nooo format hurt my poor old eyes. turn it back to quadrant box plzzzzzzz.
Fully valid mentality.
“Why is their product so bad that they need to advertise it so hard”
yeah exactly xD
i feel like advertisement should only be allowed once that you’re actually looking for that / a similar product. because otherwise the advertisement is completely irrelevant to you anyways, so why do they show it to you?!?
like if i search for “smartphone charging cable” i can be shown like 50 different brands of smartphone chargers. but if i don’t search for it, why would i know about them? i’m not gonna buy a new smartphone charger anytime soon.
The reason many of them (a charging brand like anker for example) do this is to get name recognition. If you see their name in 200 sponsors, and a year later you are looking for a charger, you see a familiar name in those 50 brands when you want to buy one, and subconsciously you trust it more than the brands you haven’t heard about.
Or “Their product must be massively overpriced to pay for all this advertising”
Yep.
Absolutely everything that has a huge, pervasive ad campaign is some kind of scam or just shitty product. Not a single good, helpful product was ever advertised so heavily.
Not just that, but if they’re throwing sponsorships and ads all over, it means they have a huge advertising budget. That almost always means their profit margins are unusually high.
Meaning they’re a ripoff even if the product isn’t a scam.
Or it means they just got a bunch of VC money and are looking to chain you up before exploiting the shit out of you.
Or at the very most, they have enough money, they don’t need any of mine.
Not enough people think this way.
Remove “this way” and you have the entirety of human issues right now. Way too many idiots running around and in power.
I don’t think that it’s that people don’t think that way, companies know that. It’s that the company is hoping that when the customer needs a service the name comes up. It’s a play at the human subconscious. How many ads do you watch that you are able to remember you heard of the service from an ad vs just passing discussion. I can only think of NordVPN and a few insurance companies, they rely on that. They hope that when an issue comes up that requires it, that their name pops up without the negative mentality behind it.
I agree though, I go off the mindset that if I am looking for a product and the first thing that comes to mind is “I saw this in an ad” that means there was enough advertisement budget that I could consciously link it to the ad and not the product, which means there is a massive red flag for the product there.
Not enough people know that thinking this way does not protect you. It just gives you that pleasant hit of smugness.
I don’t know what you’re smoking, but knowing of fum is never going to make me buy fum.
The fact they’re pushed all over tells me one incontrovertible thing: Their profit margins are high enough to give them that bloated budget, meaning buying a product that’s advertised all over is choosing to get ripped off.
The point is not that you’ll see fum and pick it because you recall an ad. The point is that you need any fum-type product, don’t really care which, and your hand reaches for fum while you’re busy thinking about the stupid thing you said in a pub yesterday, or wondering if it’s going to rain.
Don’t need fum or anything similar? Congrats! You’re not the target group. Doesn’t mean ads don’t work on you.
Weird how you assume people blindly grab products without thinking.
That is the behavior of morons and rich people (I repeat myself) that don’t need to care about what they throw money at.
Cognitive distortions like present bias, emotional reasoning, temporal distancing, opportunity cost blindness, reinforcement loops, all these are factors in why people behave impulsively when presented with an opportunity. Addressing how each individual justifies them in their habits and behaviors is the foundation of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. The behavior is not limited to the mentally challenged or the rich, it’s the result of being human but lacking insight and understanding on why you do what you do when you do it, what you hope to gain from doing it, weighing the risk/reward, and developing the self-awareness to question your behaviors before you act upon them.
FR.
The only thing I bought after being advertised on a podcast was a Cleverhood jacket/poncho thing, and I have zero regrets, it’s a great rain jacket. But I had seen other people use them so it wasn’t a complete ad-based purchase.
Same. I think all companies that sponsor channels are crap. No exceptions. Especially all VPNs and Proton.
The only VPN I’ve ever seen ads for is Nord VPN.
I feel like vpns go in cycles, Nord is the one that’s popular now but there’s a couple others I’ve seen.
Nord and Surfshark are owned by the same company. I imagine those two at least take turns in these cycles
Ugh. VPNs. They sell you “privacy” via a product that captures all your data and routes it through their network. Then they say “trust us”.
It’s more transferring who knows. A “nice browsing history, be a shame if someone found out about it” sort of situation.
Lol sponsor block extension, faq all your native ads and interaction reminders
Don’t forget the shitty preview hooks because apparently the average attention span is 5 seconds nowadays.
“Wtf. How did this get past sponsorblock?”
They aren’t buying the ads to convince you to buy it anytime soon. They are buying the ads to plant the seed of the link to their brand with whatever the thing is. That way in the future when you have long forgot about the ad and you are looking for bone broth you might buy theirs because it looks familiar even if you don’t know why. This is a time tested process that absolutely works.
If you think you are immune to it then you are fooling yourself and are half way to being the perfect little consumer that they want.
Evidently, it’s not enough when many people try to block or ignore ads.
What would stop them would be a sufficiently large minority that really takes note of the ads they see and actively avoids the products. Like, even when it is the best for a given situation, buy the second best instead.
Only that would take away from the people they still do reach.
In theory, even a minority (20%?) could make ads harmful for the advertiser.
They know you hate the brands that advertise everywhere. The thing is: ads aren’t only for the brand that’s being advertised. They’re for the entire product category.
The advertised brand and 17 others are all subsidiaries of the same company.
Sick of Milwaukee drill ads, so you stick it to them and buy the cheaper Ryobi or Rigid? They’re all the same company.
Eyewear? Luxoticca is a monopoly that owns almost every optometrist’s office and just about every company making eyewear, so all the competing brands when you’re buying glasses are an illusion. RayBan, Oakley, and all the others are all the same company wearing different nametags. Budget brands, premium brands - everything.
The exception to this is if I already bought the product and like it (like with my new pants). Then, I’ll keep buying the product but still be annoyed by the ads. I’m not spending the effort to find ad-free pants when it was such a pain to find acceptable pants in the first place. I do wish they’d stop trying to sell to me, though. I already own 5 pairs!
(LPT: scrub pants can look office professional and have real pockets, even if you wear femme cuts.)
If it were any good, I’ll hear about it from something that wasn’t an ad block or sponsored message.
Like an organic comment on the internet? Don’t worry, they’ve captured that avenue as well
More Dragon Marrow for me fool
Gamer Sups. I only vaguely know what they are (some sort of food?), but the number of ads I see for it make me think I don’t want to know any more about it.
Its powdered energy drink powder and a few other related products.
I personally rather like it then again I am addicted ti caffeine
Indeed. Put the shady gamer product in your body.
