If you're going down the "what defines an influencer", I think that the amount of comments received with a reply thread greater than 2 should also come in to it as it shows that people value your content and it opens a discussion around it all. Kinda how Asher (@abh12345) does his engagement leagues - I'd say that "influence" in this definition is probably more real than just buying up steem power and having influence in post payouts but it all adds to the definition of it.
I've pretty much carried on how I did when I had 15SP delegated from steemit when I set my account up to where I am now at 25k SP. The EMA community has been really burned by crypto and steem from pre HF21 (particularly the bid bot economy) and it's been tough to even talk about crypto in our Discord with platforms like musicoin, choon, dsound and others making false promises about "real rewards for musicians"...
But it's a tough one to play at the moment as a lot of musicians would say "I'm not getting paid with Spotify or Soundcloud", yet, in the same breath, expect money to fall on their lap without thinking about the actual business/marketing side of things. Having said that, you can't argue with the listener numbers - 350 million+ users on Spotify - compared to that on steem so the tactic from my point of view is to try and build up the following on Twitter from my music and slowly introduce the notion of steem in 2020.
If only Spotify embed players were a thing on Steem, seems it doesn't work on Steempeak or steemit when posting a Spotify embed player (only soundcloud, which is crap for artists, and youtube, which we have seen in recent weeks, is not helping the little guys either).
Anyway, seems I have rambled enough now, hope you had a good Christmas!
Hmm, I think spotify embed should be easy to implement, I'll pass the message on to someone who could do the code and see if they'd be up for it if there's a need for it on Steem/it.
Thanks, it's been chill and looking forward to 2020, hope you had a good one as well!
Ah thanks a lot man, hopefully the Spotify embeds would be easy enough to do, I keep getting the "iframe not supported" when I post from my WordPress blog via Steempress.
Yes it was pretty chill thanks, am off work til 2nd Jan so just going to hit the reset switch I think over the next few days!
Also already got a reply about the embed, a community dev said he'll look into it. :)
Hey there guys,
Total agree with Nick about the embedded players.
Yep, this is a great news if music artists could embed Spotify, and.. Bandcamp tracks. A big step forward to spread the word about music to music lovers. But also, a great step in tech terms for steemit.
Happy new year 2020!
All the best! :0)
Bandcamp was requested by @pfunk along with the spotify embed so it's coming soon too! :)
Hey man!
Great, great news!! Thanks for the details.
And..
Happy new year!
Merci beaucoup! :0)
Damn, that was fast! Thanks to your community dev! That will definitely make sharing/curating Spotify playlists a lot easier if they can get it to work 🙂
Nice, gonna do some gaming/streaming? ^^
I'm about to tuck in to some leftover Xmas dinner and then I'll come join your stream - CS today? Just don't flash bang your electricity supply to oblivion this time haha!
Embedding a Spotify playlists on steemit should not be difficult. Given that you already have an account with them, maybe you can try some simple snippet of code like this next:
[](https://open.spotify.com/user/1240132288/playlist/66gGvFcv4FwidTxe32Nc5f)What would result in this colorful link below. };)
The only trouble with that is that someone has to do an extra step to listen to the music with this approach (hyperlinked image). If it can be made as easy as possible to have the actual Spotify player embedded in the post like you can with Youtube and Soundcloud then it would be a lot better IMO - everyone knows Spotify and it's got a huge userbase.
But thanks for the suggestion :)
Oh! I see. And I understand what you are looking for.
Well, since due to my current slowass bad internet connection, now and from long time ago, I can't avoid having to take that extra step to be able to listen the music whether it be from the embedded player of Youtube or Soundcloud within steemit's UI.
However, I'm pretty aware that you could save you that extra step and play the music right away from the UI if you simply have a half decent speedier connection. ;)
My pleasure! My suggestion is just to offer an unknown and brand new unsuspected perspective for those who never have had and enjoyed a darn sluggish internet connection. Hahahaha };)
@fknmayhem might know someone