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I never wanted to wring the necks of anyone more, than to the dumbasses who thought making product jingles would be the key to making people buy. Like the Charmin one.
This is the key.
Ads don’t care if you like or don’t like them, as long as you remember them.
The worst thing an ad can do is be forgettable
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.
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 15€ a month I pay to have them removed.
I bet you were thinking about some add when writing this.
Disagree.
I may be in the minority but the more I know about you, the less I ever want you in my house.
I will literally go by an LG Washing Machine out of spite because Sony showed up too much in ads.
They are playing statistics, most people that think they are immune to ads are full of shit and even if they somehow defy common human behavior it isn’t really relevant to an advertising effort that doesn’t care about the minority.
Too many people here are saying that ads don’t work.
Whether they work or not doesn’t matter. The problem is that ads are literally designed and optimized to manipulate you out of your money, and to cause you to make decisions on emotion rather than reason. This is unethical at its core. How most people are ambivalent towards companies manipulating us is beyond me.
Yeah it kinda blows my mind with politics. Time and again more money means more ads and results in more wins. I mean its not 100% but its enough that if someone wins while spending less and is not the incumbent its a news item. We have an open senate seat here and the front runner with the war chest is the one I least want to win. I really don’t get it as I find most ads turn me off to their subject. I mean even negative ads about the opponent turn ya off to the one its for. But obviously it seems to work overall. I hate it.
Ads work. Consumer behavior is among the most studied phenomenoms in the world.
It’s almost like there’s a multi billion industry based on it!
Its over 1.3 Trillion per year by now, thats more than the Military budget of the usa. You could buy about 80 aircraft carriers with that. Every year.
Where do they get that money?
Oh yeah, it’s why everything is priced the way it is.
So they can use that money against us.
But I’m sure lemmy geniuses know more about it…
They used to.
Why do you see diminishing returns lately? Because more money into more ads lead to consumer fatigue.
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.
*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.
Good games are the ones without this problem; usually indie games are the good ones because greedy executives are not involved in them.
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.
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.
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…
So much this!
Since I use NewPipe and SmartTube, I don’t get YouTube ads, but I do get ads during podcasts and the geolocated ones are by far the worst!
I have learned to hate Designer Outlet Neumünster, Shopify, and Danish paid podcast company Podimo with a passion usually reserved for fascist politicians!
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.
“This has got to be the worst advertisement I’ve ever heard.”
“Ah but you have heard it.”
Adblock + sponsorblock
This is the way, I am amazed how many people just rawdog the internet on a daily basis.
If your product or service was any good, you wouldn’t need ads. 🧐
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.
“But you heard of the product!”
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.
Someone should. I’m sure it has never been tried.
Surely companies will ignore decades of psychological studies and own marketing experience for a random article full of made up numbers.
People are more willing to jump on popularized band wagons than you would think.
Let’s popularize it! How about advertising?
that is what I would call an implosion
It works for AI …
Y’all are watching ads? If I see an ad, my immediate reaction is to close the tab.
