Different people have different susceptibility to advertising, but it is safe to say that if advertising didn't work, it wouldn't be such a giant industry today. Despite all of the advanced technology coming out of Google, what gives the company virtually all of its value? Advertisements.
There's really no getting around it in this case -- either advertising Just Works as claimed, or the advertising industry has been fooling everyone who is giving them billions and billions of dollars per year into believing it works for the past 50+ years, which they would have to be doing using the principles of advertising... so it still works.
There's really no getting around it in this case -- either advertising Just Works as claimed, or the advertising industry has been fooling everyone who is giving them billions and billions of dollars per year into believing it works for the past 50+ years, which they would have to be doing using the principles of advertising... so it still works.