RE: Hive ads and Hive marketing. Proposal for ads on hive.blog or funding for hive marketing initiatives.

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In my experience, users have been very much against filling the whitespace of steem/hive with ads, and there's already money available for marketing and development purposes, they're just not being utilized.

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As it stands, there is over $4,000 per day available if someone were to put together a proposal for creating ads for Hive. I don't feel like we need to clutter the interface with ads to generate income we already have available.



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In my experience, users have been very much against filling the whitespace of steem/hive with ads,

I would say the opposite from my experience as people were crying out for them for long time and when they finally arrived on steem were a great success. In just a few short months the steemit team were able to generate enough revenue to stop to scheduled selling of the token at a rate of hundreds of thousands a month. Again on leofinance.io they are welcomed and have been a great success in generating revenue which is being used to buy/burn the token.

I would totally agree that an invasive amount of ads or popups would totally ruin any social media experience but done discreetly and in the best interests of the community would be welcomed and help to grow the platform.

As it stands, there is over $4,000 per day available if someone were to put together a proposal for creating ads for Hive.

There actually is one for a brave ad campaign, also my proposal is in two parts to use DAO funds from the pool for marketing if the hiveblocks team or community don't suppport ad revenue. However these are not sustainable in my opinion as they won't solve the core problem which is that there are lots of people selling hive but not many buying it.

In the long run what is being built on hive will solve this problem with more use cases and more business using the token. To get there however we need to keep a buy pressure on the token from the community which can only be helped by generating revenue from ad sales and by expanding the community to increase that revenue. We need to bring in more users and developers which can only be helped by marketing efforts. We need to go out and get them ourselves as if we don't we will continue to see the negative slide that has been going on since day 1.

I don't feel like we need to clutter the interface with ads to generate income we already have available.

DAO funds wouldn't actually be income, they are assets which by utilizing we are only increasing the selling pressure on hive. This would be fine if there was a buy pressure but there is very little at this moment in time. That's why it is so important to bring in external funding to fund these initiatives.

I appreciate your point of view and it's good to have this discussion either way and come to the best solution for the community.

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