The last sentence in that was damn powerful and very very true.

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The last sentence in that was damn powerful and very very true.
I found it pretty disturbing the other day when I got a pre-roll advertisement on Youtube from Facebook that was basically a 30 second advertisement for the concept of advertisements itself. Facebook was desperately trying to convince me that "personalized advertising" is good because the algorithm will show me things that I want. Or, in short, it was a plea that what they do is necessary, so please, don't be upset with what they're using our data for.
Unrelated, but I wish I could find an article I read once; it was by a dude who used to work in advertising, but retried, and it was just pages and pages of him pretty much saying what you said here -- that ads don't work. He likened it to divination because by his claim (and decades of experience), nobody actually knows why advertising works and mostly it's about convincing advertisers that their ads were effective so they keep buying more ad spots. It was a really good read and I've wished several times I had bookmarked it, because I've never been able to find it again.
I suspect we have a common source here, because I remembered reading something similar. Did it include the sentiment 'the click through on banner ads in 2010 is 007, as in .007%'?
In my experience the most effective advertising is in niche publications, such as neighborhood newspapers or hobbyist magazines. I've used that coupon to check out a new restaurant.
Barkers and Hawkers also part this fool from my money.
another terrible fact about this: advertising is a bane on many small businesses. You can't build ambient brand awareness on a small business's advertising budget. The best you can do is already be making a product people know they want, but haven't bought yet, and use advertising to be like "hey I'm one of the places you can get that!" If you're something unsexy like a construction company, then your best bet is to be where people are already looking for those services. and yet, local TV channels are going to try and court you lol, radio, Facebook, and they're going to set your money on fire, because that kind of advertising does basically nothing for a business like that.
quintuple all the waste and nonsense here for internet advertising btw