: 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

Worked in advertising my whole career.

As long as there is mass media, ads will continue to be the means of funding that media — with cable TV and radio’s decline, much of the ads now are just disguised as “content”, i.e. articles, YouTube videos, paid promotions, etc.

It’s gross but it’s not changing