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There are many ads on YouTube that are obvious scams. So I just assume that anything being advertised on YT is a scam.
Advertising is one of the most prolific environmental pollutants of economic activity, and needs to become as socially acceptable as smoking.
I guess you aren’t european then
Id argue its worse than smoking. Its closer to successfully lobbying the government to force doctors to recommended smoking for newborns.
If your product can’t enter my world without you paying millions of dollars to interrupt my good time, I am positive I do not need to know about your product.
I also sometimes consciously dislike things because of annoying ads.
But it doesn’t matter. The overall result is that now you’re aware of that brand, you have a place for it in memory. After time passes it will be The One I’ve Heard Of unless you’re dedicated to remembering to avoid it. There’s something called the Mere Exposure Effect - it mostly works and they know it. :(
"You are without a doubt the worst product I’ve ever heard of.”
“But you have heard of me."
called the Mere Exposure Effect - it mostly works
…is what the 90% market leader says, who profits from it the most.
If it didn’t work they wouldm’t profit from it.
Advertising exists for a reason, and that’s becsuse it’s very effective.
That’s not how executives work.
Edit: i say, it maybe works somewhat in traditional ads but not as much in annoying ads (popups, inline, in-video) as Google promises. And that executives are often enough a bit naive in promises for savings/wins (see AI programner promises vs. reality and how they still jump on it). Also, how the internet marketplace works (programmatic advertising), it’s on mere promises only anyway.
Executives rarely work at all.
There are some exceptions, for example I still hate a company for their yt ads I saw before I figured out how to block them on phone. It has been like 6 years, the company was sold and name was changed, but I still remember to hate it and avoid it. Also, good products don’t need advertisement, so if I can remember I saw an ad for something, I’d prefer other brand.
good products don’t need advertisement
Oh yeah? Name the best, highest quality product you’ve never heard of.
You don’t really see advertisements for things like mega yachts or helicopters. Or private jets.
Most things that you’ll have to talk to a dealer or rep for, you don’t actually see ads. Except maybe cars.
Those reps are advertising, just not to us.
Easy, look at a couple of comparison websites whenever you need a specific product, and compare them to each other.
You’ll get a somewhat unbiased idea of what the best product is to your specifications, and they are full of brands you never heard of.
Sorry but wrong. You are not going to win this kind of battle against advertisers. If you notice the intrusion and hate the product, you weren’t in the market for their product in the first place. They don’t care that you hate their company. When you are in the market for the product, you won’t notice the intrusion or it won’t matter if you do; the ad is still increasing your exposure to their product in the ways that increase your chances of buying.
I’ve already won by not buying their shit.
I agree with this. Ads contaminate your mind, so make sure to use ad blockers. But also help your friends set up ad blockers, because if their minds are contaminated, it will spread to you.
I don’t know. Bad word of mouth can severely harm a product I think. So they should really care if there are millions of people who absolutely despise them.
By the way, completely unrelated, don’t use Wix if you’re making a website. It’s awful. Also, I heard it was mentioned in the Epstein Files. Could be untrue but just to be safe don’t use Wix if you don’t want you and your website to be linked to Jefferey Epstein. Wix, the child predator’s choice. Allegedly.
I actually am planning on making a website soon. I’ll have to keep Wix in mind.
I’ve bought competitors out of spite.
Would you pay a higher price to do so?
Would you (or could you even afford to) pay twice the insurance premiums because Liberty or State Farm ads annoy you?
I currently do, maybe not twice, but about 20% more to avoid them
I also refuse to buy several cheaper car companies because of ads I saw years ago, and bought a more expensive car for my wife to avoid them
I don’t know the price difference, but there’s also a toilet paper brand I will never buy
I’m sure lots of ads work on me, but if your ad is annoying enough, I will pay significantly more to your competitor
Also later in time when one is making a choice for a kind of product one doesn’t usually buy, one might have forgotten their dislike for a brand due to their excessive use of advertising and yet their subconscious is still giving them a feeling of familiarity when they see that brand’s name on a product which makes it more likely that they’ll chose it over other options that don’t feel as familiar.
Most advertising nowadays is meant to affect subconscious impulses which will do their thing with no cognitive effort, whilst the position the OP holds (and which I myself try to) is conscious and requires cognitive effort to maintain.
But you know the product and that is what is important for advertisers. Also it’s important what happens subconsciously, not so much your first reaction to it.
Personally when I need something and have seen an ad for a product that fits the need, I’ll buy it. If I’ve seen the ad so much that it’s seared into my brain, I search for the product and buy the ripoff version of it (when possible), or I DIY it.
Edit: corrected autocorrect
I am against State Farm for this exact reason.
If the insurance firm has a lot of money to throw at constant adds, then odds are good that they aren’t paying out premiums for their customers.
Indeed
you just gave them a free ad
blocked from orbit
/not really; merely admonished from uncomfortable chair
No skin off my back lol.
“But you heard of the product!”
Adblock + sponsorblock
This is the way, I am amazed how many people just rawdog the internet on a daily basis.
Amazon prime tv is awful with the forced ad breaks
I will not say I support the ads, but it is very interesting to see some of these scam ads that I see that played before videos especially the ones that talk about improving your sex drive. They are just very odd and I wouldn’t say concerning but just odd.
This was today in a friend group of mine’s discord server
Does anybody actually PLAY raid shadow legends, or is it just an ad for nothing? I don’t think I’ve ever seen the actual game play or heard anyone ever mention playing it.
Streamers play it purely to advertise
Gaming has become such bullshit in this regard.
I mean it’s so rare nowadays to come across a game where you can tell: this is made by someone who genuinely wanted to make this game for the sake of making/playing it.
It’s always just another micro transaction storefront with graphics.
And ads aren’t any different, contrived bullshit.
made by someone who genuinely wanted to make this game for the sake of making/playing it.
There is nothing wrong with developers wanting to get paid for their labor. You want, and deserve, to be paid for your labor. Why don’t they??
If you stay away from AAA, AAAA gaming and you get solid deals made by people trying to make an honest living. It’s not that hard. I haven’t bought or felt any need to buy micro transactions since Horse Armor came out.
Good games are the ones without this problem; usually indie games are the good ones because greedy executives are not involved in them.
at this point i barely even register anything published by larger companies, every now and then i catch a brief glimpse of some new big release that is apparently being played by literally 3% of the entire global population, and that is the ONLY time i ever hear about it, never to be seen again.
It’s kind of bizarre
*mainstream gaming.
There’s still a world out there not bothered by this. I’m a big spender but AAA gaming lost me a while ago. On all systems I’ve got more games to play than I could ever have the time for.
this kind of thing applies to so much these days, another notable example being “oh social media sucks, oh i constantly get annoying notifications”
holy fucking shit just stop using the bad social media platforms, turn off your notifications, this is an extremely easily solved problem that can be tackled in an afternoon!
In the inverse 5 sec content sponsored by for the whole video I may google the company
“This has got to be the worst advertisement I’ve ever heard.”
“Ah but you have heard it.”
Check out !peertube@lemmy.world most videos dont have ads.
I remember when cable had very little ads. Its sttange that we pay so much for cable/internet/premium but companies chasing that dollar keep throwing ads in there.
