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I don't mind magazine advertising, because those are hyper-specific to the topic you're actually interested in, because you bought a magazine all about it. If I
by frosted-flakes 4y ago
I don't mind magazine advertising, because those are hyper-specific to the topic you're actually interested in, because you bought a magazine all about it. If I'm reading a woodworking magazine and I see an ad for a new type of clamp or jig a company is advertising, yeah I'm interested! (Free "magazines" are trash, I'm talking about Fine Homebuilding, Ontario Out of Doors, etc.)
Online advertising is almost universally trash for me, and I'm not sure I've ever spent a cent because of it. It's always useless and irrelevant (no I don't need a car, or lipstick, alcohol, or iced tea, I'm super not interested in any of those). And yet, someone must be clicking those ads. I listened to a podcast where the (female) hosts said they had spent hundreds of dollars by clicking on Instagram ads for random products, and I was floored! Who clicks ads?!
- shuntress 4y agoI don't understand what point you are trying to make. Are you just trying to say that advertising only exists because "women be shopping"?
- frosted-flakes 4y agoI don't understand your comment. Where did I say that? My point is that I don't mind magazine advertising because it's hyper-specific to a topic I actively wanted to read, but online advertising is so random that none of it is ever relevant.
- shuntress 4y ago> I listened to a podcast where the (female) hosts said they had spent hundreds of dollars by clicking on Instagram ads for random products So, you would agree then that when the content and relevance of an ad surpasses some threshold, the ad is good and that when ads are "useless and irrelevant" they are bad?