There’s a lot of problems with advertising on Google, YouTube, Instagram etc.

And it Incentivises these big tech companies to collect all your data and spy on you etc.

But where should advertisers advertise?

Let’s say everyone switches to Paid for Search, Paid for Email, stops using social media etc.

Where would advertising swith to?

If someone starts a small business from home selling pillows, how do they reach customers?

  • bizarroland@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    Rather than following you around, they should go to where the entertainment is and advertise there.

    I have no problem seeing an advertisement for something I’m interested in when I’m looking at something I’m interested in that is also directly connected to that thing.

    For the most part, I only marginally skip past sponsored stuff on YouTube, for instance.

    Or when a tech reviewer is reviewing a piece of tech that I might be interested in buying, that’s excellent marketing.

    But if I’m talking to my friends and they tell me about a cool widget that they like and then I go home and I turn on my computer and in a completely different environment, an advertisement for that widget pops up while I’m looking for something completely different, then I get really, really upset and it guarantees that I will never purchase that widget.