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  • carbohydra [des/pair]
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    3 years ago

    i'm more and more convinced that ads are pure speculation akin to bitcoin. this makes no sense if you want people to buy stuff. it's disgusting to the user. you don't want users to react with disgust to your ad.

    • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Nah, there are a lot of naive people out there trust me, it is sad but the reality is that ads can work on the right audience.

      You should look into internet marketing/SEO, shit is basicaly making money from all the idiots that actualy click the HOT MILF IN YOUR AREA sidebar ad.

      • carbohydra [des/pair]
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        3 years ago

        is that not also pure speculation? don't tell me there are actually hot milfs in my area i've been missing out on?

        with a shirt ad there is an actual shirt you can buy, but the milfs are a scam. and even with the shirts you can do fancy statistics but people would buy shirts anyway, and if you can afford ads its probably because you already cashed in on people buying your shirts.

    • marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Driving people into paranoia because of algorithmic advertising and they think this will motivate buys and shit.

    • mr_world [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      It's more like patreon or play to win. It doesn't work on most people. But it does work on a small fraction of people who will become fiercely loyal to your products. You just have to reach the whales, not everyone.

    • hypercube [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      thing is that you gotta compete for brainspace with everyone else who's running ads - sure, you'll piss some people off, but you've also put your worms in their brain. Even if it's a net negative sales wise, because your competitors are also bidding for ads, the price will just stabilise at a lower point if you don't go for it, and then the enemy brain worms will have infiltrated the consoomers mind instead. Basically, if you're a big company you've gotta do marketing. Bonus feature is that it's constantly telling people that if they buy something they'll be happy, which is pretty effective capitalist propaganda (marketing guys don't think about this but it's their main function lol)