Poll: Ads - do they affect you?

[Soods]

Ads are everywhere: in television, magazines, internets, by the road, works of art etc.
But how well are they affecting you? Have you noticed yourself buying things you see in ads or is anti-commercialism a matter of honour to you?

I, myself, mostly just ignore the ad banners in the sides and instantly close all pop ups like a pro. But in the few cases where the ad forces me to watch it (like before some videos) I tend to channel all my frustration towards the flashing product in front of me and vow to never buy anything even remotely related to that product. To me they seem almost anti-productive. It's like saying "Because of this product, you have to wait 30 seconds before watching this video clip."

EDIT:
Looks like half of my poll was transferred to another dimension and I can't edit it for some reason. Here are the options
1. "Yes if it's in telly, it gets in trolley."
2. "Sometimes the ads manage to make me buy something."
3. "Maybe if it's a really good deal."
4. "Not really, I don't really pay attention to ads."
5. "No, never! My trained ninja-mind finishes whatever gets past adblock."
6. "Is this some kind of ad?"

 

[tippy2k2]

Define "affect". Most ads roll right off like water but there are a few types of ads that catch me:

1. Funny ads
2. Terribly terrible ads

Generally, the funnier your ad is, the more attention I will pay to your product. It doesn't get me to buy anything but I will give it a bit more attention than other products and there is a chance that I will partake. The only ads that actually make me buy something are things like movie trailers (which are technically ads but not really) or ads for sales. I check the Sunday ads each week to see if there is something shiny that I want for less money!

HOWEVER, there have been products who had ads that pissed me off so much that I swore the product away. Dead Space 2 and their "Your mom is going to hate this game" ad caused me to drop the series entirely until Vault convinced me to give the game another chance (which I still haven't but I promise I might one day...)

 

[DoPo]

No, not at all. Ads have never affected my decisions, excuse me *taking a bite from a bar of Snickers* - I never pay attention to them, at all. *thoughtful stare at the Sony television set while trying to word the post properly.* *Looking back at the LG monitor and typing on the Logitech keyboard* I honestly think that people who *reaching for some Doritos. Wiping the hand in the Calvin Klein shirt before resuming* follow ads are fucking idiots. We should seriously just euthanase them - it would jump the average IQ by 50 or so.

*received a text, pausing for a minute to text back using an iPhone*

Ads only fool total suckers, and I'm better than any one of them. Why, just yesterday *reaching for some more Doritos, washing them down with Montain Dew* me and a friend were hungry but couldn't be arsed to go to McDonalds or KFC, so we went to the store to grab something to bite - they had like a deal, where you get a sandwich plus either a Coke or a Pepsi for a lower price than the two individually. All the sheeple probably went with Coke because of those obnoxious ads and it's Christmas and stuff, so there is lots of red around but I just laughed and got a Pepsi.

*grabbing some more Doritos and downing the remaining Montain Dew*

 

[aba1]

Everyone thinks they are immune but as someone who designs them I will just say that nobody truly is. The second you notice a ad it has worked on you just because of the fact that you aware of it. Ads don't have to make you buy anything it is all about consumer awareness.

Hell the second you recognize a brand that means they have used effective advertising on you and I have a hard time believing anybody here can't name a single brand in order to truly say that portion of advertising doesn't work on you (that isn't even all of advertising just the branding portion).

 

[ohnoitsabear]

Everyone thinks they are immune but as someone who designs them I will just say that nobody truly is. The second you notice a ad it has worked on you just because of the fact that you aware of it. Ads don't have to make you buy anything it is all about consumer awareness.

Hell the second you recognize a brand that means they have used effective advertising on you and I have a hard time believing anybody here can't name a single brand in order to truly say that portion of advertising doesn't work on you (that isn't even all of advertising just the branding portion).

Yup. An ad doesn't have to make everybody by a product right now in order to be effective. Most ads influence you in much more subtle and hard to notice ways. Really, it's almost impossible to pin down exactly how much ads affect anybody.

That said, if there's an ad that really pisses me off by being extremely annoying, inaccurate, overplayed, and/or stupid, I will deliberately go out of my way to avoid using that product.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I once wound up getting a guitar amp I probably wouldn't have even looked at if it wasn't for a print ad. However, the only thing the ad did was let me know the brand existed. I wound up comparing it to the other amps in the store, found out I greatly preferred it to the other amps in the same price range, and walked out with it. If anyone's interested, it's a Raven RG-60, sweet little combo amp if you're on a budget. Especially since the main competition is stuff like Line 6's Spyder line, which sounds absolutely nasty yet costs more. Other competitors include Marshall's MG line and the Peavey Bandit (the latter of which is the only amp I've listed so far I'd even want to compare to the Raven.)

Note that these are all solid state, because the price range pretty much precludes a tube amp of a similar wattage.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Everyone thinks they are immune but as someone who designs them I will just say that nobody truly is.

Exactly. It's a massive industry for a reason, no matter how any individual is going to claim it doesn't affect them.

 

[Cheesus Crust]

Everyone thinks they are immune but as someone who designs them I will just say that nobody truly is. The second you notice a ad it has worked on you just because of the fact that you aware of it. Ads don't have to make you buy anything it is all about consumer awareness.

Hell the second you recognize a brand that means they have used effective advertising on you and I have a hard time believing anybody here can't name a single brand in order to truly say that portion of advertising doesn't work on you (that isn't even all of advertising just the branding portion).

Yup. An ad doesn't have to make everybody by a product right now in order to be effective. Most ads influence you in much more subtle and hard to notice ways. Really, it's almost impossible to pin down exactly how much ads affect anybody.

That said, if there's an ad that really pisses me off by being extremely annoying, inaccurate, overplayed, and/or stupid, I will deliberately go out of my way to avoid using that product.

Well I'm a psych major and we've talked about the efficacy of ads before. Nothing short of inattentional blindness (also known as perceptual blindness) can render an ad useless. Even if you consciously try to block it out, if you so much as see or hear an ad, you are going to think about it on some level.

It's like Greg Tito once said in the podcast (or was it Justin? Their voices confuse me) "The way my brain works, if I hear someone talking, I have to listen." Although, I do have to mention that it also depends on how well the ad reaches out to people that also matters.

I for one can't avoid them on the internet, damn you strategically placed ads!

As to whether or not they actually convince me to buy something off the net? No, simply because I can't afford it and even if I could having it shipped here would be too much of a pain in the ass. Laziness trumps any sort of ad.

 

[DoPo]

That said, if there's an ad that really pisses me off by being extremely annoying, inaccurate, overplayed, and/or stupid, I will deliberately go out of my way to avoid using that product.

Good job! So now instead of product X you're getting product Y which relied on being the competition of X by virtue of appealing to the X haters. Don't like Coca-Cola, well, here is some Pepsi - same thing (pretty much) and it's usually seen as the alternative - can't buy one, get the other.

 

[ohnoitsabear]

That said, if there's an ad that really pisses me off by being extremely annoying, inaccurate, overplayed, and/or stupid, I will deliberately go out of my way to avoid using that product.

Good job! So now instead of product X you're getting product Y which relied on being the competition of X by virtue of appealing to the X haters. Don't like Coca-Cola, well, here is some Pepsi - same thing (pretty much) and it's usually seen as the alternative - can't buy one, get the other.

Pretty much. It lets me enjoy virtually the same products and feel like a smug asshole about it. It's a win-win!

 

[Platypus540]

The only ads that will convince me to buy something are Steam sale ads.

 

[Beffudled Sheep_v1legacy]

Only advertising that works on me is word of mouth from close friends or people I see as being trustworthy or if the product is from a company I previously purchased something from and liked it.

And I usually buy things like electronics randomly and I usually get my first video games ina series as a gift or random buy from the store.

Tv ads I ignore, internet ads I try to ignore, etc etc.

 

[Matthew Kjonaas]

NO because I usaully don't understand how the ad is relate what they are trying to sell. ( buy this because it is classy or cool ) If I do understand how it is related I may just not care or I have already mad e up my mind about it before hand.

 

[White Lightning]

Depends on where I am seeing it and what it is. If it's a Youtube ad I automatically hate the product with a fury that would impress Khorne himself.

If it's on TV I usually don't care as much because it's TV ads I'm used to them but youtube ads piss me off, especially when I am listening to music and am in another window only to have my tuneage interrupted by something gay.

 

[TK421]

Ads make me want to never buy the product that they are advertising. If I see a particularly intrusive or annoying ad, I will not buy that product, and if its a necessity (food/toiletries/etc.), I will deliberately buy a different brand, even if its more expensive.

 

[theultimateend]

Everyone thinks they are immune but as someone who designs them I will just say that nobody truly is.

Exactly. It's a massive industry for a reason, no matter how any individual is going to claim it doesn't affect them.

Eh...

The Korean F2P market is massive, but most of them have no idea what they are doing.

I imagine the same is true for marketing.

 

[CommanderL]

If an add can make me smile or laugh I will show interest in your product But if I see your add's heaps I will go out of my way to not buy your product

 

[aba1]

Everyone thinks they are immune but as someone who designs them I will just say that nobody truly is.

Exactly. It's a massive industry for a reason, no matter how any individual is going to claim it doesn't affect them.

Eh...

The Korean F2P market is massive, but most of them have no idea what they are doing.

I imagine the same is true for marketing.

You do realize that advertising spans several fields all them requiring a college graduate level of studying to understand properly right?

 

[Cat Cloud]

Maybe it's just me, but when I read the title, I thought you miss-spelled aids.

OT:
Generally ads are easy to ignore and get past, but I feel like they keep getting more and more intrusive. You can hardly even watch a video now without seeing an ad...

 

[Stasisesque]

Man, I love adverts. Some of them have better stories than some films. Take, for instance, the recent John Lewis adverts (UK) - they're bloody brilliant. Touching, clever, excellent soundtracks and beautifully shot. They've never convinced me to shop at John Lewis, I can't afford to shop there, but the adverts themselves are works of art.

As for ads that do work on me - almost every clothing advert will work on me. The best way to advertise clothes is to show me people wearing those clothes. This leads to me wanting to buy those clothes.

Perfume and car adverts are notoriously complicated. I've seen perfume adverts that have looked like they're trying to sell a car, and vice versa. I realise that perfume is impossible to advertise well, due to its very nature. But I always expect car adverts to be a little more technical and a little less surreal. They never are.

Adverts for food don't really work, but cooking shows do - which I suppose is a form of advertising.

In short, adverts definitely do work on me.