Thing is, for every "good" marketer out there, there's another five hundred "not quite as good, but half the price". Not to mention the "not really good at all, but damn, they can shovel out the ads!" marketers. Now. you're a small company with a limited ad budget. Who are you going to choose? The well-crafted, one shot TV ad that will either bring in a trickle of new revenue and otherwise break the bank for the year, or the company that can guarantee they can put your name in front of millions for less than half the price?
to put it another way, I see the internet as a big pool (if you consider bandwidth as pool water). We all share the pool together. Everything done affects the others in the pool. I think that people who pee in the pool should be kicked out. Others might say "what about if they pee just a little bit. Is that okay?". No. There is no amount of pee in the pool that is okay.
Today, advertisers aren't just peeing in the pool, they're projectile vomiting everywhere. Diarrhea fountains with flashing lights and screaming "look at me". They're doing everything they can to push their message across. Hijacking browsers, circumnavigating ad blockers, forcing people to disable blockers to view content. Advertisers and marketers are doing everything in their power to stop people from doing anything other than to view their content.
While I appreciate your viewpoint, I feel that it's fundamentally flawed. I remember an internet when there was no ads. It was nice.
Fundamentally flawed viewpoint? What viewpoint? I mainly stated that the statement that advertisers and marketers should kill themselves is something I don't agree with because not all marketers are the same. That is not supposed to be a viewpoint...
I can understand your frustration and I myself use ad blocking software as well because I got sick of all the intrusive ads, and yes, the internet is definitely been the pool a lot of marketeers peed in or worse. But if some people pee in the pool, that doesn't mean that everyone who is swimming in it is contributing to that. That is what I'm trying to say. Honestly, I think that a comment that people should kill themselves is absolutely inappropriate, no matter whether you fully mean it or not.
My apologies! Looks like I got the message wrong. You thought that convincing marketers to kill themselves was inappropriate- not everything else. Glad that's been sorted.
But anyway yes, Bill Hicks was right. They should kill themselves. Quietly, if possible.
Thing is, for every "good" marketer out there, there's another five hundred "not quite as good, but half the price". Not to mention the "not really good at all, but damn, they can shovel out the ads!" marketers. Now. you're a small company with a limited ad budget. Who are you going to choose? The well-crafted, one shot TV ad that will either bring in a trickle of new revenue and otherwise break the bank for the year, or the company that can guarantee they can put your name in front of millions for less than half the price?
to put it another way, I see the internet as a big pool (if you consider bandwidth as pool water). We all share the pool together. Everything done affects the others in the pool. I think that people who pee in the pool should be kicked out. Others might say "what about if they pee just a little bit. Is that okay?". No. There is no amount of pee in the pool that is okay.
Today, advertisers aren't just peeing in the pool, they're projectile vomiting everywhere. Diarrhea fountains with flashing lights and screaming "look at me". They're doing everything they can to push their message across. Hijacking browsers, circumnavigating ad blockers, forcing people to disable blockers to view content. Advertisers and marketers are doing everything in their power to stop people from doing anything other than to view their content.
While I appreciate your viewpoint, I feel that it's fundamentally flawed. I remember an internet when there was no ads. It was nice.
Fundamentally flawed viewpoint? What viewpoint? I mainly stated that the statement that advertisers and marketers should kill themselves is something I don't agree with because not all marketers are the same. That is not supposed to be a viewpoint...
I can understand your frustration and I myself use ad blocking software as well because I got sick of all the intrusive ads, and yes, the internet is definitely been the pool a lot of marketeers peed in or worse. But if some people pee in the pool, that doesn't mean that everyone who is swimming in it is contributing to that. That is what I'm trying to say. Honestly, I think that a comment that people should kill themselves is absolutely inappropriate, no matter whether you fully mean it or not.
My apologies! Looks like I got the message wrong. You thought that convincing marketers to kill themselves was inappropriate- not everything else. Glad that's been sorted.
But anyway yes, Bill Hicks was right. They should kill themselves. Quietly, if possible.