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Why join now

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Surely you could wait until the platform is more mature and feature rich, but is there a cost? Let’s look at the quantifiable and qualitative comparisons of YouTube.

– Subscriber growth rate:

 Early YouTube creators (2005-2010) could gain subscribers much faster than later entrants. Some estimates suggest early creators could grow their subscriber base 50-100 times faster than creators joining after 2015.

– Competition:

In YouTube’s early years, there were far fewer creators competing for attention. For example, in 2006, there were approximately 65,000 videos uploaded daily. By 2020, this number had grown to over 500,000 videos per day – an increase of about 670%.

– Discoverability:

With less content on the platform, early creators had a higher chance of being discovered. Some studies suggest that videos uploaded before 2010 were 20-30 times more likely to appear in search results and recommendations compared to videos with similar metrics uploaded after 2015.

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Musician Onboarding

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Welcome

We’re thrilled that you want to be part of this project. 

We welcome all to apply, but will select based on genre fit and following size. 

Without headcount there’s no revenue to share with you, and with a style mismatch, well it just won’t mix. 

That said, if you don’t have a following, apply anyway. The platform’s not zero-sum, and history shows that talent is not always rewarded with an audience. 

As much as we can, we want to help up and coming musicians.

`Watch For Musicians Video`

-Apply to Join

Fill out the form, which includes your YouTube channel and preferred set times:

`Fill out form`

https://forms.gle/guAnRLB9ppC1Gf2aA

and then give us the URL of your avatar to include in the set.

Make sure your YouTube stream is allowed to be embeddable. Without it your set will not play.

We also have billboards that are free to use. There’s a main horizontal 16:9 billboard, and two smaller ones, vertical and horizontal. If you would like to brand your set, please set us high res images you would like to use.

In the near future, a cool company may advertise on the set via one of them, from which you’ll also accrue commission on.

-Let others know of your DigitRaver set

You will receive a custom “deep” link that will lead visitors directly to your set, when it occurs. Post it on your channel!

This link will prompt the user (when accessed on mobile) to either install the app, or, if installed, take them to the stage where your set occurs.

You can also access the `public line-up calendar` which will list the set for your day(s) that others can add notifications for.

While there will be cross-pollination of other ravers that are not directly inbound from you, the best way to funnel your listeners is to lead them to the platform yourself.

-Participate in your set with your avatar

Your fans are there because of you, so be there with them. The performers see only one instance of a room (250 users), but instances thereafter will see you, but you won’t see them. They can also take virtual selfies with you, so be on the lookout for social media. Your blurbs and blasts are free, but theirs are (mostly, there is a rewards system) not. Humans mirror behaviour, and this is the exact behaviour that we want to elicit.

When you login with your whitelisted account, you cannot participate as a raver. Your chosen avatar will load only when your set begins.

-Check your dashboard

When you’re logged in with your performer email, you have access to a realtime dashboard. If you read our business model metaphor that we are a club with rev-share, only the drinks are virtual, and with perfect attribution, this is actually less granular than the system. The ticks on your set are not purchases, they are usages of blurbs, blasts, and private rooms. In order to encourage repeat usage, we reward users with some virtual goods. Virtual goods are also sold at discount in large quantities. Long story short, virtual goods will result in different payments.

https://digitraver.readyplayer.me/

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-Payment

At the end of the calendar month, we pay performers via paypal if the total sum earned is over $3. We are a new platform, and don’t expect the first few months to be very profitable. You are making an investment in the platform as you will be one of the few and thus hold a disproportionate share of attention as it grows. For further analysis, please see Why join now, and How much can you make.

The music industry is currently lame, so lets change it together by changing the business model.

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