Dear @geekgirl
Talking about advertising revenue ... I've been wondering why Steemit cares about advertisers from "outside Steemit".
What about giving some real opportunities for those on STEEM blockchain to use their tokens and promote their content. Right now I'm seeing some random adds while scrolling my feed and (correct me if I'm wrong) none of those adds has been paid to Steemit with STEEM.
What if I run some business on Steemit and I would also like to promote it. Using my STEEM. Cannot be done. That just doesn't make sense.
In order to not programmatically sell Steem each month, we need to bring in enough ad dollars to not only cover expenses, but make enough profit to ensure future stability.
PALnet came up with an idea, that promoted posts are being displayed on "trending" page and are highlighted. That's already something. However much more could be done.
All those STEEM tokens are being burned (not-recycled), which supports growth of token price. Why to look for ways of earning some $$$ outside Steemit.
How often people even visit promoted? Instead of burning the funds spent on promoted content, there can be a different kind of distribution of those funds. For example, 1/3 goes to the app/front-end that is promoting, 1/3 added to the curation pool, and 1/3 burned.
Why would you change current burning into re-cycling those tokens? If we would re-use those tokens, then it really wouldn't help much.
Yours
Piotr
There is simply no incentive to consume promoted content. Creating incentives would drive traffic to promoted content. Win for promoters and win for consumers. As it is now, I doubt many visit promoted. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.