According to the community ads thread, ads will only be shown if they reach a score of positive 6. The ad from movies.stackexchange is at -3 (because it's an eyesore), but it just came up on the site for me (twice).
No freehand circles required here, it stands out on its own.
That's not the ad posted to our community promotion ads list. That's a hot network question ad. Everything is working here by design.
Once in a while, the site will pick a random hot network question and present it in the same slot as our Community Ads. Here that one is in the SE network hot questions list:
Apparently the Movies & TV ads are pretty glary though, so I've requested an improvement on Meta Stack Exchange.
