Last year the top 20 got funded, ($75,000 for top 10, $25,000 next 10) but it is a big ask because about 16 of those were campaigns run by big youtubers with hundreds of thousands of viewers or by groups like the “Harry Potter Alliance” who have close links to Hank and John. We were holding our own for the first day but seem to have dropped off a bit against these sorts of campaigns now.
It was definitely a rush job this year as a first attempt—so there is a lot we could improve on to make it more compelling as a campaign—hopefully we can take what we learnt and do something more next year.
We thought there was at the start—but it seems to have some algorithm about new votes we could not figure out. And, although we did not realise this at the start—charities with multiple videos for the same charity can have everyone vote on each video and they count cumulatively—so even that ranking was very unreliable. Anyway it’s all finished now so we will see if we were successful after Xmas probably and can learn from it for next yet as it is an annual event but first time EA people have consciously done stuff as an EA cause.
Last year the top 20 got funded, ($75,000 for top 10, $25,000 next 10) but it is a big ask because about 16 of those were campaigns run by big youtubers with hundreds of thousands of viewers or by groups like the “Harry Potter Alliance” who have close links to Hank and John. We were holding our own for the first day but seem to have dropped off a bit against these sorts of campaigns now.
It was definitely a rush job this year as a first attempt—so there is a lot we could improve on to make it more compelling as a campaign—hopefully we can take what we learnt and do something more next year.
Is there some sort of scoreboard one can watch?
We thought there was at the start—but it seems to have some algorithm about new votes we could not figure out. And, although we did not realise this at the start—charities with multiple videos for the same charity can have everyone vote on each video and they count cumulatively—so even that ranking was very unreliable. Anyway it’s all finished now so we will see if we were successful after Xmas probably and can learn from it for next yet as it is an annual event but first time EA people have consciously done stuff as an EA cause.