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[phodcast]

congrats for correctly predicting a photoshop insta reel 🎉 i immediately thought about you when i saw that video

hehe thank you 🙈 as soon as I saw that photoshop was following d&p I just knew we were gonna get one LOL I could feel it

[goldenpinof]

honestly you have to be dan howell to have your domain expire on the day you are supposed to have a ticket sale asdfghjkl can this guy get some rest from the universe

can this guy get a team that actually cares about his career

[deadandphilgames]

allie i support your pinof agenda, we can manifest it

i so badly want to manifest but i also fear the power that a gay pinof would have

[goldenpinof]

no video or other posts promoting today's ticket sale over the weekend - so Dan really wants most dedicated phannies to get their tickets first. it's both smart (because they are more likely to provide good quality interactions) and sweet (this is for us and for him and is kind of a celebration of the whole wad era). so i think that if there are any tickets left after today he will promote the shows more because it's good to have sold out shows when you're recording them. and if there's no promo then his new team is just as shitty as the previous one asdfghjkl

ahahaha, obsessed with "will he, won't he? promote the shows"!

i really thought they would upload a gaming video yesterday and show the poster there or something. like, it made sense in my head. but Dan just dipped completely after the announcement. king. now i hope they don't upload today! maybe, it would really be wise to wait and see how the ticket sales go and, if not so good, then drop a video this week. + normal instagram post. his team is aiming for sold out shows and maybe that's why the venue is so small. they are not making the original tour mistakes here. good for them!

[goldenpinof]

about Dan's initial marketing strategy for wad: i think he (not only his management) wanted to appeal to a wider audience but with the content of the show it was not fully possible. there are too many phandom references and he talks a lot about his lore, it's not neutral enough (even though a lot of gay men could find his story relatable, I'm talking especially about the ending.) but also the promo was done mostly within our community, except for a few interviews. i would actually love to know how many people outside of the phandom saw the show and i mean total locals, not friends and families of phannies who were dragged along

i'd pay so much money for the analysis, Katie. ratio of demographics in general and by country/leg. new people/phannies, where people found out about the show, and etc.

the marketing was all over the place. those interviews, i don't think he even linked all of them to us, so they were for the locals. the things said in those interviews were also trying to appeal to everyone but also confirm his relationship with Phil. and it's like, if you know you know. but damn, it must be confusing for the outsiders.

on the other hand, if he wanted to push it more for the locals there would have been outdoor posters. was it just a money problem? idk. if i were him, i'd push in that direction, because digital was clearly not enough. and digital was for us more than for the locals (and still, there was not enough digital marketing if you ask me. the amount of promo we did within ourselves! especially in/for Europe, i think).

i'm not gonna write another essay, i just wanna say that, he either didn't get a new proofreader or is making posters himself. because, on boi, fucked up wad marketing is alive and well 😌 it's not that hard to ask someone to look at images for the 1st time and see if the text is centred. it's not that hard to check rulers in photoshop. and NOW these posters shouldn't be rushed, it doesn't make sense for them to be rushed.

[goldenpinof]

I'll never forget when some promoter in Amsterdam tried to make phannies believe that dan doesn't like fan projects. our dan. who literally cried when people put up rainbow lights at the end of a show

right! it still bothers me because that man literally lied on Dan's behalf. and that could be a potential lawsuit (defamation). public image damages -> financial damages. he got lucky we knew that it was a lie, so it didn't change our perception of Dan. don't cause damage to your clients by spreading lies, it's not that hard.

[goldenpinof]

Ben talk on the day of the gay wedding??? how dare you 😂 (that was the worst part of my year and i wish i was kidding)

people stop bringing up Edinburgh challenge. 2024: we don't talk about Edinburgh.

[goldenpinof]

so the tickets were supposed to be on sale at 12 but something went wrong with the website and they moved the sale to 3pm? lmao. also the link on Dan's page doesn't work for me and it takes me to the main website of the venue, i had to look for the show myself idk if it's like that for everyone

yeah, the link on Dan's website goes to the main page, and funnily Dan's show isn't even there. you have to click on "what's on" separately to see wad listed there. they couldn't link the show's page right away because it didn't exist until like 20 mins ago 😭 but yikes, as always.