Hmmm! First impressions were HELL NAW!
Then I thought about the wasted space, and how engagement could be directly rewarded, wealth could be distributed to the community in the form of increased STEEM value, and how analytics could be a steem blockchain platform so that it connects users with the content they would actually like to see, and the sponsors with the people they want to receive the message.
Entire cryptocurrencies are built for this purpose (https://token.ad/, https://basicattentiontoken.org/ et al) and why not us?
You may be on to something and this warrants good discussion in the comments here.