I feel that it is time for us to discuss about this matter. How long do you people thinks that Bitcointalk signature campaigns will last?
Bitcoin will be hitting its peak and probably surpass it very soon looking at the current rate. Which means that more people will be joining us in investing Bitcoin. This mean that there will be a huge changes in the signature campaigns community.
I feel that the number of signature campaigns will be greatly reduced once Bitcoin reaches a new height because it is much efficient to just start a advertisement campaign on popular AD networks like A-ads and MellowAds or even Google Adsense.
I would say it will last very long term, at least 5 years. Unless bitcoin is dead or the forum bans any form of signature campaigns, which these two do highly unlikely happen.
Firstly, I compare the price, Ad networks like google adsense is expensive than signature campaign, and can be cheated on ad clicking. I remember one click can earn 0.5-2 eur when I cheated in google adsense network, google earns money too, so one click of ad will need 1-4 euros fee IMO. It will be very expensive way to promote.
Secondly, btc companies/service providers have their specific potential customers, most of them are in the forum, not in the whole internet world.