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Hey PeakD community we are running a test... we'd like to tell you about it because you may not even notice š
TL;DR
- This is just a test.
- Ads on PeakD.com for non-hive users may benefit the entire Hive Community.
- Incentives to bring lots eyes to your posts could help shift our posting culture and how users promote their content.
TESTING ADS
We're trying something new: experimenting with Google Ads on PeakD.com. Here's the deal: this is a test, and we're taking it slow. For now, logged-in users won't see any ads (meaning almost everyone reading this post won't actually see any ads) ā we're only showing them to visitors who aren't logged in. We can get plenty of data from just those users alone.
We understand that after being ad-free for so many years, some of you might feel a bit unsure about this change and while this test won't directly impact logged in Hive users there will be indirect and positive ways to benefit all of Hive through this test.
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SOME REASONS
- HIVE token buy pressure that could result could help Hive a lot.
- If this led to rewarding people for bringing eyeballs/visitors to their content that benefits all of Hive... specially if it led to less dependence and stress on reward pool funding.
- Hive has hundreds of thousands of posts and search engines push people to them on daily basis to no benefit of Hive
- Less impactful but this could lead to a reason to get an account. (A non ad experience if you get an account)
- Please share if you have reasons for or against.
"Is this something completely new?"
No. Other Hive blog sites and Hive video sites have experimented with ads to varying degrees. Recently we have had a substantial poll of hive users asked if they would want ads on Splinterlands.com (something the company didn't even request) and over 77% over users and 88% of staked tokens responded yes.
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WAYS TO BENEFIT USERS
Part of this experiment is figuring out exactly how any revenue from ads will be used. In this first phase we are more interested in collecting data and all revenues generated from Ads will be used to buy back HIVE from the internal market and burn tokens (or send them to the DHF).
Based on the data collected during this test period these are some of the things we may consider going forward:
- Buying and burning HIVE to support the token's value.
- Create a profit sharing system for our community (e.g., rewarding those who help bring in views)
- Buying and staking (aka powering up) HIVE, which could mean more votes for our users and benefiting HIVE price
TEMPERED EXPECTATIONS
We still need to see how well ads perform it is not a given that it will have a substantial impact... things we have to consider:
- 65% of users use Chrome and a good proportion use Brave with a built in ad blocker and some use ad blockers on their other browser options.
- It's harder to put ads on Mobile... we have much less options for ad placement that is non-disruptive and 60%+ of our traffic is mobile.Ā
- Well over 50% of traffic is from countries where ad revenue is significantly lower
The goal here is simple: this is not a get rich quick sort of thing ...if ads can create value, we want that value to benefit Hive Ecosystem, Individual Hive users and Hive communities in meaningful ways.
HOW TO VIEW OR SUPPORT ADS?
1. Log out to see them
2. Turn on this setting if you desire.
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AD PLACEMENT
It's actually quite limited to begin with.
- Under Post Text
- Above Post Text
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- Also in the Search Section
(Which means we should probably work on the search page a bunch)
...Like we said it's starting off pretty limited.
WHAT'S NEXT
After we have collected a few weeks (maybe couple months) worth of data we'll share an update with users on some of the results and what we think will happen next. Some possibilities that we'll evaluate based on your feedback:
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Revenues are small and not worth the time and effort and we could just stop the project
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Ad Revenue is healthy, we may keep ads going and find ways to benefit all of Hive community (Buy Burn etc)
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Revenues are better than expected and we build more tools to help bring in the community with sharing in revenue.
REMINDER: During this period all revenues generated from Ads will be used to purchase HIVE tokens and burn them from the internal market.
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YOUR FEEDBACK
- Share how you would change your own promotion and marketing of YOUR posts or your communities content IF you knew getting more eyes on your content would lead towards profit sharing.
- Share if you know influential users that would bring viewership to a platform where they could get a profit for their views (many may already be on sites that offer this)
- Consider viewing PeakD.com not logged in or go to settings and turn them on and tell us what you think of ad placement and how you think we could improve it.
- Share creative ways you think we could benefit the greater hive ecosystem if the experiment does well.Ā
Weād love your thoughts and feedback as we explore this. Let's make this work for all of us!
āThe PeakD Team
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Call to Action
Vote for our proposals here: https://peakd.com/me/proposals/peakd
Specifically this proposal is still not funded: https://peakd.com/me/proposals/311
The PeakD team
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@x-rain | Nov. 7, 2024, 1:09 p.m. | Votes: 3 | [
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> Create a profit sharing system for our community (e.g., rewarding those who help bring in views)
I support. You can also ask Hivers to have some minimum HivePower (1000HP, 2000HP or so) if they want to join the program.
> buying HIVE to burn
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> Share how you would change your own promotion and marketing of YOUR posts or your communities content IF you knew getting more eyes on your content would lead towards profit sharing
I may make some of my posts more SEO-optimized (few light-weighted images and SE-optimized text) to get some search engine / Gemini traffic.
However, I am skeptical about how much you can make with Google Adsense nowadays - not much. My last test was on Hubpages, my first and last article there got 350 views from Google search mostly and only 0.24$ (40% of the revenue, the rest went to Hubpages). So little. This article Koh Lipe on Budget in 2023. Ferries, Fees, Prices - unique text and images, no copy-paste.
But potentially big discussions of new things and last news in the Quora-like style can bring good traffic. Commentrewarder can help to create such discussions.
@x-rain | Nov. 8, 2024, 6:07 a.m. | Votes: 2 | [
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Quite realistic point of view.
> 24 cents for 350 views is actually pretty awesome
Yes and no. If these 24 cents are passive income, then it's awesome. But from the point of the author, it's not much. Low-effort articles don't bring traffic anymore. Writing and SE-optimizing for several hours for 24 cents sucks. Hubpages takes 40% from their authors' earnings so they got 16 cents from my article to their piggy bank, it's not that bad. But they have a lot of ads on the page. They also allow authors to turn on Amazon links there to get more from articles.
> BUT... we'll see i guess
We'll see. Because on Hive, Google ads revenue will be an addition to Hive rewards and this changes a lot.
> Most views are on mobile
I think the injection of text ads right in the middle of the text of the posts can be helpful. Drupal modules allow it, no idea about Peakd/Hive. You can inject a paragraph with an affiliate link or anything like that. Like, "Support the author and the platform by booking your next hotel with this link".
> We don't show to users
It's pity since Hive users aren't random like visitors from Google search but a group of people with a common interest in crypto / earning crypto.
You can consider showing something to users like a small line of text with some useful information. Although most Hivers aren't rich and not going to buy washing machines on Amazon but all want to raise crypto so an affiliate link to something useful can be popular. If this money is used to develop Hive blockchain, nobody will mind. This way, you can collect funds for some amazing competitions which would be interesting not only to Hivers. Millions of photographers are ready to join a contest with a decent photocamera as the main prize, for example. Ask them to have 10$-worth HP to be eligible for the contest, and they'll buy a lot of $HIVE.
Hivers can be interested in some crypto projects where they can earn. For example, I like beautiful NATIX app ("Join the world's largest AI camera network (DePIN) and earn"). Their referral links change every week but Peakd can ask them for a constant link - maybe, they'll agree. /No idea who is behind the project, just speaking about the surface/ Such cooperation with other crypto projects is good for Hive blockchain too.
Just some raw ideas out of loud.
I'm very happy to see this feature implemented on peakd and have turned on ads for my account straight away. Hopefully others do the same and we can see what revenue can be generated from the experiment. I'm hoping to see a post in a few weeks with results and to keep the community informed and involved in the process.
I know that it won't be huge to start with but the ads are non-intrusive and all users should turn them on to help the community. It would even be good for new account sign-ups to have to opt out rather than opt in as standard to help increase the views.
Small amounts add up very fast and if we can increase our pageviews in the next bull run those numbers could go up.
We all know from experience that the best form of advertising in crypto is price and if we can get more front ends earning revenue and buying hive from the markets it could create a positive effect on the price which in turn will bring in more users and encourage all of us to produce more front facing content.
If the ads did buy enough hive it would also be nice down the line to reward the content creators who are bringing in the most views and further incentivize quality content to keep increasing those numbers.
Even if the revenue is low to start i hope that the team keep going with the experiment for the foreseeable future until we can see if the community as a whole can work towards building out a library of SEO posts that will keep generating more and more revenue over time.
I'm 100% behind this proposal and have been asking for it with years. So happy to see the team taking a chance with ads and if it's successful we might see even more front ends doing the same and get more buy pressure on the hive markets. In the end it will benefit us all and give us more reason to buy hive ourselves if we know that there is a mechanism there to stop the constant sell pressure that we have seen over the past few years.
More active users and a higher price will totally change the view of our eco-system and encourage other devs to build their projects here if they can see that their investment will go up over time as well as the brilliant tech that is there for them to work with.
Thanks for this.
Hello everyone I'm kingtamarah a struggling content creator that is currently learning the financial market. Few weeks back i had a vision that can make hive get a minimum of 5000 new users and also major investors, with strategies i woud like to share. In other to make this happen, i am willing to sacrifice the whole of my 2025 for this purpose. I believe i wouldn't fail.
To mention a few, this is and example of one of the ways i would make creator come to hive
Firstly
On my Instagram, I created a video telling people how hive cares about the growth of creators.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEaiu_0qzsH/?igsh=MW41OWdncm5mc2wycg==
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Some people commented hive to let me know they are interested in being part of the family.
This same video can successfully bring over 1000 people to hive before mid year.
Secondly,
Because i know that hive is decentralised, i thought of ways to make it beneficial for content creators and Also big brands that are constantly in need of advertisement. In Africa brands like glo and mtn are constantly in competition with eachother and are also constantly in need of advertisement, if i made them create an account with hive, so that they can easily support by upvoting content creators that create promotional videos for them and post on web 2 apps but also tag them on hive with the post link, they'll be intrested because they know new creators can be more talented but would always charge lower which can be covered with an upvote. This idea can take decentralisation of content a step further. If i am given the opportunity, i would consistently reach out to African brands that can buy this idea and if it plays out well, it means more money comes to hive and creators posting on hive.
Thirdly
Imagine hosting of tournament sponsored by hive, i don't really want to say alot here but this idea can bring a minimum of 150 new creators on a weekly basis, this is based on pure fact.
I would love to be given this opportunity hive is an amazing brand I'll love to work with. If anyone knows anybody that can help make this proposal get to the right hands please help me. I'm kingtamarah than you for your time.