Thanks in advance for your informative answers.
1. The Manual - means you need to get listed on their list to get an airdrop/free coin.
2. The Automatic - means you will get a free coin when you qualified to their qualifications like you must have a minimum amount of 0.01 ETH to qualified to their airdrop once you have that amount you will receive automatically a free coin.
This is wrong.
hope you can understand my simple answer.
You are wrong.
The concept of "Airdrop" is the most commonly misunderstood concept in the cryptocurrency world.
An airdrop is a form of cryptocurrency acquisition and it ONLY applies when a cryptocurrency is being hard forked. The forking coin grants coins of their forking currency at an amount equal to what each wallet contains of the target cryptocurrency. You don't have to "sign up", campaign, invest, do work, or register for an airdrop.
What others are explaining here are methods for getting involved in an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). If you're joining a campaign, you're getting compensation for your campainging. If you're giving the ICO an "investment" like Ethereum or Bitcoin, that's an investment. These are not airdrops.
Ok, so instead of posting another thread I will ask my questions on this one...
1. If an actual airdrop happens, what do you need to do to ensure you would receive coins? Specific wallet?
2. For these campaigns, ICO and such, seems like a lot of work for little benefit. Is this true or are there some examples of this being worthwhile?
1. You need to be pretty active and follow the relative crypto community that does the airdrop. Es. recently we had the IGNIS airdrop and every NXT holders got a specific amount of IGNIS token, but you need to had your NXT tokens on a specific exchange (es. Bitterex was partecipating) or wallet.
2. Yes it depends on the project but for example OMG was airdropped to ETH holders and the amount was kind of substantial and required little hassle and OMG value today has increased over 1000%. So gotta keep your eyes open for the right project!
theres sites like airdropalert.com where you can get reminders of all the airdrops happening in the crypto community.