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Re:The $300B Google-Meta advertising duopoly is under attack by yodsanklai on Sunday September 18, 2022 @08:21PM (#32892822)
This is true of regular advertising too: many people think they're immune to it. Corporations wouldn't spend billions if it wasn't effective.

That being said, I tend to agree with you in the sense that I never buy the obscure products that are recommended to me on FB/Google.

On the other hand, I think paying YouTubers to promote products is super effective. People are extremely receptive to influencers recommending products, esp. when it doesn't seem like advertising.

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Re:The $300B Google-Meta advertising duopoly is under attack by n8ta on Sunday September 18, 2022 @10:32PM (#32893631)
Corporations don't make mistakes. Corporations run ads. => Ads are not mistakes.

Not sure I buy the first premise of this argument.

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Re:The $300B Google-Meta advertising duopoly is under attack by solarmist on Sunday September 18, 2022 @11:47PM (#32894073)
Corporations wouldn't spend billions on advertising/marketing for no returns. The problem is we have no idea what works. Every single experiment says it does _something_ and that's as far as we’ve gotten.
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Re:The $300B Google-Meta advertising duopoly is under attack by yodsanklai on Monday September 19, 2022 @10:31AM (#32898845)
Corporations do make mistake, but probably not consistently spending billions of dollars for no gain. For instance, Coca Cola spends 4 billions per year [1]

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/286526/coca-cola-adverti...

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Re:The $300B Google-Meta advertising duopoly is under attack by pydry on Monday September 19, 2022 @05:19AM (#32896073)
If 60% were immune corporations would still spend billions on it.

I suspect a lot of people are immune but also a lot of people are very susceptible.

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