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Hey everyone! Time for another update on our ongoing Community Incubation Program from Team OCD. In [our last post](https://peakd.com/hive-174578/@ocd/ocd-communities-incubation-program-update-8), we saw some activity-related stats about the communities we're currently supporting and it was interesting to see the graphs about number of active users and count of posts. The communities are doing 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 as well as the new communities who've joined us...

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* [Alien Art Hive](https://peakd.com/c/hive-158694/trending) - @juliakponsford - 1124 subs -> 1142 subs
* [Amazing Nature](https://peakd.com/c/hive-127788/trending) - @hive-127788 - 1632 subs -> 1665 subs
* [Build-it](https://peakd.com/c/hive-129017/trending) - @build-it - @build-it.daily (for reports) - 639 subs -> 672 subs
* [ecoTrain](https://peakd.com/c/hive-123046/trending) - @ecotrain - 1108 -> 1122 subs
* [Feathered Friends](https://peakd.com/c/hive-106444/trending) - @hive-106444 - 693 subs -> 705 subs
* [Foodies Bee Hive](https://peakd.com/c/hive-120586/trending) - 1928 subs -> 1974 subs
* [Fungi Lovers](https://peakd.com/c/hive-166168/trending) - @hive-166168 - 330 subs -> 355 subs
* [Fascinating Insects](https://peakd.com/c/hive-101587/trending) - 871subs -> 891 subs
* [Haveyoubeenhere](https://peakd.com/c/hive-163772/trending) - @pinmapple - 866 subs -> 931 subs
* [Hive Gaming](https://peakd.com/c/hive-140217/trending) - @hivegc - 3449 subs -> 3508 subs
* [Hive Open Mic](https://peakd.com/c/hive-105786/trending) - 248 subs -> 254 subs
* [Home Edders](https://peakd.com/c/hive-199420/trending) - @homeedders - 160 subs -> 167 subs
* [Lightpainters United](https://peakd.com/c/hive-108913/trending) - @lightpaintershub - 362 subs -> 365 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 - 2315 subs -> 2347 subs
* [Needle Work Monday](https://peakd.com/c/hive-127911/trending) - @needleworkmonday - 396 subs -> 408 subs
* [On Chain Art](https://peakd.com/c/hive-156509/trending) - @onchainart - 2860 subs -> 2917 subs
* [Photography Lovers](https://peakd.com/c/hive-194913/trending) - @hive-194913 - 2590 subs -> 2654 subs
* [Pixel Art](https://peakd.com/c/hive-102502/trending) - @kristyglas - 273 subs -> 282 subs
* [Programming](https://peakd.com/c/hive-169321/trending) - 123 subs -> 129 subs
* [ReggaeJAHM](https://peakd.com/c/hive-183952/trending) - 139 subs -> 148 subs
* [Skate Hive](https://peakd.com/c/hive-173115/trending) - @skatehive - 199 subs -> 209 subs
* [Sports Talk Social](https://peakd.com/c/hive-101690/trending) - 817 subs -> 830 subs
* [StemSocial](https://peakd.com/c/hive-196387/trending) - 1117 subs -> 1125 subs
* [Stock images](https://peakd.com/c/hive-118554/trending) - @hive-118554 - 312 subs -> 328 subs
* [The Anime Realm](https://peakd.com/c/hive-158489/trending) - @dlstudios - 149 subs -> 165 subs
* [The Ink Well](https://peakd.com/c/hive-170798/trending) - @theinkwell - 956 subs -> 982 subs
* [Vimm](https://peakd.com/c/hive-169926/trending) - 366 subs -> 372 subs

Many communities had good subscriber growth, and were quite active too. 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, Amazing Nature and Foodies Bee Hive had over 500 interactions and 140+ active users. Hive Gaming, OnChainArt, Natural Medicine and Photography Lovers are some 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.*

##### New additions:
We'd like to welcome 3 new communities into the program!

* [Movies & TV Shows](https://peakd.com/c/hive-166847/trending) - 928 subs
* [Music](https://peakd.com/c/hive-193816/trending) - 1273 subs 
* [Shadow Hunters](https://peakd.com/c/hive-179017/trending) - 374 subs

Head over to Movies & TV Shows for interesting entertainmentrelated content and participate in discussions on related topics. For all things about Music, check out the Music community. And Shadow Hunters is the place for you to showcase your cool shadow pictures.

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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.