Why do companies advertise on YouTube when their ads are only used to annoy people into paid accounts? I never see anything, I am interested in.

  • slazer2au
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    10211 months ago

    Hot take time.

    Advertisements are not there for you to immediately buy something or even buy something in the next few days. Advertisements are there to associate a company with a product or service.

    If you see an advert for washing powder the advertisers are not expecting you to head to the store and get some, just next time you think you should try a different brand of powder a memory circuit fires off in your brain saying “what about Fab or Omo?”

    There was a show on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation years ago called The Gruen Transfer where advertisers would discuss each other’s ads and kinda pulls back the voodoo on advertising.

    • @[email protected]
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      1411 months ago

      People learning about your product or service is the big battle of commerce.

      At one end of the spectrum, you have a company like Sriracha, $0 spent on advertising. They had faith that word of mouth would suffice.

      At the other end of the spectrum, we have McDonald’s. McDonald’s was advertising on billboards in videogames, in the 2000s. Ask 1 billion people to name 5 burger joints.

      🤷‍♂️

    • @[email protected]
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      711 months ago

      are not expecting you to head to the store and get some, just next time you think you should try a different brand of powder a memory circuit fires off in your brain saying “what about Fab or Omo?”

      That’s still secondary, I think. Advertising is mostly about getting the stores to stock it so that you can buy it.

    • @[email protected]
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      511 months ago

      There is also a similar CBC show (and podcast) on the same topic by a long-time advertising industry insider.

      Under the influence by Terry O’Reilly.

    • @CameronDev
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      111 months ago

      That was a great show. The flip side of that arguement is that when an advertisement interrupts my entertainment, amd especially if the ad is annoying/repetitive, I (and many others) mentally add that company to the never buy list.

      Iinet was so fucking annoying with their ads 5-10 years ago that they are still a do-not-buy.

    • @[email protected]
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      -111 months ago

      Yeah some jackass I’m at once in marketing tried to explain it to me. I haven’t seen an ad in ages so I call bullshit. It’s all mostly psychobabble nonsense.