Hey @plurBUDDHA, thanks for your input and kind words
It’s a great question.
The main purpose of the videos is education, and breaking down complex topics associated with Nervos (there’s many) into something easier to understand. The explainer format is mostly aimed at being easy on the eye and giving some visual representation to the topics discussed.
As a slight tangent: when the Nation team was shortlisting an animation team for the videos (end of 2021), we looked at quite a lot of candidates through Upwork. The standards were of varying quality, most were slightly cheaper but the animations weren’t as crisp and looked more amateurish. Where Brightbulb stood out was that the animation quality was good, and the transitions from one scene to another were good. The latter was important to me as it gives everything much more of a professional feel.
I know what you mean about being more visually distinct. Ahrom’s videos (he’s the video whiz at Nervos) have that cinematic and glitzy appeal which is great for marketing and captivating the audience. I feel like it’s ok for the explainers to not be quite like that because the main aim is to convey the concepts effectively. Sometimes explainers can seem a bit samey as there seems to be a particular formula, but another plus for me was that they created their own visual assets from scratch (not taking from a library or reusing assets).
The other thing when weighing up the value, which is what @Yeti pointed out, is that these videos will hopefully be useful to future people who take an interest in Nervos - a lot of the information that relates to the core architecture will be relevant for months or years to come.
The other bit of added value, is that the main Nervos Network Youtube account has taken many of the existing Nation videos and spliced them into bitesize clips that cover specific points, which it then publishes on its own account and creates content around. So each video - because of the focus on content and quality - does spawn many additional content pieces for the Foundation and community to use.
Lastly, one of the things the recent videos have been missing is a bit of ad support. For the earlier videos I did run some google ad campaigns which brought in more views (I don’t know how many of those views were actually good quality leads - promoted videos had a slightly higher percentage of dislikes ) which was partly reimbursed and partly I paid for it myself, but reimbursements stopped when the videos started being spliced and put on the main channel and I couldn’t really continue to fund ads myself. So that’s the other thing this proposal addresses - use of google ads to improve the visibility of the videos (I also think subconsciously people are more attracted to click videos that already have a large number of views)