If your product or service was any good, you wouldn't need ads. π§
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Also the more suspicious I get, and thus less likely to buy, the advertised product.
This is the key.
Ads donβt care if you like or donβt like them, as long as you remember them.
The worst thing an ad can do is be forgettable
Every single ad these days go into a memory black hole. They are so irritating, so invasive, so EVERYWHERE; that I instinctively dissociate from anything in them.
They won't get my conscious or subconscious attention. All of my large purchases are researched a minimum 2 weeks in advance and anything small is done on a case by case basis (of which I intentionally scrutinize anything I might have "heard of" because I'm aware of the phenomenon. Fuck all ads, they are my enemy.
I literally pay money to not see ads in my (local) streaming services.
The irritation and mental load from dealing with shitty ads is well worth the about 15β¬ a month I pay to have them removed.
I bet you were thinking about some add when writing this.
I don't know how having me associate their name with a spike of rage is a good thing. There are definitely companies I went from being neutral towards to never considering them again due to their advertising methods. For example I've never eaten at Quiznos because of those fucking rat commercials they did like 20 years ago. I'm not even sure if that place still exists or not. I hope not, and I hope whoever came up with those commercials is dead.
Sorry dude, you're on lemmy. Nobody is here because it's the easiest or best. Most of us are here because we're the types who don't like getting fucked over. I wholeheartedly agree that ads in and of themselves are annoying and fucking detest those Quiznos commercials but we're the "weird" ones here. Most people loved those ads and Quiznos sold a ton of crappy sandwiches. Sadly advertising works on most people.
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You know I cannot be the only one that will consciously decide to not buy brands that make intrusive adverts. But, they must also know that. So I can only assume that the majority of people don't think the same and it's an overall upside for these annoying ads.
That baffles me too. Being annoyed by an obnoxious ad instantly puts the brand in my naughty, to-boycott list.
Like, if I ever need to use a VPN, guess who I'll go out of my way to never, ever use? That's right NordVPN, go fuck yourself! I've never used you and I already hate you.
How do people care so little that it's still a beneficial strategy for brands?
I just assume that anyone who needs to spend a lot on bothering me about their product.. is either pushing a really shitty product, or offering it at a really shitty price, because so far that has been the case about 90% of the time.
If it was a good value, people would spontaneously recommend it when appropriate, with only light advertising in places where it makes sense (athletic gear advertised on sports websites, for example). Hell, it doesnβt even have to be all that good a product, just better than the alternatives. I mean look at Linux! :p
Itβs so clear when you know whatβs going on, but I think most people operate under the assumption that if they constantly hear about it and donβt hear bad things to the same degree, that the thing must be good. Propaganda is everywhere saying exactly that in lots of different ways, so hard to really blame them..
or offering it at a really shitty price
Advertising budget has to come from somewhere. If you can afford to inundate me with constant ads, then I know your product costs way more than it needs to.
Correct. Ads work extremely well. The simple and short explanation is that most people are dumb.
Adblockers are not that difficult to install, so I'd guess the slice of people who really resent ads enough to actually make purchasing decisions out of spite but also who still watch them isn't that big.
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Ads work. Consumer behavior is among the most studied phenomenoms in the world.
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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.
People are responding with ad block but as much as I hate them I kinda like being aware of what they are. Anyone who is confused about why our country is where its at go turn off your ad blockers for videos.
Yeah, no. I don't need an advertisement to inform me that consumerism being propped up by imperialism is why everything sucks
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 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.
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Yes, I am never buying a Tide product again since it seems they were the only ones to pay Amazon for ads. I was trying to watch a show that I was having difficulty pirating and every damn ad was either for tide or bounty for some damn reason so never buying anything from them again since I had to see like 30 of those ads repeatedly. I usually muted the tv and just browsed my phone but for that first second the ad played I could tell it was for one of them.
Revanced is alive and kicking guys.
So's NewPipe and SmartTube, which are the ones I use.
Haven't been able to find a podcast player with sponsorblock, though, so I continue to be assaulted.
The same with podcasts, especially geolocated ads or what they're called. Here in Norway I always get the same fucking ads on every damn podcast, and they are horrible, like getting raped in the ears. At least I learn which companies to avoid..
I bet i have heard the same add, even living in Finland. I live close enough to border so i get good mix of Finish, Swedish and Norwegian adds. And every single one of those are way louder than the podcast is.
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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 Iβve ever heard of.β
βBut 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.
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Adnauseam and Sponsorblock should stop you from seeing most ads on youtube.
I got real into Zero Punctuation about a decade ago, so I'd watch a load of 5 minute youtube videos back to back.
It would serve me the same goddamn ad for a Mission Impossible movie between every one. The ad had this hateful nasally music that went "ready or not, here I come."
I have not paid for a movie ticket, a streaming service, or a new DVD or Blu-Ray since then. Brain surgery with a backhoe, cut your pineal gland off at the waist. Fuck your entire sector of industry, Tom Cruise.
Fuck your entire sector of industry, Tom Cruise.
You mean conning people to join the cult or his hobby of mediocre acting?
Yes.
I've held this attitude ever since those Mentos commercials used to interrupt my Much Music in the 90s. These type-A marketing types rarely realized they're just advertising to themselves.
Especially those sponsor segment that have nothing to do with me because i'm not from the west.
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.
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"This has got to be the worst advertisement I've ever heard."
"Ah but you have heard it."
Someone should write an article about how interrupting ads actualy negatively affect consumer choices and then popularize it. I am ok even if its just made of shady stats, many will adapt the idea blindly anyways.
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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.
Stockholm syndrome
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