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

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  @edgerik(70)· 10d

  I think that incorporating an advertising system in 3speak.tv is an interesting strategy. The idea of ​​​​splitting revenue between the creator, the platform and the viewer is innovative and could encourage more participation and creation of content. However, it is important that the ads do not interfere too much with the user experience.

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  @blitzzzz(77)· 14d

  TBH, my adblockers completely block all ads on Youtube and almost everywhere else. I understand the need for revenue generation and if that were the case, I'd be inclined to let ads run on services I like and support, if it wasn't something in my face.

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  @imfarhad(74)· 14d

  it's interesting way to increase income assuming they can attract advertisers or the users within hive use to promote their content. Time will tell.

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  @caparadiso(61)· 14d

  Thanks for the mission, @liotes! 🙌 My answer: I'm in favor of ads on 3Speak, as long as they're done fairly. 📺

  • For the platform: video hosting costs a lot, and ads can help make 3Speak sustainable without relying only on donations.
  • For creators: if part of the revenue goes back to the people who make the content, it's a win-win.
  • For small businesses like mine (a farm stay in Italy 🌿): a Hive-native ad is a great way to reach an engaged community, instead of paying big platforms.

  I even wrote a post proposing a prize contest for Hivers to test the new ads, with my own ad for Ca' Paradiso as an example! 😄

  The key, in my view, is to keep ads non-intrusive (no endless pre-rolls) and transparent about how revenue is shared.

  My question for you: what ad format would you find acceptable as a viewer, a short banner, a pre-roll, or a sponsored video? And do you think creators should be able to choose whether to show them? 🤔

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  @tibfox(74)· 14d

  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.

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  @jfang003(78)· 14d

  I think it's a good choice if they want 3speak to be sustainable. However, I am skeptical about how much they can generate from that. Ads don't seem to pay much, and unless they can land some direct deals, I can't see videos generating that much either.

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  @seckorama(78)· 15d

  I hate ads that interrupt the video. I don't mind ads that appear above or below the video. But having them interrupt the video just seems like corporate bullshit from YouTube to me.

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  @ervin-lemark(76)· 15d

  I don't like ads in general. They are annoying, repetitive, algorithm based, ...

  As for 3speak, I guess they thought it out and decided for it. It is their call anyways.

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  @palomap3(76)· 15d

  I don't see the ads badly but I don't think there is enough volume of users to give performance.

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  @shiftrox(79)· 15d

  I think it might be a good idea to start with just a few ads, because people need to understand that the ads are meant to support the projects, and since many of them don't have sponsors or anything like that, the ads can be a source of income—a way to generate some revenue for the projects.

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  @proto26(68)· 15d

  My first reaction is that it would be bad but I'm purely thinking about it just from a viewer perspective and how annoying it works be. I guess in theory it does sound good. We'll see if it actually works to help.

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  @pizzabot(60)· 15d

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  @les90(74)· 15d

  I only watched videos from friends.... A few days ago i noticed that change too... Personally i feel boring with those ads but I think 3speak ads are something which give ads revenue to not only content creator but to those who watched those lazy ads too....

  But I'm the one who prefer to skip ads 🙂💃🤣

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  @promete0sz(75)· 15d

  I think so too. Since I arrived on Hive back in 2022, I've been creating video-reviews because I'm great at both writing and video content creation 😊😊. Based on my years of experience with video—something few people here have since the vast majority only write and are too shy to show their faces on camera 😅😅—I've realized that Hive isn't currently the best place for video. The audience barely reads as it is, so they just leave comments without even hitting PLAY. You can easily tell by the views and comments you end up getting 🙃🙃

  The 3Speak whale algorithm for dropping upvotes is also completely backward. I feel like its requirements haven't been updated in years, failing to adjust to the massive amount of people who used to be active but aren't anymore due to the market drought. I've had videos that genuinely met all the criteria, and the 3Speak whale bot still skipped them, so for years, I've been completely lost as to how it gives out likes 🙃🙃

  Based on all of that, the Ads were focused on promoting clicking the PLAY button and encouraging the interaction of actually WATCHING the content, which increases views. I think this helps solve both of the problems I mentioned in the previous paragraphs. For my part, I'm happy for now with what 3Speak has implemented 😊😊👍🏻

  Pienso que si, desde que llegue a hive en 2022 he creado video reseñas ya que se me da excelente la creacion de contenido escrita y de video 😊😊. Desde aquel entonces he percibido en base a experiencia de años en video que pocos tienen ya que la gran mayoria unicamente escriben y les da pena salir en video 😅😅, que hive no es de momento el sitio mas idoneo para hacer videos ya que la audiencia a duras penas lee entonces dejan comentarios sin siquiera dar play, se nota en las visualizaciones y comentarios que uno llega a tener 🙃🙃

  La Ballena de 3Speak tambien es un desproposito su algoritmo para soltar el like, percibo tiene condiciones que no se han actualizado en años con la gran cantidad de gente que antes estaba y de momento no, audiencia que de momento no esta por la sequia del mercado. He tenido videos que cumplen genuinamente las condiciones y no pasa la ballenita 3speak, entonces por años muy perdido con su forma de dar likes 🙃🙃

  Basado en lo anterior, las Ads se enfocaron para promover el PLAY al boton y la interaccion de VER el contenido lo cual aumenta las visualizaciones. Pienso cumple en ayudar a resolver los dos problemas que olantee en los párrafos anteriores, de mi parte contento de momento con lo que aplico 3Speak 😊😊👍🏻

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  @thebighigg(78)· 15d

  Never been a big fan of ads personally. However, I do understand that some revenue needs to be generated to keep something profitable and sustainable. So if they help keep things running, I have no problem with them!

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  @relf87(76)· 15d

  Hmm I rarely use 3speak so I have no view on this. :)

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  @elderdark(77)· 15d

  I agree with the idea. A moderate and well-integrated advertising model could be interesting for platforms like 3Speak, especially if users perceive that the ads help fund the platform without turning the experience into a series of interruptions.

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  @ladymisa(64)· 15d

  It is a good way to increase revenue streams. Even YouTube has ads. :)

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  @tokutaro22(69)· 15d

  This is the right way to grow a social network. I congratulate you on the initiative. I would like a small percentage—say, 5%—to go towards burning Hive.

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  @keithtaylor(61)· 15d

  Prior to retirement, most of my income came from adverts and affiliate commissions. So I'm very much in favour of this 3speak initiative. And as @stresskiller points out, you don't need to see them if you don't want to (assuming ad-blockers work on 3speak as they seem to work everywhere else - I don't often use them).

  The greatest benefit that I see is the ability to earn small rewards after the 7-day Hive window.

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  @hirohurl(71)· 15d

  I think it is an interesting experiment, especially when I see that a lot of people have already received micro payments for viewing ads: https://peakd.com/@threespeak-pro/wallet

  As a video creator, I like the idea of potentially earning ad revenue from my videos.

  As an Internet marketer, I've had a look at the ad types and prices. The audience numbers are quite low but a campaign to promote something related to crypto (such as Satsman!) might deliver some results, or maybe even something more relevant to the Hive blockchain, such as promoting my Splinterlands guild...

  It will be interesting to see if 3Speak ads really do pull in a lot of new people who want to promote their offers. I suspect only highly targeted campaigns have any chance of working on a 3Speak audience...

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  @stresskiller(73)· 15d

  Haven't seen them , won't see them , long time user of add blockers :)

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  @dewabrata(77)· 15d

  at the moment, I think people on hive have too many ideas and what being delivered are not good lol...

  So I don't care about the idea, just deliver it and show people how it works... let people decide later.

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  @slothlydoesit(68)· 15d

  Hive needs to find more ways to bring in 'outside' revenue. We can't sustain this 'closed' economy, so it's nice to see 3speak making some changes and hopefully adding more rewards into the system for everyone!

  I think more sites might follow suit, adding more ads, be it banners/videos or even audio ads; there's potential to bring more revenue into the Hive system and hopefully keep Hive buzzing towards a better future!

  Personally, I hate ads, but I understand from a business point, they are the 'easiest' way for a platform to generate revenue. Let's hope it brings more users to 3speak and Hive overall!

  !SLOTH and steady does it.

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  @offgridlife(73)· 15d

  It’s a good idea. You can earn $1000 a day with Ads on your YouTube Channel. It’s a great source of extra income to fund projects and developers…. Https://YouTube.com/OffgridTV

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