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I want the advertising industry to die. And I honestly don't care what it takes down with it. If it hurts, we'll find ways around it, Patreon being a good exam
by JulianMorrison 11y ago
I want the advertising industry to die.
And I honestly don't care what it takes down with it. If it hurts, we'll find ways around it, Patreon being a good example.
- toyg 11y agoPublicity is the lifeblood of commerce. As long as one seller exists, one or more advertisers will also exist to help him sell more. Sad but true.
- JulianMorrison 11y agoIf all ads get blocked, all advertisers go bust.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoThere will always be advertising. The point is, we shouldn't tolerate anything but honest, decent one.
- bigbugbag 11y agowhy would there always be advertising? there wasn't any for about 400 000 years and we had it for a couple centuries ? a few milleniums at most.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoAs long as there is more than one product competing for the same application and a benefit for the vendor from getting their product picked, there will be a pressure to convince people to choose in a particular way, i.e. advertising.
- yoz-y 11y agoIn the current world of abundance, advertising is crucial to content and product producers. Let's say you make an application, how do you sell it if nobody knows about it? You make a nifty product, how do you make people know it exists? Advertising, in principle, is good, the way it is done currently on the Web is awful.
- JulianMorrison 11y agoI used to think this but I have come around to the opposite opinion. We have tools, these days, to rate and rank products. We have tools to search for them. We have tools to get nifty new ideas out to the public as quick as you can say "gone viral". Buyers don't need advertising at all. It's purely a system to confound rational consumer choice these days, to maintain the viability of companies that shouldn't be viable, because their product is inferior.
- yoz-y 11y agoThis can work for some products but not for all. For example I rarely do a research on what movie to go to see. If it was not advertised somewhere (e.g.: trailer before another movie, a print ad in a bus stop) then there is little chance I will decide to go and see it. Same goes for applications, yes there are channels for ranking and rating them and most of them are subpar to say the least (with the system often being gamed or skewed because of often lazy users). I've come to know many of the services and apps I use through channels like podcast and blog advertising. When done right, ads can be enjoyable (for example they are the only thing worth reading in an in-flight magazine)
- jakobegger 11y agoIf it's a good product, it will spread by word of mouth. Advertising can help sales, but it's by no means the only way to do sales.
- chair92 11y agoThis is incredibly naive, and it's obviously untrue for many product categories.