Obviously the majority of the voting investors in DASH think that advertising is a higher priority.
Well, ok but here's two things:
[1] - how do you know that they think that advertising is a "higher priority" ?
[2] - if the Dash blockchain invests in advertising, how are you going to measure the return ?
How will you know if the money was well spent or badly spent ? Did you research performance with other clients ?

If there's no prior research nor metric for returns then the money shouldn't be spent at all, that's all I'm saying.
Dashwhale was a strategic spend - it was a no brainer because there was no GUI for voting, masternode monitoring or any of the 2nd tier functions of this network. Yet nobody wanted to fund it.
Now your saying you want to throw money at a Youtube blogger instead ?
IMO, blockchain funding needs to be much more highly valued by its spenders and needs to go to priority tasks - like:
(A) - realising Evan's recent statement re. default anonymity of wallet balances
(B) - marketing InstantX against 0-conf as being far more secure in that market
Spend it on things that matter and that have a measurable return for the blockchain IMO.