visibility 😬

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Eres la bomba (you're the best), Charles - thank you!! :-)

Happy rockin' weekend!

Really nice!

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