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A few observations (personal and take it with a grain of salt) from Nouns Movie EP3 mint and couple of others :

- Driving mint is very hard. Compounded by low attention on nft primary dynamics overall. 
- Unless actively / canonically pushed and supported by majority of the community members , mints aren't making a meaningful impact or dent as substitute of revenue with nouns context.
- e.g. Nouns movie ep3 mint, shark pickle cone ep mint, artist program mints, nounish art mints etc all have had low to extremely low volume on primary f(r)ee mints.
- 4484 mint was very successful because of push across the board top-down across all L2 socials and channels.

Broad questions i don't have answers to - 
- If crypto-native earnings within nounish media context needs to be a thing, what else can be done to make this a reality within the abundance of media created atm . 
- Nounish media is subsidized by treasury funding but isn't self-sufficient by any means. If treasury isn't there, does the flywheel stop?

The Yellow Collective on Base

Not sure why but it seems that /yellow & TNS are often left out of every discussion of nouns media. I’m sure you didn’t do so here on purpose ofc but it happens often and so does get a bit frustrating. Anyway— We have earned more than 20 ETH from primary mints rewards on our Zora account so far this year (Zora.co/basedandyellow.eth) 

Having said that, I do take your main point and it’s something I’ve been saying for a long time too (that nouns core community does not typically do a great job of minting nounish content, even for free.) At Yellow/TNS our main breakthrough has been figuring out how to make a wholly new group of people care about our nounish content (people in the Farcaster and Base ecosystems, who seem much more willing to mint content they enjoy.)

Difficult problem to solve overall.

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Could write a lot tbh, we’ve been in the arena trying lots of things. Some thoughts: 

1) For ZeroPod, instead of putting an ad on X for a new ep, we started putting that same small amount into Boosting the mint on Zora, and then concentrating on Fc distribution instead. Have gotten many more mints on some episodes than the views we would have gotten on X before for same spend. And if you boost 100 mints, it will often create enough engagement to actually push 200 or 300. 

2) Distribution partners help a lot. Many of our most successful mints have been amplified by Base / Base team and that has been huge. Or when we’ve made Farcaster-centric content that has been shared by Dan, same thing. I do also have a decent amount of followers here on wc which helps too, but it would be great if other Nounish folk with a lot of followers could help amplify the best content that is being created. That’s what’s missing in the nouns eco, there is no path or plan to amplification for most content that gets minted.

What are your main learnings so far in terms of deducing behaviorial patterns, not all mints are equal as you probably have seen yourself within your published mints. 


and yes :) not done on purpose 🫡
It’s definitely good indication that something might be working and its a good start.

This is directly connected to your marketing efforts and brand building  @toadyhawk.eth and it might behove others to follow your lead. But also that comes from building the TNS & /yellow brands over 2 years too.

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