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Hey there 👋,

We have a new logo in the header above! Top pixel artist Ian By Design turned my Moonbirds Oddity into into a great logomark, as well as a mascot which you’ll see dividing each section of this newsletter.

This now means that I’ve been able to add some awesome swag to the referral program through the beehiiv x Slingshot partnership.

I’ve gone with the enamel pins for the mascot, and a crown split, two-tone dad hat with the logomark. I can’t wait to get my hands on them.

Right now this is how the referral milestones look:

It’s a nice mix of digital products, services and real world merch, and I’ll be adding higher value swag as subscribers get closer to these referral milestones.

I’ll even be creating a leaderboard with prizes for my top referrers. You can grab your link to start referring/promoting today at the bottom of this email.

In this week’s newsletter, I discuss:

• Have ENS domains now bottomed?

• Website owners seen as creators

• Programmatic SEO acquisition

• Nike about to drop it’s own NFT collection

Cheers!

Richard Patey - @richardpatey

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🦅 Website Owners Rebranded as Creators

Adthrive & CafeMedia have rebranded as Raptive but what’s most interesting to me is the language and positioning about helping creators make a living doing what they love:

They’ve launched creator levels where you get additional benefits based on how much ad revenue you generate, such as SEO support, customized email marketing strategies, recruiting and HR operations consulting, executive coaching and even wealth management:

These benefits look so stacked that there may be an arbitrage play of buying websites with > 50,000 monthly sessions that are on other platforms and moving across to benefit.

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👑 The King of Programmatic SEO

Ian Nuttall, who has been building and selling programmatic SEO websites since 2017, and creator of Practical Programmatic, just acquired a competitor product:

Ian jokingly comments in one tweet in the thread:

NFTs

👟 Nike Dropping Own NFT

Nike has been going hard marketing their .Swoosh forthcoming drop next month. This is really big news as it will be converting its traditional web2 and sneaker audience into web3, in a similar way Reddit did with its collectible avatars.

Reddit sucessfully onboarded millions of users into NFTs by not using the term. And likewise, Nike are calling these boxes, rather than NFTs, and you need to use your debit / credit card to purchase:

The collection size is over 100K but I’m sure it will sell out:

You need to be a .swoosh member to access, I recently minted my membership ID (solebound token):

Which enables me to:

So what’s in the ‘Our Force 1’ (OF1) boxes?

Nike just dropped a thread stating there will be 3 different types of Air Force 1s (AF1):

• Archive - OG colorways and styles brought to life for the virtual era

• Generative - Unique, computer-generated trait combinations of never-before-seen AF1s.

• .Swoosh studio - Co-created originals from the Your Force 1 winning designers.

Regardless of whether you’re into brand Nike or sneakers, minting these for under $20 feels like a no brainer that could really cook (NFA!). The majority of owners (new to web3) will not initially know how to sell (bridge), let alone understand rares and floor prices.

CLASSIFIEDS

DOMAINS

I’ve been watching the 10K club of ENS (.eth) domains closely (mentioned in this post and last week) and it’s looking like it may have bottomed, with the market repricing due to the impact of renewals.

4 digit .eth domains dropped down as far as 0.399ETH two days ago, and have been rising since, now back up to a 0.58ETH floor.

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