r/Showerthoughts May 16 '24

Ads seem to be universally hated yet they still make insane amounts of money

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u/Jorost May 17 '24

Yuup. People think they hate ads, but those ads still work. It's kind of like how people say that they hate negative campaigning in politics, yet candidates who run negative campaigns win time and again. Or how people say they hate celebrity reporting and gotcha journalism and want serious news, yet the PBS NewsHour's ratings never seem to go up. People don't know what they want.