: who watches and consumes because of ads? why are they still a ‘thing’? as “everyone” seems to hate them and looks for ways to not see them, but ads are increasing and added to everything.

Question

how and why are ads so effective?

ads are increasing by an alarming amount and being stuffed literally eveywhere and in everything?!

and i dont know a single person that watches them or ever purchased anything because of them, not even the moest gullible people thet where scamed with all sorts of bullshit

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Answer 1

Sometimes an ad just wants to show you that their product exists. You probably won’t go out and buy it right away, but once you know about it, it’ll pop up in your mind occasionally, prompted by other thoughts. It’s kinda like when you learn a new word, and suddenly you start seeing that word everywhere.

Also, when you know a product for a particular problem exists, you might start noticing you have that “problem” when before, you didn’t think it was a problem at all, or you worked around it, or you solved it in some less convenient way.

Usually people say “necessity is the mother of invention,” but advertising works on the reverse principle – invention is the mother of necessity.