I’d love to see ad opportunities explored that may be equally beneficial to the community, and possibly more aligned with the crypto community overall; although understandably you’ll want to maximize revenue and if a model like Adsense does that, so be it.
Exciting ad possibilities to me would be exploring integrations with crypto friendly services like Basic Attention Token and Anonymous Ads, or a revamp of the official promoted system which improves placement of promoted posts and perhaps integrates a percentage token burn and percentage to Steemit Inc.
Looking forward to what lies ahead regardless!
Great suggestions! We're definitely eager to explore more innovative ad solutions.
Apropos Basic Attention Token:
My Brave Browser tells me the following:
"You’ve designated 8.8 BAT for creators who haven’t yet signed up to receive contributions. Your browser will keep trying to contribute until they verify, or until 90 days have passed."
steemit.com is one of these sites which haven't signed up yet to receive contributions.
Read more here.
Ironic. I discovered steem when I was trading BAT about two years ago.
Heres's an idea; take some of the ad revenue and automatically buy steem tokens with it, then give the tokens to the community, even if it's a small amount, it creates guaranteed demand for the tokens/more stable price, giving people more confidence to hold for the long term, like a stock dividend.