Yea, I think that's the way to go about it in regards to ads. I can help with the creation of ads and video ads, but I don't have much experience with what the best way is to set up campaigns on the different platforms. Also, I think one thing we'd need to do is be able to track the impact of the ads. I wonder if that would be hard here.
Normally if you had total control over a site you could see the analytics of where your traffic was coming from so you could tell if your ads were effective. Not sure how that would work here.
As I mentioned before, I think it might be initially more effective to direct target content creators, reach out to them and offer them something specific. Would you be interested in that?
If so, what specifically do you think we could offer them?
I agree that influencer marketing, esp on Youtube, is probably the most effective marketing one can do. I think a SPS proposal where we pay some top level people to do some interviews with Andrew or Eli. If we can get a high quailty video ad done, maybe we can pay them to show it before their videos.
I have been trying to do something like this, I have a 100k steem delegation to get a big youtuber here and talk about Steem. I think a lot of people outside of Steem don't realize how beneficial having SP can be.
But ya, the only way I can think of is either get a big Youtuber that would take a delegation or we just pay them to promote Steem.