Think of all the thousands if not millions of unsolicited ads you've seen in your life. What percentage of those were for "something you didn't know existed bu

Think of all the thousands if not millions of unsolicited ads you've seen in your life. What percentage of those were for "something you didn't know existed but solved a problem or want that you had"? My guess would be less than 1%. Maybe even less than 0.1%. Many ads don't even have anything to do with the product they're selling. They're designed to get you to get you to associate a positive emotion with the brand name, or be so surreal or catchy that they're memorable. Those ads are worse than useless. They're both useless and manipulative.