Engagement Mining - Distribution Adjustment Trial

Welcome back BBSers!

Recently, we've had several discussions around disabling the revenue mechanics tied to Partnership.

We were very happy to see all the participation in these discussions, and grateful for the feedback that was given around the topic.

After examining the feedback received, we've decided not to remove partnership revenue at this time. Instead, we will be reducing the Engagement Mining program's Maximum CPM to a realistic market average of $5. As with the previous reduction of maximum CPM this means that, while the total rewards boards receive will remain the same, a greater portion of the board rewards will be distributed into the board's Community Pool to be used for Super Comments or manual distribution. 

Alongside this change, we are also lowering the minimum tip amount with a Super Comment to $0.50 to give owners and moderators more options to use the funds from the Community Pool. The Maximum CPM will be reduced with the next Reward distribution, and the minimum tip amount has been changed to $0.50 with this announcement.

In a future update, we will also be adding the ability for unregistered users to generate impressions for posts published on BBS. While this is not a small addition, and will need some time in development and testing, including impressions from unregistered users will better incentivize partners to promote published posts externally and better reward 'viral' content.

We're looking forward to seeing boards continue to develop their own rewards model for their members and discover the best ways to utilize Engagement Mining rewards to fuel board growth!