Data on WagMedia's NFT Content Creators Guild: December 2022 - February 2023
I. Overview
Originally led by PNin (https://x.com/BalanceBorn?s=20), the NFT Content Creators Guild (“NFT Guild”) focuses on producing original content, research, and analyses of NFT projects and technologies, digital art and collectibles, and other related genres.
Approved for funding via the Kusama Governance in January 2023, the NFT Guild has a budget of 2,657 KSMs for 26 weeks. (https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/70)
The Guild is a continuation of a unit that was previously part of WagMedia’s Bounty #12. The NFT Guild continues to use tools developed by WagMedia (@thatMediaWag).
The data on content production and payouts are based on a native spreadsheet for WagMedia’s NFT Guild treasury, reported publicly on https://report.wagmedia.xyz/.
The data and calculations reported in this article are not audited, and certain numbers are approximate and subject to different interpretations and potential errors. Please let me know (@vampsyfear) if you see any errors.
II. Content Production
This article focuses on content for which a payout was awarded from December 2022 through February 2023. (The payout date lags the publication date).
The NFT Guild was approved for funding in January 2023 and commenced payouts in February 2023. The NFT Guild retroactively paid for content published in December and January (prior to approval) at a rate of 50 percent the standard rate. This article focuses on content for which a payout was awarded from December 2022 through February 2023. (The payout date lags the publication date).
During this 3-month period, 27 content creators produced 71 original content for the NFT Guild, of which 22 were videos and 49 were articles and/or threads.
The creator and payout for each content produced in the NFT Guild are listed in Appendix 2 below.
Payouts
The payouts for this period ranged from a low of 0.09 KSMs to a high of 2.1 KSMs for video and a low of 0.09 KSMs to a high of 2.0 KSMs for articles and threads.
The distribution of the payouts are reported below. For example, less than 10% of videos received a payout of 1.8 KSMs or more, less than 25% of articles and threads received a payout of 0.48 KSMs or more.
The payout depends on the creator’s “tier” and assessed quality of the content. For this period, content produced in December and January (prior to the funding of NFT Guild) was paid at a rate of 50%, as described above.
Creators
From December 2022 through February 2023, 27 creators produced original content for the NFT Guild. In total, 40.54 KSMs were paid out, which works out to an average of 0.57 KSMs per creator. The data on each creator are reported below. For example, Dr. Cao produced 14 original content and received a payout of 10.86 KSMs in total, which was approximately 0.78 KSMs (to two decimals) on average per content.
III. Content Scores
The NFT Guild scores content produced within the guild. The scores are based on 6 factors: (1) Accuracy, (2) Ease, (3) Originality, Depth, and Relevance, (4) Presentation, (5) X-Factor, (6) AI Use / Plagiarism, with a score of 0 to 10 assigned to each factor. For (1) - (5), 10 is the best score, for (6), 0 is the best score. For the purposes of this article, the score for (6) was calculated as 10 minus the score, to make it comparable to the others. The scores for each factor were added, and in cases in which more than one reviewer scored the content, the scores were averaged.
The data on content scores were provided by the NFT Guild. In total, there were 37 original content published from December 2022 through January 2023 that were given a score, of which 23 were produced by Tier 2 creators and 14 were produced by Tier 3 creators.
The scores data loosely, but not fully, correspond to the data from the WagMedia treasury above, which are based on the payout date (which lags the publication date). Therefore, the scores reported in this article are limited to December through January.
Tier 2 creators generally scored higher than Tier 3 creators, as reported in the figure below. For example, the average score of Tier 2 creators was 46.5 vs. 42.9 for Tier 3 creators, the top 25th percentile score for Tier 2 creators was 53.0 vs. 48.5 for Tier 3 creators.
The tables below show the content produced by Tier 2 creators scoring 50 points or more and Tier 3 creators scoring 45 points or more.
The live links to these top-scoring content are in Appendix 1 below.
Appendix 1: Links to Top-Scoring Content
https://twitter.com/csaint02/status/1615810540760334337?s=20&t=0nkSX-10C2obbsZXi0Xb-w
https://twitter.com/ProphetDotsama/status/1615281365343440898?s=20&t=6ZC7OVecqpeqF-dCnQmUYg
https://twitter.com/ProphetDotsama/status/1604117815552004096
https://twitter.com/xpnp404/status/1598629705279713280?s=20&t=bQAniWRsfk_OrQ_4KJYbFg
https://twitter.com/ProphetDotsama/status/1601153193756327937
https://twitter.com/ElementsKusama/status/1605835559208857600?t=WIniiopv5sFZlIuT2wNzMA&s=19
https://twitter.com/jesseblessed3/status/1619462967086698496?t=XO-mKbMv67xN_Py6uCtyQg&s=19
https://twitter.com/ThePhunky1/status/1604899417869275137?s=20&t=AkAeDd4WqbF08KUSrsBT8w
https://twitter.com/dr_preposterous/status/1617757081360289794?s=46&t=B4DWkPaA2Vd1nLl1VuPR2A
https://twitter.com/neurolauncher/status/1600124988987625472?s=46&t=0_unWR9BMLM0B044w8G_dg
Appendix 2: List of All Content
The data for each content produced from December 2022 through February 2023 are listed in the tables below.