Been saying for years that we are wasting ou potential as an eco-system. Self funding is a great asset to have but not sustainable forever. We need external revenue to grow and reach a sustainable business model.

Ads can pay a huge part of that as we are a community of content creators. That creates value for advertisers that we can use.

Leo are working to take advantage of this and there is no reason that peakd or other hive front ends couldn't do the same. It seems that the leo team earn roughly 4K a month right now form a small selection of ads that don't effect the user experience whatsoever.

A site like peakd might generate 10K or more per month. At current prices that could buy almost 40K hive form the market to either burn or distribute to the top viewed authors.

Would it generate a lot of interest in the site if that hive was distributed between the top 500 authors for the month? Would it incentivize people to create better content and share it if people knew that there was a prize pool for bringing eyes to the eco-system>

10K might seem like a small amount in the grand scheme of things but to regular users it is a large amount of money that could be put to good use every month and spend time growing it. Imagine if that prize pool was 100K every month, how many authors we could attract form medium, personal blogs, other websites trying to increase site views and grow their audience.

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