Correct. Ads work extremely well. The simple and short explanation is that most people are dumb.

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?

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.

AdNauseam is great :)

There is a third category here: people who also hate ads but pay to turn off the ads, recognizing that a service takes money to operate. You’re not the only one who hates ads, and if you simply eschew them, that’s great. But we have a lot of people here who want to get everything for nothing, and that’s just not a tenable plan.

I mean look at the entitlement in the post. “Your” ads but “my” video.

You're not the only one. Ads turn me off of way more products than they entive me to buy.

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

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.

Try SponsorBlock.

Id argue its worse than smoking. Its closer to successfully lobbying the government to force doctors to recommended smoking for newborns.

I guess you aren't european then

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.

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.

This is the way, I am amazed how many people just rawdog the internet on a daily basis.

"You are without a doubt the worst product I’ve ever heard of.”

“But you have heard of me."

called the Mere Exposure Effect - it mostly works

...is what the 90% market leader says, who profits from it the most.

There are some exceptions, for example I still hate a company for their yt ads I saw before I figured out how to block them on phone. It has been like 6 years, the company was sold and name was changed, but I still remember to hate it and avoid it. Also, good products don't need advertisement, so if I can remember I saw an ad for something, I'd prefer other brand.

Fuck your entire sector of industry, Tom Cruise.

You mean conning people to join the cult or his hobby of mediocre acting?

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.

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.

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

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.

I agree with this. Ads contaminate your mind, so make sure to use ad blockers. But also help your friends set up ad blockers, because if their minds are contaminated, it will spread to you.

I don't know. Bad word of mouth can severely harm a product I think. So they should really care if there are millions of people who absolutely despise them.

By the way, completely unrelated, don't use Wix if you're making a website. It's awful. Also, I heard it was mentioned in the Epstein Files. Could be untrue but just to be safe don't use Wix if you don't want you and your website to be linked to Jefferey Epstein. Wix, the child predator's choice. Allegedly.

I've bought competitors out of spite.

Also later in time when one is making a choice for a kind of product one doesn't usually buy, one might have forgotten their dislike for a brand due to their excessive use of advertising and yet their subconscious is still giving them a feeling of familiarity when they see that brand's name on a product which makes it more likely that they'll chose it over other options that don't feel as familiar.

Most advertising nowadays is meant to affect subconscious impulses which will do their thing with no cognitive effort, whilst the position the OP holds (and which I myself try to) is conscious and requires cognitive effort to maintain.

I've already won by not buying their shit.