What's life like in advertising these days? When I was a child you could buy a commercial during the Saturday morning cartoons to sell your toy (or buy the whole cartoon) and you could put your car commercial on during the Evening News.
And you'd reach most of your "demographic."
But now? a maze of influencers and fragmented media (I don't think influencers really matter much, they are just the most familiar item in the new landscape for advertisers.)
@futurebird I listen to a lot of podcasts and, in the last two years specifically, the number of minutes spent advertising has at least doubled. I think there is a correlation with the 'end' of the pandemic, big companies sort of realized that there are no "everybody watches" platforms any more and seem to be scrambling.
I even get new ads when I relisten to old episodes of podcasts, so they are up cycling ads everytime!
I still think nothing that needs advertising is worth buying.
@Urban_Hermit @futurebird The good thing about podcast ads is you can fast forward them.
I don't use podcast apps. If there's no obvious download button, open developer tools, hit play button, grab the mp3 link and save. Almost always works.
If a news website puts up a paywall or subscription wall, refresh, CTRL A, CTRL C, flip to word processor, and paste. Surprisingly, most of them send the whole article and then block your ability to see it. This gets around that.
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