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I'm getting a few of those, but mostly ads for appliances, lawn and garden tools, piano lessons, and guitar lessons. The appliance ads make sense because I am
by tzs 3y ago
I'm getting a few of those, but mostly ads for appliances, lawn and garden tools, piano lessons, and guitar lessons.
The appliance ads make sense because I am actually considering getting a new washer and dryer and have been researching that, since my nearly 20 year old GE washer is showing some signs that it might be about to have problems.
The lawn and garden ads also make some sense, because I did do a fair bit of lawn work around the house over the summer, and did look into buying some of the tools I'm now seeing ads for. But I haven't looked at said tools in a couple months, so they don't make as much sense as the appliance ads.
I watch a fair number of non-performance music videos (e.g., music theory, guitar technique, and similar) so the piano and guitar less ads make sense.
The problem with all of them is that even the ones that actually have provided me useful information that might increase the chances I'll buy the advertised product if I end up buying a product in their category provide me all their useful information the first time I see the ad. The next dozen times I see the same ad is useless and annoying.
There was also an ad for something in a category I didn't know existed (Lomi [1]) that got me curious enough to go to their site. Doesn't look like it would be useful to me, but it is an interesting idea.
The oddest one was one I've gotten a single time, from Best Buy. But it wasn't advertising any particular Best Buy products. It was just an instructional video telling how to DIY mount a TV on a wall [2]. Best Buy does sell TV wall mounts, but I don't think they named the mount they used for an example in the video. It was just the "How to mount your TV" from their Geek Squad tech tips page and applies equally well to pretty much every wall mount available.
I've no idea why Best Buy decided to pay to promote that.
[1] https://lomi.com/ https://lomi.com/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xujwpCKBAs4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xujwpCKBAs4