Icon Pilipinas: September 2020 Transparency Report
Hello ICONists!
The Icon Pilipinas community continues our ICON growth efforts and we’re really excited about all the progress made in September. Let’s get right to it!
Icon Pilipinas Quick Recap
✅ Featured guest on Blockchain Core Community AMA.
✅ Hosted ICONbet GIF Wars! event.
✅ Hosted ICON TikTok Battle! event.
✅ Hosted ICON KABOG! event on Telegram (2x/week).
✅ Hosted ICX News Ngayon Quiz Time on Facebook (1x/week).
✅ Increased followers on Telegram from 3,538 to 4,159.
✅ Increased followers on Facebook from 57,224 to 57,286.
✅ Achieved post reach on Facebook of 710,995.
✅ Increased subscribers on YouTube from 1,055 to 1,274.
✅ Published 6 full videos on YouTube.
✅ Increased followers on Twitter from 2,408 to 2,953.
✅ Published 5 articles on Medium.
Featured AMAs
Blockchain CORE Community AMA
On September 12, the Icon Pilipinas team was featured on a live AMA with Blockchain CORE Community.
Blockchain CORE Community is a crypto group on Telegram, based in Vietnam.
Here are some questions asked during live Q&A session by the Blockchain CORE Community:
Also, here’s some of the feedback our team received from the Blockchain CORE Community upon conclusion of the AMA event:
Just like with all of our past AMAs, our main focus and objective with these events is to grow and promote ICON to as many new audiences across the globe as possible.
Featured Events
ICONbet GIF Wars!
During the middle part of the month, Icon Pilipinas partnered up with the ICONbet Community (shout out to Rok for reaching out to us and organizing the event) and launched the ICONbet Gif Wars! event.
In total, there were 15 participants + 68 GIFs submitted.
All the ICONbet GIFs can be found in the following Medium article:
Also, the same ICONbet GIFs can be found on Telegram:
Here are some stand-out GIFs from the contest:
At the end of September, the ICONbet GIF Wars! was just wrapping up voting, with winners due to be announced imminently.
ICON TikTok Battle!
Also during September, our team announced the first ever ICON TikTok Battle! event on our Telegram chat.
The following promo video was released to help promote and market the event:
Here are examples of some of the creative content that our community came up with:
The purpose of the ICON TikTok Battle! event was multi-fold — Promote ICON awareness to a broader audience, community bonding, and of course having fun!
When you encourage creativity and imagination, you just really never know what exciting new ideas will emerge (such as the following):
As shown above, the results of ICON TikTok Battle! have already given us inspiration and directions on what type of event to host next, in the near future.
ICON KABOG!
Our team continues to host ICON KABOG!, featuring our quiz master miss Charlotte, twice per week (Friday and Saturday night), on our Telegram chat.
Here’s outlines for a few ICON KABOG! events that took place in September:
ICON KABOG! has become a featured event and core staple each week for the Icon Pilipinas community, doing much to help us build camaraderie and boost engagement from active users on Telegram.
Our team remains excited and is very much looking forward to hosting many more ICON KABOG! events in the future…
ICX News Ngayon Quiz Time
Similar to ICON KABOG!, our team is also finding success with ICX News Ngayon Quiz Time, which is hosted weekly (every Saturday) on our Facebook page.
Each week, there is a quiz (5 multiple choice questions) on the latest episode of ICX News Ngayon, and a reward of 100 PHP via load (or ICX tokens) is rewarded to community members who are able to answer all the questions correctly.
For September, we decided to increase the number of winners each week from 5x to 10x, in order to further boost interest and engagement from the Icon Pilipinas community.
Here are the announcements of winners and corresponding questions + answers associated with each event:
Boosting engagement on Facebook is very important to our long-term goals on this social media platform, and ICX News Ngayon Quiz Time is proving to be an important piece in helping us to solve that challenging puzzle.
Social Media
Telegram Growth
There are currently 4,159 members on the Icon Pilipinas Telegram chat, which increased from 3,538, previously.
Facebook Growth
At the conclusion of September, the Icon Pilipinas Facebook page has achieved 57,153 likes and 57,286 total follows (up from 57,096 likes and 57,224 total follows, previously).
Facebook Marketing Ads
In September, we were able to achieve a post reach of 710,995 and total impressions of 897,015 on Facebook.
Here are the results for ICX News Ngayon Episode 13 and Episode 14, respectively:
YouTube Growth
The Icon Pilipinas YouTube channel now has 1,274 subscribers (up from 1,055, previously).
YouTube Educational Videos
In total, 6 new YouTube videos were published by our team in September:
- ICX News Ngayon Episode 14: Get Ready for ICON 2.0: BATANG!
- ICX News Ngayon Episode 13: Saramin HR Ramps Up Adoption of ICON Core Services
- ICX News Ngayon Episode 12: Shinhan Bank and Zzeung Bring ICON Adoption Into the Financial Sector
- ICON TikTok Battle! (from September 5–19, 2020)
- ICX News Ngayon Episode 11: Jeju Island Partnership and Zzeung App
- ICON GIF Wars! Voting Results (August 2020)
The videos listed above were also uploaded onto the Icon Pilipinas Facebook page.
Twitter Growth
On Twitter, Icon Pilipinas experienced sharp growth this month, as our followers have increased to 2,953 (up from 2,408, previously).
Medium Educational Articles
In September, our team published 5 articles on Medium (1 translation of an article to Tagalog):
- Bumoto para sa DAOcolors
- How to Vote for DAOcolors
- ICON Color Game #Tagline
- ICONbet GIF Wars! (September 2020)
- Icon Pilipinas: August 2020 Transparency Report
Instagram Growth
We currently have 122 followers on Instagram (up from 117, previously).
Similar to the last few months, not much needs to be said for our progress on Instagram at this time. Quite frankly, until we can go back outside to take regular photos, Icon Pilipinas will not prioritize growing our Instagram page.
Instagram growth remains more of a long-term plan for us at Icon Pilipinas.
Spending
Icon Pilipinas was very fortunate to have our Grant Application approved by ICON Foundation, which continued to help us TREMENDOUSLY with our budget/spending in September.
Again, many thanks to ICON Foundation for all their support, because without their help and support, none of what we achieved would have been possible!
Also, many thanks to our voters who continue to support us through the ups and downs! Your loyalty means more to us than you know!
Worth noting, Icon Pilipinas registered a domain and subscribed to web hosting services during the latter part of September; although this project remains a work-in-progress, expenses occurred this month, so they appear on this report.
Total monthly expenses in September included the following:
- Marketing ads = 39,757 (~821 USD)
- Events and community tips = 55,624 PHP (~1,148 USD)
- Software and plugins = 739 PHP (~15 USD)
- Node and infrastructure support = 2,175 PHP (~45 USD)
- Website and domain hosting= 9,695 PHP (~200 USD)
For a subtotal of: 2,229 USD
Salaries paid out in September included the following:
- Contractor services = 7,411 PHP (~153 USD)
- Core-team total staff wages = 42,672 PHP (~881 USD)
For a subtotal of: 1,034 USD
With all that being said, our team is long ICX tokens (we truly do believe in ICON), and we try our best not to sell any of our own personal holdings on exchanges/market, as much as possible. Outside of selling ICX tokens to pay for necessary services and staff salaries, any remaining rewards accrued (i.e., income earned via ICX tokens) were staked.
P-Rep Ranking
At the conclusion of September, Icon Pilipinas was ranked #24 among global P-Reps on the ICON network.
At month’s end, Icon Pilipinas had racked up 3,605,652 votes (an increase from 3,077,954 votes, previously).
Granted, 1,000,000 of our votes in September came courtesy of ICON Foundation, via grant approval, which we are again most humbled and grateful to have received.
We sincerely hope that after reporting this month’s transparency report, ICONists will agree that we’ve been a very productive P-Rep team that is well-deserving of all votes we’ve received to date.
Icon Pilipinas is most passionate about ICON (this is the ONLY blockchain project we focus on!) and we are dedicated to working as hard as we possibly can to help accelerate growth and mainstream adoption.
Thanks for reading. Salamat po!
You can learn more about ICON Pinas by following us here:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IconPinas/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqkwvlG2636SqqtjOYAxOhQ
Twitter: https://twitter.com/IconPinas
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iconpinas
Telegram: https://t.me/icon_pinas
Medium: https://iconpinas.medium.com/
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