Thank you so much for your response and your points are completely valid. I do agree with what you said and unfortunately it does seem true that people will just dump free money :( It's also true that these so called shills will attract a ton of spam users which, like you mentioned, we had enough trouble with on steem.

I really love Another idea is to promote individual users off hive who will actively promote hive (once again, without being spammy). There are many ways you can do this. You can promote some artists hive pages off hive after they win some contest or are nominated by many people. You could also find someone to do a better voiceover for that hive ad that went trending a few days ago and then use the money to promote that ad. A couple of the users that come to mind are @nathanmars and @traciyork, who have been doing fantastic work on twitter and there are of course others that we could also reward.

At this point it doesn't seem likely that my proposal will be funded and that is fine with me but lets stick our heads together and come up with fun ways of doing something to raise awareness. I know @hivebuzz is working on something pretty fun involving AltspaceVR and maybe that is a good starting point. I also run a cryptocurrency meetup in AltspaceVR which I use to educate normies on the crypto space with weekly speakers. I talk about Hive on there quite a bit and have been able to get a couple users to join. I'd really love to do something to make the space grow cause as I mentioned now is the time for Hive to shine but sadly I really only know how to do that with advertising and giveaways at the moment. Again, I love what you mentioned about incentivizing our own users and getting a better voiceover person for the recent ad. I'm in the PAL discord under the handle Danny Qwoyn if you want to chat further about this.

As far as using it to promote Hashkings or even hiring some much needed developers and Unity I would be honored if such a proposal was accepted but sadly I've tried to get funding for @hashkings and I don't know if it's because it is cannabis related by I have not succeeded in that. When I get some more funds though I would be willing to give it another shot.

Thanks for the suggestions and kind words and I'm glad you enjoyed the talk I gave even though it was so short.