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I got invited to the first Vidcon in Baltimore, Maryland as a featured creator. Let's talk about safety, planning, the missing creator track, and more.
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I have lived in Baltimore my whole life, no idea this was going on until you posted about it. Our city has a lot a lot of problems, but events like this are what Baltimore needs. But, it seems like no care or thought was put into this. If itâs a âfailureâ it wonât come back to Baltimore and we will continue to loose out on business unfortunately.
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It would be kinda funny if Amanda did a yearly âaward showâ for these events or created a tier system for ranking events featured in review videos. If you did an award show/end of year wrap up you could create like Swell Stars almost like how Michelin does their Michelin stars for restaurants. Like imagine a 3 star Swell event, itâd be damn near impossible for any event to get but would be so cool to check out the next year cause you know itâs probably gonna be really fun đĽ°
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Here is the problem with partnering with Baltimore Tourism for advertising: Tourism ads are to attract people from outside the area to come to that particular place as a tourist. They do not market area attractions and events to locals, they want to generate tourism revenue by getting visitors into hotels and spending money at attractions and overpriced restaurants that cater to visitors.
While yes, conventions do bring people from other areas to the city, wouldnât local attendees usually make up the majority of guests??
Iâm going to my cityâs comic convention at the end of the month, itâs the largest one in the area (15-25 hours drive away from others) but itâs still mostly people who live here. I donât think I have met anyone who came from farther away than a 3 hours drive, except for vendors or artists.
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I'm sure they got a kickback to host it in Baltimore or something. As a person who used to organize an annual event for a business, I can tell you why we, specifically, chose that city. Baltimore is east coat convenient in terms of transportation. It has an international airport (with lots of flights) and Amtrak lines to major cities but it also less expensive than having it in a major city like New York or Boston. Our company was based in Pittsburgh, so it was also drivable for us. We never hosted events in our own city (despite the hotels were cheaper) we have no transportation. The airport is a joke and Amtrak as line 1 line.... so yea Baltimore was better for us logistically.
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As someone who went to Otakon and other conventions in Baltimore, here are the reasons to pick Baltimore:
1. The convention center is a great mid-size event location. It can handle pretty large events without feeling like space is being wasted.
2. The city is centrally located and pulls attendees from both the north and south.
3. It's easier for attendees to manage than DC (seriously, the fit everyone threw when Otakon moved to DC was massive)
4. The locals have historically been SUPER supportive of nerdy, niche events. The city is a mess, but I've got tons of stories of locals helping out event attendees in need.
Also, I live close enough to still be considered "local" in their advertising range. I did get the ads for this event, but I didn't go because those ads were just a mashup of faces I didn't recognize. I didn't understand what the draw would be if I didn't know the creators, so I just ignored them. I had zero idea you would be a guest.
Oh, and local ads were on Facebook, lol.
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I took the bar exam in that convention center so that place is haunting. That being said, if they had the squishmallow claw machine Iâd happily go next year
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This was my first VidCon. As a full-time artist/content creator and a recent Maryland transplant it was equally exciting and confusing that VidCon chose Baltimore. I figured it was worthwhile to take advantage of the opportunity, so I purchased a Community Track badge for Saturday. The Industry track pricing seemed crazy high. After hearing your thoughts I'm glad I didn't do it.
I attended the Cultivating Creativity panel which was one of the highlights of the day! Thank you for your awesome insights.
Attendance seemed low, and mostly children. I honestly felt a little out of place. I guess I had a bit more of an expectation that there would be more attendees who also post on social media. That was disappointing.
I was also disappointed that VidCon didn't really provide anything for those on the Community Track to do other than panels, meet-and-greets, and meandering the expo hall. It took all of 10 minutes to see everything on the con floor. I would have LOVED for there to have even been something as simple as a networking room for attendees.
Flying across the country to attend VidCon Anaheim still seems like the overall better option but it's frustrating that Baltimore fell so short.
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Swell should be a featured creator for every convention
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Honestly I was a little let down by the whole event, HOWEVER, it was an honor meeting you!
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MidCon needs to be a thing. A convention dedicated to mid sized creators with wings of a convention center as genres to explore.
Industry would avoid it like the plague but fans of multiple genres would have a blast.The panels would be the opportunity for crossovers and gaining new audiences.
Sponsored by Swell Entertainment and Shenanigan Enterprises.
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I follow many east coast youtube channels who I would say are in that mid-size tier and had NO IDEA there was even an east coast vidcon. I honestly think if they had appealed to mid-size creators they probably would have gotten more people going given how many of them still went all the way out to Anaheim vidcon.
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"did you think PBS was going to throw us a party?" that killed me lol
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As a Baltimorean this event was advertised to me but I didn't know any of the featured creators so I didn't go and it's so disappointing to see how many creators I would have known after the fact when they post their content. I would have gone just to see you queen!!!
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Hope Swell makes her way to Lightbox Expo some day, I know shes aware shes THE best background noise for artists everywhere. It'd be fun to see her review an artist made event
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I'm so confused. I always assumed that booking entire floors of hotels for any kind of conference/meeting/etc. would automatically mean that you hire security or do some kind of deal with the hotel to increase security. You can't have fans (that aren't staying at the hotel btw) just hang out at the hall hoping to meet someone. I've been inside hotels were nothing was happening and even then security asked me what I was doing there.
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As a Baltimore native the question "What's in Baltimore?" is absolutely the right thing to ask lol. I love my city, and there's a good bit of cool stuff but like, yeah, out of every city on the east coast why ? our convention center sucks, the city is CONSTANTLY under construction, and the streets themselves are a damn mazeđ
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Welcome to Baltimore. I havent seen the video yet but if it happened at that convention center then Im sure it was awful.
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23:01 as a furry, I can say youâre not wrong. We got our shit down pat! When youâre one of the most hated people on the internet, we need to have our safe space secure. :)
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I want to echo your concerns about safety. I am an adult sex educator/out trans person/gets many threats via internet. Not only do I have "fans", but due to the millieu we're in I get a ton of unwanted sexual attention. On top of that, in some areas I am considered to be a presenter worth advertising for. I always bring up safety concerns when attending events, and rarely do I get more than "we'll have [usually volunteer] security on site". Only once did I attend an event when I had a security person check in with me several times a day to make sure nothing hinky happened.
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@DraftGiraffe
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the fact that there were so many Maryland creators who didn't even know that this event was happening speaks a lot about their marketing and organizing
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