PORTLAND, OR—Preaching the virtues of breaking free from an oppressive system of mass brainwashing, local man Dan Pearson, the chosen one who will lead humanity out of its current dark age of commercialism, revealed Monday that advertising doesn’t work on him. “I actually do research online instead of just buying something because of some dumb […]
I can think of one time in the last decade an add influenced me to shop, that resulted in a sale. I can think of literal countless times an advert has annoyed me to the point I would never shop the product they are showing again.
When advertising is done right, you don’t know it influenced you. That’s why it’s scary.
There seems to be an inverse relationship between how often one sees/hears an ad, and the quality of the product being advertised.
i have definitely seen an ad and gone “oh neat” a handful of times, but importantly those ads are like, fine? If you’re literally just going “this is our product! this is the cost! our product is good, buy it!” then yeah i might have a closer look