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Something magical happened yesterday... We tried a mock-Wikipedia style banner promoting the Supporter Upgrade and IT WORKED! It worked beyond our wildest dreams.

On Wednesday I noted that we had 906 active supporters and could potentially hit 1,000 by the end of January. I HOPED for that to happen but didn't expect it, as that would require 8-9 people to become supporters every day and we don't hit those kind of numbers.

As a result of that creepy banner, we hit 1,000 supporters THIS MORNING. We gained almost 100 in a day!

Not only that but we nailed our $4K January goal to cover hosting expenses - another first.

Here's the TWIST though: We added a stretch goal to cover "bonus hosting" expenses this month. We are in the process of transitioning to a new hosting facility and as a result, we're carrying the costs of BOTH facilities through January and February. I don't expect to hit that stretch goal but it lets people know the fun never stops with NG and bills.

I want to give a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who has joined in to support Newgrounds. I strongly believe this system is our way forward for the site and has unlimited potential. You WILL see results as our supporter numbers continue to climb. The dreams for this site are SO DAMN BIG and we will all go there together! Not in a death cult way I swear.

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Pixel Day is tomorrow! Celebrate by uploading your own original pixel art, pixel animation, pixel game or chiptune. Tag your entry with "pixelday" and our favorite item in each category will win $100! Horrible artist? Try anyway, pixel art is fun. I'll be uploading some Dr. Bees fan art.

Pico Day is May 7th and you can celebrate by making a fan work of anything you've found here on NG. There is a $2,100 prize pool that will be DOUBLED if we hit 1,500 active supporters by March 16th. I thought that was an overly-ambitious goal on Wednesday but now I think we're actually gonna make it, thanks to the great people on the Wall of Honor!

Enjoy the snow if it's coming your way.


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Response to OMG THANK YOU!!! 2016-01-22 12:14:55 (edited 2016-01-22 12:15:57)


That's awesome! Happy for y'all!

Edit, I overlooked what I think was an answer to my "sustainability or growth" question.


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Response to OMG THANK YOU!!! 2016-01-22 12:21:50


At 1/22/16 12:14 PM, Phobotech wrote: That's awesome! Happy for y'all!

Is the 1K goal for sustainability or growth?

The original goal was 1K monthly subscribers, so there would be predictable revenue to roughly cover hosting each month. It was weird to just promote monthly subscriptions though so the new short-term goal became 1K active subscribers, with the monthly financial goal of $4K remaining.

The current goals are about sustainability and we are going through some expensive transitions right now but I'm feeling good overall about where things are headed.


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Response to OMG THANK YOU!!! 2016-01-22 12:24:31


Good to hear @tomfulp :3


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Response to OMG THANK YOU!!! 2016-01-22 12:26:29


Amazing. Just amazing. By the way, please look at my news and message me if you want to do the loop thing.

Response to OMG THANK YOU!!! 2016-01-22 12:28:18


That's very cool, glad it worked!


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At 1/22/16 12:26 PM, IanEllard wrote: Amazing. Just amazing. By the way, please look at my news and message me if you want to do the loop thing.

Oh interesting! If I made a loop, it would likely be a voice-to-music converter like the one I used in My Name is Tom. I'll have to dabble with that and see if I can make anything interesting.


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Response to OMG THANK YOU!!! 2016-01-22 12:31:31


by the way, how do you become a member of staff?

Response to OMG THANK YOU!!! 2016-01-22 12:32:28


I still haven't closed the banner.
I'm keeping the banner.
You can't stop me.
(Sorry for being poor, newgrounds is awesome, will subscrube when things get better <3)


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Response to OMG THANK YOU!!! 2016-01-22 12:35:05


Well how could it not work, the juxtaposition of your in memoriam portrait coupled with the audacity of a jimmy wales appeal to the feels is incredibly humorous.

Can't speak for anyone else but i love a good laugh, that said though i'd been mulling it over prior already, partly because i'm of the persuasion that advertising is not entirely of the devil and i have mixed feelings about paywalls or things that may end up resembling them. You know, open access culture and all that jazz.

Still i suppose that ship may have actually sailed out of port a longer time ago then i would have noticed and this is just the
state of the web right here and right now, so let's row with the new realities it comes with.


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Response to OMG THANK YOU!!! 2016-01-22 12:38:24


How exciting! Congrats Tom, NG deserves ALL THE SUPPORTERS!

Response to OMG THANK YOU!!! 2016-01-22 12:42:45


Sweet! :D I checked the supporter just a day ago and it was just abit over 2000$. Way to go NG! Also what creepy banner? can anyone show it ?

Response to OMG THANK YOU!!! 2016-01-22 12:44:08


At 1/22/16 12:13 PM, TomFulp wrote: Something magical happened yesterday... We tried a mock-Wikipedia style banner promoting the Supporter Upgrade and IT WORKED! It worked beyond our wildest dreams.

I didn't see it :/ anyone got a screenshot?
Anyways. Congrats dude.


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Response to OMG THANK YOU!!! 2016-01-22 12:45:53


At 1/22/16 12:13 PM, TomFulp wrote: Enjoy the snow if it's coming your way.

Living in Canada, it's more of a hindrance, but in the spirit of this development, I will try my best to enjoy the snow during my drive to work :)

Response to OMG THANK YOU!!! 2016-01-22 12:47:22


At 1/22/16 12:42 PM, yeahha wrote: Sweet! :D I checked the supporter just a day ago and it was just abit over 2000$. Way to go NG! Also what creepy banner? can anyone show it ?

http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/30202ad97db4496e7b6dea5e4556d31d


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Response to OMG THANK YOU!!! 2016-01-22 12:48:13


At 1/22/16 12:31 PM, IanEllard wrote: by the way, how do you become a member of staff?

Staff will likely remain a static number for a while - no hiring going on at the moment. In terms of moderators, new moderators are generally recommended by existing moderators.


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Response to OMG THANK YOU!!! 2016-01-22 12:51:18


At 1/22/16 12:35 PM, AliceMako wrote: Can't speak for anyone else but i love a good laugh, that said though i'd been mulling it over prior already, partly because i'm of the persuasion that advertising is not entirely of the devil and i have mixed feelings about paywalls or things that may end up resembling them. You know, open access culture and all that jazz.

I would like to keep NG as open as possible in terms of what is available to the general public vs supporters. There's just that pressure that comes from people demanding more perks before they support... I would ultimately like to reduce ads if we have enough supporters to make it possible, however I don't see them going away. The video ads are still a good source of revenue for artists, I would just like to see them work a lot better than they do currently. Part of our problem there is that we are blocked from the Google exchange, which is where most of the video ad action takes place. We use other providers but sometimes their tech crosses paths with Google tech and it blocks the ad as well. It's a mess.


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Response to OMG THANK YOU!!! 2016-01-22 12:51:40


At 1/22/16 12:38 PM, CaptKirky wrote: How exciting! Congrats Tom, NG deserves ALL THE SUPPORTERS!

Agreed!


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Response to OMG THANK YOU!!! 2016-01-22 12:53:13


This is great to hear, I love this site and I've used it since I was young but just recently signed up - keep it up Tom

Response to OMG THANK YOU!!! 2016-01-22 12:53:39


Love you Tom, and I love NG. I hope we can keep this place going as long as possible, This is the only place left on the internet that feels like home for me.


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Response to OMG THANK YOU!!! 2016-01-22 12:54:29


I have been meaning to become a supporter for soooo long. I think this monthly sub will definitely be the thing I need to accomplish this.

Only problem that I kinda have is Paypal. But you mentioned transitioning to another service? Think you'll be able to support the debit card method?

Also, so happy you met your goal!

Response to OMG THANK YOU!!! 2016-01-22 13:00:14


We Supporters are the viagra that keep Newgrounds firm and erect. Good work, everyone.

Response to OMG THANK YOU!!! 2016-01-22 13:00:20


NG is alive baby!

Response to OMG THANK YOU!!! 2016-01-22 13:12:02 (edited 2016-01-22 13:21:49)


At 1/22/16 12:51 PM, TomFulp wrote:
I would like to keep NG as open as possible in terms of what is available to the general public vs supporters. There's just
that pressure that comes from people demanding more perks before they support...

Completely understandeable but at this stage in the game, people should know full well this is about keeping the operation afloat way, way more then gosh here's some perks. And don't worry, you did make it abundantly clear, i'm just voicing my own biases in order to dispell them.


I would ultimately like to reduce ads if we have enough supporters to make it possible, however I don't see them going
away. The video ads are still a good source of revenue for artists, I would just like to see them work a lot better than they
do currently.

And why would they go away at all, they're absolutely everywhere and revenue doesn't stink. One thing i was not joking about a while back was perhaps consider preloader/pauze button ads for audio too, the content is here so why not monetize it, just because we're handing it out for free does not mean it did not cost us to produce it.


Part of our problem there is that we are blocked from the Google exchange, which is where most of the video ad action
takes place. We use other providers but sometimes their tech crosses paths with Google tech and it blocks the ad as
well. It's a mess.

Which undoubtedly needs looking into, if not for the lack of manpower/expertise/hours in the day and so on. Always something to overcome isn't there, but with user support rolling in hopefully we can all help ease the burden at least somewhat :)


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At 1/22/16 12:47 PM, TomFulp wrote:
At 1/22/16 12:42 PM, yeahha wrote: Sweet! :D I checked the supporter just a day ago and it was just abit over 2000$. Way to go NG! Also what creepy banner? can anyone show it ?
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/30202ad97db4496e7b6dea5e4556d31d

Oooooooh okay. That explains why I was seeing people posting that.
Very. Very creepy.


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Response to OMG THANK YOU!!! 2016-01-22 13:23:21


Congrats on reaching 1K+ supporters, Tom! I hope someday I'll become one too.
(Also, I'd like some snow, but oh well...)


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Response to OMG THANK YOU!!! 2016-01-22 13:27:19


At 1/22/16 12:54 PM, OdellAtkinson wrote: Only problem that I kinda have is Paypal. But you mentioned transitioning to another service? Think you'll be able to support the debit card method?

No plans at the moment for another service. Paypal should be able to bill a credit card each month, not sure about debit though.


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Response to OMG THANK YOU!!! 2016-01-22 13:35:27


So happy that you and everyone involved at newgrounds could acchieve this goal! Congratulaciones and lets make that stretch goal in no time :)

I can testify that the creepy banner worked, because I had no idea about the campaign until yesterday :P

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Way to go Newgrounds! Thinks are really looking for up for us and I cant wait to see what the future holds for us at this rate.

Say about that banner I never got around to seeing it. Think you can post it ;)


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Response to OMG THANK YOU!!! 2016-01-22 13:41:43


At 1/22/16 01:12 PM, AliceMako wrote: And why would they go away at all, they're absolutely everywhere and revenue doesn't stink. One thing i was not joking about a while back was perhaps consider preloader/pauze button ads for audio too, the content is here so why not monetize it, just because we're handing it out for free does not mean it did not cost us to produce it.

I'm not biased at all thinking that advertisement is the closest thing we have to mind-control (advertisement firms have even started to measure people's brain activity watching different ads to figure out what triggers that special-sauce trauma response to milk people's insecurities even more effectively) but just in terms of the logistics of actually listening to audio, I can't help but think this is a bad idea. I like this site for being a portal to connect with creators, in fact coming here was the first time anyone ever approached me to use my music. If those people have to sit through ads that might approach the length of a good, dense loop, for instance (30 seconds-ish, for an intro or something like that), I can't imagine being in their position trying to find something that works even ok for their game, let alone going through the time and effort to find me.


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