We Never Paid for Journalism

Re:We Never Paid for Journalism by chrisco255 on Friday October 25, 2019 @12:01AM (#21351756)

I think Instagram has nailed this, personally. Their ads get seamlessly placed in your feed, they're usually interesting to look at with high quality graphics and videos, and if I don't want to see them, it's trivial to scroll past them. But the ads have definitely snagged me to make a few impulse purchases this year.

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Re:We Never Paid for Journalism by tastroder on Friday October 25, 2019 @02:17AM (#21352386)

Interesting, I often find the ad selection on Instagram especially abysmal. It might be that my non-US geolocation has a negative effect on this. Most of the ads I get are either generic products for my gender and age range, local industry companies wasting budget on stuff I'm interested in but don't need at scale and won't ever buy through Instagram links, useless recruiting startups aimed at what I assume would be me 15 years ago (and even then I was not interested in this form factor), and of course a wide range of scams from personal finance to Kickstarter products.

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Re:We Never Paid for Journalism by chrisco255 on Friday October 25, 2019 @09:26AM (#21354663)

I typically get clothing ads, household goods ads, music-related, gadgets, lessons, etc.

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