Eric Tapper

Hey oni -

Thanks for touching base - Archie Comics pulled their content shortly after our announcement due to some contractual issues involving their distributor.

What you're seeing is a bug on our side that I've flagged for my team to fix, as Archie's content is not available as of the time of this message (November 15, 2024). It is not geoblocked to any specific country - it is simply not available on platform right now.

I cannot officially say whether or not we will be bringing their content back, but I am hopeful that will be the case in the near future. Please follow their page to be the first to be notified of their return.

Warmly,

Eric

Ah, I see. iOS = mobile/iPhone, MacOS = desktop/laptop, that's why I was confused 😅

That said - can you send me the zip file that wasn't properly uploading @ [email protected] so I can test it on my end?

Hi @UMC - sorry for any confusion here. I am able to recreate the issue on Chrome on an iPhone, so you're not alone.

At this time we recommend you utilize desktop/laptop for utilizing the publishing tools as they're currently optimized for that set up. We'll be improving the upload for phones over time but your fastest solution is going to be working on a computer. That said, the system should be able to unzip or handle nearly any file so we'll need to look into what the issue is.

If you don't have access to a computer at this time, shoot us an email @ [email protected] and we'll help you so you don't have to go through that same process.

Hi @Adriano - thank you for mentioning this and I'm sorry for any inconvenience / missed expectations. I'm looking into this now with @SourcePointPress and will give you an update this week as soon as I know which titles we are missing and when they will be uploaded. Are there any specifics you've been looking for, or just the general updates from their catalog?

Thank you Dino. Marking this as in process so we can continue discussing with you via email with @Nimloth

@HCHaze let us know what other questions come up, and feel free to check out our webinars on youtube channel!

nice!

Howdy howdy and welcome @DaoistHLULS4 !!!

Feel free to also hop into our discord with the other creators: https://discord.gg/yQDqDYWBH6

Welcome @Bobsheese and @AJMarsh! So glad to have you here :)

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Welcome @Gordidon !!! 

Yes! Keep it coming ya'll!!! Love all of this awesome indie work. 

Agreed. @bob-artist seems to, as we say, know what they're doing. :) And we're honored to have their work up here, as well!

@tkeh Bob is really quite talented! Had you seen it before this feature?

Hey there and welcome to GC! This is a great question, and something I work on every day.

First things first - as we're on a browser, you can easily link any of the titles you're trying to promote directly into your existing newsletter and social channels. At GC we've been featuring comics each week, and then sharing out through the channels I mentioned, and making sure to tag all of the folks involved on twitter and IG so they can help spread the word as well. :) 

We've also been having success sharing comics in subreddits that match the psychographics of the story we want to share - for example, Robot Dance Club has somewhat of a dystopian spin to it, so the folks at r/cyberpunk or r/dystopia might find it interesting, if you say something like "I have this story about a dystopian future where humans are ignored and robots... DANCE. Thought you'd appreciate it."

You can apply this principle to Facebook groups and other organized communities in social channels. It can be broad too, like around 'robots' or 'mecha', or specific like 'fans of the Fifth Element' or other stories that have similar themes. Nothing is ever going to be a perfect comparison (this is good), but in a venn diagram you just need some overlap and the right messaging to reach a chunk of the group you're talking to.

For traffic, some single posts in these communities have generated hundreds of readers and over 5k pages read, for example. Minutes of effort = lots of eyeballs, though consistency is always going to yield the best results.

Other folks on the platform have also begun to run contests on their social media with rewards - so you can retweet for a chance to win access via promo codes to your catalog, or some other incentive that's already cooked up. I always try to limit the amount of extra work in more casual promotions, as you probably have a lot to work with already and plenty to do in the meantime, haha. 

The last thing I'll mention for now is that the analytics on this platform let you track who is actually clicking in. You generate a tracking code using something like this URL generator, and then share that link. For example if you post 10 different links of the same comic, you can ID the community with that URL's defined term (see the sheet). To use that sheet, put the info into the right side to generate the URL, and then you can manage the posting with the left side - who owns the post, what time, where to post, etc. It's a little rudimentary but should get the job done - it will eventually be built into the platform properly. :) 

(Note about reddit and displaying long links - when posting links, make sure to the use the 'link' option as it auto-shortens it for you. Twitter also auto shortens links when they're at the end of the tweet without any text after, and Facebook allows you to delete the text of the link once you paste it in the status box.)

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