After some positive feedback from k00b on a comment I made, I decided to get a media kit in the works for SN so everyone has access to quality promotional materials for growing Stacker news, a territory, or persona.
The primary purpose of a media kit is to equip bloggers, YouTubers, influencers, makers, doers, companies, and projects with the tools to link to and portray SN the way we want to be portrayed.
A media kit typically includes brand logos, color hex codes, fonts, brand language & tone, product offerings, videos intros & highlights, production templates, website banners, and more.
For stacker news, I put together what is just the beginning of a suite of promotional tools that can be used by writers, websites, blogs, social media influencers, podcasters, YouTubers, and even as print media. We will expand this as needed through iteration, community contributions, and zaps.
Use this media kit at your discretion to drive traffic to your favorite territory, profile page, favorite post, or even just your own referral link to SN home feed.
If you would like to add to this media kit, please let me know. In FOSS fashion, I want us all to build this.

Brand Logo

We need official png files of the "SN" logo as well as "Stacker News" logo. Can someone upload hi-res logos in the comments?

Brand Language

This is up to the owners but here's some lingo that I propose. Again, since nobody can stop you from making up your own catch phrases, I welcome any contributions you might have for any brand language.
Stacker.News Do Work. Earn Sats.
Stack News. Stack Sats.
Stacker.News Earn Sats.
Stacker News. It’s like Reddit but you earn sats.
Stack News. Stack Memes. Stack Music. Stack Art. Stack Movies. Stack Podcasts. Stack Sats.

Brand Font

Is there an official SN font that we should be using in all of our media?

Color Hex Codes

As far as I can tell, these are the only hex codes that the site uses. Maybe k00b can confirm the exact hex codes and I can get them added to the next version.
SN Yellow: #f8da5e SN Black: #000000 SN White: #ffffff

Website Banners

These banners are all just static banners and in limited sizes but as we grow and get more zaps, we can expand these and make them more targeted for each territory and niche. I just paid like $30 to have these made on Fiverr. If you want to make some for your own territory or niche, please feel free to make it happen and we can get the added to the media kit for everyone to use.
970 x 250

728 x 90

320 x 50 (Mobile)

250 x 250

300 x 250

300 x 600

That's it for now. I will do some outreach to get any bitcoin influencers and see if they're interested in adding a banner to their site. I will probably make an entirely new post about how we can do some outreach to actually get people to add links and banners to SN.
Please don't be shy. If you want to contribute to this media kit, please just comment with ideas, recommendations, images, brand lingo, etc.
Prepare your banners with "Pay to Post"...
don't say I didn't warned you
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121 sats \ 2 replies \ @nichro 25 Oct
P2P Peer-to-peer Pay-to-post
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daaang good catch!
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That's...amazing.
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I hear you, man. I appreciate your angle.
I will get some "Pay To Post" banners made.
How do you feel about the whole "v4v" mantra? Do you like "Pay To Post" better?
What about "If you only knew the power of pay to post"
"Pay to post or face the wrath of the empire"
"I find your lack of pay to post disturbing"
"Pay to Post, you rebel scum"
"The empire will compensate you if your post is worthy"
"I want to know what happened to the sats you paid to post"
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hahahaha nice collection!
"Pay to Post, you shitcoin scum"
I like this one, for shitcoiners.
"I find your lack of posts disturbing"
V4V also works.
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Paid services are better services. There is no such thing as "free". "free" does not exist. Someone somewhere somehow is paying for everything we use it's just how it is.
There is no free.
And the fact that SN is pay-to-post is why it's better than 98% of the places on the internet (better than the "free" places at least... that actually sell ads to operate)
And it's why imo Nostr will not make it without pay-to-post as well
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I agree. Pay to post is what makes SN so amazing.
"Turn off Freebies" and "Filter by Sats" should probably become more prominent methods of us controlling what we all see in our own feeds.
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Hahahha good one. Maan these memes should be saved for monday contest. I will vote yours. Are really funny
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haha!
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In my opinion if a post, to share with the world isn't worth 100 sats (about 7 cents) then it probably wasn't worth sharing to begin with.
On the other hand there's NOSTR where "everything is free" and "post as much as you want" and it's... Full of low-effort, sub-7 cent posts everywhere.
Generally speaking you get what you pay for. SN in it's current form > Nostr
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Agreed. You gotta pay to play (p2p)
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www? I think is unnecessary
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I agree but without it I think that "Stacker.News" isn't instantly recognized as a url.
I left that decision up to the guy who designed it.
For territory specific banners, I will have something like "Stacker.News/~Music" to show that it's a URL.
Thanks for your input though. I appreciate it.
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~Music being the one that came to your mind first as an example makes me happy 😁
You can have a brofist from pub 👊
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Yeah, ~music, ~art, ~movies, ~memes, ~videos, ~pics, ~tutorials, ~DIY, are some of the first territories I want to get banners made for.
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suggestion:
stackers.news/~meta
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🫡
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This is awesome. Thank you for your contribution. Of course I believe stacker news doesn't need to be just about Bitcoin.. why would we limit it that way? How about "earn sats for sharing ideas" or something like that? Not everyone wants to talk Bitcoin
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110 sats \ 4 replies \ @nichro 25 Oct
First thing I thought too. All those banners look better if they just say "Earn sats for discussing" and leave out Bitcoin
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Yes, as the media kit grows, we will make territory-specific banners so it will be something like "Earn sats for sharing your favorite music" for the ~Music territory.
"Earn sats for curating art" in the ~art territory. "Earn sats for sharing dope memes" in the ~memes territory and so on...
Since bitcoin is what brought most of us here to SN, that was the easy choice for the first round of banners I had made.
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That's a really great idea.
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🫡
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That's another good option. Let's orange pill some folks and teach them the power of sats
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I appreciate your feedback. I also believe that SN needs to be about a lot more than bitcoin but the zaps are how we will slowly orange pill new users.
I like "Earn sats for sharing ideas". I have some ideas for some gif ads but will be a bit of work to make them.
Keep the ideas flowing, Dave.
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I appreciate your consideration. I really want to think big and be inviting. That's just the words that came to me off the top of my head.
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If stacker was only for talking Bitcoin I wouldn't use it. Even though I am a bitcoiner.. let's invite everyone to earn sats.
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Very nice.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @mo 29 Oct
Much needed! Thanks. The only thing I’ll add, would be the same corner-radius the buttons have here on SN for those yellow triangle shapes in the banners.
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Some brand language from the SN twitter profile...
"Reddit gives you upvotes. We give you bitcoin."
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Before or after 5th Nov?
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Both before and after. Stacker news doesn't give you anything but sats via rewards.
If someone else zaps you and you're not setup to receive them directly, then they send cowboy credits instead.
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Excellent initiative my friend, don't give up, at SN we need people who are always looking for improvements.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Cje95 25 Oct
Fantastic kit you threw together! Having this I think could really help benefit people posting in other places about SN and thus help drive further engagement!
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Thanks for your kind words. I also hope people find it useful.
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