The First in The World
Yesterday was a very important milestone for us at BeScouted. We have made the first post from our platform that was recorded on Steem Blockchain and posted on Steemit.com making BeScouted The First Photography Community on the Blockchain.
These are very exciting times for all of us since Steemit is changing the paradigm how social media works and how users are rewarded for the quality content they produce. You are the people who are giving any kind of value to any kind of social media platform and without your effort there would be no social media whatsoever, but up until now it only made rich a handful of guys and the community was not getting any rewards for making those platforms grow and thrive.
This is not the case with the appearance of Steemit.com and Steem Blockchain anymore, things are changing and they are changing fast. Congratulations if you are reading this: you are among the first adopters, and the first adopters win the most.
The Mission
Global Photography Industry is estimated to be about 50 billion dollars. It is very hard to come up with precise numbers as it dominated by freelancers, part timers, and other ad hoc participants and they create ~90% of all digital visual content.Our mission on BeScouted is to create a Global Photograpy Marketplace where freelancers and businesses are connected through our unique casting system and are getting paid directly avoiding numerous middle men that take up to 70% of freelancers earnings just for finding paid jobs for them. On BeScouted anyone can create a casting and find variety of freelancers for their projects in fast and reliable way and on the other hand freelancers can browse the castings and apply to ones they would like to participate at and get paid 100% of the budget.
Up to this point settling those transactions was complicated, slow and unreliable. Not to mention payment provider hold ups and associated costs that reduced payouts accordingly. But with the emerging Blockchain technology though and Steem Blockchain in particular all those transactions can be put into smart contracts inside castings and processed at the time project has been finished. Instantaneously and with 0% transaction cost.
Not to mention the amazing content reward mechanism with STEEM tokens for all the content that photographers, retouchers, models, make-up artists, hair stylists, designers, wardrobe stylists and many other talented BeScouted members share on our platform.
This global photography market assessment does not include Asia Paciffic, Australia, Latin America simply due to the fact that industry is highly fragmented and there is no reliable data to back it up. But it could easily be as big or even bigger number than another 50 billion USD. Oh, pardon me... Another 50 billion STEEM.
And since yesterday all those talents can get rewards on BeScouted by connecting their account with Steemit the same way as you do on dTube.
The Vision
All freelancers and BeScouted members will get fairly rewarded for the content they are sharing on the platform. That is already happening. We were excited to hear the news about SMT that will find great utility on our platform and will open up doors for many amazing features.Anyone who needs a wedding or event photographer, model for their boutique photoshoot, make up artist for their TFP photo session, a photographer to shoot their new menu for their restaurant or coffee shop, retoucher to edit their family vacation photos, or a photographer to do some real estate images, you name it. All of them will be able to create a casting and approve talent that has applied to it by a simple mouse click and take advantage of anonymous reliability rating system that is based on participation in previous projects.
Advertising agencies and production houses are constantly looking for talented people for their projects and they have extremely hard time finding them often taking employees to the streets to look for the talent and lined up well paid project put on hold. Which modeling agency can supply you with a model who can do a back-flip on a bike while smiling for their commercial video? I know that there is such a person somewhere and it may be you. EVERYONE CAN BE A MODEL They will be able to pay them instantly with STEEM or any other token in case we do our own SMT and with 0% transaction cost while avoiding middleman and potentially increasing freelancer earnings multi fold.
Steemit Inc with development of an amazing Steem Blockchain makes micro transactions possible. Authors may decide to put up their images for sale and receive 100% of the value instantly to their wallet. Wide array of other services is enabled and possibilities are endless.
To be honest possibilities are endless, location scouting, automated match making for suitable castings, face recognition search of visually similar talent just by uploading a reference image. But for now casting process is extremely complicated, anybody who ever tried casting a full team of talent for a project know, how tedious, time consuming, frustrating task it is not to mention the costs associated with it. And this is how it looks now, more or less with available options.
And this is the solution BeScouted offers. Since the launch we had thousands of castings placed on our Platform with the success rate of finding needed talent of more than 50% and we are just starting out. Join today, create an account, share your work and create or apply to castings on BeScouted.
Oh, and did i already mention that since yesterday you get STEEM rewards on BeScouted by connecting your account with Steemit the same way as you do on dTube?
Why Photography?
First of all because i LOVE photography myself. If you have read this up to this point good chances are that you love photography too. I know so many talented people that sell their equipment because they can not afford to make a living. They get back to dull and boring jobs, the jobs that will be overtaken by AI and machines, but it will be quite a while until machines can overtake Creativity of human kind if ever at all. With this new paradigm of reward distribution people will be able to do what they love and lead a decent creative life style while leaving all boring and repetitive tasks to our silicon and metal assistants.There are more than 50 million Flickr accounts. Portfolio hosting website that claims to give you exposure and takes your rewards. While Steemit.com is an amazing general blogging platform that runs on a Blockchain and is in many ways superior to Reddit, specific communities covering certain areas will inevitably emerge. Just because of much easier content discovery which currently is quite complicated on Steemit.com you might agree. Of course Steemit is still in beta, but it was always considered to be a test platform to see if such reward mechanism will work at all and Steemit founders always encourage developers to build their own solutions on STEEM Blockchain. And BeScouted is our attempt to add value to STEEM and bring hundreds of thousands and even millions of users to Steemit.com We already host more than 10 thousand active and very talented members and we will be telling them about Steemit.com benefits in the upcoming weeks.
We invite you all to Join BeScouted today and engage in vibrant, new kind photography community that rewards it's users for uploading the content. Help us grow it together, share your thoughts and ideas on how to make it better for everybody. Get your popularity points along receiving STEEM tokens for the content you are sharing as these will most probably determine how much of our own tokens you will get once we do our SMT.
We are currently bootstrapping, so things are not going as fast they they could, but this is the price of being independent and working only on solutions that benefit the community in the best way. Chances are you are a new kind of investor, get in touch with us, we can talk how to deliver all those benefits to the community faster. We humbly accept your donations in STEEM, we appreciate your Upvotes and we love your Resteems, because it shows that you are not indifferent and you are really in this for a change.
Sincerely,
David @BeScouted
I invite You to Join me The Journey on BeScouted today.