Hello everyone! As some of you may know, right now I see no point to upload to DTube, and sometimes DLive. However, I want these platforms to do really well. I have come up with an idea that I think would help both platforms grow.
Right now, the issue with these platforms is their reach. While it is possible to make money off of these platforms, there are still niches that really can't grow because there aren't enough people on the platforms to grow creators of small niches. This is evident by the domination of vloggers and cryptocurrency commentators on DTube, and gamers on DLive. These niches dominate these platforms.
My solution to help smaller niches is for the DLive and DTube accounts to announce that they are running contents for various niches, and that a high upvote or direct SBD donation will be awarded to the winners. DLive does an in-general competition, but I will get to that in a bit. The main point is that these platforms need even more incentive for creators, so that the platforms grow. Eventually, we won't need contests anymore.
Now, DLive does the DLive star contest. This is good, but not optimal. What they do is they find their top five streamers using the dlivestar tag, and give the a 50% upvote. The problem with this is that gamers, musicians, video producers, streamers, vloggers, and everything else is competing with each other. How do you compare the quality of a gaming stream to something like guitar covers of songs? You can't, and this makes contest like the DLive star one a little more random than they should be.
In short, DTube and DLive need to host contests for different types of creators, as this will draw others to the platform, growing them all. The only problem is figuring out niches to do contests for, which is a lot of niches. Let me know what you think in the comments!