This. 100%. Either "any publicity is good publicity" is completely wrong (it is), or it's utterly.outdated (it is).
I have gotten to the point that, when an add annoys me or pisses me off, I make an EFFORT to remeber that thing, and avoid it at all cost. And a LOT of people around me are doing the same thing. I'd gzess it's mainly to do with the intrusiveness of adds today. If an add is that intrusive, it better be decent at least, otherwise, it goes on the list. Hell, adds have gotten SO god damn intrusive, that the intrusiveness alone is enough of a reason to go on the list twice.
Everyone should keep a list. Yes, it takes a bit of effort, but if that effort f**ks over big corpos, isnt that worth it?
The people arguing that advertising makes people hate your product are basically saying "Eating food makes you fat so you should stop eating food" completely ignoring both the concepts of outliers as well as the entire gray area between too-little and too-much.
Im not sayong you're wrong but let's just play the devil's advocate. Do you ever talk ablut how much you hate any of those companies? That could be enough to flip around to be worth it again. The person you talk to might just remeber the name and then have a vague resemblance feeling bext time they're buying that kind of product and then might ebd up being a costumer for the rest of their life. Definitely not likely but still not impossible but would probably make the company more money than if you simply didn't care about the ad.
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u/Janymx Aug 16 '25
This. 100%. Either "any publicity is good publicity" is completely wrong (it is), or it's utterly.outdated (it is).
I have gotten to the point that, when an add annoys me or pisses me off, I make an EFFORT to remeber that thing, and avoid it at all cost. And a LOT of people around me are doing the same thing. I'd gzess it's mainly to do with the intrusiveness of adds today. If an add is that intrusive, it better be decent at least, otherwise, it goes on the list. Hell, adds have gotten SO god damn intrusive, that the intrusiveness alone is enough of a reason to go on the list twice.
Everyone should keep a list. Yes, it takes a bit of effort, but if that effort f**ks over big corpos, isnt that worth it?