Seven campaigns on forums, airdrops and tracker listings, which are the oldest formats in crypto marketing and the ones that still work when the newer channels stop. Each entry states what was built and what it produced.
433token: a Bitcointalk thread read 3,561 times
The thread was designed from scratch rather than posted as plain text, then kept alive with daily posts so that hype trackers such as ICO aggregators continued to register activity. It had been read 3,561 times by the point we recorded it.
Bitcointalk rewards persistence over polish. A thread posted once and abandoned sinks within a day; one maintained daily accumulates readership for months, which is why our campaigns there run for hundreds of days rather than weeks.
Bonfi: thread placement
A single announcement thread with ongoing maintenance. Included here because it is the minimum version of the format and shows what the floor looks like.
CryptoTalk: two clients, sustained threads
Threads for MOSS and DailyCoin, measured by post count and view count over time rather than by a launch spike. Smaller than Bitcointalk and useful for the same structural reason: forum threads persist and stay indexed, which makes them a durable search asset rather than a campaign.
Quora: 87 existing topics, 30 new ones
A client needed presence in discussions about trading tracking systems. We found 87 relevant existing topics and created 30 new ones, with copywriting prepared in advance and answers posted from separate accounts.
The reason Quora was worth doing is indexation: the platform is crawled heavily, so a well-formed answer becomes a search result of its own. We no longer offer this as a service because demand for it disappeared, which is a more honest note than leaving the page up implying otherwise.
TechPlay: an airdrop across four networks
The brief was to raise subscriber numbers across Telegram, X, Discord and Facebook simultaneously. A conditions document was agreed first, then a dedicated bot handled entry and verification. Running one campaign into four channels at once is harder to measure than it looks, because the same participant appears in all four counts.
MegaTech: an airdrop bot with a captcha
The same format with the addition that matters most. A captcha in the entry flow filters automated entries before they reach the participant count, and statistics were available in real time through admin commands rather than compiled afterwards.
Filtering at entry is the whole difference between an airdrop and a farm. Our guide to airdrop and task campaign design covers the task ladder that does this properly.
Monart: tracker and listing submissions
Submissions across ICO, STO and IEO trackers, starting from a structured information sheet completed by the client so every submission carried consistent data. We no longer run submissions on behalf of clients; projects do this themselves, and saying so is more useful than keeping a service page for something we stopped offering.
Why these formats outlast the others
Forum threads and tracker listings stay indexed. A paid campaign stops the day the budget stops, while a thread maintained for a year keeps accumulating readers and keeps appearing in search, and answer engines cite forum discussions as sources. That durability is the argument for them, not the immediate numbers.
For the current forum service, see Bitcointalk promotion.
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Other case studies
Campaigns grouped by discipline: PR, paid advertising, community, content production, influencer.