Hmm, I think there's a problem with "any time you like" promotions: the sense of urgency forces people to rush to the link, most people have a very short memory, if they don't come back within one day they don't come back at all, almost all promotions in the world rush people to come ASAP lest they lose the incredible occasion, even if many of them just actually going to renew that very same offer the day after (note, this trick is kinda rough, I think they can get off with it because they have a lot of money to put in ads, and people keep forgetting things 'cause they don't care, see car sales, you don't buy a car every month, so the trick works, sure not so with dgb).
Also, by the way, we'd need some way to avoid multiple subscriptions: 1k digibytes start becoming a serious sum, with 500 subscriptions you actually make up for a day of work sort of, maybe someone with an actual job won't bother, but surely this is attractive enough for the kiddo who wants some pocket money.
I think limited, over-the-weekend events offer the best low budget results here.
Of course there's more that can be done other than just giveaways, the giveaway is really simple, as you could see you just need some 2 dollars and people come, but with some organization and a little media coverage we can do a lot of other stuff, especially if it happens at the same time as the launch of some new dgb tech.
Points well taken, and I agree that an ASAP registration would be best. With regards to finding a way to avoid multiple subscriptions, I think that it is basically impossible to tell if a new address is tied to a new install or not, and that would seriously put into question this type of promo. Perhaps the best we could do would be to link the second giveaway to registering at DigiByteTalk and posting the same address used on the social network giveaway (this of course doesn't eliminate the possibility of someone using multiple reddit nicks and then registering several times on DigiByteTalk, but it does make things a bit more difficult since they would also have to create various e-mail accounts, and the time and trouble certainly wouldn't be worth it, but someone still might be up to it). And I also agree with you on your last point, where one idea I still think is interesting is linking a giveaway to the purchase of DGB with fiat.
Again, thanks for your efforts and contributions. I'm sure I can speak for most when saying they're much appreciated.