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Once an airdrop is over, you've got thousands of names, emails, etc.

How do you turn those airdrop claimers into investors?

Or do you only use airdrops to increase the total number of token users?

Airdrops are mostly made for publicity(probably through airdrop sites) and to spread out the holders of a specific coin/token. About the personal information gained on the airdrop, it depends on the project to decide on what they want to do with the information. The shady ones probably sell the information to certain entities, while the more legitimate ones use the emails to send them updates about the specific coin/token that's been airdropped.

That is a big database of users. I wont call them as investors because the airdrops of tokens are generally full of the scum of bitcointalk that is the self-proclaimed "Bounty hunters". They make new accounts here everyday just to lay out their palms to every shittoken shitdropping. They consider that as a job and keep on doing it even if they may be worthless.

So I would call that database much less accurate to launch any campaign because its mostly a bunch of people creating a number of alts to join them.

Turning those users to into investors wont really be possible yet those claimers or i will say 99.5% of them would really be just solely like to collect those free tokens and .5% would might decide to
purchase off the token because of its potential. Getting investors wont really be a problem if your project is really worthy and besides as being said said above airdrops is part of the marketing and
you shouldnt really expect too much on it to get high numbers of getting investors but at least you had spreadout on projects existence.

Yes, I do agree that those personal details provided to these airdrops may be fake and users may not even check their emails they receive in those accounts so if someone buying those details for marketing their product may not be worth. 

Still can't hurt to use the emails and details provided to do a bit of marketing; otherwise, you're just leaving these contacts for nothing. It is indeed true that many airdrop and bounty participants are only in for the rewards and aren't truly interested in purchasing tokens, but marketing to these emails was the original purpose of creating bounties and airdrops, although the purpose has now shifted to just increasing the total number of token users in the case of email collection.

I think most users who are interested in airdrop don't have spare money for investment so we can cross out the "How do you turn those airdrop claimers into investors?" line. In my experience, I saw some airdrops are being used just to spread the coins, get support from airdrop people, get listed on an exchange and instant money from the dev team.

Its not fake per se. Those are users but the number of false results from it are much more. There may be genuine users who are new to crypto and want to get their hands on some new coin and so they had joined the airdrop. Many of the newbies here have been airdrop hunters for sometime hunting shittokens and we also have airdrop listing sites where they get listed.

Some of the ICOs turned to airdrops good example are STKtoken and Viuly when they were having problems reaching softcaps. Still most of thee database is alts and thus they need some method of weeding out these shitposters before starting a social campaign.

With what I have experienced ever since I'm into crypto currency. Airdrop was mainly for 3 purposes to increase the number of token/coin circulation, to gain more community supporters of the project which will literally woo investors and to publicize the project by asking Mr A to post something about the project on his social account while Mr B and rest saw it and maybe captivated.