I violently hate advertising. It's the embodiment of the greed that now rules our society. I don't remember ever being convinced to buy something or interested in something by any sponsor or ad. BUT I do feel weird buying stuff that I didn't see advertised before, I am infected and I despise it!
What annoys me most is that on the grand scheme of things about ads is that they don't make anything free or cheaper. Ads get placed because people buy things because of it. So society has to deal with ads while still paying. It's a loss
@@olbradleyGreed in this way is pretty modern. For most of human history communal structures were the usual. And if everyone knows everyone you can't be greedy or you'll get to feel the consequences of the community. Capitalists intentionally destroyed those structures, now many people live in single family homes, many of which don't talk to their neighbors. Now it's all about competition but it doesn't need to be. Being greedy harms the majority and they usually aren't
I grew up in a TiVo household. My dad hated ads so much he paused the American Idol live results and make us sit in silence so he could fast forward thru the ads
Good advertising is either implicitly enjoyable (read: superbowl ads), or simply informs you that a thing that you might want exists, and then buggers off. I don't need to have a 30 minute diatribe about a fucking vacuum, 3 minutes into my youtube video, thank you very much.
it's weird. if advertising is so manipulative, why is it barely regulated? if advertising is so useful, why do the people who can afford to pay for "ad-free" have the option to turn ads off when they're the ones that would be most inclined to make a purchase? advertising is now an extortion racket: secretly cause a problem, publicly provide the solution, charge capital for the solution.
Great video! Advertising is so awful these days. I hate it. It's at a point where if i see an ad on social media or a person pushing a product on their page, i instantly note to NOT buy that product 😂
I think the problem with that is that a lot of shitty product unintentionally get pushed by small influencers. Best example I knew was one brand selling "high-end japanese knife" that in reality was not any better than any knife bought at the store. The product was pushed by mainly youtubers that don't know anything about knives and the product would've received red flags by experts in the topic. Major brands don't advertise through sponsorships by youtubers unless you're MrBeast, and the cheap & easy access to social media marketing means that it's also easy for a company with a sub-par product to just sell cheap stuff with a high margin and use a lot of the profit for marketing.
@@stevedwrd oh definitely! people need to pay the bills, but i hate when these companies say spend millions on advertising and still make an awful product, like maybe if you made a better product you could afford less on advertising 😂. and then there's the whole raid shadow legends kinda stuff where it forces you to say and do certain things for a big payout to reel people into a game that's more or less a slot machine.
I don't mind advertising in general, sometimes I've seen things that interest me which I never would have found randomly. It gets annoying when the same product is shown over and over again though... I wasn't interested in it the last dozen times, I'm not going to be interested now!
Yeah I don't mind a little targeted advertising when I'm actively shopping for something. Like on Etsy, or Amazon most of my suggestions are herbal shops or jewelry. Recently on Facebook I get promoted pages for lingerie or jewelry. I dont necessarily like advertising while I'm using social media but at least those are things I have interest in. I may still not buy it, especially through FB cuz there's a lot of scam pages. What I don't want, is to open my period tracker app and it freezes cuz it's trying to load an ad.
As a guy who got stranded in the future once said Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
that sounds extreme. for example, i've seen plenty of tourism ads saying "come visit France" and that's not gonna stop me from visiting France, and it seems sad if you let that stop you too. just about every place on earth you'd want to visit puts out ads.
@@tryingmybest206 I have lived in Chicago, New York, and Boston, all places that advertise themselves around the world. why wouldn't i want to live in places that other people seek out for vacations? you are really condemning yourself. every single state in the USA has a tourism department slinging ads, and every country in europe, east asia, it's utterly commonplace and has been for years.
I suspect the same. It's amazing how few videos exist on this topic. If you do a search on the internet, all there is is material around how to improve your ads, how to reach out to buyers etc. But only a tiny amount of the information is questioning the very existence of adverting. How can that be?
I don't know, the irony of the video being voiced by the guy who will advertise anything in his videos no matter how sleezy *cough* Established Titles *sneeze* SkillShare as long as they throw him enough money is a bit much for me.
First time a tv commercial worked SUPER well on me was when I was a little kid and kept seeing ads for “floam” which I guess nowadays would be classified as a variety of slime, I dialed the number from the commercial (with no plan on how I would pay for it I guess I just wanted to see how far I could get) and I guess I got the number wrong because I somehow accidentally dialed 911, then panicked and hung up without saying anything so the cops came to our house
As time goes on, I become more and more convinced that marketing is the root of (most) misery. Imo, everything that isn't a 'search' advertisement should be illegal. People getting tricked out of all their money, getting tricked into obesity, GDP go brrr...
13:00 it is about availability and price for PC vs MAC the same way as it is for Android vs iPhone - as with Android you have competition within and iPhone is just a brand
I like Isto. They're a clothing brand with seemingly simple yet very complex advertisement. Their focus is on the quality of the product and their transparency regarding prices and manufacture. Their newsletters are a work of art, truly. It's amazing.
In the 1990s I was hungry and didn't know what to get. A Domino's commercial came on the T.V. and I exclaimed, "That's it!" I feel like a total tools for falling for it. /jk I'm open to advertising in some form when I'm already on the lookout for something or it just appeals to me by its nature and the ad makes it known somebody sells whatever it is.
Why not just make all companies register in special lists with ads they want and make them accessible to customers online, and put official ban on ads?
@@TovKafurone problem: what if you don't know something exists? You wouldn't look up a certain section. Like been back when electric home appliances became a thing, would you have looked it up if you already have the tools to cook, clean etc? I don't like ads being placed everywhere and i do like your idea but that one thing i brought up I'm not sure how to solve. Sure you can make it go by mouth but the current majority is probably biased to keeping the old tools so the few who want to try out new things might not hear about it
@@tomlxyz If you don't know that something exists and can't formulate it well enough to find it anyway, you don't really need it. A lot of consumerist capitalist economics (as opposed to pre-consumerism capitalism) is driven by persuading consumers to buy stuff they don't really need.
@@TovKafuri mean a tool that you could use but don't know of but that's new. I know where you're getting at but sometimes it's actually something useful. Like generally things that cause you to have to work less, like a washing machine instead of hand washing. Now my exact problem is how you'd objectively tell those apart, to inform about Innovation without advertising useless products
I would of loved to hear about the link with bullshit jobs and the goon archetype and how most advertising does not add any value to society otherwise great video as always
Small correction if this hasn't been pointed out already- The 'Bolton Newsletter' is actually the 'Boston Newsletter'. The old-timey S looks like an L!
It is interesting to look at what (and what does not) gets advertised. Despite eating carrots quite regularly, I do not recall ever seeing an advert for them. Cars on the other hand, I have seen lots of adverts for those. We don't really need them, they kill lots of people and make folk fat and grumpy as they sit stuck in smog inducing traffic. Anything that is actually important to people doesn't need advertising because people have ro go and find those things anyway. But if you are in the business of selling snake oil you bet you are going to have to advertise big time. The more I see a product adverised the more I think it's crap to be avoided. That is why all this adverising is useful.
Advertising in the modern world is just dick waving. Ads are about getting your product or idea in to the consumer market. However, it's so expensive that the only ones who can afford to are already successful and practically don't need advertising
I like that episode of upload where they took jabs at the ridiculousness of advertising and sponsorships, and were going to have pop up ads everywhere that you couldn't opt out of unless you paid a subscription. Like theyre already dead and youre still advertising to people 😅
Corporate advertising has less of an affect on me than the average person as what I buy that is not a need but a want is not sold by large corporations but people that make custom items that I ask them to make. Now that does not mean that corporate america does not profit off of me. ETSY, CrapMart, Amazon, Ebay, credit card companies and others make a great deal of money off of me as I buy stuff and or use their services quite often as they are easier to use than to avoid.
Either you pay an higher price for the product, or you suck it up and endure a company's advertisement. There is no other way around. The problem emerges when the seller of the product uses advertisement as a sort of "punishment" for not buying the premium version, like when Amazon decides to insert commercials in its contents and than raises the price for the no-advertisement subscription.
If you have a brand that you use to help identify yourself with then I would advise you get a life. Companies and brands dgaf about you so why gaf about them?
Was the ipod a success because of advertising? LOL. No. We had only one kid that had an iPod and it didn't take much of an effort to realize how much of a better product it was compared to any other mp3 player on the market.
You guys Remember that HBO show ROME? and the city herald who'd always advertise some merchant's grain after reading the morning news. I'm sure that really happened. ^_^
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I violently hate advertising. It's the embodiment of the greed that now rules our society.
I don't remember ever being convinced to buy something or interested in something by any sponsor or ad.
BUT I do feel weird buying stuff that I didn't see advertised before, I am infected and I despise it!
Only way get free stuff now
Greed works and it always has. Deal with it.
What annoys me most is that on the grand scheme of things about ads is that they don't make anything free or cheaper. Ads get placed because people buy things because of it. So society has to deal with ads while still paying. It's a loss
@@olbradleyGreed in this way is pretty modern. For most of human history communal structures were the usual. And if everyone knows everyone you can't be greedy or you'll get to feel the consequences of the community. Capitalists intentionally destroyed those structures, now many people live in single family homes, many of which don't talk to their neighbors. Now it's all about competition but it doesn't need to be. Being greedy harms the majority and they usually aren't
@@tomlxyz Nah, people have been pretty shit since the dawn of time.
Our post-industrial society just accelerated it.
I grew up in a TiVo household. My dad hated ads so much he paused the American Idol live results and make us sit in silence so he could fast forward thru the ads
LMFAOOOOOO
Many years ago (Pre Internet) an exec quoted to me "Marketing tells the masses they need it, Advertising tells the masses where to get it!"
Good advertising is either implicitly enjoyable (read: superbowl ads), or simply informs you that a thing that you might want exists, and then buggers off.
I don't need to have a 30 minute diatribe about a fucking vacuum, 3 minutes into my youtube video, thank you very much.
Extra ironically, this video was free to watch. Therefore I must be the product.
I think you got the message
or buy youtube premium and then it becomes the product, i guess…
Watching this the day after I noticed RUclips now makes me skip 2 commercials at a time.
it's weird.
if advertising is so manipulative, why is it barely regulated?
if advertising is so useful, why do the people who can afford to pay for "ad-free" have the option to turn ads off when they're the ones that would be most inclined to make a purchase?
advertising is now an extortion racket: secretly cause a problem, publicly provide the solution, charge capital for the solution.
Great video! Advertising is so awful these days. I hate it. It's at a point where if i see an ad on social media or a person pushing a product on their page, i instantly note to NOT buy that product 😂
I think the problem with that is that a lot of shitty product unintentionally get pushed by small influencers. Best example I knew was one brand selling "high-end japanese knife" that in reality was not any better than any knife bought at the store. The product was pushed by mainly youtubers that don't know anything about knives and the product would've received red flags by experts in the topic.
Major brands don't advertise through sponsorships by youtubers unless you're MrBeast, and the cheap & easy access to social media marketing means that it's also easy for a company with a sub-par product to just sell cheap stuff with a high margin and use a lot of the profit for marketing.
@@stevedwrd oh definitely! people need to pay the bills, but i hate when these companies say spend millions on advertising and still make an awful product, like maybe if you made a better product you could afford less on advertising 😂.
and then there's the whole raid shadow legends kinda stuff where it forces you to say and do certain things for a big payout to reel people into a game that's more or less a slot machine.
Me too. Unless I know the brand,I mistrust any RUclips ad as a scam.
I don't mind advertising in general, sometimes I've seen things that interest me which I never would have found randomly. It gets annoying when the same product is shown over and over again though... I wasn't interested in it the last dozen times, I'm not going to be interested now!
It's a strategy called hammering. Their hope is that you'll get worn down and relent eventually.
It's not a sophisticated strategy by any means.
Yeah I don't mind a little targeted advertising when I'm actively shopping for something. Like on Etsy, or Amazon most of my suggestions are herbal shops or jewelry. Recently on Facebook I get promoted pages for lingerie or jewelry. I dont necessarily like advertising while I'm using social media but at least those are things I have interest in. I may still not buy it, especially through FB cuz there's a lot of scam pages. What I don't want, is to open my period tracker app and it freezes cuz it's trying to load an ad.
As a guy who got stranded in the future once said
Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
I actively go out of my way to ignore all ads and if I do have to sit through one I make sure to write a list not to purchase said product.
that sounds extreme. for example, i've seen plenty of tourism ads saying "come visit France" and that's not gonna stop me from visiting France, and it seems sad if you let that stop you too. just about every place on earth you'd want to visit puts out ads.
@perfectallycromulent nah. If they make me sit through an ad best believe I will be boycotting an entire country
@@tryingmybest206 I have lived in Chicago, New York, and Boston, all places that advertise themselves around the world. why wouldn't i want to live in places that other people seek out for vacations? you are really condemning yourself. every single state in the USA has a tourism department slinging ads, and every country in europe, east asia, it's utterly commonplace and has been for years.
The "Pre-order" phase of video games has been the worst sometimes.
This video has a weirdly low number of views (and comments for that matter). I guess the algorithm didn't like the explanation on how it worked 😂
I suspect the same. It's amazing how few videos exist on this topic. If you do a search on the internet, all there is is material around how to improve your ads, how to reach out to buyers etc. But only a tiny amount of the information is questioning the very existence of adverting. How can that be?
Word of mouth advertising is what gets me to do or buy things. My friends mention something interesting and we continue from there.
I don't know, the irony of the video being voiced by the guy who will advertise anything in his videos no matter how sleezy *cough* Established Titles *sneeze* SkillShare as long as they throw him enough money is a bit much for me.
he also just started it off with an obvious lie/false statement you can find plenty of baseball advertising much older than Chomsky
First time a tv commercial worked SUPER well on me was when I was a little kid and kept seeing ads for “floam” which I guess nowadays would be classified as a variety of slime, I dialed the number from the commercial (with no plan on how I would pay for it I guess I just wanted to see how far I could get) and I guess I got the number wrong because I somehow accidentally dialed 911, then panicked and hung up without saying anything so the cops came to our house
LMFAOOOOOO
I lost track of how many ads played during this video after 5.
So probably 6 or 7 lol
As time goes on, I become more and more convinced that marketing is the root of (most) misery. Imo, everything that isn't a 'search' advertisement should be illegal. People getting tricked out of all their money, getting tricked into obesity, GDP go brrr...
"The Bofton Newsletter" 🤣🤣🤣 I forgot how unstandardized spelling used to be, ppl used 's' and 'f' interchangeably for a long time in the US.
Funny how you started the video with a skillshare advert
13:00 it is about availability and price for PC vs MAC the same way as it is for Android vs iPhone - as with Android you have competition within and iPhone is just a brand
So I shouldn't use an Ad Blocker OR Fast Forward thru sponsors? D'OH!
I like Isto. They're a clothing brand with seemingly simple yet very complex advertisement. Their focus is on the quality of the product and their transparency regarding prices and manufacture. Their newsletters are a work of art, truly. It's amazing.
Look at me. I am the ad now
In the 1990s I was hungry and didn't know what to get. A Domino's commercial came on the T.V. and I exclaimed, "That's it!"
I feel like a total tools for falling for it. /jk
I'm open to advertising in some form when I'm already on the lookout for something or it just appeals to me by its nature and the ad makes it known somebody sells whatever it is.
Why not just make all companies register in special lists with ads they want and make them accessible to customers online, and put official ban on ads?
Afaik advertising mostly started off that way. "Here, I am X and I do sell product Y"
@@TovKafurone problem: what if you don't know something exists? You wouldn't look up a certain section. Like been back when electric home appliances became a thing, would you have looked it up if you already have the tools to cook, clean etc?
I don't like ads being placed everywhere and i do like your idea but that one thing i brought up I'm not sure how to solve. Sure you can make it go by mouth but the current majority is probably biased to keeping the old tools so the few who want to try out new things might not hear about it
@@tomlxyz If you don't know that something exists and can't formulate it well enough to find it anyway, you don't really need it. A lot of consumerist capitalist economics (as opposed to pre-consumerism capitalism) is driven by persuading consumers to buy stuff they don't really need.
@@TovKafuri mean a tool that you could use but don't know of but that's new. I know where you're getting at but sometimes it's actually something useful. Like generally things that cause you to have to work less, like a washing machine instead of hand washing.
Now my exact problem is how you'd objectively tell those apart, to inform about Innovation without advertising useless products
I’ve learned to tune out adverts, or close the video, app, tab, or whatever is playing an unskippable ad
Talks about advertising then has an ad from skill share....
Oh the irony of having a paid advertisement on this ep.
I would of loved to hear about the link with bullshit jobs and the goon archetype and how most advertising does not add any value to society otherwise great video as always
"infected" is a good word for it 🤔
Advertising has become an entity of its own, existing for its own purpose. And it's a vicious circle.
Outside of movie or video game trailers I am rarely ever convinced to buy something from a commercial.
5:15, there's a TV in that medieval room.
Good eye 😂😂 AI aint so smart after all
Imagine dreams with ads in them
2:37 That's the Boston Newsletter, not the Bolton newsletter, they're just using an old timey S.
I feel zero shame for always running with an adblocker. Can't scroll ten seconds without one and not have as many ads shoved in your face.
I found this video from it being advertized at the end of HMW's 10,000 ads video.
Small correction if this hasn't been pointed out already- The 'Bolton Newsletter' is actually the 'Boston Newsletter'. The old-timey S looks like an L!
The “lost property” bit was dark
No adverts... YT premium FTW.
same here, but have you heard about skillshare?
@@domchiq Or Brilliant. Or Raid Shadow Legends.
No adverts... ad blocker for the win! Until RUclips catches up to me.
@@stevojohnI still don't understand how you get away with threatening someone's foot shadows like that
@@domchiq Or Nebula?
I DO NOT want to see a commercial everywhere I go for the rest of LIFE!!!! I don’t wanna buy your shit! I just wanna start my car….🤬
MAD MEN
2077 Night City sky scape be like:
You would not believe your eyes
If ten million fireflies
Dropped advertisements from the sky
It's BOSTON, not Bolton, silly! In those days the S looked like an F or L.
12:39 I use Arch btw
8:06 What's the pun?
"Bolton News Letter" lmao
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To the people who read the comments - go listen to Jim your ad attacker from the attack ads! Podcast.
It is interesting to look at what (and what does not) gets advertised. Despite eating carrots quite regularly, I do not recall ever seeing an advert for them. Cars on the other hand, I have seen lots of adverts for those. We don't really need them, they kill lots of people and make folk fat and grumpy as they sit stuck in smog inducing traffic. Anything that is actually important to people doesn't need advertising because people have ro go and find those things anyway. But if you are in the business of selling snake oil you bet you are going to have to advertise big time. The more I see a product adverised the more I think it's crap to be avoided. That is why all this adverising is useful.
I got 9 ads while watching your video 😢
So U still think Barbenheimer was a coincidence?! Haha
Advertising in the modern world is just dick waving. Ads are about getting your product or idea in to the consumer market. However, it's so expensive that the only ones who can afford to are already successful and practically don't need advertising
The next step of advertising, spreading straight up malware, scams and soft porn. I'm looking at you, Google/RUclips/Facebook.
I like that episode of upload where they took jabs at the ridiculousness of advertising and sponsorships, and were going to have pop up ads everywhere that you couldn't opt out of unless you paid a subscription. Like theyre already dead and youre still advertising to people 😅
2:38 that's Boston, not Bolton.
Corporate advertising has less of an affect on me than the average person as what I buy that is not a need but a want is not sold by large corporations but people that make custom items that I ask them to make. Now that does not mean that corporate america does not profit off of me. ETSY, CrapMart, Amazon, Ebay, credit card companies and others make a great deal of money off of me as I buy stuff and or use their services quite often as they are easier to use than to avoid.
(14:43) I guess they like Maria Munoz's First look.
Boston* Not Bolton. It's a long "S"
Thanks from 2024 Australia.
Nah I like windows/android better because I don't wanna learn something new (and I like widgets)
Either you pay an higher price for the product, or you suck it up and endure a company's advertisement. There is no other way around.
The problem emerges when the seller of the product uses advertisement as a sort of "punishment" for not buying the premium version, like when Amazon decides to insert commercials in its contents and than raises the price for the no-advertisement subscription.
Well I like PC because I like games so there is that 😛
Bees knees 😂
13:36 brave new world 😢😢 !!!
i hate it here
I love you
Did you edge to this though?
My guy here finally asking the real questions
Edge lord just got a whole new meaning.@@youtubesucks8024
Pompeii in Arabia...????😂
Nice
If you have a brand that you use to help identify yourself with then I would advise you get a life. Companies and brands dgaf about you so why gaf about them?
Was the ipod a success because of advertising?
LOL. No.
We had only one kid that had an iPod and it didn't take much of an effort to realize how much of a better product it was compared to any other mp3 player on the market.
12:00... Selling ideas
16:20 instagram is fun for cosplay XD
Advertising now politics as lobbyists law allowed red tape made U.S.A
this is a sponsored video, good lord how pathetic
You guys Remember that HBO show ROME? and the city herald who'd always advertise some merchant's grain after reading the morning news. I'm sure that really happened. ^_^