My 2 cents here - I value all guys of the team and the ones on the ground a lot - and @guiltyparties might know we talked a lot about what can be done in PR / marketing - I even wrote some press releases incl local German coverage some time ago.

Always happy to help still even my suggestion was maybe a bit too traditional in the past proposals I only shared with small number of people.
However we need to be where pour target group is - hence seems article on these crypto site should be one thing even it is crazy expensive still (maybe negotiate a deal of a series for time period) - but to hear Dash people and others never heard about Hive was really shicking me - Steemit is still more know - not mentioning I think the brand Hive was not a good decision (but now it is probably too late to re-brand).

VP team does great things - I love the B2B approach a lot (hence also my former suggestions to be more active on platforms such as LinkedIn and relevant events like the Dortmund conference.

In general I think most planned event make sense - but we need to measure vs. outcome with clear KPIs per activity, so per event, per PR (wider topic), advertising, sponsoring etc.

I used to support the proposals and always mentioned I struggle with the Rally sponsorship - and I struggle even more - the amount of money is way way too much with hardly any outcome and even more important I see no potential this is relevant - no one watches this sport apart from a dedicated minority - of course F1 would be too much to sponser.

Not saying stop that immediately as there are people linked but I would appreciate to consider shifting spendings via a priority program - make a list what is key important based on past learnings and spend money there (maybe via a POLL amongst the entire community?).