It surprises me that people consider Doge and CoinYe having a good marketing team. Far from it.
Doge was hyped, raped by rapidly declining blockreward. (inf strat), hyped by seeding false data to the coincap site. (troublesome exchange that nobody could reach, but kept buying Doge for insane prices), the hacks on pools (ATM).
The same for CoinYe;
Pre-announcement to early, paying several (crypto)newssites to pick it up. Getting the guy that's being used as Coin-mantra to sue you. Hacked pools.
In my opinion that just a pump-and-dump scheme, and I wouldn't touch those with a ten foot pole.
Yes, they have marketing, but relatively to Skein, not to another marketing monsters like MasterCoin/Quark/Nxt etc. First I've saw DOGE in google search result for something like "scrypt gpu cgminer" and it wasn't on coinmarketcup at that time. I've decided to check what is that, and there were a LOT of stuff in google about it: Facebook, blogs, atricles, etc. I've thought: "Damn another clone", but then it got into coinmarket cup at crazy price. I agree it's not classic PR (like with NXT, MasterCoin) - it's black PR, which is even better sometimes, especially when you're trying to sell some shit
Probably they will go to nowhere in log perspective, but still without any support/PR even good enough project, like Skeincoin will never become popular. People would not start googling for "Skeincoin" or "SKC" coz they have never heard about it.
Innovation > Meme/Hype/Marketing thus,
Skein (and also Blake)> Non Innovative Scypt Clone anyday.
Yes, thet's our main feature. And beleaive me, when scrypt ASICs will be released and in stock, huge hashpowers will move to alternative GPU friendly coins, like Skein. That would be the only option for them (like it was with moving from BTC to LTC gpu mining during last year). So our currect main target is to spread the Skeincoin name to people. And then it's up to them to decide if it's good enough to use it.