Nobody likes advertisements so one would expect users not to use Steempeak but steemit.com instead for an add free experience. But what if we could create a monetary incentive to use Steempeak because of the advertisements? Could this attract users instead of pushing them away?

That's the thing though...there's a built-in monetary incentive which is that we are all owners of this platform, so we all benefit from any money that comes into it. Even we don't directly get more STEEM in our accounts, the value of the STEEM we have goes up. Even if all the ad money went to steampeak directly in USD, that means they don't have to sell STEEM to pay for expenses and have more funds available to build a better product. Any way that money comes into the Steem ecosystem is good for every STEEM holder.

If properly messaged, users should not be pushed away from ads on Steem, but attracted to them and supportive of them. I look at it like the recent Netcoins contest. People don't generally want to put their email addresses into random websites and go visit it every 24 hours, but the whole community rallied around it because it's great for Steem. Advertisements are no different.

If steempeak or any other site started selling ads, I would campaign to get everyone on Steem to go use those sites, actually spend time looking at the ads and if there's any products being advertised that they are interested in that they go and buy it. I would offer contests with prizes for people who showed they bought something through a Steem advertisement, again just like with Netcoins.

Now imagine you're an advertiser...you're used to advertising on sites where people hate your ads and do whatever they can to block them, and then you find Steem where everyone LOVES your ads and goes out of their way to see them and buy your products.

All we have to do is have one site or group get over the hump of getting that first serious advertiser, and running a campaign like the Netcoins one, and I think it takes off from there.