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Boring Annual Awards
by CaptainZwingli - Accepted AIP Author
Posted on: Oct. 2, 2024, 9:42 p.m.
Content: PROPOSAL NAME:
Boring Awards
TEAM DESCRIPTION:
Chris Jourdan (Captain Zwingli) will be leading this initiative. It’s a passion project for Chris who has extensive experience in creating recognition programs and delivering awards while emceeing conferences.
In addition to creating recognition and awards programs for leading franchise brands, Chris has also hosted and recognized hundreds of crypto and web 3 industry leaders across several Spaces on X and podcasts.
“Coffee with Captain - powered by $APE” a leading daily morning show with over 700 episodes
Welcome Wednesday Space with Welcome Apes
“Live from the Bodega” with BAYC & Illa featuring four MBA brands
@ChrisJourdan on X
PROPOSAL DESCRIPTION:
This proposal is to create an ongoing member recognition and annual awards program.
This proposal is to establish the program and only include reasonable cost for plaques / awards. Additional AIPs may follow to create a budget for additional prizes for award recipients, as well as the funding of an annual “winner’s circle” cruise or trip, or add-on to ApeFest.
BENEFIT TO APECOIN ECOSYSTEM:
This proposal will benefit the ecosystem in many ways and has the potential to be one of the most impactful AIPs in regards to impact per $ape.
Many individuals will work harder, contribute more, and go above and beyond for recognition. For some it’s a greater motivator than any amount of money.
Not to mention, just a nice low-cost way to show our appreciation to members who do go above and beyond for the club.
DEFINITIONS:
Define any words or phrases within your submission that are unique to the proposal, new to the APE Community, and/or industry-specific.
STEPS TO IMPLEMENT:
Outline the steps to implement your proposal.
Project to start upon passing of this AIP. 2024 awards to be awarded during Art Basel in December. 2025 Awards will be awarded at ApeFest 2025 . This proposal will cover program implementation and 2 years of awards, after which time a renewal AIP will be needed.
Discussion period to ideate more and finalize the AIP prior to going to vote.
Costs in this AIP will be 100 % direct costs related to the physical awards production and shipping costs
REPORTING EXPECTATIONS:
A spreadsheet accounting for the costs of the awards will be provided. Any surplus of funds will be put towards “the awards ceremony” at ApeFest 2025 .
(note - no costs are for an actual ceremony are considered or assumed at this time - rather we will plan to partner with another existing side event to announce and present the awards at)
OVERALL COST:
Total amount requested from the ApeCoin Ecosystem Fund = 5 , 000 $ape
~ 2 , 500 $ape to cover the cost of 2024 awards and shipping and the remainder will cover the cost of 2025 awards.
Proposed Awards - please add additional ideas in the discussion
BAYC Member of the Year / MVP
Newcomer of the Year / Rookie of the Year
Artist of the Year
MBA Builder of the Year
Club Ambassador of the Year
Content Creator of the Year
Vibes / Spirit Award
Most Engaged Member / Reply Guy of the Year
Volunteer of the Year
Lifetime Achievement Award
Yuga Club Leadership Award (awarded to most impactful Yuga employee, in regards to their positive impact on the club)
Need to discuss voting for the awards. Should it be:
1 $ape = 1 vote
1 wallet with $ape = 1 vote
1 Ape or Mutant = 1 vote
Thoughts?
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Bored Shorts Coming to ApeChain
by CaptainZwingli - Accepted AIP Author
Posted on: July 12, 2024, 3:48 p.m.
Content: Proud to announce that Bored Shorts will be coming to ApeChain!
Bored Shorts has partnered with IYK to embed tech in the shorts that pair with a digital token.
Thanks to @ 0 xboreddev for laying the ground work on the development side with IYK, Bored Shorts will be able to launch on ApeChain.
Each customer will be able to claim an NFT on ApeChain upon opening their canned Bored Shorts.
Bored Shorts is also participating in the Thank Ape “Built by ApeCoin” program and plans to continue to collab with other BBAC & MBA brands as well as web 3 artists.
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- bigbull: CaptainZwingli:
Each customer will be able to claim an NFT on ApeChain upon opening their canned Bored Shorts.
CaptainZwingli:
IYK to embed tech in the shorts that pair with a digital token.
What kind of NFT will this be? What is the idea behind it?
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AIP-479: Coffee with Captain Powered by $APE on ApeChain
by CaptainZwingli - Accepted AIP Author
Posted on: June 25, 2024, 9:30 a.m.
Content: Thank you!
Have had a few conversations with community members that have helped … we’ll likely update with a specific ask later today.
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AIP-479: Coffee with Captain Powered by $APE on ApeChain
by CaptainZwingli - Accepted AIP Author
Posted on: June 25, 2024, 9:29 a.m.
Content: Noted and agreed.
Question for the community though is “what are the best ways to measure if this was a success?”
Our desires are not to enter into a 6 month partnership and move on, rather we’d like to enter into a long term relationship with this first AIP serving as proof of concept with our goal being to exceed all expectations of us and the value we’re able to deliver to ApeChain, the DAO and builders.
Open to ideas and suggestions for tracking results … that aren’t fluff and inconsequential.
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- SmartAPE: CaptainZwingli:
Question for the community though is “what are the best ways to measure if this was a success?”
Well, that’s so very kind of you.
Did you hear about our $5.5M sponsorship of an F1 team? Do you know how we measured the success or failure of that one?
Take a look at the treasury and deduct $5.5M from whatever number you see
Take a look at the on-going performance of the F1 team
Take a look at the on-going performance of the token since the AIP passed
Kidding aside, I would be shocked if there was any way to measure the success or failure of a Spaces on X, other than the average number of listeners over the span of the session. This is because X doesn’t track or show viewing metrics. I asked Elon about that awhile back; it’s probably time to go ping him about it again.
Our desires are not to enter into a 6 month partnership and move on, rather we’d like to enter into a long term relationship with this first AIP serving as proof of concept with our goal being to exceed all expectations of us and the value we’re able to deliver to ApeChain, the DAO and builders.
Go get @Lost . If he says he’s in, there’s your initial measure of success as far as the community is concerned. Not even kidding about that.
As to the span, the ask etc. I would go with a ThankApe model whereby you do a yearly ask, then come back for a renewal. Remember, this is a sponsorship gig; and so, your ask has to be commensurate with the reach of your show.
That said, the singular friction that I see is that a sponsorship tends to be a mention, visual etc. then the show goes on. With Spaces, it’s the same thing - and probably a link at the top to ApeCoin resources etc. So, there’s a chance that unless the show specifically has a segment about our community, it’s not likely to be attractive to the community of people who don’t go to your show anyway. And that’s why I had suggested a specific day or segment targeted at the community itself. How the regulars on your show react to that, is the risk you take - especially how long such a segment lasts, what day it’s on etc.
Remember, you’re dealing with a community that has traditionally voted down proposals like this - even when put up by people right here in the community. As I mentioned over in my community voting wallet proposal, the voting turnout has gone gone from poor to abysmal because very few even bother. So, you’re left dealing with whales, and the few influential wallets.
Open to ideas and suggestions for tracking results … that aren’t fluff and inconsequential.
It’s going to be tough because at the end of the day, it all boils down to “trust me, bro” - and ofc, your name and credibility.
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AIP-479: Coffee with Captain Powered by $APE on ApeChain
by CaptainZwingli - Accepted AIP Author
Posted on: June 24, 2024, 12:10 p.m.
Content: Thanks for the question, Matt - it’s a good one.
I think you might find that this specific market varies greatly from YouTube and other platforms. I’d love to get any additional insight from the community on this topic and happy to share my thoughts and assumptions as to why the gap.
Other platforms present a better ability to monetize just off views & tips without sponsors, whereas Spaces aren’t monetized on X, even for those that have qualified for monetized posts, and while there is a “tip” option, it’s not part of the culture or UX like it is on YT and Twitch.
On the other side, one big benefit of X Spaces and why they tend to demand sponsorship premiums over other platforms is a hyper targeted audience, with much higher net worth and disposable income than average Twitch or YT viewer. I’ll see if we can get updated numbers, but I believe the collective total audience or combined following for Steve and me has public wallets holding over a billion dollars on chain.
As far as competitors, there might be others in the community with more specific and current information; my understanding is that two of the other three Daily Shows included in NFT Stats community poll referenced above both charge $ 10 K+ for sponsored interviews. I’m not aware of what title sponsor rates are for others.
Previously we’ve used the title sponsor spot for self promotion. Our recurring sponsored segments range from $ 4 K-$ 8 K/month, and for a single one-off sponsored interview our rate is $ 2 , 420 , discounted for our partners with ongoing sponsorships.
Hope that helps, and I’ll see if I can track down more specifics.
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- SmartAPE: CaptainZwingli:
Other platforms present a better ability to monetize just off views & tips without sponsors, whereas Spaces aren’t monetized on X, even for those that have qualified for monetized posts, and while there is a “tip” option, it’s not part of the culture or UX like it is on YT and Twitch.
Yup. And that’s precisely why I advocated (above) against tying anything to artificial, superficial, and inconsequential metrics.
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AIP-479: Coffee with Captain Powered by $APE on ApeChain
by CaptainZwingli - Accepted AIP Author
Posted on: June 23, 2024, 8:54 a.m.
Content: First, thank you for the support and for tuning in!
Secondly, great question!
I’m not really sure about the budget for ApeComms and if any is intended for this. Will reach out and explore. It appears that their 6 month budget included $ 15 K for PR/Comms/Social Media and $ 145 K for Content Ecosystem - but I couldn’t find any details in regards to the specific plans or how that was intended to be distributed.
Re: the idea to sponsor TG’s podcasts, it appears the general consensus has been an aversion to branding sponsorships with content creators in web 3 ; rather prefer to spend funds on F 1 team sponsorships.
This is part of the reason for our desire to incorporate a segment or two, so that in addition to the branding element we’d be driving specific attention to MBA brands, founders and what they’re building… as well as a DAO update if we decide to incorporate that as suggested.
Re: Thank Ape - our initial thought was that we’d promote their current programs and funding, several of which will crossover to several of the MBAC brands we’d be featuring.
Not opposed to funding ourselves - and this is partially why the amount of $ape in our ask has been omitting so far… attempting to get a better idea of the most preferred scope.
Thanks for the feedback and ideas!
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AIP-479: Coffee with Captain Powered by $APE on ApeChain
by CaptainZwingli - Accepted AIP Author
Posted on: June 22, 2024, 5:17 p.m.
Content: Thanks again for the support.
& we won’t be unreasonable and ask for 500 K, if in that range we’d go for $ 420 K
I kid, we’d like to get an official partnership started and grow relationship deeper while working together and delivering results.
& if all parties are pleased with results discuss a longer term and potentially deeper relationship then… but we really just want to get started helping.
On “results” - any suggestions as to tracking the success of an AIP like this?
Whereas it’s a long term branding and awareness for ApeChain, $ape and the MBA brands - we don’t have any call to actions or way to track any conversions or new members.
If successful, we’d attract not only new users of ApeChain and new buyers of $ape, but new DAO participants and new builders on ApeChain.
Our early morning audience includes many business owners, CEOs and founders, in addition to interviewing multiple web 3 founders every week.
Open to ideas as ways to track.
Does any “affiliate links” or ref codes exist yet?
First thought is we could track a Thank Ape quest, and while that would give an idea of # of active participants it would only be a partial view of the impact.
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- SmartAPE: All sounds good, Cap.
I don’t believe that there’s a need to track anything as that would just create an artificial and burdensome task that’s devoid of any meaningful metric. Then you’re just going get heat over it because not everyone has an understanding of what metrics like that even mean - unless they see likes, votes and all that other nonsense which, by their nature, are themselves artificial and can be gamed.
To that end, the one suggestion that I do have is that, considering the scope of this and the ask, that you do a segment maybe once a week featuring the DAO; and you can somehow feature ThankApe through that as well. You have a wider reach that our ApeComms and other media outlets do. And for that, I would recommend that you talk to @Lost who, as you may already be aware, is a really good host. He is an articulated speaker, he gives his speakers chance to speak, his dialog tends to be neutral etc. Doing that will yield a lot more benefit to the community because, for as much as we argue, fuss, and fight, increasing our exposure is a good thing. And since he obviously will have the time, a paid gig outside of his GwG duties won’t be a conflict even if the DAO is sponsoring the show.
Just a suggestion. I mean, what’s the worse that could happen? We literally just flushed $5.5M into a cesspool via an F1 sponsorship while some people on CT and their 10 followers are busy rejoicing even as the sh*t team continues to be that. Zero benefit to the DAO. Just money. Gone.
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AIP-479: Coffee with Captain Powered by $APE on ApeChain
by CaptainZwingli - Accepted AIP Author
Posted on: June 21, 2024, 3:35 p.m.
Content: Thanks, VonFrontin
Appreciate the feedback and for all your support
will plug in our ask prior to the end of the discussion period; intent was to gauge reception, gain feedback and make additions or subtractions to the scope in real time over the weekend
for example, an AIP update or DAO download is certainly a segment that we could consider adding. If DAO community finds valuable, what day would be optimal? Wednesday morning?
at minimum we can plug into their existing programs with the current season, and we can work with them to see if possible to extend or have any additional quests added. Similar for live events
Yes, potentially - although first thought is I’d prefer to promote a larger BAYC/MAYC delegation, but open it either
Have not discussed this with Marcomms, but will reach out, we’re open to ideas
Thanks again!
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AIP-479: Coffee with Captain Powered by $APE on ApeChain
by CaptainZwingli - Accepted AIP Author
Posted on: June 21, 2024, 2:22 p.m.
Content: Thank you.
Does the scope make sense? Any suggested additions or other ways we could help amplify the DAO, apechain and the builders?
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AIP-479: Coffee with Captain Powered by $APE on ApeChain
by CaptainZwingli - Accepted AIP Author
Posted on: June 21, 2024, 2:04 p.m.
Content:
PROPOSAL NAME:
Coffee with Captain Powered by $APE on ApeChain
TEAM DESCRIPTION:
Cap & Steve have hosted “Coffee with Captain” every single weekday since late 2021 , proudly representing BAYC from the beginning for over 665 shows.
Coffee with Captain is an established leading daily show in web 3 , trusted by several sponsors including large web 3 brands like DraftKings and web 3 staples like ENS and Mintify.
“Super Host of the Year - 2023 ” - SuperSpaces
“Daily Spaces of the Year - 2023 ” - NFTStats poll
> 1 , 000 live listeners most mornings and typically 200 - 250 concurrent during the 2 hour show
(# of daily listeners is the column on the right)
Screenshot 2024 - 06 - 20 at 4 . 23 . 27 PM 1642 × 528 101 KB
> 11 , 000 listeners during an impromptu 6 -hour Saturday Space following Yuga’s acquisition of Proof
All organic, real audience, never botted
Major guests include:
Luca Netz, Pudgy Penguins
Julian Holguin, Doodles
Ray Chan, 9 gag & Memeland
Gary Vaynerchuk, VaynerX & VeeFriends
Raoul Pal, Real Vision
Jack Lu, CEO Magic Eden
Daniel Alegre, former CEO Yuga Labs
In addition to CwC, the two co-hosts have both hosted several other Spaces for leading brands, including the monthly “From the Bodega” that Cap co-hosts with Illa.
Welcome Apes was originally ideated from a discussion with Vicki J, Bulla and Cap on Coffee with Captain. Cap also hosts the weekly Welcome Wednesday Space for Welcome Apes.
Steve co-authored the first Harvard Business article about NFTs and he co-authored The Everything Token, a best selling book about NFTs and web 3 published by Penguin Publishing. Steve’s ape was featured in the HBR article and on the first page of his book.
Producer Pain and clip-master Macki round out the CwC team, and @Lost will be providing the weekly ApeCoin Ecosystem Update.
PROPOSAL DESCRIPTION:
Title Sponsorship of a leading web 3 daily show and a weekly segment featuring MBAC brands. Ongoing promotion of $APE, ApeChain and MBA / MBAC brands on X and the major podcast platforms.
Six month partnership to include:
1 ) Title Sponsor
a) Coffee with Captain Powered by $APE on ApeChain
b) Coffee with Captain Powered by ApeChain
c) Coffee with Captain Powered by $APE
The title will appear in the Live X Spaces for the duration of the show, as well as in the title of the podcast recordings and preferred link(s) will be included in the show notes. This title sponsorship includes any live shows during the sponsorship period as well. For example, live Coffee with Captain at ApeFest will be powered by $APE
2 ) A weekly segment “Made by ApeCoin Mondays”
Sponsored interview around 9 AM EST on Coffee with Captain.
Each week we’ll interview a MBA builder at/around the peak of our Monday show.
Preferred brand links will be featured in show notes in the podcast recordings.
We’ll also work with Thank Ape to encourage and reward audience engagement with the brands that are being featured.
3 ) A weekly “ApeCoin Ecosystem update with @Lost”
A recurring sponsored segment on Wednesday at 9 : 45 am EST on Coffee with Captain. Clip will be captured and Audiograms can be repurposed as shorts ApeCoin Youtube.
4 ) ApeChain will become the home of Coffee with Captain
Through a multi-phased approach we will migrate all of our future published content to be hosted on ApeChain. Beginning with our weekly show summary
Potentially a fork of Mirror or Paragraph
To be clear, this proposal does not take into consideration the development of, or funding of an on-chain publishing platform, rather a commitment to making ApeChain our home for published content and we’d love to work with others in the community who build the platform.
5 ) With a partnership in place Cap & Steve will actively seek news and events from the ApeChain community to discuss organically on CwC throughout the week, in addition to the Made By ApeCoin Monday segment.
6 ) Two professional audiograms per week will be provided to the ApeCoin DAO, ApeComms, and the MBAC brand that was featured. An example of an audiogram clip produced by Macki can be seen quote tweeted here - capturing the attention and engagement of other leaders in the space.
BENEFIT TO APECOIN ECOSYSTEM:
This proposal will benefit ApeChain and Made by ApeCoin builders, as well as the Coffee with Captain community, listeners and the small CwC team, including two OG Apes, at a minimum. Hopefully this idea inspires other content creators to work closely with the ApeCoin DAO and make ApeChain their home also.
In addition to live Spaces, podcast recordings and summaries - this title sponsorship will carry over to any events in real life, and will include sponsorship at a minimum of 3 live events over the remainder of 2024 , live shows are planned at VeeCon, ApeFest and Art Basel.
In total over a 6 month sponsorship, there will 52 professional audiograms provided featuring $ape and community build brand and businesses. 26 business or brands built by ApeCoin will receive a sponsored interview at no cost to them, as well as 26 ApeCoin DAO Ecosystem updates presented to a diverse crypto and web 3 audience. And ApeChain will hopefully become the first ecosystem that the Coffee with Captain community and listener base thinks about when looking for a home to build.
DEFINITIONS:
CwC = Coffee with Captain
STEPS TO IMPLEMENT:
Open discussion and dialog prior to going to admin review & vote
Engage with Banana Bill Advisors to discuss recommendations for BB-funded brands
Launch on the first of the month following AIP passing
Launch title sponsorship
Launch site for reports and audiograms
Schedule the first MBA/BBAC brand interview
We anticipate fully launching on or before the 1 st of the month following receipt of funding. All-in costs for repository site for reports and audiograms = $ 500 .
Run initially for 6 consecutive months, open to renewal or extension
REPORTING EXPECTATIONS:
Monthly reporting will be provided, including but not limited to # of listeners and links to the MBAC segments and audiograms. Reports will be updated monthly and Audiogram files will be uploaded weekly, for the duration of the partnership.
OVERALL COST:
Total amount requested from the ApeCoin Ecosystem Fund = $ 85 , 000 USD paid in ApeCoin.
Website - $ 500
Production - $ 8 , 500
Show Operations - $ 8 , 500
Talent - $ 67 , 500
Total: $ 85 , 000
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