Most people do not behave as you claim to. Advertising really does work. It's rational and has well-demonstrated ROI.
You're either an outlier in terms of behavior, or you're not offering an honest representation of how you react to ads.
You're either an outlier in terms of behavior, or you're not offering an honest representation of how you react to ads.
The ad industry is not full of idiots, it's got an impressive amount of technology and data behind it proving the ROI on every side.
You have not uncovered some kind of mass conspiracy. I'd strongly recommend you either talk to people in the industry or read up on the technology and results available.
Also, I worked alongside people in ad industry and I'm very happy I escaped it. I've seen how things are done and I'm not pleased. I don't think ad industry is full of idiots - it's not the smarts I am disputing, it's the morals.
As I say, I do find this and patreon interesting, and may sign up. I already get most of my tv and movies through subscriptions to streaming services where I don't have to see any ads.
I think you're very wrong here. I suspect only a small part of the echo-chamber techies might think this way. The general public only hates ads when they're shown as those crazy multiple pop-up windows + auto-playing flash ads with audio.
Otherwise, people do click... or tune them out(but subconsciously, the ad is in their head)
The general public in the USA may be more inured to constant ads, I'm not sure that holds everywhere, and as ad-free services like netflix grow I think we'll see more people start to become more conscious of advertising.
Penis pill emails have a well demonstrated ROI as well.
Actually, that is not as clear cut as one might expect [1].
It also doesn't specify mediums of advertising, because of confidentiality agreements, but hints that it included mediums such as television and billboards which are traditionally harder to track. I don't think it's shocking that out of home media is hard to statistically track ROI on.
Every time I see somebody claiming that advertising doesn't work, I just think that there's another person who has never tried to run a small online business.