Denevien Posted November 23, 2013 Report Share Posted November 23, 2013 So, this topic has come up before a couple times, and after doing some research, I think I've got a good starting position. Looking at the price to buy ads on reddit, it seems fairly cheap to throw some advertisements there. All the info comes from this page. 1) We would need to either choose Frontpage or Specific Subs. There is no reason to advertise on the frontpage, as views would be wasted on non-minecrafters. This is why I would suggest choosing /r/minecraft and /r/mcservers. 2) The cost is $0.75 per 1000 views. The minimum is $5 (roughly 6667 views), and each "package" will only target a specific subreddit. If we choose both subreddits, that is a minimum of $10 (for a total of 13334 views). I'm wanting to know what the rest of the staff thinks about this, and if you guys think this would be a reasonable use of our funds. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forty_two Posted November 23, 2013 Report Share Posted November 23, 2013 I think it's worth trying once at least, be interested to see how effective advertising is. I don't think it's something that should be done very often though, that just gets people tired of seeing our name pop up. We'd have to have a pretty nice looking ad to give a good first impression, but I'm sure someone in the community would be able to make one. In terms of subreddits, I'd agree with /r/minecraft and /r/mcservers, those two should have high levels of people who aren't already invested in a server. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrloud15 Posted November 23, 2013 Report Share Posted November 23, 2013 I think it's a reasonable use of our funds if it works, so I think it's worth trying. I like the idea of only paying for the days we want, and that they only run for 24 hours so it's not a long term commitment. I agree that we should only advertise to minecraft subreddits. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRandomnatrix Posted November 23, 2013 Report Share Posted November 23, 2013 I also agree with at least doing a trial run with paid advertising. Judging by those prices listed it's not like we have much to lose from it. This is something I feel we should at least notify the community of before we go through with it, as some people get pissy when funds are "wasted" on things other than directly keeping the servers up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzzinbee Posted November 23, 2013 Report Share Posted November 23, 2013 I'm with forty_two on this one, give it a shot but lets not do it too often people would start to dislike seeing our names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROCKONN Posted November 23, 2013 Report Share Posted November 23, 2013 Indeed. Regardless of our results with this though, we should also look into using some other, free, advertising sources. I believe the topic of minecraftforums & pmc came up once or twice in the past. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schererererer Posted November 23, 2013 Report Share Posted November 23, 2013 If I recall correctly, we have been using other free advertising opportunities where we can. The other thread here was the most recent set of actions over free advertisement opportunities, but it fizzled out a few months ago. If we'd like to segue into doing more of that right now, we can bump that thread and continue from there. We could easily have more contests to design ads to use. I think all of our publicity should stress the following: No donator perks No ranks Professional and active volunteer staff Strong community Another related thing that could help is submitting more cool stuff to /r/Minecraft (the most successful would likely be builds) and having the server address in the comments so people can visit to see them in person. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CROCKODUCK Posted November 23, 2013 Report Share Posted November 23, 2013 I personally really just like /r/mcservers because of how similar I can see the community is to ours at times. With that said I do like this idea, but I have wondered about Facebook and other social media advertising as well because of its effectiveness I have seen. Perhaps someone could give their thoughts on that also? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozomahtlii Posted November 23, 2013 Report Share Posted November 23, 2013 I personally really just like /r/mcservers because of how similar I can see the community is to ours at times. With that said I do like this idea, but I have wondered about Facebook and other social media advertising as well because of its effectiveness I have seen. Perhaps someone could give their thoughts on that also? There was a post about having a facebook page a couple of months ago, not much intrest from the members of the community: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CROCKODUCK Posted November 23, 2013 Report Share Posted November 23, 2013 Not a Facebook page, that I agree is undermining the purpose of reddit. I am mostly talking about facebook ads because of the MASSIVE amount of people who can view the ads. I do agree we should start with funding for reddit ads though so I think the sooner the better as far as that goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draykhar Posted November 23, 2013 Report Share Posted November 23, 2013 It'd probably be wise to wait until we are on 1.7 on all the servers. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redwall_hp Posted November 24, 2013 Report Share Posted November 24, 2013 Good ideas all around. Draykhar's right, though. It should definitely wait until we're on 1.7 across all of the servers. A lot of people don't know how to downgrade and will just be frustrated and leave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LetsBFehr Posted December 27, 2013 Report Share Posted December 27, 2013 Now that 1.7 is running on all servers, any update on the current advertising situation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denevien Posted December 27, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2013 Maybe another community contest to design an ad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denevien Posted December 29, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2013 https://nerd.nu/forum/index.php?/topic/1440-advertisements-on-reddit/#entry9600 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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