Those ads form the 1950s would be inneffective for most advertisers right now. Only "mcdonalds size" companies can afford generic advertising like that. With on

Those ads form the 1950s would be inneffective for most advertisers right now. Only "mcdonalds size" companies can afford generic advertising like that. With online ads anyone can spend $100 and it can still be very effective. Your problems with repetitive and irrelevant ads isn't because the marketing industry is bad, its because some advertisers don't know what they're doing and run bad campaigns. I agree that the industry will change - but only when the consumers force it to. Adblockers will eventually be widespread, and marketers will adapt to it with something else. The ads you mentioned you like aren't scalable - you can't spend $1000 in the next 20 minutes with those ads like you could with display ads right now.