Sydney CBD train stations have in addition to the normal advert billboards, electric TV screen billboards where they'll play nothing but video ads WITH THE SOUND ON FOR THE ENTIRE PLATFORM TO HEAR, so annoying!! It really is everywhere, you just can't escape it.
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That would have been broken in like 30 minutes in NYC.
What's an "ad brake"? Haven't had ads for years now and beginning to forget...
And the advertisers seem to not care about context. I'll be watching some awful disaster documentary then an ad for, say, detergent will pop up. Now I associate your product with a terrible event. The bombarding too. Do they think if I didn't switch car insurance the first 100 times I saw the ad the 101st will do the trick? And I don't buy the "some people may be seeing it for the first time" excuse. The ads were every few minutes.
That's not why it's repeated a 1000 times, it's so when you actually do want to buy something in that category you're more likely to buy theirs because it's familiar.
See I've never understood how that worked because it has the complete opposite effect on me.
The more I see a certain product advertised the less likely I am to ever willingly purchase that product from that company.
Same. There's a product I've used for years and I'm now getting ads for on youtube and it's completely put me off of using it again. Like fuck off already.
I’m not convinced it does work. Freakonomics did a bit on marketing awhile back and the researchers they talked to said ad dollars were pretty inefficient and that companies would probably net a larger profit by reducing TV advertising.
More anecdotally, they talk about two corporate tests in digital marketing (Ebay and P&G) that seem to indicate that digital marketing isn’t paying off for companies either.
Personally this hurts my soul even more knowing the only people profiting are the middlemen who engineer their products to be objectively worse so that they can shove ineffective ads in my face.
That only applies to the ones you consciously think about. No one is immune to advertising.
Same. Being annoyed by excessive ads is a surefire way for me to blacklist a product or company. Particularly obnoxious ads can do it with just a single exposure.
I won't ever buy a car from Frank Lita because of how obnoxious their ads are.
Oh hello fellow St. Louisan.
Oh hai
Not even just out of spite but also because I can‘t help but wonder how bad the product must be if it needs that amount of advertising to sell.
It is like "vote for" signs. If you vote based on a sign you shouldn't be voting.
You can't even avoid this shit if you take all kinds of extra steps and even hoist the good old black flag and stop consuming live TV or streaming: Product Placement is pretty much standard in blockbuster films nowadays (the latest Aquaman really took in-movie advertising for a certain beer brand to a ridiculous level).
I can't avoid the ads on tv so I just mute it and read something else for a few minutes.
Any source of ads I avoid as the plague.
Regular TV? Don't watch it. Only streaming with a good ad blocker.
Radio? Never listen to it, I have my own old-school mp3 music list I update on the regular.
Youtube? Only with uBlock Origin and sponsorblock
Websites? Same as above.
Apps? AdAway removes the ads, and mainly use FOSS ones anyway.
I even avoid game stores as much as possible since those also try to get me to buy stuff.
I don't want to see any ads ever, marketing should be banned.
Do you ever watch YouTube on your living room TV?
Living room tv is a large display for my living room laptop, my remote is a bluetooth keyboard and mouse, youtube is in firefox with UBO and sponsor block. Streaming is emby in the browser.
I agree that we are living in an Ads-nightmare but there are ways to avoid them.
I do, also without ads. SmartTube
I never see ads and consume a good amount of video content.
Set your stuff up right, don't expect live to be easy
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