I think that communities are the key to develop Hive. When people join Hive they mostly are just overwhelmed by the whole thing. So much to learn, so much to understand.
Within the small CTP community, we are able to take new users by the hand and encourage them to continue. I believe that it should be the communites that reach out to new users. The more people we bring to hive, the more ideas we bring as well. With every new member there is the potential that this person will bring a big change to hive. The people from outside bring a fresh approach and see the potential of Hive with different eyes.
I totally agree with you that we should sell this space better by showing ads on the front ends. I mean where can you touch as many crypto interested people as on Hive?
Fully agree with you and that is why my idea is so important. It will create revenue for the people running the communities and give them an incentive to get new members and increase the exposure of it's posts by getting ad revenue based on how popular the community is.
With this in mind you could start a football community and if the posts there were bringing more people in to read and write you would increase your share of the ad earnings. This would let you increase your voting power by buying hive and let you earn for the effort of running and advertising your community to the world.
I know that if i could build a community of 1000 people posting daily and that it would earn me $200 a week as my share of the ad revenue, for example. That would be a living wage in some countries and a great reason to go out and find 1000 people to join the community and keep them active with contests, engagement and voting power.
Start a Nigerian community for people to join and discuss the local area, make them as niche as you like as long as they are active and being shared externally. We have 5000 daily posters on hive at the moment but if each of those early adopters had incentive to create their own niche community that could 100x in a short space of time and increase the ad revenue. That would bring in even more people as the token price rises.