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Hey everyone! Team OCD here with another update on our ongoing Community Incubation Program. 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 great 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-12)...

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* [Hive Gaming](https://peakd.com/c/hive-140217/trending) - @hivegc - 3758 subs -> 3851 subs
* [On Chain Art](https://peakd.com/c/hive-156509/trending) - @onchainart - 3076 subs -> 3116 subs
* [Photography Lovers](https://peakd.com/c/hive-194913/trending) - @hive-194913 - 2963 subs -> 3063 subs
* [Natural Medicine](https://peakd.com/c/hive-120078/trending) - @naturalmedicine - 2512 subs -> 2554 subs
* [Foodies Bee Hive](https://peakd.com/c/hive-120586/trending) -@foodiesunite - 2169 subs -> 2225 subs
* [Amazing Nature](https://peakd.com/c/hive-127788/trending) - @hive-127788 - 1828 subs -> 1893 subs
* [Alien Art Hive](https://peakd.com/c/hive-158694/trending) - @juliakponsford - 1225 subs -> 1254 subs
* [ecoTrain](https://peakd.com/c/hive-123046/trending) - @ecotrain - 1190 -> 1216 subs
* [StemSocial](https://peakd.com/c/hive-196387/trending) - @steemstem - 1201 subs -> 1217 subs
* [The Ink Well](https://peakd.com/c/hive-170798/trending) - @theinkwell - 1051 subs -> 1089 subs
* [Haveyoubeenhere](https://peakd.com/c/hive-163772/trending) - @pinmapple - 1117 subs -> 1184 subs
* [Sports Talk Social](https://peakd.com/c/hive-101690/trending) - @cryptoandcoffee - 915 subs -> 938 subs
* [Fascinating Insects](https://peakd.com/c/hive-101587/trending) - @jaki01 - 943 subs -> 964 subs
* [Feathered Friends](https://peakd.com/c/hive-106444/trending) - @hive-106444 - 763 subs -> 789 subs
* [Build-it](https://peakd.com/c/hive-129017/trending) - @build-it - @build-it.daily (for reports) - 752 subs -> 776 subs
* [Needle Work Monday](https://peakd.com/c/hive-127911/trending) - @needleworkmonday - 446 subs -> 456 subs
* [Fungi Lovers](https://peakd.com/c/hive-166168/trending) - @hive-166168 - 419 subs -> 438 subs
* [Vimm](https://peakd.com/c/hive-169926/trending) - @vimm - 389 subs ->  400 subs
* [Stock images](https://peakd.com/c/hive-118554/trending) - @hive-118554 - 409 subs -> 433 subs
* [Pixel Art](https://peakd.com/c/hive-102502/trending) - @kristyglas - 302 subs -> 302 subs
* [Hive Open Mic](https://peakd.com/c/hive-105786/trending) - @cabelindsay - 296 subs -> 306 subs
* [Skate Hive](https://peakd.com/c/hive-173115/trending) - @skatehive - 228 subs -> 234 subs
* [The Anime Realm](https://peakd.com/c/hive-158489/trending) - @dlstudios - 211 subs -> 223 subs
* [Home Edders](https://peakd.com/c/hive-199420/trending) - @homeedders - 181 subs -> 194 subs
* [Programming](https://peakd.com/c/hive-169321/trending) - @cadawg - 142 subs -> 148 subs
* [ReggaeJAHM](https://peakd.com/c/hive-183952/trending) - @reggaejahm - 177 subs -> 184 subs
* [Manipulation Station](https://peakd.com/c/hive-122516/trending) - @hive-122516 - 91 subs -> 92 subs
* [Movies & TV Shows](https://peakd.com/c/hive-166847/trending) - 1020 subs -> 1053 subs
* [Music](https://peakd.com/c/hive-193816/trending) - @music-community - 1363 subs -> 1398 subs
* [Shadow Hunters](https://peakd.com/c/hive-179017/trending) - @hive-179017 - 411 subs -> 430 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. Foodies Bee Hive, 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's the one new community you subscribed to recently? - we'd love to know in comments.*

We're still waiting on some communities to give their info. The communities listed below can join our Discord to get in touch with us for onboarding into the program!

* [Movies & TV Shows](https://peakd.com/c/hive-166847/trending)

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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.