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submitted 1 week ago by wuphysics87@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

In terms of cost of an ad to earnings, and how well, even a targeted ad, can hold a viewer's attention. Have we just become numb to ads? Does targeted advertising actually yield better results?

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[-] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 3 points 6 days ago
[-] Fleur_@aussie.zone 2 points 6 days ago

Did you even read the definition?

[-] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 3 points 6 days ago

Yep. And, like a sensible user of language, I recognised that it could be stretched to include your odd definition, but chose to stay with the combination of what was written in the dictionary and what is the common-use definition because the rest of the English-speaking world is under no obligation to stretch out the definition to help you. Everyone knows what ads are. Only a particularly obtuse user of language would call 'an intrusive video, put in front of you for the benefit of other people and the detriment of society' and 'a label of manufacturer of the object you are currently looking at, being used as an identifier' the same thing. They don't look alike. They don't serve the same purposes. One interacts with them in different ways. Only in the idiosyncratic space of marketing theory would one call them the same.

[-] Fleur_@aussie.zone 1 points 6 days ago
[-] MotoAsh@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago

You're good at projection.

How pathetic.

[-] Fleur_@aussie.zone 1 points 5 days ago

Projecting my feelings onto others like brands project ads onto packaging

[-] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 2 points 6 days ago

Are you going to present some evidence of where I have made a mistake in my reasoning or just 'cope' by pretending to have some insight into my mental state that invalidates the points I made in order to avoid acknowledging you were wrong?

[-] Fleur_@aussie.zone 1 points 6 days ago
[-] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 1 points 5 days ago

I wish you well, kid, but goodbye.

[-] Fleur_@aussie.zone 1 points 5 days ago

Sunsofold wept

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