2022 Weekly Updates and Challenge Calendar

Welcome to our 2022 Weekly Updates and Challenge Calendar!

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Key Takeaways for the week of May 15th, 2022  

• We're on track to announce winners for our Specialty Holiday Challenge this week, pending final cultural review. 

Camp Minted is official!

After two long years apart, we're utterly thrilled to announce the return of Camp Minted, September 7-9, 2022. Please see your email for more details! 

If you have any questions, please use the Slack channels #help-artist-relations or #help-new-to-minted. This allows everyone to see the answers to common questions you may have. Make sure you're tagging @artistrelations if you want us to chime in! For individualized assistance, continue using [e-mail] and [e-mail].

A Note on Special Prize Payments (from 3/20)

There has been some confusion surrounding recent Special Prize payments. Please read below: 

• Any challenges launched after December 2021 will have the Special Prize amounts will listed in the Challenge brief as the final amount that will be paid out to the artist who receives the prize. We will no longer subtract the Editors' Pick amount from the Special Prize payment amount when awarding Special Prizes to artists.
• We will continue to pay Special Prize amounts based on the previous Challenge briefs for any Challenges that launched prior to December 2021. These remaining Challenges include:
  • Wedding Invitations - Letterpress
  • Graduation - Non-Foil
  • Graduation - Foil
• Please reference the Challenge brief if you’re unsure of the structure for a specific Challenge. 

Commissions and Payments 

• Please see an update in our Community Slack regarding known commission and payment errors. 
  • Key takeaways: 
    • We have a long-term goal to completely rebuild our financial systems. This is a multi-year project that started last year. Minted has been running its business on a system designed primarily for smaller and less complex companies and we're in the process of moving to a more robust financial platform that better serves companies of our size.
    • Once we have additional updates, we'll schedule a conference call where you can hear from the top of our company about our near-term plans to shore up our process and our longer-term plans for strengthening our finance department and implementing new financial systems.
• We updated January sales commission reports on Friday and have released payment to Payoneer. Payoneer typically takes 1-3 days to process payment.

For those of you who couldn't make it, here's our Challenge Calendar Kickoff Call recap.

2022 Challenges 

Please use this calendar for general planning purposes.  Exact dates and challenges are subject to change. 

January	Birth Announcements Multi-Cultural Wedding Invitations Everyday GC challenge - Birthday Baby Shower
February	Everyday Moments GC Challenge (Sympathy, Congrats) Patterns (Bags & Aprons)  Independent Artists Challenge (Quickfire) Paintings/Drawings/Mixed-Media Challenge Photography Art Challenge Giftable Art
March	Disney B&K challenges (kids birthday, birth announcements, personalized stationery) Everyday GC Challenge - Anniversary/Wedding Everyday GC Challenge - Baby & Kids Specialty Holiday
April	Pairs & Sets Non-Foil Holiday Photo Card Foil-Pressed Holiday Photo Card
May	Religious Holiday Photo Card Challenge Non-Photo Holiday Card Challenge Corporate Holiday Card Challenge
June	New Year Photo Cards Holiday Greeting Cards - Q4 Wedding Party Personalized Stationery & Notebooks Disney Art & Gifts
July	PBK&T Art Challenge Bridal Shower Holiday Greeting Cards - Q1 - Q3 Children's Birthday and Milestones
August	Save the Date - Non-Foil Save the Date - Foil Valentines Greeting Card Challenge
September	Classroom Valentines Photo Valentines Student Patterns/Gifts Student Greeting Cards Disney Patterns/Back to School Student Art
October	Wedding Invitations - Non-Foil Wedding Invitations - Foil Wedding Invitations - Letterpress Photography 2 Holiday Patterns 2023 Challenge
November	Graduation - Non-Foil Graduation - Foil Art Forward
December	Moms, Dads, & Grads GC