Does Advertising Actually Work? 

I think there's a study that concluded that people with autism have immunity to marketing BS. Personally i have adblock and sponsorblock on every device. I don't even know what the internet looks like without them. Last time i've seen and add was maybe 6 months ago when someone tried to show me a video on their device and i got immediately annoyed

​@@HeWhoShamesNarwhalsautism does not make you immune to advertisement, how would that even corelate

​@@HeWhoShamesNarwhalsPOV you are literally just a guy but some people treat you like you got bit by an autistic spider as a child and now carry stoic superpowers and some people treat you like worthless trash cause you find maintaining eye contact hard

@@HeWhoShamesNarwhals Did you mean to say altruism? because autism makes no sense in this context lmao.

There is a research paper published on it. So it means that autistic people are less sensitive to predatory practices of specific kinds. Go fuck yourself and the "it doesn't corelate" rubbish.

BASED me too

Those are his regular streams! his playthroughs! the stream where he's paid to play something he wouldn't normally play or be recommended by chat because it's not a good fit for his content, it's total ass, and he never touches it or mentions it again? That's not getting those comments.

@@EDoyl Regular streams are still advertisement though. It's just word of mouth.

@@DemonLordSparda No.

​@@EDoylThe only reason massive conglomerates like Microsoft and Sony haven't cracked down on streaming video games in full like movies and music is because people streaming and playing your games is one of the most effective WOM marketing advertisement that you don't have to pay for as a company.

​@@EDoylof course you're wrong.

Yeah like, I've bought a bunch of games because of NL, advertised or not But everything that advertises on a website that keeps me from seeing what's on the website is all intrusive and bothersome at best, and will give me a virus and hold my data hostage at worst And someone paid to put that ad on that site Shit makes no sense

Yeah ads for big companies are simply there to make it seem impossible to you that a world without said companies could even exist.

Straight up NL is the most effective advertising for me. Balatro, SAP, Marvel Snap, Midnight Suns are all games I picked up because I saw them on his channel

@@RareSpottedGamer Yea but were those all add games he had to play, or did he play those games because genuinely liked them and wanted to play them? I do think there is a difference, because any game he has had to play as an add and he doesn't really like playing, turns me off the game so much.

please tell me librarian has a montage of it

@@Mktofy of course he does

I feel that this line hit

I think it also works for people like me who say ads don't work on me. What I mean when I say ads don't work on me is that most ads don't work. I don't use social medias much so if some streaming servive has a new show/movie I want to watch, I will most likely know about it from ads since I don't go to streaming services to browse really. Sure, I might be paying for that particular service already, but if I feel like I haven't used it in a while, I might put it on pause. So the ads work in the sense that it reminds me to use the service and that might make me not cancel it.

Yeah I will say as someone whose gotten a little older and has mostly older work colleagues outside the odd RU-vid video advertisements are generally the only way I know if something is out or coming out. I didn't even know about Spider-Man 2 being a thing until I saw an ad on Twitter.

Ads work on most people, just not in ways they actually think about or recognize which is the whole point. Very few ads cause people to see them and actively think "I should seek out this product". What they do is start planting the seed of recognition. That way if you are thinking of buying something your brain goes "Oh yeah I heard of this brand". If you recognize a brand you are more likely to buy it without scrutinizing it too heavily. If the brand is unfamiliar people tend to examine their purchase more. Ads are generally meant to build up your brand and product recognition.

Actually your wrong.

@@soulstoneking548actually you’re* wrong

Mf bought a $2000 bike that doesn't move ICANT

this is basically how my steam library came to be.

I mean, it's clearly made him more healthy and active. Which is its intended purpose. I wouldn't call a product that worked a scam. An overpriced and overhyped exercise bike maybe, but I wouldn't say scam.

never

that banana bunch rant just convinced me even more

Would you do the same if you saw a youtube ad of it?

@@godlyvex5543 Lol absolutely not 😂

That's not an ad, that's going to the store whose purpose is buying a product and seeing that product on display and learning about it and then making a decision An ad is if you were walking down the street and the company that published that game hired a guy to come up and shove a series of pictures in your face and demand money from you in the moment

You, by your own volition going to the store section of Steam is not 'ads working'. That's you actively going out of your way to seek a product and selecting one.

Yeah, I agree with the other guys, that isn't an ad. I think I agree with some of the other people who have said "the purpose of ads isn't to get you to buy something, it's to inform you of it so you know it exists, as people are less likely to trust brands they have never seen before". That makes a lot of sense to me. I'm more likely to buy something I view as "popular", and ads make me think something is more commonly known than it might actually be. So ads seem to be less about influencing you into buying a product you wouldn't buy otherwise, and more about informing you that the product exists so it feels more familiar.

facts

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Why would he play it when he’s already bald?

PREACH BROTHER

I know you're right but I still want to believe that it's all just Paul Marketing succeeding in justifying his salary

​@@SuperSymn The greatest trick Paul from marketing ever played was making you think he has no reason to exist

Yeah nah imma be honest. They didn't crack anything. They trialed and errored their way into making SOME people buy SOME of their products. I have legitimately never bought anything that was ever advertised to me except sponsored segments for games. Even those need me to first be actively seeking new products and sponsoring the right person and that only gets me to check out their steam page. The companies don't subconsciously control your every move so that you buy their lawnmower even though you have no garden. They just hope and pray that some idiot is going to fall for the ad

@@sisyphus1326 brother. You sound like a fucking conspiracy theorist lmao. The argumentation is too convenient. "It works even though you don't feel it and it has never actually had an impact in your life at all, but it works!!" What i said was that ads will not and have never CREATED an interest in their product for me. The only thing ads have ever done is making me aware of a product that i ALREADY wanted. Advertising works on SOME people SOME of the time. I saw one guy drawing parallels to gatcha games where the 0.1% of players fund the entire profit of the game. I imagine that that is how advertising works; some people got tricked by it and it was enough to be worth it. I agree it is powerful and that fascist use techniques that are similar or directly taken from marketing research, but fascism, like advertising, works on some idiots some of the time. Advertising is not magical and if you don't want it to work, then it won't.

Ads don't work on me. I know this because seeing a car ad doesn't instantly make me go buy a car and I've never had an Audible subscription.

I saw an ad for a boat water pump once. It fairly gave all of its own specs and actually had a full list of features phrased in a way that respected my intelligence. I've remembered that ad for years now, because it was so different. Had no use for a pump though, so their honesty didn't get rewarded. 🤷‍♂️

If we all pull hard enough we might learn to fly by ourselves

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Get ready to learn economy buddy Cause that means marketing worked on you lmao. Sponsored streams *are* marketing

If you think corporations don't waste millions and millions of dollars you the real clown. People waste thousands, corporations waste millions, countries waste trillions.

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NO ONE IS IMMUNE TO PROPAGANDA... except me

He's learning

It doesnt prove that marketing actually works, just that companies believe it does

i mean i look at advertised products, they are just far more expensive than other products, i dont buy them unless those that are not advertised are shit so well i kinda have no choice?

as far as you know at least.

you know this is a clip and not a youtube essay right lmao, anyway the tax rant is legendary

Don't worry Librarian, I think this fellow believes that NL himself uploaded this, perhaps the engaging banter and interesting subject matter will convert them into a person that doesn't upload videos titled "lynx and meowskles fortnite sexy time" Yeah that's right we fucking audit around here @hitmankgmThe2nd@@TheLibraryofLetourneau

The streamer didn't post this clip

@@TheLibraryofLetourneau i kniw its not an essay, its a clip that was extended to be longer than 11 minutes for no reason. not legendary

Some people like the banter bro. For example: You could say "I tripped on my way to the store", or you could make a big story out of it involving a family of cats, a weird looking car, and a giant flock of geese. Some people are here *for* the endless rambling. Different strokes for different folks.