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If a person comes to my door and rings the bell after reading my sign that says, “don’t ring unless emergency”…I enjoy giving them my full vocabulary of curses. People are stupid. A person is smart.
There are many ads on YouTube that are obvious scams. So I just assume that anything being advertised on YT is a scam.
i have only a single kind of youtube ad that doesn’t go immediately into the mental trashcan, and that’s in-video advertisements that are short and chill and to the point, and contextually relevant.
Like a retro gaming channel that ends videos with a clearly stated ad for some reasonably priced NES controller replica that they actually hold in their hands and say “been using it for a few weeks, it’s nice, check it out, bye”.It’s not pushy, it’s something people might actually want to buy before seeing it, and maybe most importantly it should be a physical product.
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.
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!
Not sure who you’re referring to but I agree and haven’t bought from ea, ubi and others in many years. It’s their loss, not mine.
Also I’ve been gone from reddit in years.
But the masses are so slow.
The Yaris ads did this to me. I got so pissed off by their “It’s a car” commercials that I absolutely despised the product.
Were you in market for buying the car when you saw those adds? If you werent then they did not loose a sale even if you hated the add.
Can you honestly say, that if you were in really need of a car and there would be opportunity to buy a yaris with good price and it would be good fit to your needs at the moment, you would pass it just because some add you saw at some point?
Was it so effective you repeat the name of the product years later in some random discussion on the internet?
I think the adds worked pretty much as intented.
If I had the choice of the Yaris or another car, I would choose the other car. Because driving that car would make me at least low-level angry for the time I had it.
this ignores the fact that people tend to complain to those around them, and especially if they hear a friend is gonna buy a new car they’ll say “hey Bob do me a favour and buy anything other than a yaris, their ads gave me bowel cancer. If you show up with a yaris on my driveway next month i’m calling the fucking cops i swear to god”
Do you think discussions like that happen in real life?
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
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.
people always say this, but at the same time everyone i talk to goes out of their way to avoid companies with annoying ads It really starts to just feel like propaganda at this point
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.
literally the only ad i can think of off the top of my head is that airline booking site with adorable kittens in stitched airplane suits, because obviously that occupies a significant part of my brain at all times
And i don’t understand how companies fail to realize that cute animals make ads infinitely more appealing, that gives me a reason to maybe actually continue watching it, because i gain something from doing so
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.
Also the more suspicious I get, and thus less likely to buy, the advertised product.
Ads work. Consumer behavior is among the most studied phenomenoms in the world.
They used to.
Why do you see diminishing returns lately? Because more money into more ads lead to consumer fatigue.
It’s almost like there’s a multi billion industry based on it!
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.
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.
you just gave them a free ad
blocked from orbit
/not really; merely admonished from uncomfortable chair
No skin off my back lol.
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…
Adblock + sponsorblock
This is the way, I am amazed how many people just rawdog the internet on a daily basis.
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.
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.
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.
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 doesn’t even have to be all that good a product, just better than the alternatives. I mean look at Linux! :p
It’s so clear when you know what’s going on, but I think most people operate under the assumption that if they constantly hear about it and don’t 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…
it utterly baffles me why ads for context-relevant things are so uncommon, the only places i really see them are woodworking channels…
Yeah you get less money from those ads, but it also means your channel won’t implode in 3 years when you accidentally advertise a company that drives customers to suicide…
It also means you build a reputation as trustworthy, which especially these days is pretty valuable and will drive viewership.Im sure there are other contexts in which that happens, but yeah, very uncommon
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.
You’re not the only one. Ads turn me off of way more products than they entive me to buy.
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.
It works for AI …
