sponsor rule

Girl, you should always be using an adsblocker of some sorts!

Advertising is allllll subconscious. It’s not relying on your conscious choice and reasoning.

You will forget that you saw the advertisement. Then when you go to the store and are deciding between two brands, the idea is that you will pick the brand with which you have greater familiarity with (the one you’ve seen more adverts of), since your brain interprets familiarity with trustworthiness. All of this is done subconsciously without you even noticing.

Advertising isn’t a billion dollar per year industry for no reason. The reason being, that it works.

If you piss me off on a regular basis by interrupting what I'm doing with your spam, at least make it entertaining in some way.
Don't force some scripted talking points on every content creator, give them free reign to provide their opinion about your product.

I would be 100x more interested in your product if I saw an objective review from somebody who I knew was being honest.

But if they only pay people to say good things about their product, I see that as the company admitting that their product is shit, because they're too scared to allow anyone to say it is.

This comic brought to you by Raid: Shadow Legends.

To this day, I will never ever ever touch any Mazda products. All thanks to their dumb fucking zoom zoom advertising campaign about 20 years ago that involved their adverts playing twice during every ad break. Plus they were sponsoring shit, so it was everywhere. I feel like I still have PTSD from it. Fuck Mazda.

This is partly why I don't trust Ground News. They're putting way too much money into advertising for me to believe they're genuinely interested in providing an unbiased factual categorization of news sources.

I also simply don't believe it's possible to be unbiased, so anyone claiming to be is immediately suspect to me.

Smart thinking.

Magic spoon got me. I was looking for a protein cereal so I was excited for a podcast I listen to advertise one. All the flavors are the same gross base that cut up your mouth with different artificial powders put on top. Of course I start seeing a bunch ads more after

This was exactly how I felt about the Honey scam. xD
Very first thought was "how the fuck are they making money enough to advertise??"

If they have the budget to mass advertise then that means they're earning probably 100x that, most likely directly from users.

Huh, this company is spending a lot of money on marketing. Guess I'll buy from a company doing less marketing so I'll get it cheaper.

This is the rule I live by when being forced fed ads. I will actively go out of my way to not use whatever product it is.

I was blindsided by the monitor getting thought bubbles.

SponsorBlock FTW!

Nothing feels worse than seeing ads for shit you've already got, too. That's when you know you've fucked up

Only advertised product I've ever spent money on is NordVPN which is fine for my use case - avoiding geoblocking a couple of times a week. Probably switching to Mullvad soon though, because American companies can eat dirt.

But yeah, honey was always super sus. If something seems "too good to be true", maybe it is.

I have a rule if they sponsor on multiple youtubers they are probably a scam and avoid. If i find the service interesting i search up alternatives that spend their money better

I have noticed every YouTube sponsor, with no exception so far, is 1. A scam. 2. Overpriced.

fuckin looking at YOU, OPERA GX.

RAID SHADOW LE- JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP, BRAND!

hmm enough profits to sponser all youtube. sus

This, but applied to all ads.

This is how I felt when Bambulab started giving all creators printers.

I feel this way about Aura. They'll stop other companies from using your personal data but do they ever say they won't use it?

Me with Sponsorblock: gremlin noises

I assume if companies have a positive ROI for ads/sponsorships, they have very high profits (i.e. they're ripping people off).

It's a great general policy to have, but there are exceptions. NordVPN and ExpressVPN are both great VPN services, and Nebula has been absolutely fantastic.

VPN is a scam~ 🥰🥰🥰

This was me watching the Hims ad during the Superbowl lol.

That's how advertising works…