If we can pay to have celebrities make personalized shoutouts and greetings to people and companies over https://www.cameo.com/ why not do a shoutout to 
Here we have a website where we can PAY to get a VIDEO from celebrities! I mean the possibilities are endless, especially if you hit the right niche and the right celebrity, and post it on the right subreddit or instagram page, and it spreads virally in the crypto community. i am sure it would have to be subtle and sneaky but I bet you could get away with it by having the celeb do a happy birthday to ned Scott for example, with or without mentioning Steemit, you could for sure ask the celeb to simply wish ned Luck in his new company and the new technology endevour hes working on, a simple good luck wish. Im sure that wouldnt cross the line as "advertising" but cryptocurrency people could fill in the lines in their own brain and imagine what tbey want, because hey if they didnt know we paid for it, they would assume its a great sign to see one or more celebs giving a good luck video to Ned Scott the CEO of Steemit inc, i mean that can only mean one thing and could potentially pump crypto markets if you release a video of a Celebrity wishing Ned Scott Good luck on Twitter!
Heck I mean they even have grantcardone here, unlike steemit which has the FAKE grant cardone and FAKE zerohedge a bunch of scammers if you ask me, but steem could benefit off a video of grant cardone giving a shoutout to ned Scott, ned could totally have the project fly over his head and it could gi RIGHT to hsi edo and he could go invite Grant cardone to dinner and show off his wealth creation ability and sell stake to grant cardone, get Grant to sell steem to his viewers and followers...liek i said the popssibilities are endless
also it reminds me of Coinbase.com/earn or earn.com which has the unique feature of selling replies from $1 a reply to tens oif thousands per reply from the CEOs of fortune 500 companies. Anyone can actually pay money to get responses from many top companies which could be inb itself a great sort of marketing tactic just to have a reply from a big fortune500 about steem and steemit inc. Youd force many of these big companies toi be aware of steem at least.