RE: We Need Advertising Revenue, You Say?
LOL. I said similar when I started. There were even some flagging for the use of affiliate links. I thought it was utterly stupid how some were so staunchly against advertising. Advertising can be annoying as fuck...but if done well, can be non-intrusive. Many barely notice the adverts on the top and side of almost every website. The ones that really annoy are the ones that popup and appear in the middle of an article or force you to watch a video to see something.
Popups and popunders don't even pay that well. You need a massive website for them to pay off. Affiliate earnings that pay a percentage are far better. You gamble on displaying the banner ads and such, but in turn you can earn quite a pretty penny. A portion of that money could then be returned to users, if the terms of service of the advertiser allowed it. You could even set it up so users had control over adverts displayed on pages associated with their blog. You could even let them disable adverts on their blog, if they wanted.
Pay from here sucks for most users TBH. We also don't get paid if we attract users outside of Steem. An extra revenue stream that might in fact be in the hundreds or thousands per month, is significant for many users, and even a small percentage of that income would be quite significant for Steemit, and could be used to actually buy back Steem at low levels, rather than always selling it.
Exactly!
Reason why this proposal is better!
https://steemit.com/@nonameslefttouse/i-don-t-want-to-be-a-sellout-and-a-few-other-things-i-find-somewhat-humorous-about-this-place
That's certainly an option.
I would personally prefer a combination of in-house adverts in addition to ones from traditional companies. One of the best advantages of traditional adverts is that they could pay out to users far past 7 days.
I still get paid for users that signed up on sites I haven't owned for years. Granted, it's not as much as it was, since many of those users likely quit the corresponding sites and stopped buying things. What's really awesome is when I suddenly get a huge payout from something because a few users decide to buy things all in the same period. A surprise check for a few hundred dollars is always welcome.
That's the beauty of this platform. We can have the front ends give us as many options as we like.
We can always have both and more!
We possibly could even get payouts from interfaces we don't even use.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@nonameslefttouse/a-simple-title-how-to-generate-billions-to-pay-the-bills
I did a new one today.