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Advertising is a company laundering technique for wealth transfer, they use speculative projections to sell your eye space alone, give the pass for the image, and profiteer internally instead of contributing to the economy outside of the bubble, it's been the case on the Internet for years and years
I'd rather have this than the unskippable & unmutable commercials yelling at me at the gas pumps. I'm just trying to get gas.
Look at how you've been conditioned... "I'd rather be slapped in the face than kicked in the balls!"
One more reason I'm happy EVs exist. No ads at my home charger.
Yet
Only my smart fridge, vacuum cleaner, phone, A/C control panel, front door smart lock, and reclining bed. But not in my dreams!
Stellantis just got in hot water for pushing ads to the screens in Jeep and Chrysler cars. So... Just you wait. Even if it doesn't show you ads now, they can always update it.
Is that a thing? Why don't you just not ever use that brand of station again?
That’s half of all stations in my neck of the US. It’s hard to escape
Same, so I go to the other half. They tend to be the smaller owner-operated ones, so if I go inside to buy something, I mention how much I appreciate the lack of ads and that that’s why I go there.
Fuck. Now there's an ad on my Lemmy
yeah blur that fucking shit out before posting. there are kids on here.
I suddenly have an overwhelming subconscious desire to subscribe to Hulu or tune my broadcast television to ABC to watch a TV show called Abbott Elementary 🤔
Do not buy those apples.
Vote with your wallet and be loud as fuck about it
i used to slap my crew's tags and qrs on random fruits and vegetable in the supermarkets all the time. the trick is to keep it low and have someone to divert attention while you dance around the section trying to appear merely clueless and not mischievous.
I used to put QR code stickers on random things that points to the lemon party website. Which was 3 old guys sucking each other off on the home screen.
now that's a correct use of QR code stickers!
Abbot Elementary apple sticker ads are clever, minimally invasive and I argue that this is what advertising should be.
This is a creative, tongue in cheek ad for a comedy about school teachers. Teachers stereotypically are given apples so its related.
You cannot compare this to the Pluribus fridge ads or car infotainment ads which make no sense other than "get more eyes on it".
An ad being clever doesn’t make it okay. And it’s not even clever, it’s just a basic reference. Ads being more pervasive are disgusting. This is disgusting. Is it okay for ads to be on literally every single surface in existence as long as it’s “clever” and “not too big”? Because the scum fucks in advertising firms will literally do whatever they can to cover every surface in garbage and this is just another step in that direction.
Fuck all advertising and destroy all advertisers. They will destroy everything in their path otherwise
That's kind of amazing that this ad campaign got off the ground.
Someone in marketing had to have that idea (it's an apple for the teacher, right? So we tie it to a show about a school, see?), then sell it through the entire corporate chain for approval from the top. Then someone in graphics had to design the prototype sticker. Then someone in sales had to identify who to sell it to, make the pitch, and close the deal.
So how much new viewership can ABC hope to get from this? How much money does the apple distributor get for this? The answer to both gas to be "Not much." It seems like a lot of effort for not a lot of gain for anyone involved, except maybe the sale guy who gets a nice commission.
It just occurred to me that I probably have it backwards. ABC thought of the apple tie-in for their popular school show, and pitched apple companies until one agreed.
Welcome to my thought process.
Considering it's just taking up space on a normal sticker, and it doesn't track you, this isn't that bad honestly. I wish this was the worst.
Is it a show that streams on Apple TV?
No those are only advertised on Macintosh
Not much different than the bananas with Disney characters on them. This has been a thing for a long time now. It just happens to be a Hulu ad and not Disney specific.
There were Star Wars branded oranges in supermarkets back when ~~the prequels~~ The Force Awakens was coming out.
Edit: Got my timeline wrong. Still, it's been a while.
I'm almost positive those apples would be cheaper because they are ad supported. Right?
The revenue was pocketed because the cost of printing a bigger sticker and in color was passed on to you.
At least this advertising makes sense…if it was someone like Pluribus, I wouldn’t trust those apples.
Nothing new, I remember ads on banana stickers 15 years ago
I once saw an ad for a guitar that had been sticker-bombed, and the guy had stuck his banana stickers on the back of his headstock. There were dozens of them, lots of different promotional ones.
Curious, they have been putting ads on the sticker on bananas like this since the 90s ish.
Longer ago than that. I was sticking them on the inside of my kitchen cabinet in high school in the mid-70s.
Lol, never enough ads...
I'm not even mad at this, it's creative and not intrusive. I'd assume it's a cheeky reference to the old thing about giving your teacher an apple on the first day of school.
I'd much rather see playful, physical ads like this than the targeted shit online.
Or you could decide as a nation not to bend over and accept the insistent thrusts of commerce at every opportunity.
Imagine how much more peaceful life would be if we banned advertising.
What will we know what pointless shit to buy to fill the void?!
Just do drugs and tell ghost stories like our ancestors.
And now you're showing it to us instead of chucking it at the nearest physicist.
Do you mean physician like the "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" thing?
Or do you just harbor animosity towards people who study physics?
Hopefully Apple doesn’t put Pluribus ads on fruit. That one lady named Carol would lose her poor mind.
