bemyfriends Talks About the Importance of Data Ownership and Community Building With Web3 Leaders

Ever since bemyfriends entered into a strategic partnership with United Talent Agency (UTA) in January 2023, the company has been actively engaged in debates about the importance of the fandom business and the value of ownership at major global events as part of its international expansion. 
In April, global leaders from the Web3 industry gathered in New York City for the NFT NYC conference. During the conference, bemyfriends co-hosted an event with UTA and Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Nubeluz at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in New York. The event served as an occasion for bemyfriends to emphasize the value of ownership and forming authentic relationships with fans to build a sustainable brand in the Web3 era.

Web3 is a new version of the web that provides a personalized online experience where people can find and view only the knowledge they need from the vast amount of information on the Internet. While still in its early stages, the concept of Web3 has emerged as a major topic for debate in the fandom business and the creator economy, with NFTs in particular getting a lot of attention. NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are a key part of Web3's infrastructure as a way to prove digital ownership of content. Unique digital content can be tokenized and traded in the form of NFTs.

Many of the core principles of the fandom business that bemyfriends promotes are also central to Web3. To create a long-lasting brand in the fandom business, it is essential to engage and interact with fans in your own exclusive space. Of course, monetization is also key to enhancing profitability by generating revenue from these interactions. 

The IT solutions and services offered by bemyfriends give owners complete ownership over their content and data, while allowing them to run their own fandom businesses independently.

bemyfriends, the global fandom business experts, has been providing its clients ("owners") with full ownership of their content and data in the all-in-one SaaS solution, b.stage. At the FUTUR3 MAK3RS event in New York, Steve Wooseok Seo (co-CEO), June Kay Kim (CTO), Hanna Park (CMO), and Samuel Hwiewon Son (VP of Business Development & Partnership) spoke in-depth with artists and brand leaders about the importance of ownership in the fandom business.
 

• Taking ownership of your content and data on your own platform means you can be independent of social media algorithms.
• With b.stage, owners can sustain their businesses by building close relationships with their super fans. Through direct transactions with no intermediary platforms, owners (content producers) can increase revenue from monetizing their work to fans (content consumers).
• In the age of hyper-connectedness, building a vast amount of followers on large platforms has served as a method of building businesses for many brands (be it personal or corporate). On the other hand, communities powered by b.stage aim for deeper connections with a select number of super fans. Even if the fans on b.stage are outnumbered by the major platforms, it has a significantly larger economic impact as it provides owners with the space to exclusively target high-intent audiences.
• Web3 technology exists, but it is difficult to make use of it to form and activate communities at this stage. Despite this, b.stage's NFT wallet login feature allows you to form a gated community after verifying your identity, adding value to the existing Web3 infrastructure.