why bitcointalk don't advertise anywhere.

[aysg76]

The advertisements are way of business promotion ajd this forum is just a place to have open bitcoin and crypto related discussions not to cover the profits motive so why they would advertise about it? Those who are interested about it can find lot of ways to join the forum and we have lot of campaigns as @hugeblack already pointed about.

Apart from this the forum has YouTube channel with BTCtalkShow name where they upload videos on different topics and latest video was dropped and also discord channel but if you are saying about those shilling and fake promotions from the influencers then we don't need anyone of them frankly saying because it doesn't work that way.

[Zoomic]

Many projects place links to their advertisements in the forum (ANN topics.) In return, the forum provides them with a free interface without restrictions, and even some scam is not deleted just because it is fraud, and thus a free platform to obtain clients and evaluations.

Also, the expectations campaigns play an essential role in making the forum prosperous. There are more than 150 active accounts in these campaigns, they create more than 1000 posts daily, all of these posts put visitors to those projects, and those projects put the forum links on their pages.

Thanks you for your explanations.
This is a real time example on how the forum also get good exposure. According to you, as the projects advertise here, they also link their profile here on bitcointalk to their websites such that their visitors can also locate this forum from their websites.
That is fair enough if each project brings in some percentage of people here.

[Lucius]

But I have never seen bitcointalk advertisment anywhere but yet there is traffic.

Have you ever seen that another forum advertises on football matches? Not only does it make no sense, but such advertising is quite expensive if we are talking about top football leagues such as the English Premier League or the German Bundesliga. However, if you have money and want to buy advertising in a special place, no one will forbid you to promote bitcointalk, not even on the jersey of your favorite football team

And don't we think there will be shortage of users here as time passes?

This will most likely happen in the future, given that forums are not something that attracts new generations. In fact, the number of active users and posts has generally decreased in the last 5+ years, some will say because the merit system was implemented, and some will say that it may be for some other reason. However, I think that for anyone who searches the internet for information about Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies in general, the search can very easily lead to this forum.

[Solosanz]

This is a real time example on how the forum also get good exposure. According to you, as the projects advertise here, they also link their profile here on bitcointalk to their websites such that their visitors can also locate this forum from their websites.
That is fair enough if each project brings in some percentage of people here.

But according to similarweb, Bitcointalk traffic is keep decreasing from the past 2 months, even though there's always a new signature campaign comes up and many promotions are run in this forum.

It's true if we're use our logic, it should increase the forum exposure, but the statistic showed different.

This forum doesn't function the way you think, for me it would be a shameful thing for a world number 1 digital currency forum is being advertised on social media and any other place
For my little knowledge if that happens there may be a massive spamming and plagiarism which might easily leads to regular banning as it could be too worrisome for people to read rules and regulations, unlike facebook, twitter and Instagram

Why need to be shame to promote Bitcointalk forum outside? as long as you're promote it without write invest in Bitcoin in a day to double your money, it's fine for me. Just advertise this forum as the side of education.

If they're spamming and plagiarism, the moderators can delete their post and ban their account which mean there's nothing to worry.

[Ndabagi01]

If you may ask yourself, "Why does bitcointalk have so much traffic despite not being advertised anywhere before?" The community exists to give a forum for conversation for its members, not to make money by inviting individuals to join them through adverts on other websites or in public places.

This, among other things, will make you believe once more that bitcoin can stand on its own without the assistance of any agency or government, which will then impose regulations on it. Because of the increasing users of bitcoin currency, traffic in this forum will continue to grow as new users of bitcoin seek more information on its use.

[Adbitco]

Why need to be shame to promote Bitcointalk forum outside? as long as you're promote it without write invest in Bitcoin in a day to double your money, it's fine for me. Just advertise this forum as the side of education.

If they're spamming and plagiarism, the moderators can delete their post and ban their account which mean there's nothing to worry.

I think you are getting it wrongly, anyone is free to promote Bitcointalk forum in any other media platforms. What I meant is that Bitcointalk itself may not have the time to run a promotion about this platform to another social media platforms like twitter or Facebook even instagram. The Official Bitcointalk account on twitter has not been active  since August 2018  which is about 5 years now, to show this forum doesn't really looking at running a promotion to other media channel if so, the Bitcointalk handle on twitter would have been very much active.

[Solosanz]

I think you are getting it wrongly, anyone is free to promote Bitcointalk forum in any other media platforms. What I meant is that Bitcointalk itself may not have the time to run a promotion about this platform to another social media platforms like twitter or Facebook even instagram. The Official Bitcointalk account on twitter has not been active  since August 2018  which is about 5 years now, to show this forum doesn't really looking at running a promotion to other media channel if so, the Bitcointalk handle on twitter would have been very much active.

It's just your assumption if you think Bitcointalk don't have timer to run promotion through other social medias, there's always a person willing to handle the official Bitcointalk account, if the administrator worried about it, they can create another one account which is unofficial forum account and it's controlled more trusted users.

They just don't want to promote this forum through other social medias, nothing else.

CMIIW but I think the Bitcointalk show youtube channel might be controlled by Cyrus and he want to promote Bitcointalk outside this forum.

[Woodie]

I have never seen any forum getting advertised out there, and why would bitcointalk be any different to go this route

If anything we the users are the ambassadors incharge of onboarding users to come to experience the BCT community, if you have a friend that's a fan of cryptocurrencies you could let them know there is a place of like-minded users to gain/share the knowledge they have right here.

[mindrust]

And don't we think there will be shortage of users here as time passes?

Tbh bitcointalk is nowhere near its past popularity but I also know it is not going to experience any shortage of users. That's because this forum is the best place for the casinos, exchanges and mixers to promote their businesses. The readers are also mostly interested in these topics (trading, gambling and privacy) so it is a win/win for each side. This forum gives a chance to its readers to earn from what they like to do... (reading and sharing experiences) I don't even know if there is another forum like btt in the world. Yobit tried to mimic it but It failed miserably.

[Mpamaegbu]

This forum doesn't function the way you think, for me it would be a shameful thing for a world number 1 digital currency forum is being advertised on social media and any other place...

I don't see what should be the shame in it at all. There's nothing wrong in advertising for more spread and awareness even when it's a known fact that the product is a leader in the specific industry. A few years ago Coca cola used to be the global leader in soft drinks (it could still be argued that it remains the leader till date, anyway) but that never stopped it from advertising more. So, to that effect I don't see anything wrong with BTT advertising on social media to create more awareness and gain more traffic. No business should think itself bigger than its clientele.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

This is an official website for bitcoin discussion all over the world, you don't expect anyone to be advertising such on social media except if an individual wishes to, also in our own capacity, we can help others shed more light towards understanding the role of bitcoin and it usefulness without being advertised, if you're really interested on bitcoin then you will discover this official site bitcointalk in a matter of time after you might have search something related to it online, for now bitcoin has already gone beyond just advertisement.

[Coyster]

A few years ago Coca cola used to be the global leader in soft drinks (it could still be argued that it remains the leader till date, anyway) but that never stopped it from advertising more. So, to that effect I don't see anything wrong with BTT advertising on social media to create more awareness and gain more traffic. No business should think itself bigger than its clientele.

Coca cola is a company that has a product to advertise, a product they want people to consume for their profit, Bitcointalk isn't a business nor a company, neither does it have a product to advertise. Coca cola spends millions of dollars annually on advertising, in order to make many times more than that in profit. It is funny comparing Bitcointalk and Coca cola in terms of advertising.

Having said that, Bitcointalk is just a forum for discussing Bitcoin and other whatnots, what product is the forum going to be advertising, and what profit is the forum going to get if it spends millions of dollars on advertising, the forum makes no profit, and it isn't run for that, the forum already has quite a lot of publicity and traffic because of Bitcoin. Gambling companies, mixers and exchanges have also made the forum more popular because they run their advertisement here to make money, and as long as paid signature campaigns stay in the forum, the traffic would stay pretty high.

[Synchronice]

While viewing football during weekends I see companies like Stake, Sportbet.io and many others advertise on the display boards and also sponsor football clubs and I also see them here advertising.

Stake and Sportsbet are casinos, different platforms compared to this forum, so, they have to use different marketing strategy in order to promote their product and attract new customers.

It is true that social media platforms like Facebook, twitter and Instagram does not also advertise anywhere but people advertise for them indirectly when they sample their profiles which will include their twitter and Instagram handles.

No, that's not true. I have seen Facebook advertisements frequently on Youtube, I have also seen Instagram advertisements in different smartphone apps. By the way, Elon Musk buying a twitter is itself a huge advertisement too but it's different case, off-topic.

I have never seen: contact me on bitcointalk @Stephen.
Any special reasons for not advertising bitcointalk forum?
And don't we think there will be shortage of users here as time passes?

This forum doesn't even advertise. Once I read that this forum has bitcoin reserves, that are huge in $ value, enough to run this forum smoothly for a very long time. Forum owner doesn't care too much about forum software and interface development too. I guess, this forum will stay like this either forever or for a very long time and it will remain as a digital museum where financial revolution has begun.

[Adbitco]

This forum doesn't function the way you think, for me it would be a shameful thing for a world number 1 digital currency forum is being advertised on social media and any other place...

I don't see what should be the shame in it at all. There's nothing wrong in advertising for more spread and awareness even when it's a known fact that the product is a leader in the specific industry. A few years ago Coca cola used to be the global leader in soft drinks (it could still be argued that it remains the leader till date, anyway) but that never stopped it from advertising more. So, to that effect I don't see anything wrong with BTT advertising on social media to create more awareness and gain more traffic. No business should think itself bigger than its clientele.

There is nothing to argue sir, I believe if Bitcointalk had that in mind they could have done it since. It's very common for other companies to come here to advertise more especially gambling site and casinos is very open for this platform to allow such promotion at a time this platform is being advertised as because they also have records and track links over and I believe in most of their content there will definitely be a link to show that they are running a promotion in Bitcointalk platform.

[Eureka_07]

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I am not sure of this but I think it is because Bitcointalk is not like other social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter which are created to generate money for the owner/developers (aside from their other main purpose). The main purpose of this platform, AFAIK, is for crypto enthusiasts have a place where they could exchange information.
It is not created to generate profit, so there is no need for it to be advertised. Unless they want to gather more new users.

Bitcointalk does not lack any users IMO. But it would be best, of course, if more people will join us here.

[leonair]

Every company advertises itself at the start but when it becomes a population company it no longer needs to advertise. as Facebook has not been so popular since its birth they must have promoted them and people are gradually aware of the benefits of using Facebook. now Facebook is a widely used social media so it doesn't need promotion.  Bitcoin was born in 2009 and that's when this forum was created and people who know about Bitcoin used to discuss Bitcoin here. and other than this forum there was no other way to know about Bitcoin.  So people interested in Bitcoin used to come back to this forum.  And this is how this forum became popular with Bitcoin. so no separate advertisement is required for this forum yet

[salad daging]

A few years ago Coca cola used to be the global leader in soft drinks (it could still be argued that it remains the leader till date, anyway) but that never stopped it from advertising more. So, to that effect I don't see anything wrong with BTT advertising on social media to create more awareness and gain more traffic. No business should think itself bigger than its clientele.

Coca cola is a company that has a product to advertise, a product they want people to consume for their profit, Bitcointalk isn't a business nor a company, neither does it have a product to advertise. Coca cola spends millions of dollars annually on advertising, in order to make many times more than that in profit. It is funny comparing Bitcointalk and Coca cola in terms of advertising.

Having said that, Bitcointalk is just a forum for discussing Bitcoin and other whatnots, what product is the forum going to be advertising, and what profit is the forum going to get if it spends millions of dollars on advertising, the forum makes no profit, and it isn't run for that, the forum already has quite a lot of publicity and traffic because of Bitcoin. Gambling companies, mixers and exchanges have also made the forum more popular because they run their advertisement here to make money, and as long as paid signature campaigns stay in the forum, the traffic would stay pretty high.

Coca cola has products to sell whereas bitcointalk what needs to be sold? Here is only a place to discuss bitcoin and other crypto news but bitcointalk provides a service where several other companies can do advertisement promotion and the platform has had an advantage after bitcointalk got a lot of traffic because the interest in this forum is increasing.

Well several casino companies, mixers, exchanges and many more they can exist until now because there are forums that can provide more publicity for visitors who come, because I'm sure some of the bitcoin community must already know about bitcointalk which is the best place for discussion and some outside companies interested in advertising here.

[Asuspawer09]

While viewing football during weekends I see companies like Stake, Sportbet.io and many others advertise on the display boards and also sponsor football clubs and I also see them here advertising.

But I have never seen bitcointalk advertisment anywhere but yet there is traffic.
It is true that social media platforms like Facebook, twitter and Instagram does not also advertise anywhere but people advertise for them indirectly when they sample their profiles which will include their twitter and Instagram handles.
I have never seen: contact me on bitcointalk @Stephen.
Any special reasons for not advertising bitcointalk forum?
And don't we think there will be shortage of users here as time passes?

Betting and gambling advertise their names because they need users. It's a forum so it doesn't need any advertisement, and advertisement would cost money as well, we don't need actually need a lot of users here in the forum I mean there are plenty of users active actually.

Putting advertisements on social media platforms doesn't make any point, We do exchange information, share our experiences, etc. here in the forum. But I guess it's not a platform to contact someone, also most of the members are anonymous here, you could use other platforms if you need something for contacts, because its easy to use and you could easily manage your messages like a telegram. I would understand if something like sharing a thread or topic you can share the link of the topic. But sharing the profile handle here doesn't make any sense if you want someone to contact you unless they already have an account here and you wanted to be contacted here in the forum.

[sujonali1819]

While viewing football during weekends I see companies like Stake, Sportbet.io and many others advertise on the display boards and also sponsor football clubs and I also see them here advertising.

But I have never seen bitcointalk advertisment anywhere but yet there is traffic.
It is true that social media platforms like Facebook, twitter and Instagram does not also advertise anywhere but people advertise for them indirectly when they sample their profiles which will include their twitter and Instagram handles.
I have never seen: contact me on bitcointalk @Stephen.
Any special reasons for not advertising bitcointalk forum?
And don't we think there will be shortage of users here as time passes?

The projects you have seen are advertising, they are also coming to advertise in this forum. So bitcointalk doesn't need to go there to stand in the same line as the projects coming here to promote them. (this could not be a reason, this makes sense)

Ok, just say why all the companies advertise themself? Of course, it's for traffic, right? But bitcointalk has already good traffic, and there is a system where people can learn besides earning. This helps more than advertisement I think. (this could be one reason)

Again I don't think the forum was created for earning. It's a discussion forum where people discuss Bitcoin (crypto) independently. It's not like if a user makes an account Forum will be benefited (on the other hand the user gets benefits if they create an account). So no need to advertise the bitcointalk forum like other companies.

[Pmalek]

Sportsbet and Stake are online casinos and sportsbooks that benefit from getting new players. If you sign up, you will most likely deposit and lose some money. If you stick around, you will keep losing money. Hence, advertising makes sense to them. Bitcointalk isn't selling anything and isn't providing a service that others purchase. Financially, it doesn't matter if 1, 10, or 100 people sign up tomorrow. theymos even stopped ad sales, meaning there is even less money to be made.