Other than the fact you are calling the wrong person an "op" I think this statement says a lot about you:
> the reality is that if advertising didn't work people wouldn't pay for it
People don't pay for advertising. Instead, corporate assholes who do advertising spend money on search for models which make enough to cover the costs of finding ways to get people to repeat the pattern of "re-seeing" or "re-hearing" a brand or message in mind. This is the non-corporate being that does this: the corporation or government.
The public's predisposed nature to keep your marketing crap out of their minds isn't a good excuse to do it, either. Even if it makes money and they allow it without knowing the cost.
Individuals don't pay for advertising, when individuals are group like in a corporation, business, charity, government they become people, I have done advertising for all the above and sole traders.
> the reality is that if advertising didn't work people wouldn't pay for it
People don't pay for advertising. Instead, corporate assholes who do advertising spend money on search for models which make enough to cover the costs of finding ways to get people to repeat the pattern of "re-seeing" or "re-hearing" a brand or message in mind. This is the non-corporate being that does this: the corporation or government.
The public's predisposed nature to keep your marketing crap out of their minds isn't a good excuse to do it, either. Even if it makes money and they allow it without knowing the cost.