Ads are now an opt-in feature of PeakD.

Make sure to turn them on and do your bit for the community.

It turns out that what you can do for hive is very easy. Just go to your settings in Peakd. Top right hand corner of the page.

Third row from the bottom. "Peakd Settings."

Scroll down the page until you hit,

It's in the section under "What content you see."

Click "Enable ads" and switch it to on.

Congratulations. You are now helping the Hive community.

Also, If you are using Brave browser check to see if AD shields are down for the site as they will also block you from seeing the ads.

Now when I say that you will see ads it's a few simple banners along the page that you will almost not even notice.

Can you spot the ad here. Just about probably.

But why would I want ads on peakd???

A fair question as the web3 community is usually anti ads and interference as we know form requesting this feature for the past 7 years. But the simple answer is that ads create revenue.

Clean, washed revenue that can be used to buy hive from the markets. For the full details you can read the post from the peakd team here looking for feedback,

Testing Ads on PeakD.com... for non-users

But for those too lazy to click the link i have copied their reasoning.

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)

Personally i don't think that non users will generate that many views but we have thousands of users here daily that could really help those views if we opt in to seeing ads. It's a feature that i have begged for over the years alongside a lot of other voices which can be seen in the feedback section under the post.

The original team brought in ads back when steem was selling of huge amounts of the ninja mine every month to stay afloat and it was a great success. LEO tried ads and had made an impact but the project is under revision at the moment. We are not selling of huge amounts to stay afloat but the price has been leaking for a few years due to high amounts of hive being sold and not much being bought. this needs to change and hopefully these ads are the first change of mindset that we need to see from our devs in a very positive move. I said as much to them in my own response.

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.

This is all in trial stage and just released today but if we wan't it to be successful and see the team build on this promise as well as encourage other teams to do the same then we should all opt into ads and see what results can be formed over the next few months.

I for one would be very interested in seeing the monthly revenue for a top hive site like this and if we can increase it over time. Even if it just generates a few hundred a month in revenue that is a positive for me as it's putting buy pressure on the token that wasn't there before. If other hive apps can follow it could increase to a few thousand a month and have a meaningful impact on the price over time.

It really wouldn't take much money every month to push the price up as users would then fomo into staking more hive as the price increases. Myself included if i saw this start to happen and know what would follow next.

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