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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 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.
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 …
Adblock + sponsorblock
This is the way, I am amazed how many people just rawdog the internet on a daily basis.
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.
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?
There was a very annoying radio ad for a musli brand when I was a child. I decided then that I would never buy their product ever. I’m 40 now and can proudly say that I still go out of my way to not buy any products from that company and to the best of my knowledge I’ve never eaten their products.
I get that the idea is to create recognition, but if it’s too annoying you won’t get a “Ah, I’ve heard that name I’ll go for this one” from me but a “Oh, that’s the annoying one, I’ll avoid it.”
what i’ll never understand is why companies try to shoot for annoying people, rather than making them happy. Sure maybe something annoying with lodge itself in your mind, but something nice might also lodge itself in your mind in a good way, and you might share the ad with your friends because it’s actually nice.
I can’t recall any bad ads off the top of my head, but the good ones? Those are something that literally become a part of culture, something people 10 years later share with each other.
Here in sweden the largest grocery store chain has been running a series of ads that straight up have seasons, the same format has been going ever since i was a kid and if you say “ICA-Stig” EVERYONE knows what you’re talking about. I personally find it cringy, especially the modern versions, but even i feel some sort of comfort from the fact that it’s been going for so long and has a sort of familial vibe to it.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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!
They used to.
Why do you see diminishing returns lately? Because more money into more ads lead to consumer fatigue.
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.
