RE: What do you think about ads on 3speak.tv ?

Thanks for all the feedback!

Gotta jump in here since I'm the one behind this ad thing - so yeah, I'm biased. But we had some solid reasons for going this route, even if it was not easy and a lot of what you wrote is fair. I collect my thoughts in one comment to make it easier for me so excuse the mass ping in one comment :P

@dewabrata it's live, judge us by what we deliver :)

@stresskiller I guess you just didn't hit a video with an ad yet ;) Ad blockers don't catch them right now, advertisers love that part obviously. But unlike YT you get paid for watching, so not the worst deal. Found a way to block them anyway? Tell me and I fix it lol

@tokutaro22 The burn idea is super cool, I'll throw it at the team and they will like that a lot I think ;)

@seckorama @proto26 @ervin-lemark @les90 @thebighigg not a big ads fan myself but I have to look at a platform as a user and a developer. Max 1 video roll ad interrupt per video, then the viewer gets a cooldown on that ad. The banners and ticker can be mulitples but they dont interupt the viewing as much. Creators can also just turn ads off if they feel that their content should not get interupted at all.

You know how many channels uploaded one pretty good video (or a post in general) and never came back? A lot. Low rewards for new users is a big part of that I think, and bigger web2 creators won't stick around for that either. We all got used to the one-time payout here (even though the value of Hive declined a lot since we joined). Rest of the internet isn't tho. @keithtaylor got the point: A video drives traffic to Hive since years and the creator got 1 USD once. And we tell people "own your content and own the rewards for it". Kinda funny, right? So share your old stuff again if it's good, it can still earn you something now. Viewer rewards are a bonus on top. @promete0sz nailed it better than I could, the people are already here. They read, they don't hit play, because there was nothing in it for them. And hey, maybe that's finally how we get the regular viewers everyone is talking about since years.

@palomap3 @jfang003 @hirohurl yeah audience is small and nobody gets rich tomorrow. It's an experiment. More users should come with it. Like @slothlydoesit said, it's money from outside Hive and we need that badly. Advertisers also have to buy on the exchanges for now, can't hurt the price.

And a personal note: I personally have spend weeks each on some of my old videos and guess what? I got max 5 usd paid once for them. We tend to undervalue that big efforts that can go into creating an engaging video. Most of the video content is "record - roll - post" but to create a video that is actually keeping the viewers watching is a whole different level. On Hive with all the voting trails and the short voting window, people dont put much efforts in their videos and post without even editing a small bit yet, which is a bummer. Video creation is an art form but many just record and forget. We need to appreciate good content even if its 1 year old. I hope this will change and we get more personality into the videos.

Thanks again for all the feedback and to @liotes for this post. It is always good to have the community share their ideas and opinions so we can improve what we do. But we all need to face reality and think out of our Hive-box to attract artists, creators, investors and regular viewers.