Steemdrive: Second Proof of Successful Crowdfunded Billboard Flight in Durban, South Africa!

in steemit •  8 years ago  (edited)

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South Africa stands proud; being the first country to ever host a blockchain crowdfunded billboard campaign flighted in August 2016 by the @steemdrive initiative on the Steemit Blockchain Social Media Platform; where content creators get paid to blog and publish noteworthy content, as well as for participating in curation voting of the varied content of other community authors.

With the help of advertising partners, Outdoor Network, the @steemdrive billboard campaign has successfully flighted two digital billboards (as per initial proof of flight blog post) and now officially the first Spectacular size 5M x 20M billboard, flighted on the 23rd of August 2016 in Durban’s South Coast region, on the M4 highway just before the Jacobs, Quality Street on-ramp.

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Outdoor Network is one of the largest South African Out of Home media owners, offering national reach with a host of billboards and street furniture platforms.

Established in 1999, the company’s advertising platforms reach diverse consumers in iconic high-density locations. Its reputable and customer centric staff service South Africa’s leading media and creative agencies, as well as corporates and SME’s (Small-to-Medium-Enterprise’s). The Outdoor Network is passionate about Out of Home media; maximising advertising opportunities through creative and unique execution.

@steemdrive is proud to have given the contract, of approximately two months, of billboard flight time to the Outdoor Network, whose staff have been very helpful, friendly and efficient. Thank you Outdoor Network for helping us bring Steemit to South Africa! For more information on Outdoor Network, please visit: www.on.co.za

Audiovisual Presentation of South African Billboard Campaign

Print Billboard – Mobeni East, KZN, Durban, South Africa

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Situated on the Albert Luthuli Highway M4 Southern Freeway at Bluff Road facing traffic from Durban CBD to Mobeni, Jacobs, Isipingo, Umlazi, Amanzimtoti and various suburbs with a good run up on a busy arterial road throughout the day and at peak periods.

Size: 5m x 20m (16.4’ x 65.62’)

Traffic Flow: Approx. 2 667 600 vehicles per day, this figure excludes pedestrian exposure.
(this traffic data is several years old and therefore not current, the values should now be much higher, new data coming later in 2016)

Income Group: 4-8

Night Time Illumination: Front Lighting


I am proud to have realised the South African Steemit billboard campaign in its entirety, and look forward to the proof of flight posts for Chicago and New Zealand shortly. The billboard campaign truly is a spectacular way to unite the Steemit community and showcase what the platform can do.

In solidarity with our cause, the Gridcoin community has offered their support in upvoting our content and have been added below to our campaign partners section, thank you to Custom Miner ( @cm-steem ) for making that happen for us.

I look forward to comtinually stand with the community to bring Steem to the world, one country at a time!

Please SHARE, FOLLOW and UPVOTE!

Sincerely,

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Witness @liondani (campaign supporter)


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Terms and Conditions:

Steem Dollar payout funds raised from this Steemit post shall be allocated to any billboard site or @steemdrive public project where funds may be required in and paid in accordance with the general campaign terms and conditions.

The domain steemit.life on the artwork points to a referral link for campaign tracking by steemit.com, otherwise not possible if steemit.com was advertised.

All images are either royalty free, public domain, supplied by the billboard agencies or paid for by the campaign or liaison, credits will appear beneath any other image sources.


Direct Donations Welcome:



Direct donations on this post so far:

  • 2.5 SBD Donated by @cm-steem, thank you so much!

  • 5 SBD Donated by @kus-knee, awesome thank you!

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Excited for this movement! :)

Thanks for being a part of it, look forward to your Chicago proof of flight!

Great news, congratulations, kudos, well done and fantabulous!
This benefits everyone and that includes YOU and I! UPVOTED!

@kus-knee (The Old Dog)

Hey "Old Dog", thanks for the upvotes man and supporting the growth of Steemit.


Simply Awesome!

Thanks for the jubilant animation buddy!

Great more real add around the world about Steemit
Keep going!

We won't stop until the world is covered in Steem!

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

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The Gridcoin community is very excited to support @steemdrive's crowdfunded billboard campaign, the more users that we can recruit to Steem the better!

Just promoted your post $1.00 :D

Namaste cm-steem, I enjoy hanging out with you on Beyond Bitcoin hangouts on Fridays, your community is very cool. Thanks for the 1$ vote, every cent is a blessing, appreciated!

Just donated 2.50 SBD through the donation link too :)

That's awesome the button works thanks to @steve-walschot, appreciate your donation. I have logged it in the footer of the post.

Can't wait to see these everywhere!

Your wish is our command!

Things are only looking up! Love it. :)

Thank you so much, I'm a fan of your posts as well!

Well done Durban!!

I spent so much time in your wonderful city and still have family there.

Hope to get back there soon. Miss the sun, surf and braaivleis!!

I really think this is a great idea and would like to see it duplicated in not so sunny Dublin, Ireland.


The Spire of Dublin, alternatively titled the Monument of Light (Irish: An Túr Solais), is a large, stainless steel, pin-like monument 121.2 metres (398 ft) in height, located on the site of the former Nelson's Pillar on O'Connell Street in Dublin, Ireland.

The city of Dublin has so much to offer, from the night life to the stunning Irish scenery.


Footbridge across The River Liffey, central Dublin.


The river Liffey looking towards O'Connell Bridge central Dublin.

I'm a newb to steemit so I wouldn't even know how or where to start with setting up something like this here.

Great Idea Well Done!! Totseins from Ireland! Congratulations from me and Team Gridcoin.

Hey that's great that you know Durban, I believe Ireland is beautiful my brother went there on a trip. If you would like to see a billboard there and want to help us organise it by finding us an agency there and writing a post about your country, contact me in steemit.chat, my name there is thecryptodrive.

Totseins Meneer!

I certainly will be contacting you on steemit.chat, well done again.

Great achievement. Let's go people. Get set....Get ready.

Gooooooo!

Spreading the Steem!

Far and wide my friend!

awesome

Sure is :)

Well done:)

Thanks for the support!

Great job, Ricardo!

Thanks Luke, appreciate it buddy!

very cool, but I wonder why steemit.life and not .com?

Have a look in the disclaimer section for explanation, it forwards to http://www.steemit.com/?r=steemdrive which is an affiliate code Steemit can track. Anyone can use such an affiliate code by substituting their blog name in the suffix.

Great work @steemdrive !!! Keep the billboards coming!!!

Look forward to Venezuela buddy!

I've donated 5 SD to the project!

@kus-knee (The Old Dog)

Verified and logged! Thanks so much!

This is cool. Going forward for the future :)

Steem the future!

Go for GOLD :)

Steem to the moon!

Seeing this post just makes me miss South Africa even more. Thanks for sharing. Feel free to follow me too.

Lol local is lekker. Im amazed we have this billboard here in unny SouthAfrica xP

awesome stuff from South africa love my country @rogerblu please follow me

Nice initiative with this billboard campaign, maybe this it's the pilot for spreading the word around the world

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If we could get these up all over the world... Steemit.com would explode in user growth!

  ·  7 years ago Reveal Comment

@steemdrive a big hello from your friendly city Port Elizabeth! Please support the launch of steemit in PE it would be much appreciated. I am now following you, Cheerz!

https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@nelsonmandelabay/on-behalf-of-nelson-mandela-bay-i-officially-introduce-myself

  ·  8 years ago (edited)Reveal Comment

Pleasure!

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

I downvoted the above user because they've been running in every thread pasting the same message. Could be a bot. Obviously they are harvesting upvotes for money and good reputation: https://steemit.com/@jlufer/posts

Hey @alexgr, I wasn't aware...I will remove my vote.

Yeah I wasn't either - until I started seeing the same in every thread. So I checked them out to see what's going on and my suspicions were confirmed.

English isn't his primary language..... maybe hasty?

The speed of posting the same indicated that they weren't even reading (4 times in 4 separate posts within a minute or so).