Trucken said:
Completely off-topic, I apologize, but how do you pay for internet in USA? I mean, here in Sweden you pay for your bandwidth but not your data. I have a 100/20 broadband and pay a quarterly fee for it, but I can download and upload without limit. Do you have another system over there, I'm confused.
OT: Internet ads have worked for me sometimes and doesn't really bother me, although I'm pissed at the NFL at the moment for playing their ad for Gamepass every damn time I use their site. Especially since I already HAVE Gamepass, I won't buy a second account you dolts.
Many countries have internet plans based around download limits. Especially ones where there is little way to distinguish services by speed. (because the connections everywhere are bad, and probably all about the same in a way the provider can't control)
What you end up paying is a plan with a certain monthly download allowance (sometimes uploads count too, sometimes they don't). This could be 20 gigabytes, 100, 200, 500...
If you're particularly unlucky, when you run out, they charge you a fee
per gigabyte! (which is usually quite painful because it's hard to check how close to the limit you are.)- (if you're lucky your connection just becomes unbearably slow instead...)
- These plans were also very, very common pretty much everywhere in the days that dial-up modems were still in use. (but dial-up was so slow it was usually quite hard to hit your download limits unless you had some really silly thing like a 20 megabyte a month plan...)
Now, personally, that kind of plan annoys me so much I avoid it like the plague, but it can be difficult to get around.
The country I live in does have some ISP's with unlimited plans, but there's only about 2 or 3, while most providers don't do 'unlimited data'... And I personally don't care if the limit is 20 gigabytes or 2000, the mere fact that there is a limit, is very stressful, so that's why I go out of my way to avoid it.
On topic, internet ads are annoying. Especially video ones that play without warning, or ones so full of bugs they crash your browser.
On the other hand, nobody pays attention to TV ads either, so in that regard the OP's argument is a little strange. Most people I know mute the TV during ad breaks, and even go off and do something like go to the toilet, or get something from the kitchen. (or talk) while the ads are on.
Few people intentionally watch or look at ads no matter how they are presented...
But advertising Does still work.
And it covers one very basic question I have some personal (albeit limited) experience with... It makes people aware you exist.
I have a youtube channel... But, it doesn't matter how good (or bad) my videos are, few people look at it.
Why? Because few people even know it exists.
The only way I've been able to get anyone to watch anything I've made is effectively by using a form of improvised advertising. That's not because I'm trying to shove it down their throats, but simply because nobody will ever find it unless they come across something by accident that tells them it exists.
(Getting them to come back and watch more is a different matter, because that actually requires good content - But the quality of the content doesn't matter if nobody even knows you exist...)
