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Post by tory on Dec 1, 2020 9:10:53 GMT
Fender guitars, Bathrobes and Slippers.
I've just bought some slippers (Giesswien) so being served things I've actually purchased is really fucking me off. There should be a "I bought one already, fuck off" button.
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Post by rayge on Dec 1, 2020 10:09:52 GMT
None. Hurrah for AdBlock I really find it difficult to understand why anyone tolerates advertising, any more than having some stranger approach them in the street or, worse, their homes, and start demanding their attention and shouting in their face. And fetishizing it, as some do, inexplicable. Anyone ever involved in the industry (including me ) should be ashamed.
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Post by tory on Dec 1, 2020 10:18:46 GMT
On the "1920 vs 2020" thread, one thing I imagine that we would notice is the sheer projection of advertising imagery nowadays compared to then, which would have been nothing more than sloganeering. "BUY MORE JAM" - that sort of thing. Now it's all lifestyle etc.
I'm in two minds about advertising. I admire the "science" of it - how it works, because deep down it is extremely clever, even if it is odious in its nature. Some people need to sell products and well, some products are really good and useful.
Although the best products really don't need advertising - white goods like Miele for example - they don't need to advertise because everyone knows their stuff is the best.
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Post by DarknessFish on Dec 1, 2020 10:25:47 GMT
None. Hurrah for AdBlock I really find it difficult to understand why anyone tolerates advertising, any more than having some stranger approach them in the street or, worse, their homes, and start demanding their attention and shouting in their face. And fetishizing it, as some do, inexplicable. Anyone ever involved in the industry (including me ) should be ashamed. I can't block adverts on my phone, as far as I'm aware. I've had some really strange ones from this site in the past, but I've just refreshed the page a couple of times and I've had really dull ads for audbile, and amazon stretching the meaning of the word "explore" with "Explore our range of large appliances". I have no need for any new large appliance, as far as I'm aware, and certainly don't see them as requiring exploration.
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Post by tory on Dec 1, 2020 10:33:24 GMT
What I do resent is seeing adverts on sites or even on TV where I've paid for something. We no longer watch TV in the traditional format (ie when it's on live) and seeing adverts now, for example on Catch Up on Channel 4, is quite jarring as we just don't see them on Netflix/Prime/iPlayer.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2020 12:13:33 GMT
I've said this before, i really don't understand the point of pop ups. I'd love to know the stats behind it. How many people actually buy/sign up for the ad.
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Post by tory on Dec 1, 2020 12:20:23 GMT
I've said this before, i really don't understand the point of pop ups. I'd love to know the stats behind it. How many people actually buy/sign up for the ad. Modern advertising isn't about making you buy something there and then. It's about reinforcement. So that when you go to a place where you might buy something, faced with a variety of different brands, your brain will subconsciously go towards the ones that you have heard of. That's how modern advertising works - projecting lifestyle to help you make a buying decision later. I remember going to Lidl for the first time and was reminded of the scene in the Empire Strikes Back where Yoda says to Luke "you must unlearn what you have learned" because here was a shop that was stocked to the gills with brands I'd never heard of.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2020 12:29:42 GMT
You might be right, but i've stopped going to certain sites because of pop ups. The 'routine' is, you go in to the site, you get that cookies accepting shite, pop up video for the site that i have no interest in watching (i know, not advertising), pop up ad to subscribe to the site i'm visiting, then a pop up for an unrelated product but the site gets money to advertise. It's like, "fuck this for a game of cards". All before you get to read what you want to read. Then if your internet is slow at all, the pop ups take a minute to appear. If you're going in to the site for the first time, you start reading the article then when you're nearly half way through a fucking ad pops up. It's frustrating.
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Post by tory on Dec 1, 2020 12:32:39 GMT
Don't get me wrong - pop-ups are annoying as fuck. But they are there to annoy you. I mean, I'm being served these Slipper ads on youtube relentlessly and it's fucking tedious, but hell, if I'm going to think of a slipper company it'll be them.
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Post by rayge on Dec 1, 2020 13:50:28 GMT
Don't get me wrong - pop-ups are annoying as fuck. But they are there to annoy you. I mean, I'm being served these Slipper ads on youtube relentlessly and it's fucking tedious, but hell, if I'm going to think of a slipper company it'll be them. Youtube has ads? I've never seen one.
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Post by tory on Dec 1, 2020 13:53:16 GMT
On mobile it does.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2020 14:21:30 GMT
I've got some WWII strategy game..I wouldn't mind playing as it goes so the ad may have worked!
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Post by Crunchy Col on Dec 1, 2020 14:22:44 GMT
Don't get me wrong - pop-ups are annoying as fuck. But they are there to annoy you. I mean, I'm being served these Slipper ads on youtube relentlessly and it's fucking tedious, but hell, if I'm going to think of a slipper company it'll be them. Youtube has ads? I've never seen one.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2020 14:22:58 GMT
Don't get me wrong - pop-ups are annoying as fuck. But they are there to annoy you. I mean, I'm being served these Slipper ads on youtube relentlessly and it's fucking tedious, but hell, if I'm going to think of a slipper company it'll be them. Youtube has ads? I've never seen one.
They're embedded into the video a lot of the time.
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Post by cousinlou on Dec 1, 2020 14:26:54 GMT
Youtube has ads? I've never seen one.
They're embedded into the video a lot of the time. Yes, the ones you can click away are fine but there are some that insist you spend 15 seconds watching before it switches to what you were looking for.
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