I think it will be one of the alternative front ends that bring ads in first. Example three users are already advertising, and I believe they do get a vote from the company, not sure how much or if on every post, "Posted using Partiko Android" that is an advertisement, with a link to their home business page.
As I mentioned on a couple of other threads, I do not think it would be hard to add advertising, the question becomes who chooses what to advertise, and who benefits from the advertising.
As @paulag has pointed out though the advertisers are going to want trackers they are going to want to know who, how many and how long people see their product.
Page views were removed from steemit because, well they said they could not get it to work right. So to get advertisers, people need to know what metrics the advertisers are looking for, and those need to be made available to the advertiser.
It is a subject that I think people need to spend some time on. They need to evaluate is the cost of getting advertisers going to outweigh the benefits of having advertisers. Once a person/company/group becomes accustomed to the monetary gain they are more than will to give in to the advertisers. People need to look at history and see how many time a company has threatened pulling their advertising dollars if they did not do this or do that. It happens a lot.
People also get very upset at the wrong advertising, look at how many and how often people protest a company and boycott their business just because of an advertisement they run?
Will advertisements save steemit, provide the company with money and thus the users with rewards, or will it drive people nuts, will it open the doors to censorship, what will happen when a blogger or a poster has an advertisement on their post (auto placed), that someone objects to? We have people flagging people that get large rewards, while the reward giver walks away unscated. Will we have people being flagged now because of an auto placed ad on their post that someone finds objectionable?
People get flagged all the time for "advertising" their post on other peoples comment threads, what is to stop people from flagging advertisers? Biting the hand that feeds them basically. Think it won't happen, how many people use a bid bot, then end up flagging the very bid bot they used? it happens, it must happen quite a bit because even i notice that sort of action.
Right now everyone is just saying we need the advertisers to come to our revenue rescue, people need to take a minute to think about it.
yeah i missed the pageview feature !
if there's a google analytic dashboard app for steemit that would be awesome ! Yeah also notice ppl getting flag and negative remark for using upvote service ! i see it as a form of self sustain model for steem, it cycle the currency - spending. Those willing and can afford pay for advertising to get more reach for their content.
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People want the advertising, so perhaps steemit should charge you an advertising fee? You are after all advertising. This is part of what people need to think about, what is advertising, what are the advertisers going to put on my post are they (steemit) going to allow advertising on individual post? what will happen to the internal advertising are you really in the future going to need to hand over a part of any reward because you advertised in you PS: I myself do not think that the ordinary user, (like myself) are ready to give a blanket approval for advertising, not without some careful thought by those that are in a position to make it happen.
yeah ultimately it up to those in position to decide.
Yes this is the tricky part I think. If the apps choose to go it alone, they will decide. Or, a new team forms with a browser extension and audits/decides on which businesses can advertise, or no-one policies it...
If advertisers have access to the blockchain, they are going to want to try to present the right ads to the right people, or else it's a waste of time. Perhaps we, as the consumer, can just hide/ignore/flag the ads/businesses.
Early stages, but an interesting area to discuss, thanks for all the points raised!