Jul 8 2018
Wemark: A New Disruption In Photography Content Market
The Domination and Injustice
The market for photography content is being dominated by two big players who are the shutter cock and Getty Images. These two companies are charging the ridiculous amount of fee to the content creator, to the point where the companies are retaining up to 85% total value of one creation and leaving the photographer only a fraction of their profit. This is demeaning and degrading since the creator are struggling so hard to acquire the photos, and therefore should be rewarded more for their hard work. However, that is don’t happen since the companies decided to keep the profit high while the creator’s appreciation low.
There are many issues concerning the current photography market ecosystem. Here are some of the issues:
- Rejecting transparency
As we have stated before, the big companies are keeping most of the profits and thus leaving the creator scratching their head for such unrewarded effort. Unfortunately, there are no official statement or the system explanation concerning their form of business or their payment system, and it means that they keep the profit high is they want to make it high. This is outrageous and needs to come to an end as soon as possible.
- Unrewarding process
Photography is not an easy task and an easy job. Photography is more like an art, rather than randomly flashing your camera to a random object. Sometimes, finding such object need a harrowing struggle, such as climbing the peak of the mountain, diving to the ocean, taking a very rare occasion photo, and so forth. Photography requires the high amount of patience and resilience and therefore need to be rewarded. However, unfortunately, the market didn’t allow them to have a great profit. Instead, they are just being paid with only a trickle of their hard work. This is indeed discouraging the entire photographer, and thus need to be changed.
- Copyright
This is the sad truth that is hampering the photographer. Once a creator uploads a picture to the image Getty or the shutter cock, they are the one who retains the right of the photos, and thus making them the sole controller of the price where the creator is kicked out of their place. This is sad since the creator knows how hard the photo can be taken, and thus they know how worth their pictures are.
- Centralized
What we mean by that is, the process of the pictures submission and the payment fee is mostly one-way process. It means that the process cannot interfere with anyone and anything, even the creator itself. Moreover, the creator doesn’t have any other alternatives since both companies are the only companies that pay them for their pictures, and therefore the creator must submit to this system regardless of what they feel.
Those are the existing issue that is cycling amidst the pictures market, and this is discouraging the content creator, which is the photographer. In this era of digitalization and information, it is time to set free the market of photography from the crippling ties of the big company and search for a new alternative that is more rewarding compared to the previous one.
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Wemark As A Disruption In The Current Ecosystem
What we need more now is a disruption to open a hole in the market, and offering the new alternatives for all the content creator, and thus making them more rewarded for their hard work. Moreover, fortunately, such disruption is already emerged called the remark. Wemark is a blockchain powered startup that will try to pay more for all the photographer and to provide them the justice and transparency that they deserve. Here are several features of the wemark that we know about.
- Decentralized
As with any other blockchain related startup, they are always decentralized. Both are determined not only by the companies but to all the user as well. In this context, the user is the creator of the photos that are selling their photos within the system. That is just how the blockchain works, which require the feed from the user for the transaction to occur. By this system, it means that the companies and the creator can appraise the photos and determine the prices tags per photos. Moreover, this is a revolutionary way since no other companies are implementing this system, except the blockchain powered companies.
- Transparent
Transparency is just what the creator want. They want to know how much their pictures are being charged, and what happens inside the system. They also want to know how they value their work and setting the prices per photos. Such occurrence did not occur in the old ecosystem, but it did happen in the wemark. The blockchain and the smart contract system will be applied to provide transparency to all the creator concerning what happens to their pictures once it has already entered the market.
- Owning license and right
Previously in the old ecosystem, the creator are stripped of their right and need to report back whenever they are already making profit outside the ecosystem of the companies. That is awful since the creator is removed away from their creation and thus leaving them clueless what to do with their photos since they are no longer have right to distribute it without the consent of the companies. That time is over since the ecosystem of the wemark is giving the right of the photos to the creator, which is obvious. It means that the creator can do whatever they want in their photos, which is also evident since they are the one who creates them.
- Better prices
The prices that are being set by the companies are high and unrewarded since they need to deal with the third man or the third parties, which is the company itself. You may think that the wemark is also the third party like the other companies, but that is wrong. Wemark provides the place where the creator and the market can meet and thus making the creator having more money and reward rather than only a fraction of money compared to the previous ecosystem.
- Trustworthy system
Moreover, final, above all the benefits that will be obtained by the creator itself, is that the creator can trust the system since the system itself is running autonomously and unable to be manipulated by everyone or everything. It will scan your photos, where you can set the price range, and conduct the transaction directly to the buyer and so forth. No more companies interference, no, more one-sided and injustice companies decision.
So as for the process, it is somewhat natural and familiar. What you need first is to sign up by creating the account of the wemark platform. After you have successfully created the report for the platform, then you can start uploading photos to the ecosystem where you can set the range prices per photos, and then let the platform do the work, which is by displaying the images the world. It is an easy and straightforward process where it will benefit all.
For further information concerning the system and the platform, you can access the links below.
https://www.wemark.com/whitepaper.pdf
The TGE and the Current Process Of It
The most distinct and distinct process of the startup platform is their TGE or token generation event. However, first, let we explain the usage of the token itself. The symbol is the primary currency that will be used to perform the various transaction within the system, such as receiving payment, and so forth. There will be no other currencies to be used inside the platform, just the wemark token. That is just a common market practice by the platform to ensure the value of their symbol.
As for the usage of the token, currently, the token will only be used for licensing and accessing the photos within the system of wemark. However, there will be several advancements of the usage of the token, such as the ability for the creator to hire the model, hire the lawyer or legal team, even selling their photos with token and receive the payment with token too. That will increase the practicability of the token so that it will be used outside the system also. However, since the token itself is preferably flexible and inside the ethereum system, it is possible to exchange the token to the flat currencies and gaining the reward since the token itself comes with the form of investment, just like any other token inside the ethereum system.
Also, as for sale, they are rather different from the rest of the cryptocurrency in the business. First, they provided an insufficient amount of information concerning the sale, but here what we know concerning their sale:
- Total token supply 135 million token
- TGE starts on 24th July and ends on Aug 7th, 2018
- The soft cap is about 1.5 million dollars
- The hard hat is about 8 million dollars
At first glance, we already know that there is a huge difference between this platform and the other. First, this platform is having a meager amount of the total token supply, which is about only 135 million token. Moreover, that is a dwarf compared to the other startup which is reaching for about billion of the total token supply. Also, the second, there is no division of the sales, meaning that they are only deploying one sale period, which interestingly called the crowdfunding rather than the main or the pre-sale just like any other platform. Also, when we look at the period of the sale, we know that the period is only roughly two weeks, not a full month period.
However, that seems not an issue since all the platform has their right to move and shape their own business. And thus this is advantageous for the platform since the token worth more dollars compared to the other token type. The price of the token is about 0.20 dollar per token, that is a very high value for such a token, where the other token is usually having more digits and thus lowering the cost of the token. This also means that the investment by using the token is rather prospective and valuable compared to the other token platform since the initial base value is already high. After the vesting amount of time has elapsed, you can exchange the token for the fiat currency and obtain more money in the process.
As for the token allocation, here is the proportion for each party:
- Token sale 38%
- Reserved for community reward and economy scaling 37.5%
- Advisors and partnership 12%
- Founding team 11%
- Bounty program 1.5%
This is another surprising fact about the platform. We can see here as the token allocation is lower compared to the reserves and the community reward. It means that the platform will concern the compensation for all the photographer to encourage them to use more photos and therefore to make the platform becoming more and more lively and accessible. This is hugely different from the other platform where they are portioning a considerable amount of the token in the token sale.
The reason behind this reason is that the customer still actually allowed to purchase the pictures using the flat currency such dollars. However, as the time goes, more and more services of the platform will be using the token only, and thus increasing their usefulness and rising their value. That is actually very different compared to the other platform where they don’t have a stable community, and therefore they don’t need to worry about the community reward, but once again, that is just what the varieties of business are.
If you are a photographer, it is natural that you want to make a living from your pictures and skills. Searching for a platform that will justly reward you is hard, and therefore you can choose the wemark for your business partner.
To know about the sale and the token, you can visit one of the websites below:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3347524
Social Media:
https://www.facebook.com/WemarkOfficial/
Jul 11 2018
Avoiding Annoying Ads By Vidy Platform
The world of digital marketing has grown exponentially, and opening up to so many opportunities. So many things are opening up such as the advertisements which come in various forms, the social media and so many others. The positive trait of such advancement is that you can access so many things inside the internet and many other than you required, and that is an excellent thing for the web. There is a lot of information that is circulated within the realm of the web, from thousands of ads, youtube content, exciting event, online shop and so on. Such revolutionary finding is never an impactful as internet creation.
But due to the massive amount of information that has been collected throughout the ages, several annoying things can be found on the internet. In this case, we are talking about malware, viruses, and of course ads. Ads is not a harmful thing that can damage your pc in any conceivable once, or at least the legit ads. What makes the ads annoying here is the vast amount of it that can be seen in every corner of the internet from the simple webpage or blog site to the YouTube channel and Facebook page as well.
Digital marketing is seamless and limitless, there are thousands of opportunity that lies just behind every corner, but ads is one of the dark and annoying sides of the internet that one tends to avoid as best as they can. Once an ads pop up in their pc or mobile screen, they will start searching for a cross mark to close the ads as soon as they can and continue doing whatever they are doing. The pop ads, therefore, are the most annoying forms of internet ads that can be found on the internet. There are several reasons why ads are much hated among the people.
There are no words that best described the annoying advertisements that suddenly pop up out of nowhere. Imagine that you are about to click some vital button in a webpage and suddenly you are being redirected to fraud as that is not legit, or to a slow loading page, and you have to do that multiple times to proceed to the desired button. That is indeed frustrating, and that is why the amount of free and aid adblocker and adware blocker are raising significantly due to the demand of the people or internet user.
Imagine that you are a male and need a laptop or mobile phone, and you need some ads to compare your desired stuff or want a preference, but the ads that keep popping is gaming app or adult ads that have zero relevance to your needs. Ads are okay since that is the most efficient way for a particular company to promote their stuff and let the people know that there is an excellent and high-quality good waiting for them. But since we cannot filter the ads that keep showing up, therefore you will get even more irritated, and you end up hating all forms of advertisements.
A webpage that has numerous amount of commercials are dirty and looks unattractive. The more ads they have, be it a banner ads or the pop ads, that will make the people tend to leave such webpage. And the second issue of the webpage-infested ads are, loads of such website will be very slow and going it very hard to access. But this is a vicious cycle that cannot be broken down since most youtube channel, or website does need money, and the advertiser does provide money for them then the publisher will keep posting the ads as they please.
Ads in several web pages are impersonating the vital button such play, download, open, or etc. even actually we can distinguish the legit button and the ads button, hence the ads button looks more colorful and more prominent and brighter rather than the correct button, many people still fall to the ads trap, and therefore they keep getting more and more pop ads. Having to close the pop ads multiple times is not a fun business, and that people will end up hating the pop ads, no matter what kind of product that they are advertising.
The intrusive, abusive and invasive nature of ads, therefore, is the main reason for the downfall of the digital advertisement. For now, about 600 million people are already blocking the ads using the adblocker or the google plugin. And more people are ignoring and try to close the ads as soon as they can. This makes the world of digital advertisement are impotent and ineffective and thus making the companies are wasting their money and effort by advertising on the internet.
For more information concerning the digital advertisement, you can visit these websites.
https://vidy.com/
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4607821.0
The ads counter offensive
The downfall of digital advertisement is already going and seems there is no going back. People are already imprinted ted in their minds that they hate ads as much as they can, and thus will keep closing as soon as possible, and avoid the ads as best as they can when they see the ads. And the big companies are already losing this advertisement war and start using a more aggressive profile track to map the people and learn their algorithm to see their desired ads. That is a wrong way to approach the issues since the main problem, in this case, is not what kind of ads that they want to see, but how to open their minds and accept the ads anymore. And fortunately, there is already a solution that is emerging.
Introducing the vidy platform. This platform is just what the companies need that will bridge the demand of the internet user, and the advertisement needs of all the companies. To keep it simple, the platform does the following.
This is already stated a little above. The main goal of this issue is to make the internet user are not anti-ads, and therefore they want to open up their mind again to accept the ads. The platform is doing just that, where the internet user now can see the ads and get money from doing that. That is a very convenient and the perfect booster for the people to see the ads anymore since they need the money and the platform is applying the gamification, quest-like reward for the people to watch the ads. It is straightforward since you need to hold the banner ads and start watching the ads.
One of the thing that is hated by the internet user concerning the Ads are the messy and disorganized banner ads dashboard. The publisher will spend every space of their websites or the blog to put more and more ads. This will make their page blinking with so many ads color and that is simply annoying. The disorganized UI will also slow your loading page, and consume more data and that is very annoying. The platform will make a solid standard concerning the ads usage and location and amount so that the web will be visited more often and the effect of the ads will be amplified.
The relevance of the ads is also important since ads are the information source that can be helpful to your preference. But showing the irrelevant ads will make you annoyed and hating the ads even more. The platform will scan and match the ads and your algorithm so that you can see the ads that you want to see in your life. This will result in the different people visiting the same webpage and seeing the different ads. That is a powerful tool since it can filter the ads, and therefore the company can show the ads to the exact person who searches for such ads.
A free to all business is the dream of every capitalist society. Throughout the history, all kind of laws has been passed such the antitrust in America to safeguard and protect the open competition business and to prevent monopolies and centralized business system. But as the emergence of the internet business in the late early 20’s more and more business has monopolized one particular sector, such as the Facebook mega companies, youtube, google and so forth. This is unhealthy since the internet businesses are getting more centralized and therefore many internet users have no preference or option while browsing the internet. The platform is a decentralized platform where they try to decentralize the informational flow and thus opening a new market for business to grow.
How Does It Work?
It is straightforward to know how the platform works. When you are about to use the platform, you will need to create the account, and in that process, you will need to fill out several information such as the products preference and so forth, so it will be just like a survey. This phase is critical since it will determine what kind of ads that you will see, and what kind of ads that you don’t want to see. That process is natural and doesn’t consume so much time Init. The platform then will work just like the browser plugin, and thus you can see the ads that you desired more.
For further information, you can visit one of the web pages below.
https://vidy.com/static/whitepaper.pdf
https://fb.me/VidyCoin
https://www.t.me/vidycoin
Token Sales Plan
And just like any other platform, this kind of platform has their token sales too; there are three kinds of sales that occurred in the platform, they are a private sale and the first sales. The private sales have been concluded with tremendous success, and the company is ready to move to the second phase which is the initiation of the pre-sales. The, unfortunately, are not yet informed so then we have to wait a little bit. But according to their website, the pre ico sales will be conducted just about 35 days from now on, or at 15th of August 2018. The soft cap of the sale is about 15 thousand ETH coin, and the hard cap is about 60 thousand ETH coin, $16 million already raised! The pre ico sale will have a bonus of 33% per coin, and as the general worth per token, one vidy coin is worth about 0.00001673 ETH per coin.
And as the token allocation, here is the summary of it.
The platform itself recognize four tier of membership, and that tier depends on the total amount of token purchased by the people. Here are the four tier of membership that exists in the platform.
This is the lowest tier, and have an insufficient amount of feature that can be used by the user. The free user can only upload a single video ad to the platform, and the video is not filtered, which means that their video still can be seen by the wrong person who doesn’t want the ads and thus making your ads ineffective.
Titanium tier is the second lowest tier with a minimal amount of purchased very token is about 300k token. There are variations but still a limited feature that can be accessed by the platform but still is wider than the free account. But you can upload unlimited video ads that you do want, and your ads can now be filtered too.
Gold tier is the second highest tier which you can upload an unlimited amount of video ads, an extensive feature that you can access, and more. To access this feature, you need to purchase at least 700k amount of vidy coin.
Platinum is the highest tier that you can have, with the ultimate access for the best platform feature. Your ads are also guaranteed to reach the best market for the best result for sale. To reach this tier, you need to purchase at least about 1 million very token.
For further information, you can reach the webpage below.
https://vidy.com/
https://www.t.me/vidycoin
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