Those ads were probably super expensive and companies with crappy products potentially weren’t able to sustain those back in the day. Internet ads are a differ

Those ads were probably super expensive and companies with crappy products potentially weren’t able to sustain those back in the day. Internet ads are a different story. Everyone can schedule them at really low costs. E.g., imagine you had to front $5k in 1980 to get ur ad running in a magazine for 3 or so issues reaching maybe 100k readers versus spending $10 bucks to have then scheduled and shown today…