Wemark

A very interesting concept, and it is being led by a great team backed up by advisors with a wealth of experience. A good vision is in place as well. I look forward to seeing this grow

Interesting concept.

Good Luck guys.

Great team ... all great people's in one places will.suggest to take some experience advisors .... Great vision ... Best of luck team

Killer team. As a former photographer and arts school grad in photography (Western Academy of Photography, Victoria BC, Canada 1993), I can only offer my full support for this on merits alone. The advisory board which includes founder of Picasa and Google director makes it unstoppable. Not to mention Shutterstock as well. My only criticism would be that the token allocation for the public is a bit low at 38 per cent. However the cap is modest so waiving deduction on that.

The one bit of magic with Blockchain is it's ability to create scarcity with digital assets and that is a game changer.

Quote from brilliant post written by Alex Evans, called A Crash Course in Mechanism Design for Cryptoeconomic Applications:

"Blockchains enable us to enforce scarcity and facilitate value transfer in areas where that would otherwise be impossible and, therefore, radically expand the range of problems to which economic incentives can successfully be applied. Viewed through this prism, cryptoeconomic systems are fundamentally new ways of incentivizing human behavior. And their potential is massive."

https://medium.com/blockchannel/a-crash-course-in-mechanism-design-for-cryptoeconomic-applications-a9f06ab6a976

Definitely a space that needs disrupting and stopping the artists making their fair share.

In my opinion this project makes a lot of sense. I am a bit old school using Fireworks to size images, clean them up and tag them for SEO. I download a lot of photos every month and understand the importance of each photo. I really like this project, just curious to see the elasticity, price vs number of clients....

*Please see my profile for disclosures.

They have a strong team of experience professionals in place. The concept is a good one, however I am not completely sold on the premise that decentralization is the way to go for sharing digital content. It sounds good in theory, however in practice I see fragmentation issues with searching and identifying content. Let's take the concept of decentralized market places. Most consumers would rather perform one stop shopping at Amazon as opposed to going to 10 different online stores and checking out 10 times. I think the concept is a good one. However we need to question and vet the use case of decentralization as it appears to get an pass from the reasonable scrutiny.

One of the better teams and advisory boards, however, stock photos are a very crowded space in ICO's and the market is a bit questionable as far as decentralization of assets is concerned. This is a hot area and exits will present themselves, but gaining users and traction in the commercial industries requires a fair amount of penetration. Great job by all keep it up and maybe add some strategic advisors. Looking forward to an incredible launch for a new kind of digital content marketplace.

Very strong for the concept!
Great use of distributed ledger technology as there is a need for this for digital content
Token metrics and caps are sound and viable
Looks bery pomising

Good luck with the project!

Good luck, guys!

Wemark is building a platform that will empower content creators — without the need of middle-men.

Project has a strong team, however they might be lacking experience in the field they want to tackel. Wemark makes up for this with a very good advisory board, setting them up for possible success.

It remains to be seen whether the project can create enough traction to move the marketplace for digital content to a decentralized blockchain-based variant.

If there are projects deserving support, this is one of them. Solid all over:
1. Very good team assembled, one can tell they are already a company that works. And they have the backing of professional investors and advisors.
2. Market they are disrupting is ideal for blockchain, and they have a great vision to disrupt it.
3. Although there's a lot more to be done, one can tell their product is on its way and it looks good already.
I especially like their ICO structure - it's not to raise investments, it is designed to create a community, and it's just one step in many. This is how it's supposed to be.
The only minus I see is that market they are after is small, but I see that the team already has some good ideas how to scale it when (or if) the main idea is successful.

Team
Pros:
- a lot of knowledge and experience with UX and tech
- great advisors and cooperations from the photo community
Cons:


Vision
Pros:
- distribution platform for digital content where the content provider gets a fair share
Cons:
- centralised curation
- distribution without community

Product
Pros:
- creators get finally a fair share
Cons:
- pure utility token, the 15% fee goes to Wemark
- Founding Team&Employees getting 11% of the tokens
- 12% of the tokens for Advisors & Partnerships

updated on the 12th April after helpful comments from Roy Meirom

26th April 2018: updated after a talk with the CEO, Tai Kaish, who convinced me more about the product vision and the renumeration policy including vesting