Instagram is like a magazine if the magazine was just ads and the ads were written all by the staff writers who you trust.
Yeah imagine a real magazine that would do...hey wait a minute
Instagram Has Become SkyMall
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#22I want to buy every single thing I see here. I've been really happy with the kind of ads I've been seeing lately. Instead of generic commercials I'm getting very specific products solving problems I have but didn't realize could be solved by a gadget.
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#23The app itself can quickly turn into a never-ending scroll of infomercials from ads and accounts if you go beyond your social circle. Even if said accounts are not directly selling a product through the store feature, it's often advertising a desirable lifestyle not your own and general consumerism. How many photos are staged versus candid? This type of content-as-ad imagery is what the app lends itself best to versu…
Some of the brightest minds and smartest people go to work for companies which spend every minute of their existence to figure out how to place an ad in front of our eyes for 1 more second.
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#24I want to buy every single thing I see here. I've been really happy with the kind of ads I've been seeing lately. Instead of generic commercials I'm getting very specific products solving problems I have but didn't realize could be solved by a gadget.
I turned off my adblocker for Facebook as the ads started being far more relevant to me.
Lots of interesting games or hackathons or nifty tools.
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#25Instagram is like a magazine if the magazine was just ads and the ads were written all by the staff writers who you trust.
All of this reminds me of the scene in Fight Club where they animate the magazine ad as the apartment.
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#26Is there anyone else out there who refuses to buy something if they first learned about it from an ad?
Absolutely. If I see an ad for something I make a mental note to search for competitors before buying that brand, assuming I need the product. If a company is spending money on ads, that’s money they’re not spending on R&D or cutting prices, and it also means their product is too weak to get traction organically.
> If a company is spending money on ads, that’s money they’re not spending on R&D or cutting prices, and it also means their product is too weak to get traction organically.
Or they just want to make even more money than they could make organically, which they can then put into R&D or into cutting pricces (through economies of scale).
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#27I want to buy every single thing I see here. I've been really happy with the kind of ads I've been seeing lately. Instead of generic commercials I'm getting very specific products solving problems I have but didn't realize could be solved by a gadget.
This reads like a subliminal message from John Carpenter’s “They Live”. I hope it’s sarcasm :)
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#28OK, the colored acrylic cube looks like a fun desk toy. But not at $23.
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#29I want to buy every single thing I see here. I've been really happy with the kind of ads I've been seeing lately. Instead of generic commercials I'm getting very specific products solving problems I have but didn't realize could be solved by a gadget.
This reads like a subliminal message from John Carpenter’s “They Live”. I hope it’s sarcasm :)
If you can't beat them, join them? I for one, welcome our benevolent advertising overloards. /s
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#30I would just like to take this opportunity to post these screenshots I took over the past 2 days:
I am surprised by just how many ads for drugs I get.
They know their audience.
But still. Lots of ads for testosterone, growth hormone, and now ketamine.