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thomclyma

A few ideas for the Creatures

I want the Creatures to grow and succeed, so I figured out a few ideas that can help improve or strengthen their brand.

-Pilot videos

They're always trying out new shows or concepts that either get overly complicated or get dropped with no explanation. By having a series set as a test/pilot will help to gauge the fans response and see what needs to be tweaked. It would remove the pressure to always have a series be a hit from the start and remove fans asking about the status of a certain series.

-Have an actual Public Relations agent.

Right now, we have Intern Joe handling Twitter, which also links to facebook; James trying to handle Reddit, and I've heard that Arin tries to handle emails. Managing PR can be a full-time job but it would allow for information to be centralized to one person. There'd be one person to turn to during drama, or put out information. I'm not saying that Joe isn't doing a great job on twitter, because he is, I'm saying that we need someone who the sole PR person and not afraid to be the bad guy and tell bad news.

-Stop hyping your stuff up

While it's always good to get momentum going for a project, we've seen a lot of projects get overly hyped, and either never comes to light or falls too far from the expectations. This has been happening an increasing amount, where they'll tease something on social media or Creaturetalk, followed up by weeks or months of more teasing, and then we never hear anything about it. You can easily promote things without rising the hype up too far. I understand that you're excited about a project, but find a balance, and maybe only talk about a project after it's ready to be released, and within normal "We have a thing" rather than "new monumental thing that will change the Creatures!".

-Fans challenge stream

Try to play with fans 1v1 like with the King. Have one of the Creatures get onto a game like CSGO, Smash, or any game like that with they feel are the best at and take challenges from fans. If a fan wins, they get some small merch like a lanyard. Do this once or twice a month on stream, maybe even a Mactar version where fans try to beat Mactar. The matches would only be a few months, so they could do a few challenges a stream but draw in a large crowd.

-Organize the site

Right now, there's currently no reason to visit the website. There's no original content, everything there is more easily to access on other sites (youtube and twitter), and it's all but ignored by the fan base. The newest news is from early November, that should show how little it's updated. Use the site to put up unusual content like Artist Joe did with the comics. Maybe show notes for the elephant toothpaste, tips for using blow darts, other games to play with the shock game they did. Just some behind-the-scenes things. This wouldn't even have to be hidden. Link the pages at the end credits of the video or in the descriptions.

These aren't perfect ideas, not by a long-shot, but just figured that rather than complaining, I'd try and help the best I could.

Posted Feb 21, 2016, 8:36 PM UTC

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