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Tibbi Talks: Why do we have ads on 3Speak now?!

Quick update on our latest and pretty important development on 3Speak, and why we built it in the first place.

I know ads are a controversial topic, especially here on Hive. But this is how we bring a lot more people in. Just look how many people we already rewarded for their content and for simply watching videos: https://peakd.com/@threespeak-pro/wallet

If you want to have a look or book an ad campaign - click here: https://3speak.tv/advertise

Also, the 3Speak feature videos I promised are still coming. Yes, I know they are overdue since a while and it would be much more transparent if I'd finally publish them. They are in the pipeline, I just didn't find (or take) the time to record them all yet. Coming up:

3Speak advertise
Remixing 3Speak shorts
The Shorts Editor on 3Speak
An explainer for all the settings
Streaming on 3Speak
Our new onboarding solution
and more

Maybe I should switch on my #yolo mode and stop being so serious about these...

▶ Watch on 3speak.tv

Comments · 34

@sarjan.hossain71(56)· 1d
Completely agree! Ads might feel a bit new here, but if it helps the platform grow and supports creators, it's totally worth it.
@vynith(51)· 6d
As YouTube requirements for monetisation get more ridiculous I'm sure more creators would join 3speak especially since the new ad rollout & shorts.

I see more shadowbanned creators moving over here in waves soon!

I'm one of them lol had 200k views on my last channel but ever since I ate raw meat they immediately shadowbanned all shorts :/

Not to mention I'm permanently banned on Instagram and shadowbanned on tiktok lolol.
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@fastbuka(58)· 8d
Been watching some videos lets see how it goes
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@pizzabot(60)· 11d
PIZZA!

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@jellyvine(64)· 14d
Thing is, I'm really grateful it is easy to upload now.☺️ Thanks for being awesome.
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@opponent(57)· 14d
Excellent work, 3speak is setting the standard.
@cositav(73)· 15d
Excellent work, my friend. So far I've seen great work, I'll keep checking it out.
@caparadiso(61)· 15d
Hey mate, right now, I purchased an Advertise on 3Speak videos: let's see how it works! 😎
@imfarhad(74)· 15d
Thanks for the update. Adding ads is a good step to add extra revenue.

Do you have any idea on what happen to LARYNX and SPK tokens?

!BBH !ALIVE !HEARTBEAT
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@urun(69)· 16d
@ahmadmanga(76)· 16d
This update makes me want to increase my time on 3speak... Sadly, there aren't that much of the content I usually watch on YouTube here, (anime reaction, gaming analysis, and AI news are big ones,) so I hope some creators of those appear here.
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@antisocialist(75)· 17d
Where do I access the place an add page?
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@eyeguy(60)· 17d
Your nose isn’t big as mine 😂. Anyway Really great work! Your commitment and your positive attitude towards 3speak is amazing and deserves appreciations. Great progress and I am sure great achievement are on the way waiting for you ❤️ With love, Dr Sam
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@molometer(72)· 17d
Limiting the ads to only show on the 3speak.tv watch page is a mistake. Most views on videos come from sharing on other sites. If you can figure out a work around we may see exponential watch time growth.

Now the 7 day cap is gone I can imagine a lot of people will be uploading to 3speak.tv, me included 👍
@wiseagent(82)· 17d
Great things are being done with this project, @tibfox.

All the best for what is yet to come.
@steevc(81)· 17d
I had an ad from you when I watched this :) I have been paid, but I am not sure I had any ads from anyone else so far. It looks like the Skip button is immediately available, but we may need to be able to disable ads for specific videos where we don't want interruptions. For Hive in general I have heard that ads may not bring in much due to the small audience, but maybe you can help to expand that.
@sergiomendes(77)· 17d
I do think this are awesome changes. I hope it will keep bringing people and people start consuming more content here as well. Have you thought about starting to create Facebook Page, X, Threads, tiktok, Youtube and start posting daily videos to start promoting the 3speak in the mainstream? Because honestly after all this year and all that we have seen the attempts of so many apps and UIs trying to get the users to the onboarding itself, it never really worked out. Maybe if you guys can have accounts in all the mainstream social media platforms, and start creating content, like simple stuff. Maybe we can start getting hits when people search for "How to monetize my videos" "youtube alternatives" and stuff like that!
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@rashed.ifte(74)· 17d
I didn't find any ad in this video. Aren't there any active ads for now, or didn't you enable earning in your channel setting?
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@achim03(74)· 17d
I think that you have added a very important layer to 3speak that would allow to bring external money to hive and also allow long term return for creators. I think the bottleneck might be to get enough paying advertiser for this. A solution would be to work as an intermediary for platforms like https://bitlabs.ai/ or https://hilltopads.com/. I haven't really researched the sector but I saw these platforms on other sites. There are probably quite a lot of options available. Like that you would have a constant stream of income to monetize the platform in addition to the local advertisers. I think nobody would mind to watch an ad if they earned while doing it...
@helalgrowth2(47)· 17d
Thanks for the transparent update! While ads can be controversial, understanding the vision behind onboarding new users and rewarding creators makes total sense. Really looking forward to the Shorts Editor and upcoming feature guides!
@thatgermandude(67)· 17d
This is HUUUUGE (thick Trump voice off). My main criticism on hive and steem since day 1 was that content can not earn after 7 days. Which is also the very opposite with youtube where my ten year old vids still get several views per month.

This very much motivates me to mirror my whole youtube channel on to 3Speak. I might even use the new system as an advitors, since it is very cheap and I am kinda restarting my content creator arc.
@acidyo(85)· 17d
You guys are doing amazing things over there, great to see that happening!
@edje(73)· 17d
12 hours in front of the screen: I've been there, and I still am I think. Next to office life, over time the additional hours spent change, sometimes looping. From spending tons of time on HIVE, to trying to make more money from my wages through trading, to learning new things (like AI: nope still no time to really code something, I need 48hrs days for that hahaha).

My advice on going out is: Walk a large round while being in some office meeting, online ofcourse, ears in, video off. That is what I do often. Coding: uhm not sure wether this can be done while being out and about. Hearing more and more devs coding (using AI) only through phone. Seeing services in the making that uses a voice frontend for AI work (speak/listen), perhaps that could be something? Perhaps with some kind of AR glasses to be able to have a visual view when needed?

Pay-for-Watching: Didn't see this around as well. Pretty cool idea. I do wonder how the system prevents abuse though. Lots and lots of experiments done with pay-for-listening (music, podcasts and whatnot) and most if not all failed. Why? Users artificially watching 24 hours a day, with a growing amount of accounts. And the payout is usually so little, it only makes sense as a bonus. With that I mean, the service itself needs to be compelling enough for the user to stick around (content, UX and all that). The rewards isn't sticky enough. However, when the rewards are large enough, maybe this helps something, therefor I do hope the Ads income will be substantial.

Sorry to be the devil's advocate.
@ekads(64)· 17d
I finally found a detailed explanation regarding ad revenue sharing on 3speak. Hopefully, this marks a revolutionary step forward for content on Hive, where the reward-earning window is typically limited to just seven days after publication.

I envision an influx of evergreen content emerging as a result. Of course, this also requires the presence of advertisers running ads on the 3speak platform.
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@caparadiso(61)· 18d
Congratulations, Tibbi, on the way you're handling the ads on 3Speak! 👏 Ads are a touchy subject on Hive, and you tackled it head-on, with transparency and a clear goal: bringing more people in and rewarding them for their content and even just for watching. That's how you grow a platform without losing its soul.

And that little blue ponytail deserves a mention of its own... it's the coolest piece of front-end design on the whole platform! 😄💙

One more thing that made my day: I've never before been contacted on WhatsApp by a HIVE blockchain developer. Very cool! It says a lot about the kind of community (and team) we have here.

Keep the "yolo mode" on, and keep the videos coming, we're all watching (ads included 😉).

Greetings from the Marche hills in Italy!

🌾 Matteo Ca' Paradiso | Cagli (Marche) www.caparadiso.com
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@caparadiso(61)· 18d
Congratulations, Tibbi, on the way you're handling the ads on 3Speak! 👏 Ads are a touchy subject on Hive, and you tackled it head-on, with transparency and a clear goal: bringing more people in and rewarding them for their content and even just for watching. That's how you grow a platform without losing its soul.

And that little blue ponytail deserves a mention of its own... it's the coolest piece of front-end design on the whole platform! 😄💙

One more thing that made my day: I've never before been contacted on WhatsApp by a HIVE blockchain developer. Very cool! It says a lot about the kind of community (and team) we have here.

Keep the "yolo mode" on, and keep the videos coming, we're all watching (ads included 😉).

Greetings from the Marche hills in Italy!

🌾 Matteo Ca' Paradiso | Cagli (Marche) www.caparadiso.com
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@caparadiso(61)· 18d
Congratulations, Tibbi, on the way you're handling the ads on 3Speak! 👏 Ads are a touchy subject on Hive, and you tackled it head-on, with transparency and a clear goal: bringing more people in and rewarding them for their content and even just for watching. That's how you grow a platform without losing its soul.

And that little blue ponytail deserves a mention of its own... it's the coolest piece of front-end design on the whole platform! 😄💙

One more thing that made my day: I've never before been contacted on WhatsApp by a HIVE blockchain developer. Very cool! It says a lot about the kind of community (and team) we have here.

Keep the "yolo mode" on, and keep the videos coming, we're all watching (ads included 😉).

Greetings from the Marche hills in Italy!

🌾 Matteo Ca' Paradiso | Cagli (Marche) www.caparadiso.com
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@alfasuenos(58)· 18d
Great update, Tibbi! The work you and the team are doing on 3Speak is looking awesome.

The ad system is truly spectacular; it helps us not only upload more videos but do it with higher quality—like what you mention about your camera and angles, of course, without showing the nose haha! Honestly, that incentive without so much bureaucracy is fantastic to keep making and projecting quality audiovisual material on our channel.

Looking forward to all these upcoming improvements! 🚀
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@masterswatch(64)· 18d
massive 🔥❤️‍🔥
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@thelogicaldude(75)· 18d
I see that Botgrinder shirt... LOL

He's super cool. Glad I got to hang with him a couple of weeks ago. Will get to see him again in a few months at the Sloss Drone Derby...

Side track... LOL...

Yeah, I have been digging the extra Hive for ads, BUT... the ads in the videos that are cutaways always break the flow of my drone videos, lol.
@ph1102(79)· 18d
I see nothing wrong with implementing ads on the 3Speak platform! Maybe some other ideas will come up along the way, but currently, getting healthy revenue is the way to go! I hope other platforms, frontends, or dapps in general will follow the example and base their growth on a business model where the value is sold and revenue is shared among participants...

Good to see you doing well, and hopefully, you will find more time for some nature walks, as they do clear our minds and bodies... On that note, I should follow this suggestion and do it more often too... hehehehe... I forgot what it looks like to create walk-and-talk videos, and I was doing those regularly in the past...

Oh, the evergreen content will become more and more valuable, as with your revenue-sharing model, creators can be paid AFTER the 7-day HIVE payout lock! Good move!

PS. I noticed a small bug on 3Speak... When there is an ad inside the video, the transcript on the right side calculates the ad time too, so it's not "synced" with the video (after the ad)...

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@urun(69)· 18d
Advertisements are necessary. Every hive app should do it and someone should build a advertisement network where front ends can sign up too.

More websites ( bigger network)= more money and more views.
- only 1 website to go as a advertiser. Somehow everytime i say it people say its impossible.
@buzzer11(63)· 18d
is 3speak is a good video platform is uploading video than streaming them is better is it because i dont know what going on with twitch right now i make a few dollars aday on twitch tell me a good reson to switch and i will switch
@emmanuel50(70)· 18d
I really respect the work you keep putting into 3Speak. It’s nice to see the platform growing and giving creators more ways to share what they do. I’m looking forward to seeing what comes next. Have a great day! 🙌😊