Are we not the ads ourselves? Isn't that the point, decentralized, peer to peer, ads, and when I say ads, I mean content, and advertisers want to be seen and we want to be seen too and some advertisers can start a Steemit account and post ads on Steemit for example if they're not already.

On the top of Steemit.com, you see the tabs, Trending, New, Hot, and then you see Promoted which might be the option you were mentioning. Maybe advertisers can pay for their posts to be promoted. Therefore, that is the way ads are sold, if I'm not mistaken. Is that not good enough? Maybe Nike wants to sell shoes. So, they could start an account on Steemit. Post about shoes. Nike could buy a bunch of Steem and power up some of it into SP in order to get a better reputation and be able to upvote itself to get into trending to better sell ads. Is that not a win-win situation where more people can see their ads for example and more money goes into Steem from outside sources like Nike, etc? I mean, people already buy Steem. So, I don't want to make a distinction between corporations and individuals who invest & buy Steem. Regardless, people help Steem by buying & by sharing Steem articles. Cryptocurrencies may not be doing so well right now but they will be rising in the next few years, before 2025 at least, if not a lot sooner, and we can hang until then if we can.