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Would companies spend hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars in advertising if it didn't work?
Ads are the weaponized form of decades of cutting edge psychology research. It works. Especially if you think it doesn't work on you.
The best thing you can do is minimize exposure to ads by using ad blockers, not using big social media platforms and paying for subscriptions which disable ads.
I know there’s a lot of money pumped into advertising, and I’ve seen SO MANY people say “if you don’t think it works, it works” but can anyone provide a justification for that claim?
Thinking on it now, I realize that people who are hating on advertising don’t realize just how many people there are.
This thread got me thinking about which ads I’ve succumbed to MONETARILY, and these are the ones that come to mind:
-Quip Toothbrush
That’s all that comes to mind.