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Originally Posted by freebeard
There's a long list of things I haven't bought, that I've seen ads for.  Possibly the last thing was the movie Alita, Battle Angel. Drove all the was to Federal Way to watch it with my son.
I think advertising ruined the WWW. It would still have grown without ads, just a little slower. |
The only clear instance I can remember of advertising working was about 15 years ago when I was hungry, watching TV with my dad, and a commercial for the Cowboy pizza came on. I knew I had been manipulated in that moment, and we drove to Papa Murphy's and bought a Cowboy pizza.
Trailers can certainly influence me, but mostly just making known that a movie with a certain subject matter exists.
Things I already know exist seem pointless to advertise. There's no amount of Coke commercials that will make me buy more Coke. I'm going to buy the cheap, unadvertised knockoff stuff. I always seek unadvertised goods where possible because I don't like a portion of my purchase price going towards people attempting to manipulate me.
BTW, the Tesla strategy always appealed to me. I'd like to take it another step further though and have my brand have no logo. You'd know what car it was by the fact that it had no branding at all, and never saw a commercial for it. It would be in rebellion of traditional manipulation tactics.