A Boring Dystopia

I'd rather have this than the unskippable & unmutable commercials yelling at me at the gas pumps. I'm just trying to get gas.

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

Fuck. Now there's an ad on my Lemmy

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

Is it a show that streams on Apple TV?

Apples; they've got what plants crave!

I'm almost positive those apples would be cheaper because they are ad supported. Right?

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

Curious, they have been putting ads on the sticker on bananas like this since the 90s ish.

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.

I've never seen an apple with a best buy/expiration date on it.

And now you're showing it to us instead of chucking it at the nearest physicist.

Hopefully Apple doesn’t put Pluribus ads on fruit. That one lady named Carol would lose her poor mind.