I dislike advertising as much as the next person, but dismissing it as not working is attempting to handwave reality away. I am saying this as I am currently g

I dislike advertising as much as the next person, but dismissing it as not working is attempting to handwave reality away. I am saying this as I am currently going through a graduate marketing course. It is bananas. If there is one you learn from marketing really fast is: 1. what is the reality? 2. how to manipulate it To answer your surface question. You may be an outlier, but I can name purchases resulting from an ad. Impulsive purchases are a thing.