• sdcSpade@lemmy.zip
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    11 days ago

    I’ve been wondering for a while where the point of diminishing returns is. Surely, at some point, ads become aggressive enough to have an adverse effect on advertisers?

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      11 days ago

      I often wonder how ads of any kind have ever worked, unless it was an ad for something we had already planned on buying.

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        11 days ago

        Before their media blitz campaign, Hormel’s Spam was eaten in perhaps 20% of households; after the campaign it was closer to 70%.

        Ads do work, if you do them right. People go for what they’ve heard of over what they haven’t.

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        11 days ago

        Ads are super effective. If you have something to buy, but you don’t know much about it, you will tend towards buying the thing that was advertised to you more often than not just because you are more familiar with it over other things. You might not stick with it, but being the first thing someone tries is huge.