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If you have to advertise, it shows that your product sucks. Even for making the product known at all, there are better ways, provided that the product is actually good - like providing it to reviewer sites / magazines / whatnot and getting an unbiased review.
Advertisement usually consists of false or misleading information, and often no information at all, but psychological / emotional manipulation. Buy our useless crap, and you'll somehow be happy.
Btw., that also holds also for election advertisements from the competing parties. -
Have you ever liked any ads?
I work in a company with some newspapers.
I hear they get a lot of hate about full page ads. But many readers actually LIKE the small ads.
As in "the local shoe store has a sneaker sale this weekend" - that can be seen as a relevant ad, if it's small and not in your face -
@Nanos If a product is good, but too expensive, it means that it just doesn't deliver enough value. If lowering the price won't work because it would have to drop below production cost, it means that this product is technically possible, but not economically viable because people get more value for their limited money in other, maybe even totally unrelated products.
One way out is to position the product as luxury item because supply-demand-price doesn't work like that in the luxury segment. The problem is to make affluent people think of this poor value offer as desirable item.
I block ads because they're psychological warfare that corporations wage against me. I don't care how unobtrusive the ads are. I don't care if the ads don't track me. I grew up changing the channel on TV when ads came on, and ripping adverts out of magazines before sitting down to read them. I vote for billboard bans whenever I can. I have zero tolerance for ads of any sort.
Advertisers have no morals, they're completely depraved. They'll eagerly exploit a teenager's self-conscious body issues to sell useless beauty products. They sell sugar water to fat people and at every turn promote the rampant consumerist culture that is destroying our planet. They're lower than pond scum and I never want to see a single ad from them ever.
— mcpackieh
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