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On February 9 the SocialMedia.Market activity launched its ICO, which has the abeyant to anon transform the acreage of influencer marketing. On the eve of the addition of their new token, the architect and CEO of SocialMedia.Market, Dmitry Shyshov, batten about the present and approaching of this adequately new and rapidly growing business phenomenon, about the accord amid advertisers and bloggers, and about the new exchange rules to be ushered in by the blockchain.
Q: Tell me added about your project. What absolutely is SocialMedia.Market?
A: It is a band-aid for anyone who is absorbed in influencer business and wants to assignment with it. Our ambition is to abridge the accord amid advertisers and influencers all about the world, to accomplish the built-in announcement bazaar on the best accepted amusing platforms attainable to everyone, and to abate the access beginning for bazaar newcomers.
Q: What’s the amount with it? Do advertisers and bloggers accept any agitation interacting currently?
A: Right now, if you appetite to abode announcement on someone’s folio on a amusing network, you will best acceptable be offered three solutions: to buy a database of influencers and again advance on your own, use an automatic announcement arrangement with actual bound functionality, or appoint an bureau administrator who will again aggregate a database of influencers for you and admeasure affairs amid them after absolute to you their absolute amount or absolution you accept absolutely how to advance your product. As you can see, none of these solutions are actual convenient. And if you additionally appear to be a beginner, again there is the accident of your activity artlessly accepting absent in the shuffle, all while advantageous a abundant accord of money and not accepting a acknowledgment on your investment.
Q: What is the another that you offer?
A: We appetite to actualize a distinct belvedere for users with assorted levels of expertise, both in access business and in blockchain technologies, area the rules of the bold will be bright to everyone. This is an automatic all-in-one band-aid that will focus on the chase for, creation, accomplishing and assay of influencer business for specific announcement campaigns.
Q: How will your applicant account from the conception of such a platform?
A: They will get admission to accepted bloggers on all above amusing networks, a acceptable CRM-system that will abate risks and save assets for the organization, achievement and assay of announcement campaigns, as able-bodied as the befalling to accomplish all-embracing payments application our tokens. The closing advantage is abnormally advantageous for ally alive in altered countries, area altered acquittal systems are actuality used. In addition, the addition of acute affairs and blockchain will accomplish it accessible to accumulate partnerships, assimilate assignment and ensure defended alternate settlements.
Q: Why accept influencers become so approved in the announcement industry?
A: Because these bodies are trendsetters in the agenda universe. They’re the ones who actuate who will go and where, what they will play, wear, eat, and accept to in the abreast future. When a blogger has several hundred thousand or alike millions of subscribers, and their admirers idolizes her and is actually loyal to her opinion, this creates a superb befalling for artefact promotion.
Q: How loyal is this audience?
A: According to our research, today about 70% of Internet users are accommodating to accomplish a acquirement based on the advocacy of a being they chase online. This is a actual cogent number.
Q: Do you already accept a basin of influencers?
A: Yes, these are influencers in the gaming industry, with whom we assignment daily. We accept several hundreds, and in some areas – added than a thousand.
Q: Are they accommodating to abutment the project?
A: Of course, for them, this is a abundant befalling to focus on creating affection agreeable after accepting to anticipate about means to monetize it. The closing is our job.
Q: Does your alive with influencers in the gaming industry beggarly that you will abide to accomplish this your breadth of focus?
A: The gaming industry was aloof our access point into influencer marketing. We appetite to accomplish it attainable for all medium-sized and alcove businesses.
Q: The acreage of influencer business has been about for a while. Why did you adjudge to assignment accurately in this field?
A: To some extent, it happened spontaneously. Over the accomplished four or bristles years, we accept been announcement projects accompanying to video games. When, in adjustment to advance these projects, we began to acquaint with influencers on YouTube, we saw that this blazon of announcement had astronomic potential. That was how we came up with the abstraction of a account that would abridge the alternation amid bodies aural this bazaar and that, ideally, would serve as a regulator of the alternation amid advertisers and influencers. Initially, we were attractive for such a band-aid on the bazaar for ourselves, but not accepting begin it, we absitively to actualize one.
Q: What do you anticipate the affairs are for influencer marketing? Where in this bazaar do you see yourselves?
A: According to our estimates, by 2024 it will be about a 10-billion-dollar industry. We plan to aboriginal booty our activity to the markets in the US, UK, Canada and the CIS countries, again to acquaint it to Europe and Latin America. By the end of 2024, we plan to be alive globally in every apple area influencer business is needed. Users of our belvedere will be able to collaborate with one addition locally or actualize all-around announcement campaigns.
Q: What makes you so assured you will be able to accomplish such accelerated growth?
A: The actuality that we are the aboriginal blockchain-based belvedere that will be alive in the influencer business sphere, and the actuality that the belvedere will become an accessible marketplace, alms casework in analytics and barometer the capability of announcement campaigns.
Q: What about the competition?
A: There are competitors, but they accommodate a bound set of services. There are agencies out there that additionally pay influencers application tokens, but they alone specialize on Instagram, for example.
Q: What platforms do you assignment with?
A: We plan to assignment with influencers and bloggers on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitch, Twitter and added online platforms. Basically, we are focused on the absolute online announcement market, business in the blogosphere, alive services, and amusing networks.
Q: Why blockchain? Would it not accept been simpler to action your casework on a turnkey base and aloof allegation bodies money?
A: Blockchain today is like the Internet in the backward 90’s, back bodies aback had admission to a single, all-around advice space. Because all of our projects are aimed at the all-around market, this technology will advice us accumulate a abundant cardinal of processes.
Q: Which ones?
A: First, as I accept already mentioned, blockchain will boldness the affair of assuming banking affairs amid altered countries. Second, it will actualize assurance amid the chump and the architect at the date back they accept not yet formed together, and do not apperceive what to apprehend from one another. This is one of the problems adverse the market. Misunderstandings generally appear amid the chump and the architect during the advance of the work, the claims of one affair aftereffect in the disbelief of the other, and, as you can imagine, this isn’t abundant for business. For example, bloggers do not consistently accept how important assertive keywords, labels or tags are to a customer. They either avoid them or abode them too backward back the capital admirers has already apprehend the column or watched the video. The accoutrement we action accomplish it accessible to clue the capability of the announcement campaign.
Q: This is accessible to anybody who has anytime dealt with SMM marketing, but can you acquaint me how blockchain technology is advantageous here?
A: Blockchain allows you to address the acceding of the affiliation acceding into the code, in the anatomy of acute contracts, which again abide on blockchain and ensure that the altitude of the announcement attack accord to its cost. This is acceptable for everyone: the chump can blow assured that his requests will be accomplished on time, and the blogger can calculation on incentives. For example, if admirers assurance with the activity exceeds the declared KPI, again blockchain will acquiesce added bonuses to be provided to the influencer, auspicious him to do alike bigger work. All of which makes the announcement attack added effective.
Q: Tell us about your belvedere and its functionality.
A: With the advice of the SocialMedia.Market platform, users will be able to plan and barrage announcement campaigns, adherence programs and barometer programs to advance their product, as able-bodied as adviser their capability and admirers engagement. All processes afterwards the barrage will be automated, which will accomplish the belvedere simple and acceptable to use. For example, all advice will be calm and analyzed application the Big Abstracts and self-learning abstracts assay systems. In addition, we plan to apparatus neural arrangement algorithms, which will acquiesce us to actuate the affection of agreeable and eventually absolutely decentralize the accord amid advertisers and bloggers.
Q: Who are the bodies application your belvedere and purchasing your tokens? Can you already call your client?
A: Of course. First, these are the influencers themselves, who, with the advice of our platform, will strive to advance and monetize their web pages. Plus their subscribers, who will be able to use our tokens as autonomous donations, accepted in the blogosphere. Second, clandestine entrepreneurs and assembly of baby and medium-sized businesses or brands absorbed in announcement their artefact through influencers on amusing networks. Third, agencies and above brands, which are faced with the assignment of maximizing assets and managing announcement campaigns added finer on amusing networks. Fourth, users who access their assets through our Decentralized Dispute Resolution System.
Q: What absolutely is this system, and what is its purpose?
A: As its name implies, this arrangement was created to boldness disputes amid barter and contractors. When a battle arises, any of our audience will be able to booty it to arbitration.
Q: And who will adjudge amid them?
A: Our badge holders will be the judges. They will be able to accustom themselves in beforehand with the capacity of the arrangement amid the chump and the architect and accomplish a accommodation accordingly.
Q: Token holders?! That was unexpected…
A: Actually, there is annihilation odd about this at all. Ask yourself this question: who, added than we, has the best vested absorption in the platform’s able activity and acknowledged development?
Q: Whoever is absorbed in the aggregation and its success?
A: Exactly. This is why badge holders will accomplish the best cold and candid judges. This is additionally important for authoritative our users feel complex in the activity and that they are allowance to advance SocialMedia.Market through their accord in the resolution of disputes.
Q: Interesting approach. By the way, what do the owners of your tokens get? What casework will be accessible to them?
A: Our badge is alleged Social Media Badge (SMT). It gives abounding admission to all the services, accoutrement and capabilities of our platform. Agencies and ample advertisers who buy discounted tokens during the ICO will get added favorable agreement for the acquirement of announcement campaigns and the platform’s services. Individuals will be able to calculation on accomplishment for accommodating in the Decentralized Dispute Resolution System as arbitrators. In addition, tokens can be acclimated to pay for added analytic services, Big Data analytics or for accepting advantageous advice on interacting and alive with influencers.
Q: How do you plan on attention your users’ clandestine data?
A: All users of our belvedere accept to be absolute application blockchain technology, and bloggers will charge to affirm that the approach or folio on the amusing arrangement absolutely belongs to them. In addition, all alternation amid users will be based aloft acute contracts, and payments will be fabricated alone application the platform’s tokens. This will accompany the accident of artifice bottomward to a minimum.
Q: When will your ICO booty place, and how continued will it last?
A: The ICO starts on February 9, 2024, and will run until March 16.
Q: How abundant money do you plan to collect? What will this money be acclimated for?
A: About $20 million. We are activity to absorb it on belvedere development, business and training campaigns, authoritative and operational expenses, bonuses to agents and influencers, and acknowledged expenses.
Q: What are your affairs for afterwards the ICO?
A: First, we charge to accomplishment the development of the SocialMedia.Market belvedere and finer accommodate blockchain technology in it. We plan on accomplishing this by end of the summer-early abatement of this year. Other appropriately important tasks are to aggregate money to advance and acquaint our belvedere and aggrandize the team, abacus able specialists in artefact development, blockchain programming, and marketing. In addition, we plan to barrage training campaigns for bloggers and advertisers about alive with our belvedere and with influencer marketing, and additionally to assurance affiliation agreements with announcement agencies and accepted bloggers.
Q: What is the badge amount during the ICO? How will your belvedere accomplish profits afterwards the launch?
A: 2500 SMT to one Ethereum (ETH). By the way, our tokens will be adjustable with the ERC20 Token Standard. First, application the 10% account fee for accomplished contracts. The belvedere will additionally accommodate a cardinal of added all-embracing analytics and artefact advance services. These too can be purchased for added tokens.
Q: Has the animation of the cryptocurrency bazaar afflicted the abridgement of the activity in any way?
A: Yes, and it was for the better. When we aboriginal appear the project, Ethereum was at about $270. Now it is at about $1000 per unit, so, in agreement of money, our aboriginal adamantine cap has added significantly. As a result, we accept absitively to absolute it not by the cardinal of tokens sold, but by the cardinal of ETHs – namely 16,000. We accept additionally added the cardinal of SMT tokens to be exchanged for Ethereum, so now bodies who booty allotment in our activity will accept added tokens than originally planned. In addition, we recalculated the contributions of those who accurate our activity during the badge presale and accustomed them with added tokens.
Q: Can you allocution added about the aggregation abaft your project? How abounding bodies are on the team, and what is their acquaintance in fintech and blockchain? Does the activity accept any advisors?
A: The aggregation in our Kyiv appointment now consists of added than 30 bodies who, for added than a year now, accept been actively application cryptocurrency and new blockchain-based solutions and casework in their accustomed work. And yes, we accept four admiral alive with us. We are additionally currently negotiating with several key experts in blockchain and marketing.
Q: To summarize, I would like to ask: how do you anticipate the approaching of your project?
A: I achievement it doesn’t complete like bravado, but by 2024 we plan to ascendancy 2-3% of the world’s influencer business industry.
