That's a clever way of doing things, I think it could easily be achieved if the developers built in a way to automate page referrals within the site somehow. It'd definitely be suited to those smartsteem posts that are always in the trending page since they're just straight up business adverts.
The thing is, a lot of services already have banners and some of them give users a cut of the profits, but that doesn't mean they won't advertise though as many channels as possible; even in the real world, we see advertisers using product placement, celebrity endorsement, subliminal advertising, freebies - literally any way to reach the customer and they're on it. It can be a difficult task to control advertising.
Difficult, sure, but a structured system means Coca Cola could come here, buy Steem, pay bloggers for clicks to their coca cola commercial on Dtube. Corporate ads could fit nicely under the the blog post and voting bar while private ads could have a slot above and sell for cheaper. That banner slot would have to come with the finished post though. Not added in with the editor. I'm trying to sound smart but I'm so goddamn tired I think I'll just stop there.
just saw you comment on this now, was wondering about this dynamics a few weeks ago but would prefer to chat with you about this in person, what's your discord ID nonames?
I'm not on discord. I think I signed up, but I don't use it.
let me know what you think:
How Transform Curie (as an example) and Curation To Complete With Trending
https://steemit.com/curie/@curie/a-call-for-delegation#@dj123/re-curie-a-call-for-delegation-20180417t073327674z
the recent COM post was tiny synthetic alpha prototype disguised as a easy competition to instigate genuine curation and creativity (baby steps since we don't have >10,000 active followers yet nor the leadership resources to make game curation [showcase] something we can execute in a periodic and timely fashion, next step is to make this weekly and see if it attracts larger participation consistently..... can't grow an idea without being able to measure it):
https://steemit.com/comedyopenmic/@comedyopenmic/you-might-have-a-steemit-account-if
BTW nonames.....we just launched #comedyschool this week and we're getting some new blood on board to help with growing real talents that does actual IRL comedy open mic, and nothing reaches out and get more loyal fans (not the flaky ones who comes one time and go without spreading the word) but participants who are enthusiast who are trying out their hands in comedy, and start paying attentions and admiring consistent content producers
We really want you to be part of something great someday, a corner of the Steem blockchain that make this world a better place, or at the very least, grow a community that helps recognize talent that comes out only once in a while, and build a nurturing community to support the enthusiast, and help hard working talent and contributors (participants that are more administrator, curators, talent scouts, leaders, etc.) become sustainable themselves in whatever ways that can help them.
Swing by discord, say hello and get a glimpse behind the scenes of what we're trying to achieve, will be too much to type out here, and God knows' it's surely much more just just a fun all inclusive silly contest with prizes growing as the community supporting it grows along with it ;)
there is alot more....including dev (and all that comes with it including a DAP someday and then some down the road)....oh yeah, did you know we've launched COMEspanol ( #comedyopenmicespanol ) in the middle of it's 2nd week now, and we've exceeded our target of 30/week entries hitting >50, there are lot of countries that when they get on crypto like Venezeula (where their income dropped from 4th world country $25/month down to a low $5/month in goods purchasing power), we believe we'll help disrupt the violence and cycle of poverty form by financial and political tyranny, also the leader helping with #comedyschool is hoping to grow his account to someday start consistently funding an orphanage to help his friends in Iraq (I shit you not...they are running it full time w/o any government support), when you can make the time, come back and see for yourself:
https://steemit.com/comedyschool/@amirtheawesome1/how-to-be-a-good-comedian-part-1-the-basics
ComedyOpenMic Discord - https://discord.gg/uy8KTds