steemit gets a lot of traffic. Similar web shows almost 12m visitors in December. Pity most of them do not sign up for a wallet. The ads are only seen when you are logged out. For a while I was seeing ads for content marketing lol. now they seem to have changed and steemit seems to be looking for direct advertisements. I just took a quick screen grab to show you
There is also now the change of mind from steemit inc in the importance of steemit.com. Not so long ago it was on maintenance, now they have added ads and steemit.com is back to being a core part of the business. Ned himself said that he was surprised with the first lot of revenue.