Youtube videos promoting ingress made by local Ingress communities.
Dear all,
The following is the first result of another one self -brainstorming session about ingress.
How about creating a series of such videos , mini documentaries or episodes i might dare to say,made by local ingress communities in order to "promote" ingress. It would be a challenge for local agent groups to engage and introduce their cities or countries to the ingress community world.
The ideas about the content creation, locations for the making of the videos, what will be said are endless. Maybe a central review from niantic will be needed because the official youtube channel of Ingress should be used to broadcast. Of course all social media channels of ingress and niantic must help to promote such a community driven idea, and as far as i can understand a link to a youtube video can easily be widely shared at great speed.
No professional actors , possibly no costs or minimal ones as existing social media infrastructure can be used and i am sure there are many ingress enthousiasts out there willing to help and spead the news
In my opinion it can have multiple positive impact. Community was ,is and will be a great asset for Ingress and an increase in daily in-game active agents will only benefit our game as also an increase in social media presense could help in financial terms.
As i already stated , i had this idea in a self brainstorming session and it surely needs more work and effort to be finalized.
Comments
Historically, players have been the ones making all the social content for Ingress anyway. It helps to have Niantic direct an idea though.
It's a really good idea, I just don't think there's much point in just distributing it through Niantic channels.
You won't end up reaching any more people than you already have. The goal of this campaign is certainly to get attention in the social media. But for that you need active users and not just a brand account.
In my region unfortunately only a few players are "active" in social media in terms of Ingress. But still, I like your idea, I already thought it was great to make the application for Niantic Live 2020 with costumes, introduce the city. It was fun but it's hard to motivate people for that and find someone to help.
So like the old Ingress Obsessed videos that I can't seem to currently locate on youtube ?
@EvilSuperHeros do you mean videos like that ? Thank you very much for the opportunity to watch them for the first time.
The enthousiasm is dominant and that is something needed to come back.
Something like those might help promote the game.
There are two different ops, one for Resistance and one for Enlightened that are good watches. Each are two parts.
Resistance is Operation River City Blues
Part One
Part Two
Enlightened is Operation Solar Flare
Part One
Part Two
Found a playlist for Ingress Obsessed videos.
I might be a bit biased on the River City Blues one, as I was part of the Op and threw some large fields (which remained my largest until 2019) But it was a big push to get our local community more involved after that Op. Fielding Ops are a great way to get people more involved in the game. It's one of the things that have kept me involved and helped a few others stay involved.
The Ingress Report has been requested recently to be brought back. This is something agents really liked. Wouldn't even really need a reported actor or actress, maybe something a Vanguard could do, or something that a Community Guide could help get actual agents to do?
*Updated video links
If you want to make it, you should do it. They very well may redistribute it if you do a good job.