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The other commenter is correct. This is common knowledge in the advertising industry. It doesn't matter if you think the ad was good. To a certain extent, it doesn't even matter if the ad pisses you off and makes you hate the company. If the ad gets your attention and is memorable, it is a win.
For example, what phone number do you call if "it's your money and you need it now"?
People already know where to buy shoes. Or hamburgers. Or office supplies. They have opinions. Brand loyalty. So how is advertising supposed to make a difference? It makes a difference when you have a fuck it moment. You are stressed and time crunched and confused enough, and you say "fuck it, where can I buy a fucking suit?!?" And then you remember that Men's Warehouse sells suits and go there. That smooth gentleman who says "you're gonna love the way you look, I guarantee it" has now succeeded because you successfully remembered that Men's Warehouse exists and sells suits and that is the only thing that matters once you've said fuck it. And once you walk in the door, assuming they don't fuck up royally, you will probably return to them for all your suit buying needs for the rest of your life until some other outside force acts upon you.
And there's me actively avoiding any company that markets too much and every company that pisses me off with forced marketing.
Sure, but you are significantly outside the norm.
Maybe statistically even a bad ad skews the population on average? I wouldn't say the examples you've provided would work on me, or anyone conscious of advertising in general. Unless that can be proven in some way, I refuse to believe that the excuses advertisers tell to justify their existence are true.
The only advertising that I know for sure works on me is SEO and search result manipulation. If I need a suit, I'll search for places and usually will end up with whatever's closest or in my price range. The power Google has over that decision is significant.
But let's be real, seeing and making fun of some awkward store window decals on lemmy is not a significant deciding factor for anything.
Basically this. If you are consciously aware of advertising, you are already largely outside the advertiser's demo. You could also avoid SEO manipulation by, say, using a different search engine or always getting your recommendations from friends or something like that. But you don't do that, because you don't care that much. This is how most people feel about all advertising. They put no mental energy into selecting or avoiding companies based on their ads, because they don't care.