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Hey all! 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-17)...

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* [Hive Gaming](https://peakd.com/c/hive-140217/trending) - @hivegc - 4210 subs -> 4345 subs
* [On Chain Art](https://peakd.com/c/hive-156509/trending) - @onchainart - 3330 subs -> 3405 subs
* [Photography Lovers](https://peakd.com/c/hive-194913/trending) - @hive-194913 - 3614 subs -> 3845 subs
* [Foodies Bee Hive](https://peakd.com/c/hive-120586/trending) - @foodiesunite - 2611 subs -> 2754 subs
* [Amazing Nature](https://peakd.com/c/hive-127788/trending) - @hive-127788 - 2150 subs -> 2240 subs
* [Alien Art Hive](https://peakd.com/c/hive-158694/trending) - @juliakponsford - 1383 subs -> 1430 subs
* [StemSocial](https://peakd.com/c/hive-196387/trending) - @steemstem - 1339 subs -> 1373 subs
* [Haveyoubeenhere](https://peakd.com/c/hive-163772/trending) - @pinmapple - 1448 subs -> 1537 subs
* [Sports Talk Social](https://peakd.com/c/hive-101690/trending) - @cryptoandcoffee -  1057 subs -> 1105 subs
* [Fascinating Insects](https://peakd.com/c/hive-101587/trending) - @jaki01 - 1085 subs -> 1118 subs
* [Feathered Friends](https://peakd.com/c/hive-106444/trending) - @hive-106444 - 914 subs -> 949 subs
* [Needle Work Monday](https://peakd.com/c/hive-127911/trending) - @needleworkmonday - 516 subs -> 531 subs
* [Fungi Lovers](https://peakd.com/c/hive-166168/trending) - @hive-166168 - 528 subs -> 553 subs
* [Vimm](https://peakd.com/c/hive-169926/trending) - @vimm - 440 subs -> 455 subs
* [Stock images](https://peakd.com/c/hive-118554/trending) - @hive-118554 - 559 subs -> 598 subs
* [Hive Open Mic](https://peakd.com/c/hive-105786/trending) - @cabelindsay - 385 subs -> 414 subs
* [Skate Hive](https://peakd.com/c/hive-173115/trending) - @skatehive - 264 subs -> 270 subs
* [The Anime Realm](https://peakd.com/c/hive-158489/trending) - @dlstudios - 283 subs -> 308 subs
* [Home Edders](https://peakd.com/c/hive-199420/trending) - @homeedders - 242 subs -> 250 subs
* [Programming](https://peakd.com/c/hive-169321/trending) - @cadawg - 188 subs -> 221 subs
* [Movies & TV Shows](https://peakd.com/c/hive-166847/trending) - 1308 subs -> 1396 subs
* [Music](https://peakd.com/c/hive-193816/trending) - @music-community - 1636 subs -> 1752 subs
* [Architecture & Design](https://peakd.com/c/hive-178708/created) - @aplusd - 121 subs -> 169 subs
* [Hive Book Club](https://peakd.com/c/hive-180164/trending) - @hive-180164 - 241 subs -> 297 subs
* [Planet Auto](https://peakd.com/c/hive-168042/created) - @planetauto - 115 subs -> 119 subs
* [Toys on Hive](https://peakd.com/c/hive-173630/created) - @hive-173630 - 142 subs -> 178 subs
* [Hive Pets](https://peakd.com/c/hive-196708/created) - @hive-196708 - 530 subs -> 694 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, Music, Sports Talk Social and Feathered Friends had over 900 interactions and 160+ active users. Hive Gaming, Photography Lovers and Foodies Bee Hive 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.


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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.