Current Media — Weekly Update #6 🗞🌏
To say it has been a big week is an understatement. As of last night, we notified all of our private sale backers, and the process towards token distribution has begun. We’ll be working with all of them on an individual basis, and once everyone has completed their steps, we’ll be sharing KYC instructions with the rest of the process with airdrop, referral and bounty participants.
It has been a long road since we closed the sale, improving the iOS product, growing the user base to nearly 1,000,000 users, getting our Android product and network protocol release ready way ahead of schedule, hiring the best individuals we can find, developing partnerships, and working ensuring a compliant and successful token distribution.
We can’t thank our advisors, top-tier crypto funds, and many others who have helped us along the way and continue to help us navigate through token distribution. 😍
Now, lets get down to it. Here are the updates from the last few weeks of progress!
Marketing & Growth 🗞😃📈
We’ve added over approximately 600,000 new users to the Current App on iOS alone!!
Once Current App for Android is live, we’ll start running similar strategies specifically for that segment. We’re incredibly excited to expand our footprint and serve more users around the globe.
Apple App Ranking: Ongoing Update 🍎
There haven’t been many changes since our last update; however, Current has been search trending off and on as the rankings update every few hours over the previous weeks.
Here’s a recap of our top ranking achievements so far in Q2:
Current hit the #1 ranked app overall in the following countries:
- Canada 🇨🇦, United Kingdom 🇬🇧, Australia 🇦🇺, New Zealand 🇳🇿, South Korea 🇰🇷, Hong Kong 🇭🇰, South Africa 🇿🇦
Current hit the # 2 ranked app overall in the following countries:
- Indonesia 🇮🇩
Current hit the # 3 ranked app overall in the following countries:
- Brazil 🇧🇷, India 🇮🇳
Current hit the # 5 ranked app overall in the following countries:
- Mexico 🇲🇽
Current hit the Top #40 ranked app overall in the following countries:
- USA 🇺🇸
As we continue with our campaigns we’ll update everyone with the most recent results.
Product 👨🏻💻📲
CRNC Portal 🚀💯
Development and final testing on the CRNC Portal are now complete. As far as we’re aware, it’s the first of it’s kind. Created in collaboration with our legal counsel, it gives us the ability to securely and compliantly allow our private sale backers and airdrop recipients (after meeting the KYC eligibility requirements) to receive and transfer tokens in a more compliant manner. It’s ready for prime time!
Current App for Android: In Beta! 👾
The Android app is in its final stages of testing and is planned to be submitted for Google Play Store over the weekend. We’ll make an announcement as soon as it goes live. We already have some Beta testers in there squashing bugs 🐛. In the coming days, we plan to invite more users.
Here’s a video walk-through of the most recent build:
Current Wallet Waitlist: In Beta!📱
A new version of the Current App on iOS, that includes the ability to earn rewards from streaming media, is being submitted to the Apple App Store for review over the weekend. We’ll make another announcement as soon as it goes live. Once proved completely stable, we’ll roll out to the rest of the user base. We’re planning on adding a variety of new premium features that you’ll be able to redeem for in the near future.
Celebrity Partnerships 🤴
We have been working with a variety of top influencers in the music and media space who love what Current is doing and will be announcing some massive collaborations and related marketing campaigns in the coming weeks. Stay Tuned! A lot more to follow!
Where We’ll Be Next 🎉 📅
Glappitnova: Chicago, IL — July 18, 2018
This event is all about unlocking human potential getting different types of people and perspectives into the same space sharing what matters most. This highly curated event, held in a hidden warehouse in Chicago, brings a diverse mix of storytelling, panels, performances, art installations and more. Our very own Head of Product, Nick McEvily will be sitting on one of these panels to discuss Current and innovation in the blockchain space.
Voice of Blockchain: Chicago, IL — August 24–25, 2018
Join Current, along with 300 exhibitors, top-speakers and 5,000 attendees for a multi-track blockchain conference held at Navy Pier. With a focus on innovation, social good, fin-tech, and markets there’s something for everyone! More details are coming soon.
Future Music Forum: Barcelona, Spain — September 12–14, 2018
At the intersection of Blockchain and Music Tech? …and love Barcelona? This one is for you. The real bonus is going to see our CEO, Dan Novaes speak about this intersection and how Current is striving to be a significant player in the industry’s evolution.
The conference, in their words,
“…is an annual international music conference based in Barcelona that gathers the leading minds in the world of music to exchange views on how music is being shared in today’s digital age and discuss new developments taking place in music technology.
Our aim to provide a professional yet relaxed platform to explore, engage and discuss these topics with over 300 selected groups of music futurists, label owners, managers, music and mobile technology entrepreneurs and digital music consumption analysts.”
We’re always looking for great events to attend. If you’re an event organizer or think we should have a presence at a particular event, please reach out to Seamus Doheny at seamus@current.us.
Current’s Curated Content 📚 🎥 🎶
What We Are Reading, Watching, and Listening To This Week?
Article: New Data Shows No Evidence of Bitcoin Price Manipulation as Whale’s ‘HODL’ by Wilma Woo
Article: The New York Times has created a special section dedicated for blockchain and cryptocurrency news. by the New York Times
Article: A Plan to Send Millions in Bitcoin to Venezuela Is Moving Ahead by Alyssa Hertig
Article: Here’s Why Bank of America Has Filed Nearly 50 Blockchain-Related Patents by Lucinda Shen
Video: How the blockchain is changing money and business | Don Tapscott
Video: Why People Are Buying Cartoon Cats on the Blockchain 🙄
Video: Talks at GS — Naval Ravikant: The Capital Play Behind Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
Current Video Pick of the Week: SAD! by XXXtentacion
X blesses his fans and supporters this morning with new visuals for his hit song “SAD!”. The video, which depicts X visiting his casket, was released by X’s mother this week. With the artist’s passing occurring almost two weeks ago, it feels as if X was foreshadowing the events to come. Later on, the visual X is shown having existential conversations with his demons. Check out the thought-provoking video and dive into the mind of this controversial figure to gain a better perspective of his inner thoughts and feelings.
Current Song Pick of the Week: Peach Fuzz by Tyler, The Creator
After recently releasing several surprise new tracks, Tyler is back with yet another jam. “Peach Fuzz,” remixes Prophet’s track “Wanna be your man,” taking the listener on a warm summer journey filled with twinkling sounds and longing lyrics. Post up by the lake and check out Tyler’s wavy new track this weekend.
Current Artist Spotlight: Icy Narco
If you like Lil Pump, then Icy Narco is your guy. With neon blue dreads and tattoos from head to toe, this 19-year-old South Florida rapper is the epitome of SoundCloud rap. With banging 808’s, catchy repetitive hooks, and powerful bass Icy’s music is perfect to turn up to this summer.
See you all next week! ✌️
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