Topic: why bitcointalk don't advertise anywhere. (Read 670 times)

One key question to ask yourself with every advertising or marketing campaign is: What goal or objective am I trying to accomplish? The community is already strong enough as it is, so what would be the rationale for making such an investment? Instead, I'm with the others who have already brought it up - the forum admins should really prioritize optimizing it for mobile use and embracing new technologies in order to appeal to a younger audience.



In that case, I recommend that you consider closing this thread.

I am so much pleased with this response. I have been going through the responses, there are so many good responses but this is the best that explained everything comprehensible to me. Some persons only reason bitcointalk.org does not advertise is because it is a forum, a forum does not advertise. I don't take that as a sound argument or response.
This post gave me all possible reasons the forum does not advertise and I think I am satisfied now.
Thank you CryptopreneurBrainboss
Thanks@all

     -  This is exactly what you said, this is the reason why Bitcointalk forum doesn't need ads anymore, because all the bounty hunters who are involved in the promotion of projects that enter here on the bitcointalk platform and our forum is automatically promoted.

With the number of categories provided by the promotion of new projects in the platform industry, it is sure to be recognized. Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Discord, Telegram, Article, translation and others will really help the forum platform in my understanding.

In order to keep this forum healthy (away from unauthorized persons) there is no need to advertise it. You also have to be able to distinguish between real forums - social media - forums that seek to raise money. Apart from that, because the initial purpose of creating this forum was a discussion about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies (or development), so it is not important to pay for ads on Google.

Why advertising a platform that's already getting too much business. There is no need to waste money when your targets are achieved without it. Despite zero advertisement the activity per day and number of active users here are way too high then other forums of same category. Bitcointalk.org is supposed to be created by founder of bitcoin aka Satoshi back in 2009. The reason for this platform creation is to share details of bitcoin or we may say its a non profit platform.

Indirectly we have projects and news media during the advertising for the forum. I got to know about this forum because of a bounty I wanted to join way back in 2017 and we still have those bounties ongoing in 2023. From this bounties we have users that might pick interest in wanting to know more about the forum as I did and they might turn out to be productive members of the forum. We also have news platforms and influencers advertising the platform for free because whenever there's a Bitcoin related anniversary that has to do with the forum they post it and their followers get to know about the forum.

We have anniversaries like I'm Hodling, Bitcoin pizza day etc that all have something to do with the forum and I have seen them on numerous twitter profile with big following and all this contribute to the advertising of the forum in some ways. We also have new projects coming on the forum to make their ANN (announcement thread), people that are interested in the project follow the links to the forum to read and get to know about the forum existence. The forum also get ads when mentions of Bitcoin forum comes up. There is so many means in which the forums gets its advertisment so it doesn't necessarily has to advertise itself, the forum has her users doing that for it as I believe we constantly introduces our friends to the forum and they they do the same etc.

Large scale advertising campaign for a discussion forum would be an utter waste of money and honestly I never even saw a forum doing something like that.

I've been active on various forums for ~20 years and what's obvious is that they are pass their prime simply because there is way more competition now than it was in the past and younger generations usually prefer faster means of communication like Twitter/reddit/ Telegram/Discord etc. What bitcointalk could do though to attract younger audience is to at least optimize it for a mobile phone use but unfortunately we can't even get that.

I am not sure that such a a large-scale campaign is possible, because Bitcointalk has pretty high demands for its users, it is difficult to rank up here, post evaluation criteria are also quite challenging. If someone is not ready to constantly learn, improve and keep trying to become more useful for the community, than there are a little chance to stay at the forum, because it gets hard to motivate oneself. For me, for example, the forum is more like a studying or even work. But I am not sure that a lot of newbies come here with the same attitude. In this regard, how exactly the a large-scale campaign should be like? Come here, study hard, try to become more useful, even is you meet a lot os obstacles such as merit absence or some discouraging comments from senior users? From my experience, this is not what attracts people to new platforms

How ironic! Bitcointalk isn’t a forum for making friends and pictures, that’s why it’s difficult for scams to succeed here. There is no reason for anyone to contact you via dm. How can bitcointalk be seen as a scam? There is zero tolerance for scammers on this forum, a scammer can be easily identified through their trust ratings. I can’t say the same for other social media platforms, scammers roam free on Facebook, Instagram and Telegram, that’s where they get most of their victims from.

Originally when I saw this post I was going to reply that BitcoinTalk does not need advertising and that it is already large and established enough to naturally garner attention with its brand and existing community...however, I actually think that a large-scale advertising campaign could propel the BitcoinTalk community into something none of us have ever been able to experience in an online forum, in terms of activity. Of course if this were to happen a lot of preparations would need to be made...more staff to ensure moderation keeps up with activity growth and increased infrastructure to ensure that the forum can keep up with the increase in traffic are two of the first things that come to mind. Maybe a good time to start a large-scale campaign would be after the new forum software has been released and approved by the community that it is a better alternative than the existing SMF board.

This post has made me wonder a lot about what a large-scale campaign could do to the forum.

I don't think there are some special reasons, even direct reasons for not advertising bitcointalk. It is just that the forum does not really need to advertise because it has built a strong reputation and brand recognition over the years. It is more about community, people-driven platform, and it has gained its popularity and success through recommendations from its users. When I visit beginners and help thread, I often come across stories of newbies who came to the forum, and most of them say that they heard about it from acquaintances who are already active here. As the community grows, more users join the forum, creating a snowball effect, and no advertising is needed to sustain its growth.

To me I feel it's because Bitcointalk is not a social media platform used for making friends and keeping in touch, or maybe it's seen unsafe as many people see Bitcointalk talk as scam, that's my thoughts though, please I stand to be corrected if my thoughts are wrong

How about have you seen YouTube advertisement? What about Reddit or Pinterest? Because 'bitcointalk" is a forum and forums don't need advertisement, simply because it is an avenue where people come to discuss business and services pertaining to what the forum stands for, just like Bitcointalk forum which stands for "Bitcoin" and official forum for people to discuss issues regarding the use, investment and trading of Bitcoin, unlike social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter & Youtube which offers a general market place for public discussion.

There are many establishements that don't advertise themselves and yet make a reasonable amount of profits and pull out a large crowd to itself, this depends on what they offer and how the need arises from people that key into what they do, bitcoin has go far beyond just an advertisement because people desire to know about it, learn from it from an official website or community like no other than bitcointalk created for such purpose.

I think it would not be necessary to advertise this place, because usually webpages and services which advertise themselves on the internet and in real life have a scheme in which they economically benefit through the traffic they can get. The administration of this forum does not directly benefit from the number of users it has.

Also, a new wave of users would be bad, because I am afraid the average internet user can be toxic, trollish and prone to shitpost around here.
Finally, I assume that the newest generations of young people may not be very much into forums, they are used to immediate interaction, the kind one can find on Twitter, Discord, Telegram, etc. Only people from the 2000's would feel initially appealed to this lovely place.

In conclusion, in my eyes we do not need to pay for advertisement.

Don't forget this is an anonymous site so if one starts sharing their profile links to random persons on other social medias it will defeat the sole idea of the forum. Bitcointalk is an information site. If you do a search on google or other search engines about informations that has been discussed on Bitcointalk when the list of suggested sites pops up Bitcointalk will be inclusive and it will be ranked based on which site has more visits.

The forum will never lack users because as more people abandon their profile other newbies will come to replace them. In as much as Bitcointalk is not advertised as every other sites it doesn't mean it is hidden from users who search the web for informations.

You know what I love about this forum? that's what you can really learn here, although I'm not saying that we can't get any learning from other social media platforms, but only in this forum I found something that provides an opportunity to help the community that will have an interest in knowing the things that we want to know.

    Because what are the other categories that we see on different social media platforms you can also see here on the forum, though not all. Then apart from the opportunity that we can see here that is not on any other platform like this, you can also see things that most people around the world do not know that can only be seen here on this forum.

I guess that sums it all up. It adds enough jam to it. Ideas rule the world. Most rich outfits don't even produce tangible products like coca cola does but they sell idea to the world. Take a look at Facebook, what tangible product does it produce? None. The CEO of Facebook – Mark Zuckerberg –, is among the richest people in the world. Yet, he doesn't produce edibles. He's only selling connectivity to the world and making his money. It's the same thing with BTT. It's very much in the scheme of things, selling intangibles and inedible in the form of adverts and promotions.

At first I thought you might have said why not advertise on the forum. That is, when we browse this forum, ads of various products will appear on this forum, as we usually see in Facebook videos. Where a few seconds of ads show during the video. 

However, after reading your post a few times, I realized that you meant why we don't advertise this forum on various sites to increase our awareness of this forum. I think there is no need for it because as of September 2021 there are currently 2.8 million BitcoinTalk users. And I believe that the number of users has increased more in this one year. 
This huge number of members are directly involved with bitcoin forum so why add this forum on different platforms to increase the publicity of this forum. People will find the information on this forum hopefully without the need for advertising.

They can't profit from anyone currently. Members can voluntarily help in reporting or distributing merits, if that counts. Others can become moderators or eventually admins, but in that case, the forum pays them according to their performance.

There is a solution for that as well. Theymos appointed a few trusted members who have the power to whitelist users who got caught up in the evil IP storm.
Remove Proxyban (evil fees) - email to get whitelisted for free

You can see here, some members have "advertised" this forum to their closest friends.
Forums are really looking for quality over quantity of users. The old forum software I think is quite useful at some point, people won't really come for the dull looking forums unless they really want to learn they will ignore it.

A forum like bitcointalk, OP, prefers backlinks to those kind of adverts. And the forum has gotten lots of organic backlinks from different top DA blogs from the history of bitcoin to the first bitcoin transaction in the forum. Lot of platforms has a link to this forum, so that's a good reason why it ranks on google and also drives more traffics. Even when people look up stake on google they can also find their bitcointalk ANN threads, which can also lead them to the forum, though not on the first page. As for other social media like Facebook, they started with referral; invite your friend to facebook. These days such platforms including this forum don't need to advertise on boards or social media to get their traffics, the contents here are so many and quality, google loves forums with good contents, that's why a good number of threads in this forum ranks on google first page.

Bitcointalk is the oldest and the most important online forum dedicated to Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology. People who are genuine Bitcoin enthusiasts or crypto-related project owners who want to establish or advertise their projects will always come here. Therefore, there's no need for Bitcointalk to be advertised and there's no way anyone will want to learn the origin of Bitcoin and ignore some discussion made by Satoshi on this forum and other dev that work with him.

Yeah, these are some of the very reasons why it's entirely unnecessary to have the forum take out any advertising packages gor itself. It is a free to air platform where it gets almost nothing from the lots of users that gets registered and logs on the forum.

Also, bitcointalk operates very differently from your typical social media where you've got incentives on all that is done, writing a message, posting pictures, videos and it's all about connection. Connecting knowns and even try to relate closed located persons.

The forum is all about teaching although, there are other financial transactions that could be done here but mostly, its more about getting to educate users on the cryptocurrency innovation. So far, it's been doing great and the numbers aren't lacking.
This is why you've got, betting platforms, new projects, mixers, exchanges and the rest of them finding there way to the forum due to the numbers here.

The forum and bitcoin are one in itself and anywhere you see a shiny B with two strokes || (BTC) between, its indirectly advertising bitcoin for free and a search on bitcoin, the forum wouldn't be far behind.

Bitcointalk most likely isn't planning on profiting from every user that registers, it's a free forum for whoever you are so admin don't advertise it. The forum was created to accommodate the bitcoin community around the world, they can discuss anything, even this has become a second world for some people.

Even if some people have to pay a few bitcoins for a malicious IP, this is still a free forum that doesn't need advertising.
I think you will find bitcointalk.org recommended everywhere when you search bitcoin community websites. Check out Coin Market Cap and Coingecko, found recommendations for the bitcoin community, thought they'd refer you to this forum.

Bitcointalk is a discussion and solution forum for bitcoiners and crypto enthusiasts. The forum doesn’t need to do promos to reach new users, the only activity bitcointalk has outside the forum is the BitcoinTalkShow on YouTube, and even the YouTube channel isn’t as active as anticipated. I understand the forum satisfies a specific need in the crypto community just like stack overflow does in the programming world, they like bitcointalk already have the recognition as the largest and most trusted platforms in their respective fields.

At first I misread your question. I thought that your asking why it's not possible to advertise on Bitcointalk anymore.
I answer you with another question. Why Bitcointalk should advertise? Bitcointalk isn't commercial project, they don't sell and promote any product. It's simply discussion forum. And if they would advertise, they can't benefit from getting more traffic in commercial way because there is no advertisements on Bitcointalk. So, they can't get revenue from more ad views after getting more traffic.
Finally, Bitcointalk isn't new website which struggle to get visitors. It's most popular crypto related forum and one of the most popular crypto websites in general. I think they're doing good enough without promoting themselves.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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


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.

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.

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.

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, besides other projects comes here to advertise their brands and products instead of the forum being advertising somehow else.
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 they are a free going advertising platform but Bitcointalk isn't that common to bulk those shity adverts and promotion. Though there could be more reason why it remains the way its.

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.

Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram and the rest they do advertise tehmselves. I came across an ads in youtube while search for a video there and the ads was for whatsapp.


I don't think going around different platforms trying to get new members to sign up in bitcointalk is worth the stress, because alot of them might just come here and start maing post the same way they do in thier social media handles, take Facebook for example.
And as long as Bitcoin is still in existence then the forum will still remain been functional, and as long as people keep picking interest in bitcoin then new members will keep swarming into the forum.

Discovering this community was not easy for me because I have known crypto since 2019, but I only recently got to know the forum through a friend. And despite the fact that this forum is not advertising the community, it still gets traffic because there are already a lot of registered members here, and the networking ability of humans also brings in more newbies. Someone mentioned the forum to me, and I have mentioned it to many other people as well, so the network continues. I think if the forum is even running an advertisement, it will cause a lot of spam because many spammers will create accounts. Bitcointalk is better the way it's going.

Running a few advertisements on social media would attract more people to the forum but it will come with some challenges. It will attract a whole range of people that might not have any interest in bitcoin. There will be a high rate of shitposters, scammers, and spammers. So it will have to take extra effort to clean up the forum because most of these new members will treat the forum like social media. The majority of people that register currently in this forum are either referred to the forum or found it through research. The above two mediums will help to reduce the influx of uninterested members.

I don't think members will reduce drastically because Bitcoin awareness is spreading speedily. And Bitcoin price is not doing badly recently which means that more people will be attracted to the sector and the forum.

Perhaps you’re searching the wrong places. The casinos, mixers, and exchanges you see that’s being advertised on the forum all have the link to their bitcointalk Ann thread on their website, that also promotes the forum and at the same time gives the company legitimacy and the trust of the crypto community.

Based on data from bpip.org site, we currently have about 3,548,098 profiles registered on the forum with only 55,458 profiles classified as active profiles and the rest are inactive, deleted and archived profiles. This stats do not include the guests that visit the forum everyday without registering an account. I don’t think Theymos needs to do anything to increase traffic, those who are interested in bitcoin will definitely find this forum.

That too. It seems I forgot to include about wasting money which I am sure you know that ads cost money. Maybe the reason why I didn't include it is because we all know that most ads cost money unless you are in partner to someone or in a group that makes it free. I said it that it's a waste of time because the time spend to find a platform for ads should be spend for the forum.

You mean, a waste of money aside from time. Making advertisement to social media giant platform have benefits even for a forum, many forum or site usually do that on its early stage. But since this forum is as old as Bitcoin, and serves as the history book then making ads on other platform isnt necessary.
Besides this forum do just like other socmed platforms for accepting ads that can generate more money, but since it was stop for many reasons so forget about that.

Also, bitcointalk links are something like prohibited to be shared on other social media platforms because of malicious definition it has on wiki sites and other ill description of other news outlet like tolerating scams and letting or advertising mixers which are known for ML, well, that's i what know.

I don't know the exact reason why Bitcointalk doesn't need advertisement in other platforms since this forum is all about discussions of cryptocurrency and blockchain but I think it's only a waste of time in my opinion. There are people who didn't know Bitcointalk forum but later on stumbled upon this forum where the others are introduced to this forum by those people who already know about this platform. That's what I think why ads won't be needed.

No, I don't know the exact reason - but chances are that bitcointalk.org doesn't need the special ads that are posted on some website. But if you want to contribute then invite your friends or advertise it on your website for free.

Yes, the statistics are very volatile and are likely influenced by the price of bitcoin itself. If bitcoin does hit new high then I can safely say there will be a lot of active users coming back just for discussion or for some other reason.

Simply because bitcointalk doesn't need that. Anyone who knows bitcoin or trying to learn about bitcoin will eventually stumbled on this website maybe now or on later date because this site is created by the Bitcoin creator itself, Satoshi. As this forum serves as archives on all bitcoin history on its early years. Besides that, unlike what you've mentioned bitcointalk is not a company or something that serves like a company or business.

OP, I have to ask: How much advertising have you seen on social media for straight-up discussion forums like bitcointalk?  I don't use social media, so it's an honest question--but I would be willing to bet there isn't a hell of a lot.  Those other services you mentioned (Stake, Sportbet.io) have a huge incentive to gain new members, as they're trying to sell people something. 

But bitcointalk?  For one thing, there's no need to actively recruit new members when signature campaigns do that automatically.  And for another, I doubt Theymos would spend money to draw in new members who'd probably degrade the quality of discussions being had, because if someone hasn't found bitcointalk by now, there's probably a very good reason for it (nothing to say about crypto/ignorant about bitcoin/whatever).  An influx of newbies would be a fucking nightmare, way more trouble than whatever the traffic is worth.

And yeah, as has been said....the forum treasury has more than enough funds to keep the lights on, so to speak. 

Every user can come and go anytime and for any reason. But bitcointalk remains the most recommended discussion forum when you start to realize what bitcoin is. Bitcointalk doesn't need any kind of promotion or advertisement in various places, but believe me this forum will continue to get interest from new users every day.

Without advertising, bitcointalk has 3,548,069 registered profiles. But only 55,423 profiles are still active, at least in the last 3 months.

I've been on the forum for 10 years. Like me there are hundreds of users. And every day dozens of users sign up, some will stay for a short time others for longer, it all depends on how they get involved in the community and the goals with which they sign up.

So what's really the point of spending money on advertising elsewhere? Honestly, I don't see any reason why this should be accurate.

Simply because such forum software is already really outdated and is unlikely to be used by the typical person knowing that we already have Twitter/Reddit. Mostly, the only people left(and the one's that will be interested in) using Bitcointalk are mostly the privacy conscious/advocates, the people who prefer something very simple and light weight, and the people who likes signature/bounty campaigns.

Bitcointalk is a forum to discuss about Bitcoin and other whatnots, what would be the benefit of the forum spending money to run advertisement. Notwithstanding the number of users here, there is no financial gain for the forum. Bitcoin is quite popular around the world, and for the most people who find out about Bitcoin, it does not take long before they discover Bitcointalk and register on the forum. There are old users who have left the forum, but new users register everyday, though what we miss is the knowledge of some of the old users, and not the number they added to the overall traffic.

Having said that, because of Bitcoin, businesses like exchanges, mixers, gambling websites (that accept crypto), etc, have all sprung up, and there is no better place for them to advertise their business than in the biggest Bitcoin community, thus the users here can earn money through posting in the forum, and that is an added incentive and a reason why the traffic remains pretty high. I think if there is ever an end to paid signature campaigns, that's when the traffic in the forum would really go down, and we'll experience shortage of users.

A big brand these days do little in terms of advertising it's products and services. Mind you, Bitcoin forum talk is more of a community of like minded persons than one can  fathom. It doesn't require crowd to pass its info, else, how does one explain the rate of new comers who join after hearsay/word of mouth.
Lamborghini doesn't do much adverts because it knows its customers, although there are communities which dedicate their content to showcase their new products.  

it's a board to advertise on its community, not a company that will provide services.

bitcointalk is already the biggest crypto forumboard, there is no other that competes with bitcointalk. b because of its useful and unique content, it got organic traffic and new users. although there are other crypto forums, they don't have active users contributing to the content. when Theymos allowed ad auctions, there are many members bidding on the slots but right now he stopped it.

This forum have the money they need to continue running for now.

Social media like Facebook are advertising, I have seen social media advertisements which are even Google ads and others.

This forum is not for profit.

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?