4 ms·

Regardless of what this author thinks. Advertising is the bane of our existence. How many hours have we wasted watching advertisements (whether it's in the form

by xyst 6y ago

Regardless of what this author thinks. Advertising is the bane of our existence. How many hours have we wasted watching advertisements (whether it's in the form of network television, billboards, radio ads, or intermittent ads in VOD sites like YT)? If your product is good, then you wouldn't need to advertise (take for example, Ferrari or Lamborghini). If companies focused on making their products better rather than spend hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising a half baked product, it would make the world so much better.

genbit 6y ago
What if all products are good? How does one stand out?
- wyattpeak 6y ago
  From a social good perspective, if they're all good your product shouldn't stand out. The argument here isn't that ads aren't good for the business doing the advertising, it's that they're bad for the community at large.
tester756 6y ago
>If your product is good, then you wouldn't need to advertise I believe it is simplification. Let's say that I want to get good standing desk or chair - how can I discover those smaller players that make good products? I don't want to spend time on some ChairHackerNews for 2 months and read about this stuff
- prepend 6y ago
  Imagine if Google wasn’t full of BS ads and SEO link farms and you could easily find the blog posts and reviews of products from smaller players that make good products? As much as search used to suck, I kind of long for the days where I could organically find products by searching.
RestlessMind 6y ago
I hate a lot of things about advertising, but "If your product is good, then you wouldn't need to advertise" is a very naive take. In spite of my aversion to ads, I see some concrete benefits: - new and upcoming products - think Tesla in 2010, or Signal messenger in 2020/21 - making things accessible for those who can't afford them - I know a lot of folks who'd rather watch YT ads than fork over 15$ to Google every month. They simply don't have that much money - letting me know about stuff I was not thinking about but am happy to know now - eg. interesting summer camps for my kids

by xyst 6y ago

genbit 6y ago

What if all products are good? How does one stand out?

wyattpeak 6y ago
From a social good perspective, if they're all good your product shouldn't stand out. The argument here isn't that ads aren't good for the business doing the advertising, it's that they're bad for the community at large.

tester756 6y ago

>If your product is good, then you wouldn't need to advertise I believe it is simplification. Let's say that I want to get good standing desk or chair - how can I discover those smaller players that make good products? I don't want to spend time on some ChairHackerNews for 2 months and read about this stuff

prepend 6y ago
Imagine if Google wasn’t full of BS ads and SEO link farms and you could easily find the blog posts and reviews of products from smaller players that make good products? As much as search used to suck, I kind of long for the days where I could organically find products by searching.

RestlessMind 6y ago

I hate a lot of things about advertising, but "If your product is good, then you wouldn't need to advertise" is a very naive take. In spite of my aversion to ads, I see some concrete benefits: - new and upcoming products - think Tesla in 2010, or Signal messenger in 2020/21 - making things accessible for those who can't afford them - I know a lot of folks who'd rather watch YT ads than fork over 15$ to Google every month. They simply don't have that much money - letting me know about stuff I was not thinking about but am happy to know now - eg. interesting summer camps for my kids