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I gave it a good thought. And it's extencive.

Currently with the traditional social media the platform is the gatekeeper for the #Ads. #Advertisers pay the platform to display ads and 'trust' that they display the ads to it's users with a specific profile. - Platforms ( X / Facebook / Insta / YouTube ) are in control. - User is the product.

Moneyflow goes like this:

Advertiser ----> Platform

On nostr this shifts completely because the user is in control. The user decides which relays they connect to and which client they use. There are 3 (or more) parties involved who decide which ads the user gets to see.

1) The user himself

2) The Relay the user connects to (Relays will compete with each other in the future)

3) The client the user uses to connect to the relays. (Clients will compete with each other)

4) Maybe profilebuilders (Profile builders will compete with each other in the future)

And the advertiser? They should pay all those parties in a good proportion. (Zaps & SATs)

So #nostr will enable us to be paid to see ads from advertisers.

And relays serving those ads and clients displaying those ads also should benefit from this.

This incentives Advertisers to have a good profile of the user they want to target the ad and to add value to the life of the user seeing the ad, or else the user blocks the advertiser.

There will be "advertiser profile builders" in the future competing as well and getting a part of the money the advertiser pays as well.

Money flow goes like this:

Advertiser ---> User

Advertiser ---> Relay

Advertiser ---> Client

Advertiser ---> Profile Builder

But the main part:

User is in full-control of these though the client he uses and the relays he's connecting to and the profile builder he's using. So advertisements wil be better than on traditional social media and you get paid to see them.

Just my 21 sats on this topic.

Only the relays, clients, and profile builders would have any need to be involved as they would own the digital real estate and there's no reason for all 3 to be a packaged into a centralized system. They can all be different #advertising channels at different levels of the network.

A boosted message is kind of like an #advertisement on a relay already.

There's plenty of space on the UI of clients for each (that wants) to come up with their own ad layouts, rates, rotations, qualifications, and targeting parameters. Clients will be/already are different companies and organizations anyway.

Profile builders can also come up with their own advertising setups as well.

I don't know why I would pay a user to view content/ ads. That is not a service and the fact that I am paying them obliterates the concept of intent. The point of paying for the ad is for the publisher to place it somewhere that is highly visible to an audience with intent/interest enough engage further. Hence, the payment being on the click.

The better the placement - the higher the relevance of the ad to the audience - the more clicks the ad gets and the more money the platform will get from the #advertiser who is paying for them. That's is how the PPC business model generally works. It does not pay to serve irrelevant ads.

Paying a user to view #ads is just paying a rando to view ads. It's devoid of intent - there is no targeting or point in it. It just becomes about a user siphoning money out of businesses, not engaging with the product, service, event, community, etc... being advertised. It's a pit.

Ads don't exist just to be seen. They exist to present something new and of interest to people who already care about that thing in some capacity. Its about building up community with people who like a thing and want that thing to continue to exist because it adds value to their living experience.

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