PolkaWorld Ops and Maintenance proposal：2024.4 - 2025.3
This is a proposal from PolkaWorld requesting operational funds for the coming year.
The proposal encompasses 288 articles, 60 online livestreams, 48 educational short videos, 12 ecosystem interviews, and media channel management ( we are currently maintaining two X accounts, one focused on English content (polkaworld_org) and the other on Chinese content (polkaworld_pro)).
The team has successfully applied for funds from the Polkadot Treasury 11 times (from Gov1 to OpenGov) and all work has been completed with high quality, including links to monthly reports for the past 32 months. If you're not familiar with what PolkaWorld is doing, this proposal also offers a story about us.
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Dear @polkaworld
Have you considered applying for funding to the newly created bounties for marketing / business development?
Thanks!!..
Milos
@GATOTECH
Thank you for your suggestion! We plan to host a Polkadot Meetup in Hong Kong on April 5th during the Web3 Festival, and we will consider applying for funding through the newly created bounties.
We thank you for including the Wechat view count this time as it is the main distribution platform for PolkaWorld as opposed as 2023 where we only knew about the follower count. So with these two self-reported numbers from January through June 2023 the number of followers remained at a steady 35k and the views ranging from 20k to 40k from July 2023 through February this year. So the main question is, what is the plan to increase those numbers? Every single crypto platform / influencer is growing currently. Do we have an expected growth goal for this new year of ops and considerable amount of requested DOT injection and a bull market. Additionally, how are you planning to grow all the other platforms you are currently publishing in for the wider community and the many (top) figures who have already endorsed you guys for a long time despite the high operation price?
@saxemberg
Thank you for reviewing our proposal and comments!
I must admit that during the prolonged bear market, the user base remained stable around a certain number (35k), but this doesn't mean there were no changes in our followers. Some people started following us in the bear market, while others were leaving Polkadot.
The views ranged from 20k to 40k from July 2023 to February this year, which aligns with the market warming up and is a positive sign we've noticed.
On the one hand, as the market recovers, people's attention is returning to Polkadot. On the other hand, we are actively lowering the high barrier to understanding Polkadot, creating more engaging content, and launching activities and live streams to engage users. For example, every month we collaborate with an ecosystem project on an activity that encourages users to participate and use their products. We are continuously promoting these initiatives to drive growth for the Polkadot ecosystem. Lastly, PolkaWorld is actively collaborating with top media in China to increase Polkadot's exposure there.
The platforms PolkaWorld currently focuses on are WeChat and X. PolkaWorld seldom focuses on growing the user base through airdrops, as these users are not long-term or "real" users. We will continue to attract user attention through high-quality and lower-barrier content and by sharing solid dapps in the ecosystem.