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That's just market forces at work. If what you say is true, you can just as well say it's a startup bubble where they are willing to lose money on customer acqu
by stingraycharles 11y ago
That's just market forces at work. If what you say is true, you can just as well say it's a startup bubble where they are willing to lose money on customer acquisiton. Inflated costs to advertise is a normal effect of increased demands. That's not an advertising bubble.
- socialist_coder 11y agoWe're mostly saying the same thing. There is too much money flowing into startups, causing them to spend it less efficiently than they should. Part of that spend is in buying ads (increasing demand), and being willing to pay higher prices than they would if they had to be a little tighter with their capital. But anyways, all I was trying to explain was why I think there is a lot of negativity towards ads here- because HN'ers are sick of being outspent on ads, and they're being outspent in a (perceived) unfair way.