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I (might) sound arrogant but never understood this industry, the value of it (other than financial). Feels quite embarrassing to me. Would love to hear opinion
by agigao 7y ago
I (might) sound arrogant but never understood this industry, the value of it (other than financial). Feels quite embarrassing to me.
Would love to hear opinions.
- seibelj 7y agoYou have a business or a product that no one knows about. So you need to make people know about it. Enter - advertising
- thehappypm 7y agoWell, imagine you create a 1-person startup. You make the perfect tool, but you have no customers. How do you acquire them? You can try pumping your own personal network, organically market yourself every chance you get (like HackerNews comments or Facebook posts). However you can, with a relatively low investment, reach an order of magnitude more users with digital advertising. Your startup makes a great product, right? So you'll naturally acquire at least some of the users who see your ads.
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- fullshark 7y agoPeople don't have perfect information, advertising is crucial to inform your customers that you exist and have something of potential use to them.
- bluGill 7y agoI have several times bought something from an ad because it clued me into a solution to my problem that I had not known of. If my cat isn't catching all the mice I keep having to get more cats and try to get them to stop fighting or suddenly I discover mousetraps from an ad and I get a whole new solution that I didn't know about.
- agigao 6y agoWell, I was talking about "YouTuber", "Streamer" careers.