The investor sentiment around here is at an all time low and honestly I can understand why. I really think it's going to be up to 3speak, InLeo etc to just start running some dang ads already to pay out content creators otherwise there's going to be extremely low adoption.
Sure, things like decentralized, DAO and not worrying about your videos being taken down are nice but that's pretty much a standard that people just expect and is not a selling point. The selling point is going to be you can actully make money/crypto for putting content and it's actully funded by something instead of just raping the Hive market cap every day.
Until these apps start funding themselves, stop using DHF funding and start producing revenue that's paid back to the people that use their platform/app these things simply aren't going to go anywhere and I don't understand why applications and hive in general can't understand that. Maybe they do but they are too busy stuffing their own pockets.
Google Ads pollutes the visual; perhaps it would be better to create a smartphone app and follow the model used in games, where users earn tokens for each ad watched. Or, implement a decentralized advertising system that utilizes tokens to highlight posts, offer memberships... The issue is that there's a significant risk that once a Dapp manages to survive without the rewards from HIVE, it might leave the ecosystem to grow more.
The video for points always seems to be a popular option but that's not really going to be the greatest. Adsense works for now until the platform gets larger and can support it's own internal ad platform that people want to get in on.