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Hey everyone! Time for another update on our ongoing Community Incubation Program from Team OCD. The communities are trying their best to keep engagement levels up and are ready to welcome and guide new users. Community leaders/moderators continue to highlight posts in our discord for some added curation. We also hope to conduct some contests in future to further boost engagement in smaller communities and give them added visibility.

Our aim is to support communities, help them grow and allow users posting on genre specific topics find the right community spaces to interact with like-minded individuals, and gain through the focused curation done by community leaders.

If you've started new and unique genre-specific community that has the potential to raise a lot of activity and doesn't exist yet, feel free to apply for our incubation program -  either by writing in the comment section  or contacting us on [our Discord in the community-incubation channel](https://discord.gg/bnGc4BU). You can get more info about the program [here](https://peakd.com/hive-174578/@ocd/ocd-community-incubation-program-finalized).

##### Without further wait, below we give you details on the subscriber growth of the communities since [our last post](https://peakd.com/hive-174578/@ocd/ocd-communities-incubation-program-update-10)...

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* [Alien Art Hive](https://peakd.com/c/hive-158694/trending) - @juliakponsford - 1172 subs -> 1198 subs
* [Amazing Nature](https://peakd.com/c/hive-127788/trending) - @hive-127788 - 1738 subs -> 1798 subs
* [Build-it](https://peakd.com/c/hive-129017/trending) - @build-it - @build-it.daily (for reports) - 704 subs -> 734 subs
* [ecoTrain](https://peakd.com/c/hive-123046/trending) - @ecotrain - 1161 -> 1181 subs
* [Feathered Friends](https://peakd.com/c/hive-106444/trending) - @hive-106444 - 730 subs -> 749 subs
* [Foodies Bee Hive](https://peakd.com/c/hive-120586/trending) - 2062 subs -> 2117 subs
* [Fungi Lovers](https://peakd.com/c/hive-166168/trending) - @hive-166168 - 381 subs -> 403 subs
* [Fascinating Insects](https://peakd.com/c/hive-101587/trending) - 913 subs -> 927 subs
* [Haveyoubeenhere](https://peakd.com/c/hive-163772/trending) - @pinmapple - 1002 subs -> 1065 subs
* [Hive Gaming](https://peakd.com/c/hive-140217/trending) - @hivegc - 3607 subs -> 3675 subs
* [Hive Open Mic](https://peakd.com/c/hive-105786/trending) - 271 subs -> 284 subs
* [Home Edders](https://peakd.com/c/hive-199420/trending) - @homeedders - 174 subs -> 175 subs
* [Lightpainters United](https://peakd.com/c/hive-108913/trending) - @lightpaintershub - 370 subs -> 372 subs
* [Manipulation Station](https://peakd.com/c/hive-122516/trending) - @hive-122516 - 91 subs -> 91 subs
* [Natural Medicine](https://peakd.com/c/hive-120078/trending) - @naturalmedicine - 2427 subs -> 2468 subs
* [Needle Work Monday](https://peakd.com/c/hive-127911/trending) - @needleworkmonday - 431 subs -> 438 subs
* [Movies & TV Shows](https://peakd.com/c/hive-166847/trending) - 972 subs -> 996 subs
* [Music](https://peakd.com/c/hive-193816/trending) - 1311 subs -> 1340 subs
* [On Chain Art](https://peakd.com/c/hive-156509/trending) - @onchainart - 2976 subs -> 3025 subs
* [Photography Lovers](https://peakd.com/c/hive-194913/trending) - @hive-194913 - 2777 subs -> 2868 subs
* [Pixel Art](https://peakd.com/c/hive-102502/trending) - @kristyglas - 294 subs -> 300 subs
* [Programming](https://peakd.com/c/hive-169321/trending) - 133 subs -> 137 subs
* [ReggaeJAHM](https://peakd.com/c/hive-183952/trending) - 156 subs -> 168 subs
* [Shadow Hunters](https://peakd.com/c/hive-179017/trending) - 393 subs -> 406 subs
* [Skate Hive](https://peakd.com/c/hive-173115/trending) - @skatehive - 215 subs -> 219 subs
* [Sports Talk Social](https://peakd.com/c/hive-101690/trending) - 864 subs -> 888 subs
* [StemSocial](https://peakd.com/c/hive-196387/trending) - 1153 subs -> 1183 subs
* [Stock images](https://peakd.com/c/hive-118554/trending) - @hive-118554 - 366 subs -> 386 subs
* [The Anime Realm](https://peakd.com/c/hive-158489/trending) - @dlstudios - 182 subs -> 194 subs
* [The Ink Well](https://peakd.com/c/hive-170798/trending) - @theinkwell - 1022 subs -> 1028 subs
* [Vimm](https://peakd.com/c/hive-169926/trending) - 378 subs -> 386 subs

Most communities are active and doing pretty well, and people are certainly checking them out as they explore diverse topics and contribute to interesting conversations across hive. In terms of engagement, communities like Haveyoubeenhere, Sports Talk Social and 	Feathered Friends had over 600 interactions and 110+ active users. On Chain Art crossed the 3k subs count. Photography Lovers and Hive Gaming are few of the bigger communities that are popular and generate a lot of interaction and engagement on hive. *What is the one new community you subscribed to recently? - we'd love to know in comments.*

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We're looking forward to adding more communities focusing on different subjects to our incubation program, and helping them grow with curation/delegations.

These posts aim to highlight the communities as well as their curation accounts that post the curation reports, and if you find a community interesting, do feel free to have a look around/subscribe. They'd be happy to welcome/guide you.

The community moderators/curators are doing a great job trying to onboard and help new users as well as highlighting great content for curation. It's important that users find the right communities and subscribe to those that interest them, which keeps them active and engaged. Thanks for reading!

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Have you stumbled upon some new communities that are unique to the ones above and would like to see them get supported? Feel free to mention them here in the comments or join us on [Discord](https://discord.gg/bnGc4BU) and talk about it there in the #community-incubation channel! Please note that this is only for unique niches/genres of communities, nothing "general original content" or country/language based.