I'd love to see some overwhelming positive content.  How about a MrBeast like channel?

For those unfamiliar, MrBeast gives away money, cars, houses, etc. to random people and those in need.  It's heartwarming positive content that popularizes the idea of giving away funds to help other people.  I think given the success of Bitcoin and this forum, I would personally love to see funds used to help others while encouraging and inspiring others to find the joy in giving.

Here's an example of his content, and one of my favorite videos: I Ordered Pizza And Tipped The House

Creating something that someone would watch related to the forum would probably be difficult. Going along the route of OgNasty's suggestion would probably yield the most return. It could be a toned down version of MrBeast, where there are weekly/monthly events which take place, which a winner can win x amount of Bitcoin. This would probably encourage new users to the forum, albeit they might be a little low quality.

I'm not sure highlighting posts, even good posts is something that people not on the forum would watch, and I'm not even sure if the users here would watch it after the novelty of it dissipates. The best route would be following the status quo to some extent, that has proven to be successful, but applying that to the forum, is something I'm finding difficulty in doing.  

I know there's been users voicing their concerns recently about the decline of active users on the forum, and Youtube could be a behemoth of a marketing campaign if its done right.

If we take a look at Youtube, and the most popular formats:

- MrBeast style over the top videos, throwing ludicrous money around.

- Podcasts; Potentially having different guests on from various different backgrounds on the forum could potentially be successful if the right candidates are selected. However, I believe anonymous nature of the forum would probably be a barrier to this idea.

- A show like DramaAlert on Youtube, but focused on the Bitcoin industry. Probably, wouldn't work out as well due to the nature of Youtube infulencers compared to the people involved in Bitcoin.

- Debates; as long as they are kept civilized, and moderated to some degree i.e not censoring the guests, but guiding them to specific topics I think it could work out pretty well, and could be combined with the podcast/interview ideas.

- Documentaries; This doesn't even particularly need to be shot physically, but could be a voiceover with a lot of editing, which is a pretty popular format on Youtube for things that aren't related to Bitcoin.

- Conspiracies related to Bitcoin; if you want to go down that rabbit hole that is, and have the mind for it.

Other ideas not particularly popular on Youtube:

- Bitcoin courses; if it could be tied in some way to the idea of Bitcoin courses mentioned here by theymos. That would be interesting, and might just kill two birds with one stone.

- Liaising with Bitcoin developers, and getting them to do a developer diary could be of interest.  

- Highlighting substantial posts here on the forum, however I'm not convinced in the long run the appeal will be there to retain an audience for this type of content.  

Although, it would be pretty neat to have a Bitcoin MrBeast type channel, I feel the kind of investment that would be needed at first, wouldn't be easily covered, and I doubt forum funds would be used for it. Pretty cool idea though, and would definitely be an interesting approach.

I fundamentally disagree with you ... we need quality content for the general public.

• Including a brief weekly review of crypto industry news or something similar, (content that will catch the eye of thousands of people on an ongoing basis).
• Well, of course, parallel video materials including different guides or any other really useful things that will be simply and clearly presented to the viewer, and here you can already refer to the forum as the primary source of this or that material.

Summing up, I can say with confidence that weekly reviews are needed to increase the audience of the channel, while materials with a title in the spirit of "On mining in simple words, etc." are needed to support the existing audience. I don't see any other way to scale the channel. + What you are talking about will not interest the audience for the simple reason that they are not familiar with the mechanics of the forum, (and because such messages will be taken out of the context of one thread or another).

Interviews would be cool. I agree with you and @Welsh that some might be reluctant in participating, but it's not like we have to churn an interview every week, so should be fine.
Weekly awards for best and worst posts is good idea! Could be added as a segment to a weekly video, like the last part of the video would be about that.

That's taking the awards thing to a whole(some!) other level!
I like the idea! But more funding would be needed and some good people/causes to invest in.

I find this approach interesting. Though more oriented to an news/article outlet, rather than video format, right? Which is fine and like to work on that sometime if it is of interest to the community.

Worth noting; if this ever did take off, then it would probably be a good idea to repurpose the Twitter account @Bitcointalk for marketing. I know previously its been used for announcing any major issues with the forum i.e outages.

Another idea to throw out there which is kind of related to the podcast/interview ideas is debates. Get a few established forum users on the show, and then have them debate over current events. So, you'd probably need to figure out opposing views before the show, and it would have to be moderated pretty well i.e keeping it civilized while retaining freedom of speech, but some good clean ol' debate. Imagine if  theoretically we did have an upcoming hard fork, which was particularly dividing the community, having two voices go at it together, with the host setting the pace by asking specific questions to keep it on topic. I'm sure that would be very interesting even with less dramatic theoretical events.

I've always wanted to make a debating site related to this side of things i.e Bitcoin, but never got around to it. I'm sure that Youtube is probably an even better platform than a standalone website.

With the interviews idea, you don't technically need the person controlling the Youtube channel to reveal their identity, which might create a little intrigue to the show. I'm thinking about those Youtube channels where the hosts give them a video to watch, and pop up questions on screen rather than communicating directly. Obviously, they communicate to the guests, but that's edited out. So, if the host wanted to keep some sort of anonymous identity this format could be done.

Also, @cyrus fantastic logo.

Personally, I believe to appeal to the general public we are probably going to have the most success with interviews, and podcasts. What I mean by podcasts is Joe Rogan style where he basically interviews people on the podcast, rather than having the same hosts talk about random stuff related to the forum, and Bitcoin every week.

The budget; I know that theymos has previously stated that he might be willing to allocate some forum funds to the cause. I'm assuming this would depend on the quality of production, and success. Sponsorships are a thing, and if theymos wanted too he could offer forum advertisements, and Youtube advertisements as a package.

The other ideas aside from OgNasty's idea would probably be more audience specific, and appealing to the existing users on the forum more than the general public.

I think there would be enough interesting characters here willing to get interviewed that you could fill up a few years of content just through that. Then, once there's an audience you could potentially expand the purpose of the channel.

That would be cool! 
A podcast would probably catch on more easily than other formats, since they're really popular right now. It's also easier to produce after the set-up is done. But would it be worth having yet another crypto podcast?

Thank you! It was a quick job, the quality could definitely be better.
Also, great list of popular/not very popular!

I like the ideas so far, and IMO the channel wouldn't need to settle on just ONE format. As we grow, more of these ideas could be realized. Just need to figure out a good starting point. One that could be forgiving enough as we learn how to create this type of content.

I get what you're saying regarding the Youtube thing. I recently started interacting over at Twitter and was surprised just how many people apparently really into crypto (judging by their avatar, description and tweets) were oblivious to BitcoinTalk!


It's something that I recently brought up to theymos. Not for marketing anything, but IMO it should be used for more than to Just inform people of outages. Plus, it would help bring some new information about this place out there.

FWIW,  I see the Bitcointalk Youtube channel just as official as the Discord server - don't like slapping official on things anyway.

Things I would love to see are, first a visual version of some of the informative threads on the forum like the threads that has to do with bitcoin signature (signing and verifying signatures), how to setup wallets or any other important Bitcoin and possible some altcoins threads been represented visually. We all know visual learning is more impactive than just reading, when newbie (or everyone) get to see how these things are done visually they can easily follow up.

Same goes for other features the forum has. It takes some time before a newbie learns how to quote properly or make use of most of the writing features of the forum. If the channel was to have daily updates on how to use some of these writing features like how to make used of the codes, table (how to setup them and arrange them properly), I bet the channel will actually be useful.

Another thing will be as genuine news update maybe like a roundup of all the important news of the previous day or weekly update. There are so many news outlets out there that members can't trust them to give you important update on trending news about the industry. An example was the china ban on mining activities, not many news outlets were reporting that news in that manner, they were just after enhancing the fud and the storyline was about bitcoin itself been banned in china. Also not forgetting the entertainment aspects, we know this generation love that and it'll be vital for keeping the channel active.

In addition to interviews and guides, I think there should also be a segment about worthy BTCitcoin related websites, software, and apps that are somewhat unknown.
^{- BTW, I think guides should be short and fun, while interviews should be long and interesting; I think it could have a better retention rate if it's live-streamed with a segment that guests take questions from the chat.}

It looks great
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That's true if it was 10 years ago but nowadays, one person is more than enough if you have the right tools and skills.

Tools & Softwares:

• Decent computer
• Two/three microphones ^{[preferably a dynamic one]}
• An audio interface
• Mic boom arms
• Camera/s
• Stage
• OBS + any other video editing software

Skills:

• It takes less than a month to master OBS and you only need to know the basics for post-processing ^{[finishing touches]} in any other video editing software.
  ^{- With OBS [or similar softwares], you can deal with 95% of the issues that previously required someone else's help [it's quite fun].}

I'm curious to know what type of award would be given to those in the worst posts category?