thoughts about ICO's using "Airdrops"

[Cryptogiji]

Personally I don't see it too much as an issue, when it comes to ICO's they usually corner off a percentage for bonuses / bounty campaigns, maybe if they are not getting anywhere close to filling that quota a different strategy can be used i.e. airdrops.

It is a nice way to catch people's attention and opens up the ICO to potential adopters who maybe haven't heard about the ICO. I do believe that an ICO shouldn't just be doing airdrops consistently, but I think mixing up a marketing campaign to reach a larger audience could be beneficial.

[hahahafr]

Good evening, what is everyone's opinion on coin "airdrops"? Do you feel this is a cheap trick to create demand in their business model, or is there a better reason for doing so?

Yes, take a look over the Announcement board of this forum, and go to the Token's ANN. It is plenty of airdrops that are using ico's structures too.

But take a look over BtcRed, litecoinRed, they all are the same garbage that are trying to create demand only by using the real name of the coin followed by a prefix.

Bitcoin gold, bitcoin gold, super bitcoin, they all are airdrops.

But i haven't seen too many airdrops using ico's, and most of them are just giving out 1 or 2 free tokens and each one of them is worth 0.00000001 eth, just dust.

[saycryptohello]

Pure marketing, I don't see any criminal there. Sometimes I take part in airdrops and perceive it as little bonus.