: 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

In marketing, although we don’t serve video ads to folks.

Name recognition is part of it. Sales and discounts help tremendously. Maybe you were kinda sorta thinking you needed new pants in the future and all of a sudden your local pants supplying store has a sale going on and you see a banner ad for it. You’ll probably think, well it’s a sale and you do need new pants, so you go and buy new pants. While you’re there, you buy shirts too because who couldn’t use a few new shirts?

Western society (but probably not just us?) is predominately a consumer based society. Our countries function on the trade of consumer goods for money. Welcome to capitalism. People want your money, and they are going to do ANYTHING to get it.

You should, unless you’ve gone out of the way to avoid or fuck up the algorithms, be getting served ads that are relevant. Your age, viewing history, suspected gender and sexual orientation, past purchases, etc all feed into the algorithm that says you might like pants. So you get an ad about pants.

Some folks are very pegged by the algorithm. You might not be since you’re ad-adverse, but you are in the minority.

I go out of my way to avoid the algorithm and still get quite a few ads served to me that are in my wheelhouse, as it were.